Chapter 30

Chapter 30: South City Villa (8)

“Shen Mo” looked at Jiang Shi Yue and stayed silent for a long time. But she admitted she had been moved. Her expression carried a sense of relief, and there was a faint shimmer of tears in her eyes, as if she was remembering something, and as if she had suddenly understood something. Her body slowly twisted, and Chen Ze’s appearance faded bit by bit until it became a form like mist.

The mist kept swirling, yet it also gathered tightly into a fixed shape.

But Jiang Shi Yue could see it and feel it.

This was the psychic entity’s true form. It was made of life energy and mental power, and it only took shape because it had attached itself to the host’s memories.

“Shen Mo” finally spoke softly. “Fine. I believe you…”

As soon as she finished speaking, her body became even thinner. Countless tiny points of light burst out like little stars and flitted around playfully, dazzling like a sky full of stars.

The psychic entity gradually thinned out. The air seemed to pick up a strange fragrance, faint but fresh, like tender new buds on willow branches.

Jiang Shi Yue raised her right hand and closed her fingers around the brightest cluster of light. Her slender fingers held that ball of glow.

Light and shadow wound around her fingertips, warming the color of her skin.

When Jiang Shi Yue opened her hand, the glow became even brighter, as if it couldn’t wait to melt into the air.

Then she reached out her left hand. Her pale fingers sank into that warm light, and she actually pinched out a wisp of black mist.

The moment the mist touched her fingertips, it suddenly shook violently, as if trying to escape. But it was useless. In the end, it slowly calmed down and seeped into Jiang Shi Yue’s finger, and a tiny black mole appeared on her fingertip for no reason.

“Pretty ugly. Whatever, I’ll suffer a little,” Jiang Shi Yue muttered, shaking her head.

She stretched out the hand holding the glow and let go completely. The glow slowly floated up and scattered little by little in the air, growing fainter and fainter until it fully merged into all things in the world.

But what was strange was that, within the fading glow, a new glow separated out again. That glow even slowly formed into the thin, fragile figure of a young man.

Jiang Shi Yue clicked her tongue softly. “No wonder the mental power left on the mirror wasn’t the same as the one on Shen Mo. So it was yours. You really did use your own life to keep her mental power going.”

The young man stayed silent for a moment. Then he spoke softly, telling a story that barely counted as a story.

The reason the young man hadn’t come to see Shen Mo was because he had followed her in death. Someone had once told him that Shen Mo’s soul was extremely restless after she died, and only by having his soul accompany her could Shen Mo be freed.

Just as that person had said, death was not the end. With that man’s help, his awareness separated from his body, and then he found Shen Mo. Sure enough, just as the man had said, Shen Mo’s awareness was on the verge of scattering at any moment.

So he merged his mental power with hers and used his own life energy to keep Shen Mo’s awareness going.

To the young man, it meant he would hide in darkness forever, unable to ever be known by Shen Mo. He was a shadow her gaze could never reach.

If Shen Mo’s awareness hadn’t left willingly, the young man might never have been able to appear. But now he had appeared, and the Shen Mo who had already left would never get the chance to know everything the young man had done for her.

Yet the young man didn’t regret it at all. Perhaps he even welcomed it.