The end of the world has come to me
Copyright© 2024 by danbaifen
Chapter 9: A Tacit Understanding
“Siyi, where is your brother Cui Zhi? Why haven’t you mentioned him recently?” Guo Siyi’s roommate asked curiously. After all, it has been a month since the National Day holiday, and they have never seen the scene of Lin Cui Zhi and Guo Siyi walking on the campus road as sweetly as before the National Day holiday.
“Did he eat you during the National Day holiday and then abandon you? If so, I will organize everyone in the class to report his academic misconduct to the teacher!” Another roommate was immediately filled with righteous indignation.
Guo Siyi quickly shook her head to deny it. If this continued, she didn’t know what version would be spread.
“No, no, Cui Zhi ... Brother didn’t do what you said. I was upset.”
“Forget it if it lasts for a long time. If it lasts longer, men will give up.” A roommate who had dated several times advised.
“I know the situation. I can’t get over some things. Don’t make up your mind anymore.” Guo Siyi begged all roommates to be merciful.
“Then we won’t ask. You should take care of it yourself. My sister didn’t have the courage to be with the boy she liked in college, and she was still single for 7 years after graduation.”
Guo Siyi is 3 years younger than her roommate. Her roommates used to treat her as a little sister and always took good care of her. Even though she has so many memories of past lives, she still maintains the attitude of a little sister. After all, those are memories of the feudal era.
In the eyes of most college students, being one year older or one year younger is an insurmountable gap, and being a senior sister or a junior sister is a lifelong thing. But since she had Cui Xue’s memory, her invisible aura seems to be different from before, and her roommates’ attitude towards her has also changed from a little sister to a classmate of the same age, and she has truly integrated into the dormitory.
Guo Siyi used to be a sweet girl that everyone loved, but now she has gradually become a queen with a cool and sweet girl look.
After all, she was a college student in the early 1990s in her previous life, and her roommates were almost the same as schoolmates in her eyes.
She also knew that something was wrong with her, but it seemed that Cui Xue’s influence on her was getting bigger and bigger. She didn’t know if it was because of Lin Cuizhi, but she seemed to be extremely resistant to interacting with him.
Even though she still wanted to stick to him like before.
This month, Lin Cuizhi had approached her countless times, but she politely avoided or brushed past him every time.
Her phone and WeChat were still blocked, as if this person didn’t exist in the world.
He was obviously someone she cared about very much, so why did she subconsciously want to avoid him?
Was it because Cui Xue’s strong consciousness was rejecting this relationship?
It was precisely because of Cui Xue’s unreserved love for Lin Cuizhi that she erased her birthmark, so that all the pain would stay for Cui Xue to bear, and she didn’t want to drag herself down in the next life.
The two people saw the birthmark through the photo by accident, which made everything Cui Xue did in vain. However, her intense rational rejection of this relationship continued to Guo Siyi in this life without reservation.
She and Lin Cuizhi no longer have any blood relationship, they are childhood sweethearts and neighbors, why should she reject him with such a top configuration?
There is this life but no afterlife, and maybe they will not continue their fate in the next life like in the previous life. Like almost everyone in the world, what they meet is just the fate of this life.
Guo Siyi took advantage of the weekend to come to Ningqing Temple again. This time it was not the National Day holiday, but there were still many people. The ginkgo trees at this time were the most beautiful, even more brilliant than during the National Day.
Guo Siyi looked at this ancient tree planted thousands of years ago, and she recalled the scenes of her two recent visits here.
The first time she came here as Cui Xue, and the second time she came here as Guo Siyi. Who is she this time?
“Master Pudding!” Guo Siyi saw a familiar figure preparing to walk into the room.
Taoist Pudding looked up at the direction of the voice and saw Guo Siyi, so he walked over slowly and said, “It’s the donor again. You look so cute with pink hair. Why don’t you see your boyfriend this time?”
“Master...”
“I don’t dare to be the master. You should call me Taoist priest. It seems that you are a little troubled. Come in and sit down.” Taoist Pudding took her around the Taoist temple and then led her to his small room.
After sitting down, Taoist Pudding poured Guo Siyi a cup of tea. He said calmly, “I guess the donor has something to ask me to solve his doubts.”
“Taoist priest, actually I came to find you twenty years ago.” Guo Siyi said shockingly.
After hearing this, Taoist Pudding was a little surprised at first, but then he looked at Guo Siyi’s face carefully and suddenly laughed, “So that’s it! You are the woman who came here twenty years ago that I mentioned last time!”
“Do you still remember what I told you when I was still her?” Guo Siyi asked.
“I have some impression, but I don’t remember. Can you tell me again?”
“What I asked at that time was, if two people are destined to be separated in this life, even if there is a deep affinity in the previous life, should they cut off this relationship for the sake of the future.”
“I remember that you didn’t tell me everything like you did a month ago, but just assumed such a topic.” Pudding Taoist said after taking a sip of tea.
“Yes, I was more mature then than I am now. I’m afraid that if I tell you, the Taoist priest will think that people with what is now called Chuunibyou are just imagining things.”
“You said fate, if you ask me again now, I still stick to what I said at that time. No matter how deep the fate was in the previous life, if there is no fate in this life, there is no fate. Don’t worry about it anymore and add to your troubles.”
Guo Siyi took a deep breath. She really wanted to know the answer. Even if there was no answer, she wanted to hear the Taoist priest’s explanation: “The person I said in my previous life who was not destined to be with me was my son, the boyfriend who came with me last month.”
Surprisingly, Taoist Pudding was not surprised to hear the news. He said calmly: “When I said you were the woman, I connected these things together.”
“What do you think, Taoist priest? I’m really confused. I once thought it was a curse.” Guo Siyi clenched his fists, and the veins on his fists were exposed.
“Do you remember the agreement you made with Lin Xia at the beginning?” Taoist Pudding asked.
“Let’s be together in the next life, and don’t be brother and sister anymore.” Guo Siyi recalled, and that was probably what he meant.
“What about what happened after that?” Taoist Pudding guided Guo Siyi to think along the line of thought.
“In the past thousand years, I have experienced more than twenty or thirty lives, and I can only remember meeting him four times. The first time, we were both men, and we agreed to jump off a cliff and die together. The second time, he married me at the age of sixty and I was at the age of marriage, and he died on the day of the engagement. The third time, I was his mother, and I remembered everything when he was born. Later, I removed the birthmark, and I planned to remove the birthmark for him after he became an adult, but I didn’t expect that he died in a car accident more than ten years ago.”
“You are indeed no longer brother and sister, what are you worried about?” Taoist Pudding asked knowingly.
Guo Siyi was stunned. She didn’t expect that Taoist Pudding could see her worries at a glance. The light in her eyes dimmed instantly: “I’m afraid. Either we don’t meet, or the life we meet will have a bad ending. I’m afraid it will be the same in this life.”
“Are you afraid of death?”
“I’m not afraid of death myself, but I’m afraid that Cui Zhi will die. In my eyes, he is not only the person I, Guo Siyi, love, but also the person Cui Xue loves!” Guo Siyi sobbed a little while speaking, her vision gradually blurred, and tears slowly overflowed from the corners of her eyes.
“We don’t have a good ending every time. Isn’t this a warning? Every time we go against the will of heaven, we get death in return.”
“The first time, both of us died, the second time he died, and the third time you died. So will it be okay this time?” Taoist Pudding tried to use simple assumptions to ease Guo Siyi’s increasingly stubborn heart.
“I dare not gamble with these assumptions.” Guo Siyi covered her forehead and rubbed it constantly.
“Then apart from the previous life, do you like him in this life?” Taoist Pudding said.
“I like it, I like it!”
“Do you think there are so many tourists outside, and does anyone know their past lives?” Pudding Taoist walked to the window and opened the curtains. There were many tourists outside, all checking in and taking photos under the ginkgo tree.
“Maybe, no.”
“Then do you think if they like someone but dare not confess, will this regret last until the next life?” Pudding Taoist asked step by step.
Guo Siyi shook her head.
“I remember a very classic saying in Buddhism: Pigs and sheep sit on the kang, and relatives are cooked in the pot. Do you know what this means?”
Guo Siyi heard this sentence for the first time, and she said she didn’t know.
“Originally, it’s a bit inappropriate for me, a Taoist priest, to say these Buddhist verses, but I was also a master’s student before I practiced, and I knew a little about everything.”
Guo Siyi looked at Pudding Taoist at this age, a master’s student in the 1990s, what a powerful person he was.
“But I saw you were only 20 years old back then.”
“You just look young. I should have been about the same age as you in your previous life. That’s too far away.” Pudding Taoist stopped talking about this.
“This sentence means the reincarnation and karma mentioned by the Buddhists. A monk saw a family preparing a banquet and went in to see it. He was surprised to find that the relatives of this family were all reincarnated animals that were pigs and sheep eaten by them in their previous lives, and their former relatives were now reincarnated as pigs and sheep in the pot.”
Seeing Guo Siyi silent, Pudding Taoist continued: “In this life, we don’t know what will happen in the next life. Some things can be done in this life, so there is no need to rely on the next life. Donor, you have reincarnated so many times. In fact, maybe sometimes, your spiritual wisdom was not awakened in that life. To put it in a vulgar way, you were reincarnated as a non-human that time and can’t remember these things at all.”
“It’s not easy to reincarnate into this life. You are childhood sweethearts. The law will recognize you and the society will bless you. Isn’t this what you have been pursuing from the beginning?”
Pudding Taoist paused, he looked up and looked out the window: “As a Taoist priest, I shouldn’t make too many subjective judgments on marriage in the world, but as an individual, I, I advise you to cherish this life. Originally, you had lost your birthmark in your previous life, and you would never be found by Lin Xia again, but by coincidence, you still have the opportunity to be with him after reincarnation. This is the last chance God has given you.
Pudding Taoist pointed out the window: “Look at these lovers, they may also have a three-life fate, and even promised thousands of years ago that they would never be separated in this life. After thousands of years, they embraced each other again at this moment.”
“Some lovers may have never seen each other in their previous lives, or even had a blood feud, but they know and love each other in this life.”
“These fates cannot be confirmed, but they cannot be verified. You have a rare love that only millions of people can meet, so why bother to cling to the previous life?”
“Taoism only cultivates this life, not the next life. I hope the donor will stand in the present and cherish this moment.” Pudding Taoist turned around and said to the small room behind the curtain, “You can have a good chat.”
Lin Cuizhi actually lifted the curtain and came out!
Lin Cuizhi has been pestering Guo Siyi for the past month, but Guo Siyi always avoids him.
He finally realized the feeling of being arrogant and having a good time, but chasing his wife will end in a funeral.
He didn’t understand why Guo Siyi was so stubborn. Didn’t Lin Xia and Lin Qiu always miss each other just to be together openly for the rest of their lives?
In this life, he is Lin Cuizhi and she is Guo Siyi. They are well-matched and childhood sweethearts. It is reasonable and legal.
The turning point came after she knew that she was Cui Xue.
Lin Cuizhi also understood the original intention of her mother to remove the birthmark, because it was impossible for them to be together with their identities.
But now she is no longer a mother. She is Guo Siyi’s sister who is 7 years younger than her. Why does she stubbornly hold on to the memory of her previous life?
Is it necessary for their identities in this life to have nothing to do with their previous lives?
However, my mother has removed the birthmark. Unless I can see my mother’s photo album in the next life, I will never know Lin Xia’s memory again!
This life is the last chance!
I have already met the best fate in this life!
Guo Siyi’s persistence in holding on to her past life is the greatest irresponsibility in this life!
He seemed to tell Guo Siyi these thoughts, but she never gave him a chance.
Even Situ Lansheng and Mo Ting were in a public relationship, but he went from a winner in life to a single dog in a month.
Fortunately, he found an informant through his junior brothers and sisters-a roommate of Guo Siyi.
He was able to intercept Guo Siyi many times these days, relying on the informant’s tip-off.
The informant told him that Guo Siyi was going to Ninglan County, and Lin Cuizhi immediately rushed there one day in advance after learning her departure date.
According to his idea, Guo Siyi was most likely to go to Ningqing Temple. He ambushed there in advance and told Taoist Pudding that his girlfriend might come here in the near future. They had a little conflict and she had not seen him. He hoped to resolve these conflicts here.
Taoist Pudding did not ask what was going on. He symbolically collected 100 yuan from Lin Cuizhi as accommodation fee.
The next day, Guo Siyi really came to Ningqing Temple. Taoist Pudding took Guo Siyi around at first, and then sent a message to Lin Cuizhi, asking him to wait in his room.
This is why the curtain was lifted just now.