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.