DNDAS

Chapter 124: Idiots?

The Xing Xing was a little baffled upon seeing Zhuang Qing raise his head to look at him. "What's wrong?"

"You mean to say that Fu Li and I... have met in the past?" Zhuang Qing had never believed in the so-called past and present lives, so now that he suddenly heard the Xing Xing say such a thing, his heart did not contain joy but utter disbelief.

"Elder White Ape, what do you mean by that? I've met Zhuang Qing in the past?" Fu Li was also taken by complete surprise and asked this question practically in unison with Zhuang Qing.

"Both of you still aren't aware?" The Xing Xing was even more surprised than the two people involved. He placed his teacup on the table. "In Little Zhuang's past life, wasn't he the human pet you raised?"

Zhuang Qing thought that something had gone wrong with his ears. He stood there in a daze, a buzzing sound in his brain. His usual cognitive ability was lost. His head turned towards Fu Li, as if in search of some semblance of the truth from him.

"P-Pet in my previous life?" Fu Li stammered like his tongue was in knots. "But they don't look alike at all."

"It's very normal for them to look different, it's not like they have the same parents after reincarnation. It would be strange if he looked similar to his past self," The Xing Xing seemed to be completely unaware of the big bomb he had cast down and fished out a large pile of things from his Qiankun pouch. "Little Zhuang was a human in his past life and had a short lifespan; there was no affinity between you two. Fortunately, you're still yao in this life. He too became yao and you even got together."

"Some people are not fated to meet even if they reincarnate a hundred times. For you to meet once again and even be bound as Dao Companions – that is a marriage predestined by fate," The Xing Xing nodded with a smile. "Pretty good, pretty good."

The Xing Xing was clearly talking about his past life, but he seemed to be listening to someone else's story. Even when he recalled the images he had glimpsed in the Recollection Mirror, Zhuang Qing didn't feel like the human called Bo Lian was him at all.

The human he had been inwardly jealous of and even wished to never have appeared was actually himself?

"Fu Li," He sat back down on the office chair dazedly. A good while later, he met Fu Li's worry-filled eyes. "I recall you saying that Bo Lian was an ordinary friend to you, and that you didn't have any intentions towards him?"

Fu Li opened his mouth. He didn't know how he should respond. "Ah..."

"Is there a very big difference between me and Bo Lian? Or should I say, is there any shadow of him in me?"

"You and Bo Lian," Fu Li shook his head. "Aren't alike at all. He had a mild personality, scholarly bearing, and was always smiling when with me."

Fu Li wasn't willing to think back to the past and had intentionally pushed all memories related to Bo Lian to the bottom of his heart. Because he understood even more clearly than Bo Lian that the death of a human symbolized the end to all things, a foreordained end to their affinity. There was only suffering in continuing to cling to it.

Only after Zhuang Qing made this serious inquiry did he dig out the memories buried in the depths of his heart bit by bit. However, these memories had been hidden away for too long, so long that they had changed colors. There was indeed not the slightest similarity between Bo Lian and Zhuang Qing – whether it was in looks or personality, not a single point of similarity could be found.

Bo Lian had been fond of hugging him in his original form and sitting at the entrance of his cave, basking in the sunshine while telling him all sorts of funny stories about the human world. He'd also often made him delicious food from the human world. Elder White Ape had said that a noble gentleman like Bo Lian would never cook in the human world. Bo Lian had also liked painting; he'd painted the sky, the earth, mountains, water, and him. Whether it was his human form or his original form, they'd all appeared countless times under Bo Lian's brush.