From the end of the world

Chapter 598 Threesome

After a long time, Zhu Shi finally came to his senses.

She blushed with shyness, and for a moment she didn't dare to look at the eyes of everyone present. Then, she seemed to recall our conversation just now, and her eyes showed a very complicated expression again.

If Zhu Jiu wants to return, Xiao Wan has to disappear. If Zhu Shi was someone like me, she would not hesitate much. But the reality is that she can't think the same way as I do. She can't accept that logic with peace of mind, even if it is based on Xiao Wan's willingness.

If completing all her missions is Xiaowan's decision, even if she will disappear in the end, then I will respect Xiaowan's will. However, I have no intention of just accepting my fate. In the final analysis, Xiaowan's obsession is just to complete her mission, and disappearance is an inevitable phenomenon, not her purpose.

So, I was thinking, is there a way that even if Xiaowan completes the mission of the dream incarnation, he will not disappear?

Ma Zao seemed to be thinking about something.

"Um...I have a question." Zhu Shi raised his hand.

"What's the problem?" Xiaowan asked.

"Mom... uh, Xiaowan said that I should get married with the person I love and live a happy life... Could this 'person I love' be Brother Zhuang?" Zhu Shi asked.

"Of course." Xiao Wan said as a matter of course, "Aren't you Brother Zhuang Cheng's fiancée? Aren't you going to marry him in the future? Although you are not in a relationship, but at this stage, when it comes to 'someone you like', there is no other choice except Brother Zhuang Cheng, right?"

Zhu Shi opened his mouth, then couldn't help but cover his face and groaned in pain: "Oh my God, I actually called this little girl who looks only ten years old "Mom", and she called my fiancé "Brother..."

Mr. Zhu's expression was also very distorted. After hesitating several times, he chose to retreat to the door of the bedroom and said vaguely: "Well, I'll go to the living room downstairs to watch TV for a while. You young people should finish the talk first, and just tell me the result later..."

"Wait, Grandpa!" Zhu Shi shouted, "Are you going to abandon me? Abandon your lovely granddaughter!"

"Come on. Bye."

Mr. Zhu slammed the door shut. From outside the door came the sound of rapid footsteps as if someone was fleeing in a hurry, moving quickly towards the living room downstairs.

Zhu Shi stretched out his arm towards the tightly closed door, and his palm grasped weakly in the air twice as if trying to hold on to something that didn't exist, and finally let it go in despair.

I don’t know what to say in this situation, so I can only shut up and be a silent bystander.

Xiaowan coughed softly.

Zhu Shi's shoulders trembled, she turned her head and met Xiaowan's smile.

"Then... let me continue." Xiaowan said, "Jiu Xing... no, for now, I will continue to call you Zhu Shi.

"Okay, don't look at me with such pitiful eyes. When we are together in private, I will continue to call you Jiu Xing, but now you still plan to continue to be 'Zhu Shi', right?

"The point now is, you think there's something wrong with me wanting you and Brother Zhuang Cheng to have a happy future together, right?"

"...Yes." Zhu Shi nodded, "Senior Brother Zhuang likes Ma Zao, and Ma Zao also likes Senior Brother Zhuang. They love each other, and if I am with Senior Brother Zhuang, wouldn't it be like stealing someone's love?

"Of course, I was originally planning to marry Senior Brother Zhuang, so in that sense I was already interfering. But we had an agreement that even if we got married, it would only be a pure physical relationship... Uh, bah, bah, anyway, Senior Brother Zhuang's true love should be Ma Zao, not me.

"If it really comes to that, Maha will hate it, right?"

Xiao Wan turned around and asked, "What does Sister Ma Zao think?"

Seeing Xiaowan calling Ma Zao, whom she regarded as a younger sister, "sister", Zhu Shi's facial muscles twitched again.

"I knew from the beginning that Zhuang Cheng had a crush on Zhu Shi. Even if Zhuang Cheng really liked Zhu Shi, I wouldn't find it disgusting. As long as Zhuang Cheng is happy, I'm happy." Ma Zao said these innocent words.

"But a large part of the engagement between me and Zhuang Cheng was originally based on the assumption that 'Xiao Wan is the daughter of Zhuang Cheng and me'. Now that Xiao Wan's true identity has been revealed, we have lost that reason. Do you still think that kind of thing is okay?" Zhu Shi said, "Also, Ma Zao, you may still be young now and don't quite understand the true taste of love, so you said such a ridiculous thing, but it may not be the case in the future, right?"

"Why do you know I don't understand?" Ma Zao asked back, "I don't know what I will be like in the future. I just want to grasp the present. And..."

"And?" Zhu Shi asked.

"I don't want to be separated from you either..." Ma Zao whispered, "Zhu Shi, stay with us forever." When I was away, the two of them helped each other. Ma Zao helped Zhu Shi communicate with the sword of Yama, and Zhu Shi used the power gained from communication to fight off the life turbidity that threatened Ma Zao. They became a relationship of sharing weal and woe, and they were true partners. Perhaps when Ma Zao was lonely, it was Zhu Shi who provided her with spiritual warmth. When we met again, the reason why she could smile so happily without any haze was probably because of Zhu Shi.

For Ma Zao, who values ​​companionship, fears loneliness, and has numerous psychological shadows, Zhu Shi has become someone he cannot let go of.

And Xiaowan should be the same person in Ma Zao's heart. I don't know what he thought about, but at this moment, Ma Zao chose to stand on the position of "helping Xiaowan complete the mission of dream incarnation."

Of course Ma Zao couldn't possibly want Xiaowan to disappear, and she seemed to have other plans now.

Could it be that she had the same idea as me? Even if Xiaowan would rather disappear to complete her mission, she would resolutely defend Xiaowan's decision? I had such a suspicion, but I found it incredible. Could Ma Zao, who was fragile and covered with scars, really make such a decision in this regard?

"No... you being with Zhuang Cheng won't affect our future relationship. What kind of excuse is 'don't want to be separated from me'?" Zhu Shi was stunned.

Ma Zao said seriously: "If I'm with Zhuang Cheng, I will definitely want to stick to him all day. Then I won't have time to accompany you. If you don't come with me, won't the distance between us be widened?"

"What a strange reason... Such a statement..."

In a hurry, Zhu Shi blurted out: "Then according to this logic, doesn't it mean that you also want Xiaowan and Brother Zhuang to be together? Otherwise, you won't be able to be with Xiaowan often in the future."

"--Um?"

Ma Zao seemed to realize this problem just now, and then lowered his head as if thinking.

At the same time, Xiaowan seemed to have suddenly received some kind of revelation and fell into strange thoughts.

"Ah..." Zhu Shi seemed to just realize that he had just said something that he shouldn't have said.

She quickly changed her angle, looked at Xiao Wan and said, "Also... you just said that it's not me who judges whether I'm happy, but you, so what specific criteria do you use to judge?

"No matter what, you know best that I am not in a relationship. Even if you see me and Senior Brother Zhuang pretending to be in love, you will definitely realize that my heart is not immersed in the atmosphere of love. Wouldn't you never be able to let go of your obsession?"

"That's easy," Xiao Wan said. "When you were a kid, you imagined a happy future with the person you loved. What you imagined was not how much you could give to the person you loved, but how much the person who loved you would give to you.

“In other words, when you were a kid, what you pursued was not so much to love someone, but to be loved.

"Although you have always been immersed in a jar of honey, you are still not satisfied and want to get more love and kindness. This may be a greedy and selfish vision, but after all, you were just a little girl who acted like a spoiled child in your mother's arms at that time, wanting to be pampered and cared for by the prince charming... This is definitely not an ugly fantasy, but a normal desire.

"And the fact that you were able to bravely cut off this part later on also proves that you have nobler qualities in your heart that are superior to this naive greed. I am proud of you.

"Well, having said that, you should be able to understand my criteria for judgment, right?"

Zhu Shi gave the answer as if talking to himself: "The key is not whether I can fall in love with Senior Brother Zhuang...but whether Senior Brother Zhuang will fall in love with me?"

"That's right." Xiaowan said.

"No... This is still very strange!" Zhu Shi said, "The prince charming that I fantasized about in my childhood could not possibly be a two-timing man, right? Ah, I don't have any opinion on Senior Brother Zhuang, but it's actually hard for me to imagine myself marrying a man other than Senior Brother Zhuang... But that image certainly wouldn't fit the vision of an innocent ten-year-old girl for an ideal partner, right?"

"Well, generally speaking, I will definitely be eliminated, but my situation is special." Xiaowan said, "I don't just want to make you happy, that's just my innate mission. In addition, I have an equally high priority acquired mission, which is to help Sister Ma Zao achieve happiness.

"It is impossible for Sister Ma Zao to be with a man other than Brother Zhuang Cheng. If the third person is Sister Ma Zao, I can totally accept it.

"At the same time, considering that you will be able to fully master the power of the Great Impermanence in the near future, I don't think there is any man other than Brother Zhuang Cheng who can match you. You yourself have a good impression of Brother Zhuang Cheng, right? At the same time, Sister Ma Zao just said that she doesn't want to be separated from you...

“Taking many factors into consideration, the best solution is for the three of you to be together.

"On the other hand, if even the route of the three of you being together doesn't work, then no matter what method you use, it will be impossible to get rid of my obsession. From my own standpoint, I can only move forward in this direction now."

After being talked to this point, Zhu Shi finally seemed unable to escape, and she looked at me for help.

(End of this chapter)