The Fourth Lady novel Chapter 147

Qingyan looked to Yaochi before her, thinking that he probably saw that Qilian Qingyan. The Qilian Qingyan wearing a bright yellow phoenix gown, the former Thousand Beast Pavilion's master.

"Miss, that time, why did you let me leave you?" Yaochi stretched his hand towards Qingyan. "Why did you make that kind of decision, why didn't you wait for me to come back?"

Qingyan walked up to Yaochi and patted his head, "Yaochi, this isn't your fault. I have my own resolve, I don't regret it."

Yaochi looked to Qingyan, the expression on his face thoroughly relaxed. "Miss, the red lotus flames of hell, can you endure it?"

Qingyan walked up to his side and cupped his cheeks. His appearance was still as exquisite as it was five years ago. As for those scarlet eyes, she knew the special traits of each of her four guardians, and this secret, aside from herself, no one else knew.

Once those eyes were dyed scarlet, then that person will mistakenly fall to the heart's demons, and be controlled by the inner demons, thus falling into the non-path.

The so called non-path was: no life, no death, no injury, no end, and after death, unable to reincarnate.

And if Yaochi's eyes were dyed scarlet, even the number one martial artist of Jianghu, Fengqing, wouldn't likely be his match either. And in this vast world, these scarlet eyes, only Qilian Qingyan alone could dispel.

"Yaochi, this Empress has returned. Stay by this Empress's side." Qingyan looked to Yaochi, still maintaining a bright smile on her face. "This time, I'll never leave Yaochi again."

Yaochi looked to Qingyan before him and pulled her into his embrace at once, saying in a low voice, "Don't leave."

Qingyan lifted her hand to wipe the sweat from his face, "I won't leave."

I'll never leave again, because I can't bear letting you be all alone in this world.

She suddenly recalled the first time meeting Yaochi and the others. At that time, Yaochi was still called Qinglong. On his back was a tattoo of a giant azure dragon, and he was also an infamous hoodlum within the borders of Nanchen. Anyone who saw his real appearance would all mercilessly die at his hands.

Yet she used her warmth to reform him, reformed her four guardians of the Thousand Beast Pavilion.

Qinglong, Baihu, Zhuque, Xuanwu.

(T/N: The names respectively translates to Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Black Tortoise.)

"Miss, why did you become like this?" Yaochi looked to Qingyan with a doubtful look, "I followed you for a month, yet I didn't discover anyone giving you guidance*."

(*T/N: I'm assuming guidance as in spiritual sense. In Chinese culture there's the belief that departed souls need spiritual guidance so a buddhist or daoist priest would come and chant hymns or sutras to guide the departed soul in afterlife.)

Qingyan stood up and walked to the side, helplessly opening her mouth, "Yaochi, I certainly have died. The me you see now, is only a soul residing in a vessel."

Yaochi looked to Qingyan still with a look of confusion, "Since you've died, why did you become looking like this now?"

"Yaochi, this is me reincarnating into somebody else's body. When I woke up after I'd died, I discovered that I was in this body." Qingyan turned her head towards Yaochi and calmly spoke, "Everything that Qilian Qingyan experienced seemed as if it was all a dream, a nightmare that I'll never wake up from.

"Miss, everything has already become the past. Right now, you're only Su Qingyan." Yaochi looked to Qingyan with a serious expression, "Right now, miss is still not of marriageable age, still just a young girl. You still have an unknown future."

Qingyan looked to Yaochi and nodded, showing her soft dimples, "You're right. The past was just a nightmare I couldn't walk out of. At least now, I've already awoken."

The former Qilian Qingyan was already dead, and now only Su Qingyan existed in this world.

"Miss, I heard Liushang say you were poisoned. Furthermore, it's even the rare 'Seven Toxin Five Flower' poison." Yaochi said as he took out a box.

The moment he opened the box, Qingyan found that inside the box lied a seven colored snake, and this snake was also once raised by Qilian Qingyan. This was Nanchen's specially produced animal--Seven Colored Lingyun Snake.

As if sensing something, the snake in the box bit Qingyan's arm. But afterwards, when it lifted its head to look at Qingyan, it immediately coiled around her arm.

Yaochi hadn't seen the seven colored lingyun snake move in five years. Or rather, after Qilian Qingyan died, the seven colored lingyun snake entered into a long long hibernation period, never moving again. No matter how hard they tried, they never got the seven colored lingyun snake to move. And now, the seven colored lingyun snake was coiling around Qingyan's arm.

Just based on this bit, it was enough to prove that the Qingyan before his eyes was once their Thousand Beast Pavilion master.

"Since I've already confirmed that Miss is the former Miss. Then all the things that have been left with this subordinate can be given back to Miss." With that said, Yaochi took out a small box from his chest and handed into Su Qingyan's hand.

Qingyan took the box Yaochi handed to her and opened it. Inside the box sat a delicate red, white, and blue ring. The crystal on the ring had an engraving of a lifelike phoenix. This was precisely the ring specially worn by the Thousand Beast Pavilion master.

Before Qilian Qingyan was sent to the cold palace, she gave this ring to Yaochi for safekeeping. Yaochi's abilities she still trusted very much.

"Miss, from now on you're the Thousand Beast Pavilion's second appointed master. I vow by the Thousand Beast Pavilion's name, to be loyal to master for life." Yaochi knelt down and balled his fist to his chest, "Yaochi greets the pavilion master."

Seeing Yaochi's sincere appearance, Qingyan still helped him up, "I'm still the same as before, I've never treated Yaochi as a subordinate. Yaochi to me is like a family."

Yaochi felt the warmth coming from his palm, and the corner of his eyes also smiled, "Yes, Miss."

"Alright, today after you go back, I will think of a way to let the three of you enter the Su manor. This way Fengqing doesn't have to stay by my side anymore." Qingyan looked to Yaochi and handed him the spice pouch she'd always carried with her, "I made four, one for each of you."

Yaochi looked to the spice pouch in his hand and saw the patterns on the pouch. Earnestly nodding, he replied, "I understand, many thanks Miss."

Recalling Fengqing's movements from earlier, Yaochi looked to Qingyan and asked with a serious expression, "The Fengqing who've been following by Miss's side previously, is he that Seven Star Hall's strongest member?"

Qingyan listened to his words and nodded, "That's right, because Murong Shizi is precisely the Seven Star Hall's master. And he'll probably become my husband in the future, so in the future, don't injure our own people."

Seeing a smile come across Qingyan's lips, Yaochi also felt relieved at last. He knew that in the past, Qilian Qingyan only had Weisheng Junmo in her heart. He was also afraid that Qingyan still clung to Weisheng Junmo in her heart.

But now hearing her say this, the expression on his face relaxed. After all, now, she was only Su Qingyan.

"Yaochi, you don't need to worry. Although I still worry about Weisheng Junmo in my heart, that is in the past after all." Qingyan turned her head to look at Yaochi and spoke. "But now and even in the future, my husband will probably only be Murong Jingxuan."