Transmigration: The Fate of the Villainess

178 So this was true Yin-Yang! Part II

“Your Highness knew?” She asked Ouyang Feilong, who had remained silent from the start.

“Only a suspicion after you fainted. But everything was revealed to benwang not long after that.”

In truth, what Bai Yu saw was a scene that Yue Nan and Ouyang Hongxian intended to be witnessed by those who were there. They had planned this together for a long time. The state of the nation at the time was only an excuse to summon Yue Nan to the palace. The true objective of their discussion was to find a way to change fate.

That night, it was true that Ouyang Hongxian was poisoned by Ouyang Yongxian. However, there was also an antidote on the blade Yue Nan used to stab into his chest, missing his heart by a hairbreadth.

When Ouyang Feilong sent out a wave of his magic and injured Yue Nan, Yue Nan chose to flee and leave Ouyang Hongxian’s corpse behind. He knew that when given time and space to think, a person such as Ouyang Feilong would know what plan Ouyang Hongxian had.

Still, the three-eyed seer cast a forbidden spell, distorting the memories of all the witnesses there, except Ouyang Feilong, whose magic level was higher than Yue Nan’s silver.

And while Bai Yu’s silver magic prevented her memory from being tampered with as well, she fainted from her magic not being strong enough.

Ouyang Feilong finally understood the situation. He might not have known everything, but he had given the order forbidding everyone from approaching the emperor’s corpse, using the excuse that the poison had eroded his body so severely that he could not bear to let others see his state. Then, he helped bring Ouyang Hongxian out through the dynasty’s secret passage and met Yue Nan, who had been waiting.

Ouyang Feilong finished taking care of everything within one night, with the help of Bai He, who was still confused by what had happened. He also had to cover up the true event that had transpired and so could not meet Bai Yu until she asked to meet him at the palace.

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After hearing everything, Bai Yu was silent. It turned out she had been fooled by all three of them all this time.

“Are you angry?” Ouyang Feilong moved closer and took hold of her hand.

She was slightly upset, but after considering the time and opportunity for Ouyang Feilong to reveal the truth to her, she finally understood him. Today, he even took her here, despite being under many watchful eyes. This meant he never intended to keep her in the dark.

“What a relief.” Bai Yu shook her head and eventually spoke.

The three men finally let out a sigh.

“Relief?” Ouyang Feilong asked as he tenderly wiped away the tear that overflowed from Bai Yu’s eyes without her realizing it.

Tears of joy…

At least she did not lose to fate today!

“A relief that I don’t have to see Wangye’s heartbreak.”

Gazing into the golden eyes filled with melancholic light, she recalled that same glint she saw on the day she intruded into his palace and asked him to abandon his freedom. On that day, something grieved him. But if the cause was not Ouyang Hongxian’s death, then what was it?

“I have to thank you as well.”

“Your Majesty is exaggerating.” Bai Yu blinked, chasing away the tears before giving Ouyang Hongxian a smile.

“He’s correct.” This time, Yue Nan was the one to speak. He walked to stand beside the former emperor. “Without you, his and my fates will be repeated indefinitely.”

“I must thank you for not giving up,” Ouyang Hongxian said with his usual smile.

Did Yue Nan say ‘his and my’ fates?

Don’t tell me…?

“You’re not struggling alone.” Yue Nan repeated the same words she felt she had heard before.

Yue Nan was the three-eyed seer. He could see both the past and the future. This talent made him a person who was simultaneously loved and despised by heaven. In truth, he should not become involved with her small, insignificant fate. And yet he was here.

First, because this fate was hers, his younger cousin.

And second… It was also his fate as well!

She was not alone in struggling… She was not the only one with a cruel fate in love…

Oh… Don’t tell me that… “Y…Your Majesty and biaoge…”

Bai Yu stared, alternating between the two graceful and majestic men. A thought she never expected or imagined slowly formed. When she turned to Ouyang Feilong to ask for confirmation, she was given a light smile and a slight nod.

Bai Yu stared at Ouyang Hongxian and Yue Nan again.

The two were not smiling at each other, only at her.

The two did not hold hands but only stood side by side.

So this was the true Yin-Yang?!

Men who ‘cut sleeves.’

If men like them never existed, then there would not be this idiom that was passed down and was still used in the current time period. Still, Bai Yu never thought it would be someone close to her…

She did not abhor them. She was only regretting it… If she had known, she would have shipped until her heart burst.

“We shall go into hiding in the divine valley.”

Bai Yu frowned at the two men whose relationship she never expected to turn out this way. Yue Nan and Ouyang Hongxian had not known each other for that long at all, and there was no sign to indicate how their red strings intertwined. Unless it was fate from their previous life…

Bai Yu studied Yue Nan, the man who could see heaven and earth.

Moonlight shone on her cousin’s silver hair, the effect of the blessing bestowed upon him by the goddess of fate. Suddenly, fog rolled in and took over where she stood. Yue Nan’s tall figure seemed to become transparent, then, the form of a woman overlapped him.

Amidst the dim fog, the blue eyes under a net of a veil and silver hair that reached her ankles. The woman in front of her possessed an unimaginable beauty that could only exist in a dream…

The goddess of fate!

‘Only between you and me.’ The woman who had replaced her biaoge moved her lips, though no sound escaped. Her blue eyes glanced toward the former emperor.

Bai Yu turned to look at Ouyang Hongxian, who was now in golden armor. His long cape that fluttered with the wind further accentuated his awe-inspiring appearance, befitting of his status. Was this man the god who could not return to heaven…?

The god of war!

“Yu-er.”

The image of heaven’s great general disappeared along with the veil of fog. What remained was only Ouyang Hongxian, who was smiling at her. Bai Yu slipped out of her reverie, then she replied, “Yes, Your Majesty?”

“The long period of my penance has ended.” The god of war in disguise spoke this first sentence to her before turning his gaze to his brother, who had followed him throughout various lives. “Now, your brother has a word for the two of you.”

What Ouyang Hongxian had said was a puzzle to those in front of him. Only Yue Nan knew what sin the god of war had committed to Bai Yu and Ouyang Feilong and caused him to come down to the mortal world, tasked with atoning for his sin for many lives, unable to return to heaven.

And so he, the goddess of fate, had to ask for permission from the Jade Emperor to incarnate here and help him before the army of heaven lost its general and the only heir ‘left.’

Still, the father of the god of war was cruel. He had allowed him to help Ouyang Hongxian atone for his sin but also ordered him to become a mortal and a male, with only limited access to his true power. Fortunately, he could use his last reserve of power before incarnating himself as a mortal to pull Bai Yu back to this life and successfully fix the tangled fates.

When it was time to return to heaven, the goddess of fate would surely be punished by the Jade Emperor for pulling a soul to change fate.

Ouyang Hongxian looked at Ouyang Feilong for the last time. This would be the last time he acted as his older brother before going back to his own duty in heaven. Maybe from now on…when they met in one life or another, his younger brother might no longer remember him.

“Da Yang will be in your care from here on.”

“Don’t be concerned, brother.” Ouyang Feilong could feel the love that overflowed from the eyes of the same color as his. He said this to his brother with a smile, though his eyes could not suppress the sorrow within.

Why did he feel that this parting was not separated by only a distance but by time eternal?

Separated… In every world, in every life.

Ouyang Hongxian gently smiled as he patted his brother’s shoulder. “I owe you an apology, Long-er.”

In this life, he had always tried to protect him, yet in the end, it was him who trapped his brother in the endless fight for the throne. Ouyang Hongxian remembered well how his younger brother never preferred titles or power. Even the title of the heir of heaven, this ‘former prince’ still entrusted it to him. Nevertheless, he deserved it, given how he had wronged his little brother.

“Brother, please do not say so…” Ouyang Feilong smiled when he noticed that the guilt in the other person’s gaze had disappeared. “…You have always protected me, even though you have to face the world of bitterness, deprived of freedom and heart.” He stepped forward, kneeled down, and kowtowed with the highest degree of respect to his brother.

Ouyang Hongxian knew that the world without him could break Ouyang Feilong’s heart. Today, he might be here, but he could not stay forever…

The sorrow in Ouyang Feilong’s eyes, how could an older brother like him not notice?

The anguish in his eyes, how could his younger brother not see?

Both he and his brother never enjoyed saying farewell. Here they parted alive, but it was no different from being sundered by death.

Ouyang Hongxian pulled his brother up to stand in front of him. He gave a gentle smile that warmed the other person’s heart before pulling Ouyang Feilong into a hug. Sorrow was kept locked tight within the innermost part of his heart. He could no longer reveal sadness to his younger brother.

“You’ve grown a lot.” Recalling the time when his brother sank into his chest. Recalling the days his brother was protected by his arms. He wished to be a witness to his every growth, but the longer he remained here, the more of a burden it would be for his brother.

I could no longer protect you.

“I have grown, brother.” The younger brother, with his arms and embrace, remembered the warmth he had received all his life. His memories from childhood resurfaced, one by one. “It is time for me to protect you. I will give you back everything…both your freedom and heart.”

A smile appeared on Ouyang Hongxian’s eyes and mouth. He released his hold and gazed into the golden eyes. Next would be the words he wished to hear. He was willing to atone for whatever sin he committed, only to hear this word from his brother. “Can you forgive me?”

Forgive me for taking away this red string and making you lose everything.

“I forgive you.” Ouyang Feilong never resented his brother, whether the cause was the throne or something else he never told him. He could sense that there was much more, a winding and complicated story that heaven could not reveal.

“I never regret how everything ends up. And no matter what I have to face from now on…”

“…”

“…As long as my heart is beside me, I am ready.”