Chapter 53 Zhou Yuan’s Soul Version of the Three Bodies (1/2)
It was Friday night when we saw Zhou Yuan again. At noon, I knew that Zhou Yuan would be back from Hangzhou in the afternoon. I discussed with Liu Shuai, and we decided to have dinner together with him and asked him about his situation. This time, we had learned a lesson. We found a private room in the restaurant, so that Zhou Yuan would not make troubles with his words again.
Liu Shuai was very happy to see Zhou Yuan, and he briefly talked about what happened at the Dragon King's Temple. This was not surprising, after all, since that was his show time. I saw how excited Liu Shuai was from his words, so I helped him make some complementations.
”So, Sister Lan is dead?” Zhou Yuan drank a mouthful of Ju Pu. He did not mind Liu Shuai's description of him as being extremely skilled in magic techniques. He just lightly asked this question.
Ju Pu, as the name implied, was the tea brewed with Pu'er and the chrysanthemum flowers. This kind of tea was common in restaurants in S City.
“How come you call her Sister Lan?” Liu Shuai was not happy for his “great achievement” being ignored. When he heard Zhou Yuan calling ”Sister Lan”, he could not help but cry out. Anyway, no sound would peak out of this private room. “Look how hard she hurt you.”
“She did not actually hurt me.” Zhou Yuan looked at Liu Shuai and laughed, “I’ve been thinking about it for these few days. Other than not telling me that I need to lose my soul in order to improve my working ability, she didn't do anything else to me. Thinking about the actions I usually heard, like ones who hurt others behind their backs, ones who maliciously hurt others, and ones who betrayed their words, Lan Ruo,” Zhou Yuan raised his hands and turned around, “She did not cause any harm, nor did she take my money. She is much better than those villains.”
”But she indirectly caused so many injuries to your body.” I remembered that Zhou Yuan showed us the numerous scars on his body. “Although she did not do it on herself, she was still the main culprit.”
”This is my own experiment after I found out I could control the pain, and it shouldn't be her fault.” Zhou Yuan prepared to lift up his clothes to look at his wounds, but Liu Shuai and I immediately stopped him, signaling for him to speak. “Just like you guys said, A Zhe and Ye’s bodies are fine, right?”
”But their souls were taken away. Do you think that it makes sense for two people who don't have their own souls fall in love?” Liu Shuai frowned. He obviously could not agree with Zhou Yuan's viewpoint.
”According to your descriptions, they broke up due to personalities but still loved each other after that, and that’s why sis — Lan Ruo got the chance to take their souls.” Zhou Yuan wanted to use “Sister Lan”, but he switched to “Lan Ruo” when he looked at Liu Shuai, ”If Lan Ruo doesn't come out, then they would no longer fall in love, or maybe they could just force themselves to live together but fight until their last days. Will that make them happy?”
Liu Shuai and I were stunned for a moment. After we carefully thought about his comment, we found some reasons in it.
”Let's change our hypothesis again,” Zhou Yuan said as he ate some food. ”If A Zhe didn't lose his soul, and only Ye lost her soul, and she did it voluntarily, while A Zhe would never figure it out in his entire life. Because of the change in Ye's body, the two of them could live happily for a lifetime. Would that be happier for them than to fight for a lifetime?”
”Err …” I felt that Zhou Yuan was implying something crooked, but for a moment, I couldn't think of anything to refute him, but I disagreed with him though, so I said, ”But if it's like that, then the Ye that A Zhe would love for his lifetime would be a fake flesh body, not Ye’s soul.”
”You're wrong. Body is real, as for the soul,” Zhou Yuan looked at me and laughed, ”A few weeks ago, Hao Ning, did we believe that there were souls in this world? Liu Shuai, you believe in it, and you have great mana.” Zhou Yuan looked at Liu Shuai, who could not help but nod his head, ”But you are only a programmer in our company. When you are not writing codes, would you tell everyone that people’s souls in this world can be taken away by others?”