Imperial Treasure-Chapter 877 - 536: Conversation

"I don’t know,"

The alternate personality said softly, "If I had to calculate strictly, it’s probably after she got the first fragment of the Cangwu Mirror."

"Is that so? It’s understandable. The Cangwu was the first divine artifact after all, with a trace of your soul attached to it. If it fell into her hands, it would naturally awaken your existence."

"Yes,"

Sui Yi did not refute.

Jiang Chenyu continued, "Don’t you want to ask why I’ve lived until now... and survived in my original body until now?"

The alternate personality looked at her.

"You drank my blood," this sentence, the alternate personality said with an unparalleled calmness.

"Yes,"

Jiang Chenyu’s face was expressionless, "I yearn for immortality, and only your blood can grant me immortality without any backlash. You gave him a drop back then, but he refused to drink it, so he entrusted it to me for safekeeping..."

She, too, was candid and unperturbed, without a trace of incongruity.

The alternate personality said nothing, merely took a sip of coffee, which was not particularly bitter, just unappealing.

Dislike is simply dislike.

She did not take a second sip.

"Aren’t you going to ask him?" Jiang Chenyu said.

The alternate personality looked up at her, frowning.

"I thought it should be you asking me."

Crack!

The coffee cup suddenly shattered!

The shop owner behind the counter was startled, instinctively wanting to go out and replace the cup, but he suddenly saw a flash of white light and fainted.

Now, there were only the two of them left.

In this alleyway filled with the ancient cultural atmosphere of London, ultimately only the two of them remained.

So still, so quiet.

Jiang Chenyu slowly removed the coffee shards from her fair and delicate palm, "Yes, indeed I should ask you. If, by the identity of a woman who nearly married him... but he rejected, and I did not insist, such an identity appears insignificant."

Back then, her father was appointed as the Grand Marshal, her ancestors were Grand Tutors, the entire family was resplendent with glory, her maternal family inherited the foremost Medicine King Valley, mighty in power, of unparalleled status, thus unanimously proposed by court ministers as a candidate for marriage alliances with him.

Marrying her, the Crown Prince position would be within easy reach.

He refused.

"Do you know why, in the end, I became fixated on him?" Jiang Chenyu looked at the High Priest’s face, this face, was itself a kind of temptation.

"Because I am curious about a man who can be specially treated by the high and mighty High Priest, even without a powerful princely identity, nor acclaimed talents, living so quietly and obscurely as if never existing within the Imperial Family, yet being the only one you kept by your side... He must be special."

"So, I am curious about him..."

"When a person is curious about another person, it’s inevitably dangerous."

"Later, I lost, utterly and completely."

Lost to you, and lost to him.

The bitterness and melancholy in Jiang Chenyu’s mouth, if she had not been curious in that moment, would things not have turned out this way now? 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝘦𝓌𝑒𝑏𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝘭.𝒸𝘰𝑚

The High Priest, the world, and him, all irrelevant to her, she would still be the one tired of officialdom and the imperial court, retreating into the deep mountains with her mother and grandmother, ministering to the sick and living peacefully...

"Affairs of the heart never really have winners or losers," the High Priest lowered her gaze, tapping her fingers against the table.

No? But do you know how many people have lost to you?

Jiang Chenyu said no more, merely changed the tone, coolly, "All I wish to know, is what happened to you later, how did you become Sui Yi, and Sui Yi—perhaps you deliberately concealed it from her, not letting her know more, perhaps because her personality is like yours, so cold, so lofty, making people love and hate."

Jiang Chenyu’s expression bore the same forlornness, she criticized Sui Yi like Wu Jue, but then she changed the subject, "But at least she won’t forget her childhood friends, childhood friendships can last a lifetime, why is it that you, the dignified High Priest, one of the supreme witches in the entire known world, can’t remember the person you fell in love with?"

Time seemed to stand still.

The High Priest looked at Jiang Chenyu, whose words and reasoning were somewhat incoherent and insignificant, if not for being too heavy and chaotic, this girl wouldn’t be so discourteous.

Her fingers unconsciously brushed against the coffee cup, her eyes falling on that strange gray liquid...

It seemed to have sound, yet seemed silent.

"I can’t remember is can’t remember... I don’t even know why, perhaps I’ve even forgotten the reason why..."

Hmm? Jiang Chenyu suddenly raised her head, looking at the High Priest with disbelief, and the High Priest looked at her, eyes clear.

"High Priest, has anyone ever told you, once you intend to deceive someone, then no one in this world can resist?"