T/N:
From now on, I’ll occasionally use Feng Huang instead of “The Phoenix”, since it’s the same, just in Chinese pinyin, to make it clearer. Also, it’s now more obvious that the author is using it more as a name rather than a title or race. Of course, everything will still be adapted according to the context.
Chapter 36: Truly Became a Rebellious Disciple
A spring night is short, and the sun rises high. As if in the blink of an eye, he had woken up from the intoxicating pleasure.
This feeling of emptiness after the fact made Mingyan feel dazed for a while after he woke up. After a long while, he came back to his senses and looked at the two Yue sisters beside him who seemed to be exhausted and still fast asleep.
Mingyan was silent for a while, got up, covered the two of them with the quilt, and then left the room and walked outside.
He looked up at the sun rising in the sky, an indescribable feeling in his heart.
Although possessing his Shizun had always been his extravagant hope, when this day came, Mingyan was not as excited as he had imagined.
Perhaps it was because he knew very well that everything before him was just a dream? No matter what, it was just a dream. And, what was the meaning of getting such a Shizun? What he liked was, after all, that Shizun who was clear and cold, yet extremely doting on him, like an elder.
She was Yue Wuxia, but not his Shizun.
What Mingyan really wanted to get was the sober, memory-possessing, true Yue Wuxia.
As for Yue Ningshuang…
Mingyan carefully recalled Yue Ningshuang’s performance during this time and felt that she had very likely also recovered her memory.
Yue Ningshuang’s personality should be no different from the outside world. In the end, he had still fallen in love with her. Even if it was from the heart of a dream, it would be difficult to forget, right…
After the dream ends, could he really turn a blind eye to her? Mingyan couldn’t do it.
And on the other hand, Mingyan recalled the scene of the dream. It seemed that the main characters were always just a few. Especially the few who were close to him; they should all have come in from the outside world.
Whether it was Huang Feiyan, his Shizun, or Yue Ningshuang and Gu Hanshuang, they were all the same. But what Mingyan didn’t understand was why Huang Nishang was here.
And, the Huang Nishang here and the one Mingyan had seen before were obviously different. Another thing was that she also seemed to have recovered her memory.
Huang Nishang was from the Huang family. To Mingyan, the Huang family was naturally trustworthy. Besides, the two of them were still husband and wife in name… and now in the dream world, they were even husband and wife in reality.
But the feeling Huang Nishang gave Mingyan was very strange. As mentioned just now, the Huang Nishang here and the one Mingyan had seen at the Huang family before were quite different…
This made him can’t help but think of a person who might have appeared in the dream…
Feng Huang.(Phoenix)
Mingyan thought for a moment and gave up the idea of making it clear to Huang Nishang.
The current Mingyan was quite conflicted. If he just treated his current experience as a dream, and it would be traceless when he woke up, then how should he deal with Huang Nishang and Yue Ningshuang? These two seemed to have already recovered their memories. Not to mention anything else, just Yue Ningshuang. Her good feelings for him were all on the surface. After he went outside, if she mentioned the things in the dream, how could he turn a blind eye?
He probably couldn’t do it.
But if he didn’t treat it as a dream, to be so rebellious to his Shizun… and if his Shizun later knew that he actually had the memory of this period of time, would she really not come to settle accounts with him?
In fact, he himself was not clear. After the dream ends, whether they could still remember these things, Mingyan… did not want to forget these things.
“Husband,” at this time, a familiar voice sounded from behind him. It was Yue Ningshuang. She wrapped her arms around Mingyan’s neck from behind and smiled. “Why are you up so early?”
In his daze, Mingyan hadn’t even heard Yue Ningshuang open the door. It was only when she was wrapped around his neck that he came back to his senses. He raised his hand and placed it on the back of hers. He remembered Yue Ningshuang’s every expression last night. To say this was a dream was a bit too unfair, because those details, what was the difference between them and reality?
“You’re awake?” Mingyan smiled slightly. “Why don’t you sleep a little longer?”
“I found that my husband was gone as soon as I got up, so I came to find you,” Yue Ningshuang giggled. She wore a nightgown, a little thin. The morning air was a little cold. Although she was a cultivator outside, in a dream, she was just an ordinary person. So Mingyan turned around, held Yue Ningshuang, and carried her back into the room, saying softly, “Don’t catch a cold, Wife.”
“I still like to hear you call me Ningshuang. Don’t call me Wife. You have so many wives. How can you tell who you’re calling?” Yue Ningshuang giggled. She knew that Huang Nishang’s relationship with Mingyan was also not shallow, so counting the two of them, Mingyan had four wives. To call ‘Wife, Wife’, who knew if it was Huang Feiyan or Huang Nishang, Yue Wuxia or Yue Ningshuang?
Seeing her giggle, Mingyan felt that perhaps in the dream, only Yue Ningshuang was the same on the inside and outside. What she was like outside, she was still the same inside…
Whether it was his Shizun, Huang Feiyan, or Huang Nishang, they all had some differences in the dream from their real selves.
Mingyan felt that in this way, Huang Nishang’s strangeness could also be explained.
“Then I’ll do as you say. I’ll just call you Ningshuang,” Mingyan smiled and nodded. Her consistency made him decide in his heart.
Even if the dream ends, as long as he remembers all this, Yue Ningshuang will no longer be an outsider.
The things he was experiencing now, how could they be said to be a simple dream? Everyone was participating, and everyone had memories. To say it was a dream was not as good as saying that this was their personal experience with a different identity and in a different place.
Since it was a personal experience, how could it be treated as an illusion?
After thinking it through, Mingyan also relaxed. No matter what his Shizun said, he couldn’t let Yue Ningshuang down.
“Say it a few more times,” Yue Ningshuang’s smile was like a flower, brilliant and moving. Seeing it, Mingyan’s heart was about to melt. “Ningshuang, Ningshuang…”
“Hehe,” Yue Ningshuang leaned on Mingyan’s shoulder and said with a smile, “Husband, you must not let me down… you must always, always remember me. I can go without status, but I don’t want to be forgotten by you.”
“What kind of person do you take me for? A pig’s trotter?” Mingyan was both amused and exasperated. Yue Ningshuang turned her head to look at Mingyan, her smile a little charming. “Anyway, if you don’t want me then, I’ll let the whole world know that you are a heartless man.”
Mingyan was helpless and amused. He turned his head and saw that Yue Wuxia had also woken up and was looking at the two of them from the side, with no expression on her face, clear and cold.
This posture made Mingyan subconsciously think of the way he used to sleep with his Shizun. At that time, his Shizun also had this posture. At that time, he had just felt it was very tempting, but now… especially this morning after he had unlocked many of his Shizun’s postures last night, this posture was no longer so tempting, but it still made Mingyan’s heart stir.
He even couldn’t help but have a thought…
If my Shizun’s memory had also recovered, but she just didn’t want to expose it, so she had been tormented by me like this and that, and hadn’t resisted, how good would that be? If that was the case, then the nature of his actions last night would have completely changed…
He would have truly become a rebellious disciple who had assaulted his Shizun… and this was what he was most looking forward to…
