This Damned Thirst for Survival

As if aware of his disbelief, the voice paused, becoming softer, “Do you want to kill sin?”

Killing, sin?

Jiang Luo’s mind seems to have slowed down a million times as a hand brushes against his forehead, gentle but cool as snow and ice.

“Even if an evil spirit retains his humanity, his innate filthy evil will only create a multitude of sins and stain more blood.”

“Only when he is dead will everything be at peace.”

The voice was distant and indistinct, “If you kill the evil spirits, you will be able to get out.”

Kill the evil spirits and get out?

Did they really enter the mirror world?

Jiang Luo with ragged nostrils.

Who is the person speaking?

Who are you?

Is the evil spirits …… referring to Chi You?

“Wake up,” the hand swept past Jiang Luo’s eyes, “and go and see what it was like at the beginning of the birth of sin.”

*

Jiang Luo is woken up by the noise.

He opened his eyes with difficulty, his eyelids as heavy as if they had been weighted with lead. It took Jiang Luo a minute or two just to open his eyes.

In the meantime, the lively sounds in your ears are getting louder and louder. The sound of gongs and drums is so festive that it sounds like the joyous music of a rural wedding …… suona …… conversations of old people and children.

” Jiang Pingcheng! How can you do this to a child!” The woman cried out, but her scolding voice diminished in the middle of her sentence, and finally trembled, softly pleading, “How could you marry Lu Lu into the Chi family?”

There is a lot of information in these words, but Jiang Luo doesn’t have time to think about them and is completely absorbed by the woman’s voice.

It was a voice he had heard for over ten years, the most familiar woman in his life, his real-life mother, Xiao Yan.

Jiang Luo’s eyes snapped open.

In the dark, narrow space, the palanquin glowing red, Jiang Luo bows his head, dressed in the most normal red groom’s outfit.

Men’s wedding dress.

Outside the sedan chair, the man said with forced impatience, “He is a man, what does it mean to marry? He’s just going to the Chi family to spend a few years with the young master of the Chi family, and then he’ll come back as his rich young master after a few years. I’ll give you a bag of daiyang later, so you can go out and buy some clothes, right?”

The woman cried faintly, at a loss for words, “No, you can’t do that to the baby ……”

The man said in a loud voice, “Then you marry in his stead?!”

The woman sobbed repeatedly and stopped talking.

Jiang Luo keeps his head down and his face unmoving.

The familiar voices of his parents, the familiar personalities of his parents. He was incredibly sure that the world he was now in was a false world in the mirror, but this false world, why was there a shadow of his parents in reality?

Jiang Luo clenched his fist.

Who exactly was the person who spoke to him while he was unconscious.

But no matter who …… it was he was now upset. What’s wrong with having to dig up these two people that he has buried deep in his memory?

Jiang Luo’s face sank as the palanquin suddenly swayed and was lifted up.

He gathered up those repressed emotions and tried to open the curtain to look out of the window. But to his surprise, the red curtain was nailed to the border.

Who gets married with a nail in the window of a palanquin?

Jiang Luo felt that something was not simple and he simply stopped looking out and checked all over himself.

This body should still be his body, the familiar features have not changed. Jiang Luo rolled up the sleeve of his right hand; the Yin-Yang ring was no longer there. He sighed, but could accept that he should have entered the mirror world as a conscious or spiritual body.

Jiang Luo was about to lower his sleeve when he suddenly saw his left hand. He froze, the red mole on his left hand was gone.

Yes, if it’s a soul, then his soul is what he was ……

He looks almost identical to ” Jiang Luo” in the book, with no similarities or differences except for the red mole on the back of his hand and his long hair.

Jiang Luo looks sideways, but behind himself he also sees a head of long black hair.

It is almost the same length as the black hair on his flesh.

Jiang Luo tickled his long hair, thoughtfully.

Is he the soul gradually moving closer to the body? Or is it that the soul and the body are gradually becoming one, and that the body grows while the soul grows, so that the soul’s hair changes from short to long.

The sound of hawking came from outside the window.

“Hot noodle dumplings! Tofu soup! Sticky pancakes!”

“Newspapers! Three pennies a copy!”

Jiang Luo listens quietly for a while to the sound of hawking, and the mirror seems to be in the modern era.

He remembered what the woman had just said.

“Marry into the Chi family”?

……

His eyelids fluttered, it couldn’t be the Chi family from Chi You, could it?

The curtain of the palanquin was suddenly pulled open, and an old lady brought in a cup of tea with a stern face, “Young Master Jiang, we’ll be arriving at the Chi family soon. Please also have a drink of water to rinse your mouth, please.”

Jiang Luo took the water and took a sip before spitting it out under the supervision of the old lady, who gave a small smile as she took the water and lowered the curtain.

Jiang Luo, however, was a little dizzy and rubbed his brow, his brain seemingly dulled and unable to turn.

When he arrived at the Chi family home, Jiang Luo was invited out to cross the fire plate, but he was actually being helped. He was not very lucid and was led through the process. They were not surprised by his state and when the dust had settled, Jiang Luo was taken to the bridal chamber.

The bed was cold and Jiang Luo sat on the edge of it, his hand moving slowly and pinching his thigh hard.

“Aigoo Young Master Jiang, don’t be like that!”

An old woman exclaimed as clear water was poured into Jiang Luo’s mouth, “It will be fine after you drink a glass of water.”

After a glass of water, Jiang Luo slowly recovers from his dizziness. He rubbed his brow and looked up to see that he was in a room with carved beams and red double happiness plastered all over it.

The mattress was big red, the tent was big red, and the eyes were filled with big stabs of red.

There was also a granny and two maids standing in the room, the two maids had their heads bowed, the granny had a smile on her face and was wearing a jade Buddha around her neck, “Young Master Jiang, we have withdrawn, the young master will come later, just call us if you need anything.”

The maid greeted the two maids and walked out. The last maid stepped on Jiang Luo’s foot and Jiang Luo looked at her, but the maid looked like Lian Xue.

Lian Xue threw down a note and walked quickly out.

Jiang Luo stepped on the note without moving, and waited for no one to be in the room before bending down to pick it up, the note contained a hurried handwriting, “We should have entered the mirror world, Lian Qiang and the others are the boys here, no one else has seen it for now, you protect yourself, we will talk after we meet sometime.”

Sure enough, Lian Xue and the others came in too.

Presumably everyone caught in the mirror was pulled into the mirror world.

I just don’t know if Chi You is in yet.

Jiang Luo frowned, his brain vaguely swollen with pain, the aftermath of the drugging still fresh.

The Chi family is a tiger’s den, and you still have to fill it with medicine before you can get married and send it to the bridal chamber?

Jiang Luo gets up and looks around the room. The room is dimly lit, with only a few red candles flickering, and apart from a few tables, chairs and benches and vases of antiques, there is really nothing to see.

He burned the note Lian Xue had given him and went back to sit on the edge of the bed. About half an hour later, the sound of greetings suddenly came from outside the house.

“Young master.”

Jiang Luo stared intently outside. A figure stepped from the paper window to the door, “Go down, you guys.”

It’s a man.

No, perhaps it was not quite a man, it was a teenage voice turning adult, slightly husky, with a touch of familiarity that made Jiang Luo’s skin crawl.

The granny said, “Yes.”

The other figures retreated in a line, leaving only the long figure behind. The door creaked open, revealing the man’s true form.

Sure enough, it’s a teenager.

His face is not yet fully grown, but he is exquisitely handsome, with a high nose and full roots. His face was pale and his lips bloodless, but he was smiling, his eyes dark, and he was already taking on an inscrutable guise.

Jiang Luo looked at him as if he were a teenager, like Chi You, and for a moment, he froze.

It’s really Chi You, and he’s married to Chi You in the mirror world?

Grass.

Jiang Luo chokes for a second and then recovers as he continues to gaze brightly at Chi You, trying to see the soul within by the look on his face.

Jiang Luo and Lian Xue both look the same, will Chi You become a teenager?

Or is this just a fake Chi You?

Chi You turned around and closed the door. Turning back to meet the “bride’s” gaze, he smiled and sat down next to Jiang Luo, looking like a good friend, “Young Master Jiang, I’m sure you don’t know me yet. My name is Chi You, your husband for the rest of your life.”

“Husband?” Jiang Luo couldn’t help but snicker, looking at Chi You’s face reminded him of his annoying personality when he grew up, always wanting to squeeze him, “You’re still a little kid and you want to be a husband?”

Chi You smiled gently and tolerantly, “I am already your husband.”

Jiang Luo raised his eyebrows and said, “I’ve already slept with a grown man, but I can’t handle a little kid like you? He grinned and suddenly put his arm around Chi You’s shoulders, “Do you know how to be a husband?”

Chi You looked sideways, narrowed her eyes at his hand on her shoulder and said slowly, “I would like to hear more.”

Jiang Luo was about to say something when he suddenly remembered something and said tentatively, “Have you turned eighteen?”

Chi You laughed, “I’ve been very ill for a few years now and I haven’t been able to get well on and off. I look young, but I turned eighteen at the beginning of the year.”

Sick?

Jiang Luo’s parents in this world are exactly the same as his parents in the real world, so if so, is Chi You’s experience as a teenager exactly the same as the real Chi You?

Jiang Luo was curious about Chi You’s secrets, curious about what kind of environment could have produced such an evil spirit. He said he would unearth Chi You’s biggest secrets, the truth about her death at thirty, the truth about her weakness, and then throw them proudly in Chi You’s face.

“What’s wrong with you?” Jiang Luo’s face changed to one of concern, “Haven’t you been well for years?”

Chi You sighed, “My body is not up to the task and that’s why I’m bothering you to come and give me a good time.”