Chapter 198. Fancy You
Arc 7 : Last Nightmare
TN:- 3 chapters today.
Cheng Yu was a little weak to begin with, and his mind worked a little slowly. He was puzzled when he saw Du Yan was furious, but he still soothed him and said: “I’m sorry, it’s my fault.”
Seeing Cheng Yu’s bewildered look, Du Yan came to his senses and realized that he shouldn’t bother with a man who was still seriously injured.
He pulled a chair over and sat down, saying: “If you hadn’t been so hypocritical and didn’t burn the painting but instead hung it in the tomb as a burial object, I wouldn’t have appeared in female attire.”
Cheng Yu had no memory of what Du Yan said, but he reflexively felt guilty and said: “How can I bear to destroy something that has something to do with you.”
Du Yan thought about the things that were carefully stored away that he saw in the secret room of Cheng Yu’s bedroom after Cheng Yu became emperor.
From clothes to accessories, even a brush, everything was properly stored in a jade box because they were all gifts from Du Yan.
At first, Cheng Yu was a hostage in the Yuan Kingdom. Although he was the prince of Cheng Kingdom, he was looked down upon in Yuan Kingdom, and naturally, no one took care of his daily needs.
Du Yan gave Cheng Yu a lot of things on the grounds that a servant who followed him couldn’t be too shabby. Due to various considerations, those things were not very precious and could only meet daily needs.
Unexpectedly, Cheng Yu collected them all.
In this case, Du Yan could understand why Cheng Yu hid these portraits.
Understand…understand a damn thing!
Du Yan looked down at the hem of his gorgeous skirt, and his face darkened when he thought of what would happen when Cheng Bo came in at dawn.
“I am magnanimous and will not bother you about hiding the painting in private for the time being.” Du Yan frowned slightly: “What should I do with my outfit after dawn?”
The point Cheng Yu heard was completely different. Although his face was pale and his complexion was very bad, his eyes were surprisingly bright.
“After dawn? You mean you won’t return to the painting even after dawn?”
Du Yan glanced at Cheng Yu and asked: “Did you remember something?”
Cheng Yu said: “While I was unconscious, I remembered many things. You… are Yuan Yan, not the painting demon, right?”
He spoke incoherently, but Du Yan was able to figure out the reasons from his disjointed descriptions.
He couldn’t come out when Cheng Yu was awake before because Cheng Yu thought he was a painting demon, and the condition for him to appear was Cheng Yu’s dream.
Now, Cheng Yu remembered everything from his past life, and he determined that Du Yan was Prince Yuan Yan of Yuan Kingdom, not a painting demon, but a soul that inhabited the painting for unknown reasons.
“I was thinking at the time, you’ve waited for me for such a long time, if I just leave like this, won’t you have to face endless waiting again?”
When Cheng Yu said this, Du Yan finally understood why he did not return to the painting after he woke up. Cheng Yu had indeed survived by relying on his life-saving consciousness, and his obsession was that Du Yan had been waiting for him for thousands of years, and he had to wake up and accompany Du Yan.
Even so, it sounds quite touching, but Du Yan has never been an emotional person.
His answer was to curl his lips and say: “I never waited for you.”
Cheng Yu laughed a little and said: “That’s just your personality. You… why live in the painting?”
Du Yan thought for a moment and shook his head, saying: “I don’t know. When I regained consciousness, that was the day you broke into the tomb.”
Cheng Yu reached out and tried to hold Du Yan’s hand. Du Yan was sitting a little far away, but he did not give up. Instead, he forced himself to sit up.
Du Yan looked at him and said: “Do you think your life is too long?”
His words were not very pleasant, but he immediately stretched out his hand anyway.
Cheng Yu was slightly stunned, then held Du Yan’s hand with a smile: “This is my fault. I shouldn’t have forced you to make a promise of reincarnation.”
As Cheng Yu narrated, a memory emerged in Du Yan’s mind.
Emperor Cheng Yu and Imperial Preceptor Yuan Yan ruled the country for more than 20 years. When Cheng Yu was young, he fought in many battles and suffered many injuries. He fell ill before Yuan Yan.
At the end of his life, Cheng Yu held Du Yan’s hand and said that he had no other wishes in this life, and the only thing he wished for was to meet him again in the next life.
Du Yan nodded and promised.
“When I first learned the art of Yin-Yang divination from my teacher, I learned that I would not have an afterlife.”
Du Yan lowered his eyes, looked at the two people’s clasped hands, and said this.
Although he said this to supplement the dream setting and prevent himself from being trapped in the painting again, it is not false. Du Yan came here to eat dreams, and there is naturally no afterlife in this dream world.
Cheng Yu said: “Because of that promise, you have been trapped in the painting for a thousand years…”
Du Yan glanced at him but raised his chin slightly and said:”Do you regret it?”
Cheng Yu was stunned and smiled bitterly: “The thing that makes me feel the most guilty is that I don’t have any regrets in my heart.”
“Then what’s the point of you saying this?” Du Yan said: “I don’t want to hear it either.”
“I was thinking wrongly. I was just worried whether you could live normally in this state.”
Du Yan said: “I am no different now than before, but it is a little troublesome to become a physical body.”
“Troublesome?”
Du Yan nodded and suddenly became angry and embarrassed: “I must go through you to become a physical body. Otherwise, I will be a ghost that can not contact the outside world.”
Cheng Yu understood what Du Yan meant when he heard it: “You mean, after touching me, you can touch other things?”
“Hmm.” Du Yan’s eyes fell on the two people’s clasped hands: “That’s how it is this.”
“So, that kiss just now was for you to become a physical being?”
Du Yan knew that Cheng Yu was expecting such an answer, but he was not prepared to do as he wished: “Otherwise, why do you think it is? Could it be that I fancy you?”
He thought Cheng Yu would be a little disappointed, but unexpectedly, Cheng Yu smiled gently, with a satisfied look in his eyes.
“So, I am your only connection to the present world.”
Du Yan was helpless. Sure enough, Shao Lingheng’s inner setting is like this. He really didn’t understand why there were so many magical scenes under Shao Lingheng’s serious face.
The closer he gets to the subconscious level, the more obvious these various inner dramas seem to be exposed.
The two chatted casually for a long time. Du Yan asked Cheng Yu to rest several times, but Cheng Yu was in great spirits and was reluctant to look away.
Seeing this, Du Yan gradually forgot about the matter. After all, in the dream world where consciousness determines everything, as long as Cheng Yu has motivation, there will be no problem no matter how hard he tries.
Du Yan was concentrating on consolidating his current personality, while Cheng Yu was cherishing his other half that he had lost for a long time. For a moment, the two of them forgot something very important.
The direct consequence was that the doctor who pushed the door open to check on the patient, Cheng Bo, and the adjutant who followed behind were stunned.
After a night, not only did the unconscious Governor Cheng wake up, but a radiant beauty wearing an ancient costume appeared in the ward. What was going on?
What made them almost drop their eyes was that the person in front of them was really Governor Cheng, who was always serious and had no interest in women. He would not even look at a beautiful woman no matter how charming she was?
He was looking at the ancient costume beauty in front of him with great concentration, his eyes were so gentle that they seemed to be dripping with water, and it was obvious that he was infatuated with her.
“……”
Du Yan heard the sound of the door opening, turned around, and saw a group of people standing at the door, and he froze.
He was silent for a while, then glared at Cheng Yu fiercely.
His first appearance in this world is wearing women’s clothing, and from now on, he will be known as someone with peculiar hobbies.
Cheng Yu quickly understood Du Yan’s meaning, gently squeezed his hand, and whispered: “It’s okay.”
Du Yan’s answer was to pull his hand back decisively. It was ridiculous for two grown men to hold hands in broad daylight in front of everyone.
Cheng Yu was not angry either. He smiled soothingly, thinking that the person in front of him was very good-looking even if he was angry.
The people standing at the door, looking at the situation inside, were all hesitating whether they should exit and close the door to show courtesy.
Fortunately, Cheng Yu quickly calmed down and turned back into the familiar Governor Cheng.
Cheng Yu said: “Come in.”
Everyone knew what was important and what was not. After entering the room, they did not pay much attention to Du Yan’s presence but were more concerned about Cheng Yu’s condition.
The doctor checked and confirmed that Cheng Yu is in good health and that he would be discharged after a good rest.
Cheng Yu said: “Yuan Yan is my good friend from when I was studying abroad. I have been exchanging letters with him over the years. Only recently did he relent and agreed to return to China to help me.”
“He didn’t expect that after he came back, I happened to go to the front line.” Cheng Yu glanced at Du Yan.
Cheng Bo and the adjutant always felt that their governor’s gaze would always be very different when fall on this costume beauty. They were also very sensible and did not ask too many questions.
“Then I was seriously injured. Yuan Yan was studying drama abroad. He knew my obsession. I had sent him a photo of the painting, so he dressed up like this to wake me up, and now it seems the effect is very good. “
Cheng Yu’s statement was indeed a bit absurd, but coming from his mouth, it was very convincing.
Cheng Bo and his adjutant looked at each other, then looked at the ancient costume beauty beside them, and they both thought, so this ancient costume beauty is actually a man?
Du Yan accepted the gazes from the two people calmly. He was a rational person. Although he was a little angry in his heart, his expression was still cold and arrogant.
Faced with this situation, Cheng Bo and his adjutant felt more and more that what their commander said was true.
When Cheng Yu was young, he did study abroad. During those three or four years, no one knew about Cheng Yu’s experience abroad. In addition, they knew that the customs abroad were open and not as conservative as the traditional customs in China. It was understandable that this rich boy who grew up abroad did not care about dressing like a woman.
Cheng Bo said: “Mr. Yuan, I am so grateful to you…”
Du Yan nodded and said: “Cheng Yu is my good friend, it’s the right thing to do.”
Cheng Yu saw that everyone had believed the story he had made up about Du Yan, so he continued.
“Yuan Yan lost his luggage in the chaos. Cheng Bo, please go to the clothing store to buy a few sets of clothes for emergency use, and then notify the tailor to come and measure his size and make some clothes for daily wear.” Cheng Yu said: “Yuan Yan will take care of me in the hospital these days.”
“Yes, Young Master.”
***
Cheng Yu recovered at an astonishing speed and was discharged from the hospital and returned to his mansion in just half a month.
For a big shot like Cheng Yu, whenever there is any disturbance around him, the people in the city will naturally talk about it.
In the past few days, apart from Governor Cheng’s recovery, the news in the city was about the new face that appeared around him.
The young counselor who appeared beside Governor Cheng in the governor’s office soon became known to everyone. It is said that he is a good friend of Governor Cheng since he was young. He had returned from abroad with profound knowledge and was also extremely handsome.
As soon as this rumor came out, many wealthy businessmen in the city who had beautiful women waiting to marry had plans in mind. Now that the central government is weak, the governor is the highest ruler in a province.
Y Province is the largest and richest place in the country. Anyone who can get in touch with Governor Cheng will have the biggest backer.
However, Governor Cheng has no parents or siblings and is not interested in women. He is fair and strict. Now that he finally has a good friend who he thinks of differently, those noble families who wanted to get involved in the province governor’s career were naturally feeling uneasy.
Governor Cheng is not interested in women, and the newly appointed counselor is young and has returned from an open foreign country, so there might be an opportunity to take advantage of him.
Gentries in the city took action one after another. Specifically, many invitations were sent to the governor’s mansion. However, the person invited was not Governor Cheng, but Counselor Yuan Yan.
Du Yan had no interest in these occasions, so he naturally did not agree to any banquet.
However, today, he had to attend a banquet because of Cheng Yu, who was sitting next to him.
He looked at Cheng Yu with an unfriendly expression, still dissatisfied with the other party’s taking the initiative to agree to attend the banquet on his behalf.
Cheng Yu looked over with a smile and asked: “What’s wrong? Why are you so unhappy?”
Du Yan said: “Don’t play dumb, you know I don’t like attending this kind of occasion.”
Cheng Yu said: “I just want to let people know that you are the most important person to me, Cheng Yu, so that no one with no eyes would dare to pay attention to you.”
Du Yan sneered and said: “With your current position as the governor, you have made many enemies outside. It would be even more dangerous if someone became your most important person.”
During this period, Cheng Yu spent a lot of time telling Du Yan in detail about the current situation and everything that happened since he was born, helping him to quickly understand the world a thousand years later.
Cheng Yu raised his hand and held Du Yan’s hand. Seeing that he was about to pull away, he leaned over and whispered: “The kiss this morning probably won’t last long enough. You don’t want to disappear into thin air later, do you?”
In order to avoid orderly driving in front from hearing the conversation, Cheng Yu spoke close to Du Yan’s ear. The air flow from his words made Du Yan feel a little itchy at the tip of his ear.
“Stay away from me.”
He turned away, looking unhappy, but did not try to break away again.
Seeing this, Cheng Yu knew that if he continued to tease the other party, he would probably get angry out of shame, so he calmed down and continued the previous topic.
“Marshal Song from Province A once had a childhood sweetheart. After marrying his sweetheart, he married several concubines. Then he ignored his wife and favored his concubines. Everyone thought he didn’t like his wife.”
Cheng Yu smiled sarcastically: “In fact, he loves his wife the most, but he feels that he has made many enemies, so he uses this as a cover-up.”
Du Yan glanced at him and said: “Coward.”
Cheng Yu agreed and said: “I think so too. Later, when he was suppressing thugs outside, his mansion was broken into by traitors. The wife, who was considered useless by the outside world, was killed, but his concubines were taken away as a hostage.”
Du Yan understood what Cheng Yu meant. He just took out a gun from his waist, disassembled it skillfully, and put it back together in an instant.
This is, of course, the result of Cheng Yu’s careful teaching in this short period of time. In this chaotic world, guns are the best way to defend.
Du Yan held up his gun, smiled softly, and said: “Back then, my archery skills were much more accurate than yours.”
Seeing this, Cheng Yu suddenly remembered the image of the princess in his dream, who was full of energy and drew the bowstring towards him.
He wanted to laugh, but then he thought of the young man in the King’s costume, standing on the city wall and drawing the bowstring.
“……”
Du Yan saw Cheng Yu’s nostalgic smile, but suddenly, his expression became gloomy, and he knew that this might be related to his inability to enter the next level.
But Cheng Yu was very thoughtful, and he might not tell the truth if asked directly. Du Yan found a random excuse to change the subject and asked about tonight’s banquet.
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