He turned his head and looked at her with his clear and gentle eyes. Lin Mengya smiled and said h.e.l.lo to Tian Ning. Then she turned her head and continued to look at the new moon in the night sky. She couldn’t help but feel a little bit of doubt.
The woman Tian Ning was talking about, needless to say, was the real Lin Mengya back then. It sounded a little weird to her now.
Could it be that “she” had a premonition about it a long time ago? She shook her head. Such a thing was nothing more than a little girl’s fantasy. How could it be true with such an absurd premonition?
“Maybe no one can be sure about this kind of thing. Tian Ning, if there was a chance to bring the previous ‘her’ back, would you do it?”
Lin Mengya didn’t know why, but she suddenly had such a thought. Perhaps it was because of the soul-shattering feeling, which was frighteningly real.
If her soul had been really pushed out of the body again, did that mean that it was possible that she and “she” would go back to their places?
“If this is the case, then I’m asking you, are you willing to give up everything now and return to your previous life?”
Lin Mengya raised her head and looked at Tian Ning, who was still calm and wise. The chaotic and noisy questions in her mind gradually quieted down at this moment. After Lin Mengya thought about it for a while, her eyes suddenly became more determined. She looked directly into Tian Ning’s eyes, and her tone was no longer hesitant.
“No, I’m not. Maybe I’m selfish, but now I will never be willing to give everything back to her!”
She had a man she loved, family, and friendship here. Perhaps, the foundation of everything was the external ident.i.ty of Lin Mengya. But in fact, her inner soul was the real deciding factor.
If it weren’t for her now, then all these wonderful things wouldn’t have happened in the first place. Lin Mengya, who had figured it out, stopped dwelling on it.
Her previous thought to give her life back to others was simply crazy. There was suddenly a look of relief in her eyes.
For a long time, though she had understood and accepted the emotions of Lin Mengya and possessed her memories, in fact, she hadn’t even realized that she had so much anxiety in her heart. She was afraid that the real Ling Mengya would wake up suddenly, and she would turn back into a lonely soul. Perhaps what she feared most was losing all the people she cared about.
In her last life, she was a deserted woman who didn’t even care about her own life. But in this life, she had so much concern.
“Now that you’ve figured it out, don’t think about it anymore. By the way, you’re always such a rational girl. What happened today?”
Tian Ning sat leisurely on the step beside Lin Mengya. Even though he was not the best man in the mansion, he had a pair of eyes that could read people’s minds and comfort their souls. No wonder Baishao, a quick-tempered girl, had fallen in love with Tian Ning. It could be seen that he was unique in his own way.
“I…” Lin Mengya told Tian Ning what she had encountered today.
It was just that after hearing the fact that her soul had almost broken away from her body, a man as calm as Tian Ning couldn’t help but look puzzled. He frowned slightly and thought about this seemingly absurd question.
“You mean, you suddenly felt that your soul was about to rush out of your body? Do you still remember what kind of feeling it was?” Tian Ning looked at Lin Mengya with serious eyes.
She thought about it carefully and found that she couldn’t come up with the right words to describe the feeling. She couldn’t even recall the specific out-of-body experience at all.
“Before it happened, had you encountered anything? Had you eaten or heard something?”
Tian Ning seemed to know something. Lin Mengya carefully tried to recall the specific details and even resorted to the Shen Nung system. In the end, she finally found a slight abnormality among them.
“If there was anything special, it would be in that place when I seemed to smell a subtle fragrance. The fragrance was very faint, but it always lingered in the nose. It was completely different from the spices I used to use, but as for the difference—”
Lin Mengya sniffed twice and closed her eyes. It seemed that she was trying to recall the few memories that lingered in her sense of smell.
“It’s weird! I can’t tell what the smell is, but I think this fragrance is extremely weird. It’s quiet but cold, and it seems to have a trace of lingering heat. In short, it is a smell I can’t describe. Do you think I felt that way because of the fragrance?”
Lin Mengya looked at Tian Ning suspiciously. She thought to herself, this kind of thing was mysterious, so how could it be determined by a fragrance? But Tian Ning shook his head solemnly, and then said in a low voice,
“My mother used to work in a spice merchant’s house before being brought into the mansion by Madam. I was young, but I heard the spice merchant say that there was a spice in his room that must not be burned. I asked him later and learned that this incense is banned incense called Ghost Fragrance.”
Ghost Fragrance? Banned incense?
Lin Mengya was confused when a paragraph automatically emerged in the Shen Nung system that had accepted her information. At this moment, Lin Mengya knew why Tian Ning had mentioned this spice.
“Ghost Fragrance can penetrate the bones so that people can contact ghosts and G.o.ds when it’s burned. I think the reason why your soul could enter her body was that it was dominated by ghosts and G.o.ds. Since Ghost Fragrance can connect ghosts and G.o.ds, then the thing that can make your soul turbulent is perhaps such a weird thing.”
How could that be?
Lin Mengya was stunned on the spot. She was a doctor before and even an atheist. Moreover, from the current scientific perspective, many things could be solved with appropriate scientific theories.
However, her current situation seemed to have a big bug in it. Could it be that someone had really used this wicked thing to make it happen?
Lin Mengya couldn’t help but feel a little alert. She had changed drastically. Although she had fobbed it off with other things, it seemed not difficult for an observant person to find out something strange about it. But who on earth had found out about her? Who had come up with such a trick to harm her?
“You’re right, this thing is really evil. It seems that I must pay more attention to it. By the way, Tian Ning, I think you know a lot about this matter. Have you encountered a situation like this before?”
Lin Mengya felt that since she could travel through time, then her previous generation and future generation might encounter the same situation. If there was really a lesson to learn from the past, maybe she would not have to panic.
Unfortunately, Tian Ning looked at her but shook his head again. Then, under Lin Mengya’s disappointed gaze, he took out a finger-sized bead from his sleeve and placed it in front of her.
“This thing was given to me by an old monk when I was 12 years old. You were young at that time. The old monk said this thing was for my sister and that it could keep you safe once. Maybe this thing is meant for today’s affairs. Keep it close to you, and never leave it behind.”
Lin Mengya heard what Tian Ning said, and immediately reached out and took the bead. The bead in her palm was round and warm, like gemstones such as jade and pearl, but the texture was a bit soft, so it didn’t feel like those.
However, in the moonlight, this bead could quietly radiate its unique warmth and brilliance. The color of the bead seemed to be getting clearer and whiter. Lin Mengya liked it when she looked at it. She held it in her hand and played with it gently.
“Well, I will keep it close. And regardless of whether it is useful or not, thank you very much.”
She put away the bead and sincerely thanked Tian Ning. In the moonlight, she regained her composure, and her eyes gleamed with wisdom. Her face looked brilliant and beautiful as always even at night.
Tian Ning laughed suddenly. Although he was still warm and gentle, he seemed reluctant.
“My sister Ya’er had finally left for good. From now on, you will be you that no one can replace. As for her, she will live in the hearts of both of us forever, right?”
Lin Mengya looked at Tian Ning and suddenly smiled comfortably. It turned out that the top wise man in this mansion was actually the little-known Tian Ning in front of her.
She smiled and nodded. Tian Ning, after saying goodbye to her with a polite smile, slowly withdrew from her sight. When she was just about to turn back, she found a pair of arms suddenly wrap around her slender waist from behind.
“I think I am jealous. From now on, you are not allowed to smile so sweetly to any other men.” His domineering and unreasonable words entered her ears.
Lin Mengya gave up struggling after gently trying to push his strong arms away. She leaned back lazily on his familiar chest, but she didn’t admit it at all.
“Why? Did you buy all my rights to smile at others? Or, are you, Prince Yu, a man who has no confidence in himself? If that’s the case, then I—”
Before she finished, his big hands around her waist turned vigorously and she turned gently and skillfully like a light b.u.t.terfly.
“Yes, I bought them all.” He said something naughtier than she did.
The next moment, his familiar breath overlapped with hers.