Chapter 143 - Street Lights of Jin City (2/2)

The man said heavily.

“Although the two were able to meet again, they already belonged to two different worlds. Ever since that reunion, Chen Beixuan numbed himself with liquor. After even his poison ran dry, he chose to jump off the roof of a building to put himself out of this misery.”

“What a sad story.” Fong Qiong’s best friend bemoaned.

However, the handsome boy asked with knotted brows:

“If you said that Chen Beixuan was dead, how come you were able to live another five hundred years?”

“Yea, why is that?”

Finally, people realized the hole in the story.

“Well, that tells us that Mr. Fortune Teller here is not Chen Beixuan.” Fang Qiong’s female friend put in with a smile.

“Chen Beixuan didn’t die.” To everyone’s surprise, the man in shadow shook his head and continued. “He was saved by Cangqin the Immortal cultivator who happened to be touring the earth. After Master Cangqin brought him back to his own realm, Chen Beixuan embarked on the five hundred years journey of cultivation.”

“It was an urban romance fiction, but now its Xian Xia. That’s quite a deviation from the genre!”

“What about G.o.ddess Zi Qiong? Did she marry the other suitor in the end? Oh- and did she die because of melancholy or what not because she missed her true love so much?” Fong Qiong’s female friend pressed on with more questions.

Fong Qiong also started to get invested in the story.

Somehow, at the back of her mind, she felt that she was the G.o.ddess Zi Qiong and this was her story too.

“Not at all.” The man said lightly. “When Cangqin left earth, he not only took Chen Beixuan with him but also G.o.ddess Zi Qiong.”

“What?”

Everyone was stunned by the turn of events.

What a rollercoaster storyline and what an unexpected plot twist!

“Then what? Did they live happily ever after?” Fong Qiong asked eagerly.

“If they did, why would I have to wait for you for five hundred years?”

The man rose to his feet slowly.

He was only about a meter and seventy centimeters tall, but he projected overbearing energy into the people’s heart, rendering them motionless.

Everyone watched as the man took a jade pendant off his neck and placed it in Fong Qiong’s hand. “Wear it, don’t let it leave you. It will protect you from harm.”

After he finished his words, the man turned around and started off.

Fong Qiong held the jade pendant in her hand and was rendered speechless. One of her friends shouted: “Hey, why are you leaving? Didn’t you say that she is the love of your past life? Haven’t you bee searching for her for five hundred years?”

“This is not the time yet.” The man replied, but his steps didn’t slow down.

“When will we meet again?”

The sound came out of Fong Qiong’s mouth uncommanded. Her own words startled herself.

“When you hear the name Chen Beixuan across China, you will see me again.” The man answered without turning his head back.

“What a wacko.”

The handsome boy snorted. When he saw the jade pendant in Fong Qiong’s hand, he said with a frown: “Xiao Qiong, I would throw it away if I were you. Don’t accept stranger’s gifts, G.o.d knows what’s in it.”

“Should I?”

Fong Qiong hesitated.

She was perplexed but also elated by the strange encounter with an interesting person. She planned to keep the pendant as memorabilia for today’s event.

Even as she hesitated, she heard people around her shouted: “Oh s.h.i.+t! that man is going to jump into the river.”

Everyone looked toward the man who had already made his way to the lip of the causeway. There had been some construction at that section of the course way and therefore the railings were removed. The man was only a few steps away from falling into the roiling waves.

“Stop him! He is going to suicide!”

Someone shouted.

However, it was already too late.

Everyone watched as the fortune teller hopped off the edge of the dike and disappeared from their views.

“Don’t!”

Everyone rushed to the scene and looked down at the river from above. They saw an unbelievable scene that they would never forget.

The fortune teller not only didn’t fall into the roiling current, but he was also walking on the broken waves as if he was walking on land. Each one of his strides covered an incredible distance and in the time of a long heartbeat, the fortune teller disappeared.

“Did we just meet an immortal?”

Someone asked in a dazed and confused voice.

The crowd around Fong Qiong was also stunned by the development. Their gazes landed on the jade pendant in Fong Qiong’s hand.

“Is he really the Chen Beixuan in the story and you the G.o.ddess Zi Qiong?”

Her female friend asked incredulously.

Fong Qiong was not any less confused than anyone else. She closed her fingers and clenched the jade pendant tightly. She knew that one day she would meet Chen Beixuan again.

When that happened, she would find out what was that all about.