Chapter 11

Translated by boilpoil Edited by boilpoil

No matter how complicated the system felt, Wen Fu and Bai Lianhua still ended up together without pomp and ceremony.

Bai Lianhua may not have been direct that day if there were others seeing it, but it’s enough for Wen Fu. He knows Bai Lianhua’s personality well, and never thought his simple and elegant white lotus would one day become passionate and hot, to say flirt after flirt… In fact, that Bai Lianhua can act so enthusiastically is already unexpected.

Bai Lianhua has always been someone not particularly brave. Normally, just touching his petals would result in him shaking his leaves, trembling as he curls up on himself. He’s careful and conservative. Yet, it is a guy like this that one day expressed to him indirectly that he wanted to consume him whole…

Then why not do as he wants?

Unfortunately, Bai Lianhua’s body is truly trash for cultivation. Even duo-cultivating didn’t raise his cultivation amount any.

Bai Lianhua is well-prepared for this, but Wen Fu is not giving up, and is searching for some other way again. He believes that the Heavens would not seal someone’s fate, and there must be some method that is fitting for Bai Lianhua.

——After having experienced Bai Lianhua’s response, and understood how wonderful having his wish fulfiled was, Wen Fu couldn’t help but admit that this is feeding well into his greed. Though he had said he only wanted Bai Lianhua’s genuine affection in exchange for himself, now, he wants something more, for the both of them to live well happily ever after.

How cruel Bai Lianhua can get is a lesson he has learned in pain. If he really passed away, would Bai Lianhua forget about him quickly?

Seeing Wen Fu being a busy little bee for him, Bai Lianhua is unable to remain steeled entirely.

Yet, he cannot tell him all the truths. Even if he emphasised that his cultivation rank would not increase at all his whole life, Wen Fu doesn’t believe him.

Seeing Wen Fu again coming back with wounds for him, Bai Lianhua rushes forth to hug him.

“Enough. Seriously, enough.”

“Stop worrying about my cultivation rank.”

“All those natural bounties, lost scrolls, techniques, age complementation body, I don’t want any of them… Just these hundred years, let’s just be together, can’t we?”

Wen Fu is quiet for a moment before a smile emerges, “while I’m happy you’d say that, but… no.”

His smile is flirty and suggestive, “if you’re worried about me, why not soothe me by confessing to me?”

“I love you.”

Yet unexpectedly for Wen Fu, Bai Lianhua really did comply with him.

With a serious expression, “Wen Fu, do you believe me? At least for ‘this life,’ I only love you.”

Wen Fu stops smiling.

He looks quietly at Bai Lianhua, and takes out a jade tablet.

“This is what I’ve got this time… A spousal contract.”

“Everyone in the cultivation realm knows that a cultivational spouse is only a formality. Even if a spousal ceremony were held, they can just separate if they’re unhappy later on.” This is also why he’s not fixated on having one with Bai Lianhua. The ceremonial aspect of a spousal ceremony is already way greater than its practical aspect. It is a mere foramlity.

“Not this one in my hands, though. This is something I found from the belly of a monster that has been living for almost ten thousand years. I wanted to take its supernatural core, but I didn’t expect this blessing. Rather than a spousal contract, it is more of a life-sharing contract. If the contract goes through, the two people will be able to give half their longevity to the other person, and so they will live and die together. This is why the ancient era elders would be so careful picking a spouse. If the ceremony went through, then they would have given their longevity out. Even if the two ended up mortal enemies in the future, they had no opportunity to regret.”

“The only requirement for this contract that is the two like each other for real… This is also why I’m worried and didn’t take it out the first thing when coming back.”

In the end, Wen Fu admits that he’s not confident enough to test the truthfulness of their relationship with this jade tablet. He’s afraid if the two tried to make a contract and it ended up failing, it would prove to him a result he never wants to know; he’s afraid all of this is illusionary, and he’ll lose Bai Lianhua’s warmth when it is broken. If so, then he’d rather continue to be blindfolded.

But now, Bai Lianhua has told him himself that he loves him.

So Wen Fu cannot help but feel a tingling in his chest.

“Contract with me.”

Bai Lianhua is shocked. Wait, to share half of their longevity with each other? He’s only a mere hundred years left. If he contracts with Wen Fu, wouldn’t it be super unfair on him?

Even the system is sighing with the feels remarking how this is just what true love is.

As Bai Lianhua seems reluctant to agree, Wen Fu tells him without anger, “I won’t hide it from you, and my life expectancy is not as long as you thought either.”

He looks indifferent, as if what he’s saying is something unimportant rather than such a staggering fact.

——The special cultivation technique Wen Fu trained with and his self-mutilating way of cultivating has had a far greater adverse effect on him than Bai Lianhua thought. He’s practically used his lifeforce as his price. He might be a Dacheng cultivator, but he’s only got 600 years left to his life, and he won’t be able to take over someone else’s body to start over either.

“Like your cultivational talents which can’t be raised, so is my life expectancy. It’s useless no matter how many pills you refine for me to treat the inner wounds.”

Still, when he saw how worried Bai Lianhua looked, he could never tell him ‘this is an exercise in futility’ then.

They’re both working busily for what is destined for failure.

Bai Lianhua is in disbelief… 600 years? How could this be the life expectancy of a Dacheng elder? It is said that Chuqiao cultivators can already live for over a millennium, not to mention Dacheng cultivators who are two ranks above Chuqiao with a Fenshen in the middle. Even if the years Wen Fu has lived up until now is taken into consideration, he should still have thousands of years left.

So Bai Lianhua is even more reluctant, and he’s really angry seeing how Wen Fu disregarded his own body.

But Wen Fu is really patient on this. Mentioning it every day nonstop, as if brainwashing. Bai Lianhua couldn’t withstand it, and still signed the contract when he was not quite himself.

So he was a bit dejected, but, when he sees the three characters of Bai Lianhua successfully registering on the jade tablet, he still smiles after staring long and hard at it.

“Wen Fu, look, I’m really called Bai Lianhua, not Su Zhu. I can’t hide my true name in a contract like this.”

Bai Lianhua sounds proud. He’s finally found something that can prove the legitimacy of his name. This is a jade tablet left behind by the ancient era elders, so how could a small Zhuji cultivator like him fake something on it, right?

So Wen Fu is the one looking stupefied this time. He didn’t expect Wen Fu to still remember something like that.

He looks at Bai Lianhua with deep, boiling emotions inside him. His lips perk up, “I see… Bai Lianhua, my Bai Lianhua.”

Following the contract, Wen Fu decided to just stop messing about in the cultivation realm, instead deciding to retire with Bai Lianhua.

He’s never had the ambition to make himself known throughout the world. No matter how much power and reputation he gets, none of it could compare to Bai Lianhua.

There’s a saying that goes “a flower for a world,” and his white lotus is also his whole world for him.

After Wen Fu requests it, they return to the residence deep inside the Forest of Mists where Bai Lianhua lives.

It’s still as they remember. When they return here finally, they are both feeling different from their original time here.

Meanwhile, the system is quite happy. It’s great Wen Fu is willing to retire. This meant that the negativity in him has largely been soothed, and his mentality is turning normal under the host’s influence. It watched as the mission progress of its host leapt forward, and is now only a little bit from maxing out.

This time Bai Lianhua continued to accompany Wen Fu until he died… Wen Fu is the one passing away before him.

Just before death, Wen Fu has a lot to say. He’s so talkative it’s unlike him.

His expression is soft, and so is his voice, “I actually lied to you back then. I’m the one with the greater cultivation amount and leading the contract, so I added a restriction in the contract so you’ll be living longer than me.”

Wen Fu is even joking, and mimics what the system said that time, “want to reforge me into a pill? You can still live more than a few hundred years.”

“Since I’m going to die anyway, it won’t be too painful. And it’s a waste of my age complementation body to leave me alone anyway… I’ve lived so long though, so after reforging the effect of the pill might not be as potent.”

——Since age complementation bodies are often put into the alchemical stove when they’re not very old. Even if others would want the life-prolonging effect to be greater and force them to cultivate, they’ll never be able to wait that long. While compared to his cultivation amount, he hasn’t had that long a life, but to be honest there’s probably no other age complementation body in this world that has lived for as long as he has.

Because not every age complementation body would meet Bai Lianhua when they needed help the most.

Bai Lianhua is covering his face, muffling his voice, “I won’t reforge you. I won’t.”

“Mm. Don’t cry, I know about that. I’ve long since known about that…”

“But I didn’t want you to leave. I wanted you to stay.”

“It’s my selfishness. I’ve already believed your explanation a long time ago——Even if you did come with an ulterior motive, it must be one that is kind towards me. I pretended to not understand, and to force you to do the deal with me.”

“Bai Lianhua, I would have made the same choice still even now. I really don’t want to see you die in front of me again.”

“Luckily, you’re the one that can stay behind and take care of my body this time.”

Wen Fu left with a smile, without regrets.

The last bit of the mission progress bar is filled up.

The system quickly sends a notification, “return of white moonlight mission progress completed. Congratulations host, you have already evolved from a pure, flawless white lotus into a clear, brilliant white moonlight in this world, to become a white moonlight as soothing as lotuses, to successfully emanate a holy aura that has changed the antagonist and completed the series mission completely in this world. You may now exit this world and enter the next.”

Bai Lianhua is unresponsive. His gaze is still fixed on Wen Fu, not reacting to the system at all.

“Eh? Wait… Warning, warning. The amplitudes of the emotional peaks of the host are too high. For the safety of the host’s emotional wellbeing, the emotions associated with antagonist Wen Fu will be sealed temporarily.”

Bai Lianhua’s eyes shut, and he enters into a sleep-like state. When he wakes up again, though his memories are still there, emotions related to that world has been sealed. The life of his body also runs out, and he is now at his life’s end. Just before his consciousness was to exit the world, he again looks at Wen Fu.

He has already had his emotions suppressed, so he should have been looking at Wen Fu like a spectator, calm and collected, without sadness nor happiness, but for some reason, perhaps the system is still inexperienced with sealing emotions and a tiny gap was left, so… he still felt a tinge of having lost himself.

Author’s notes: #Do you want to make a contract with me? Filii Magi Bai Lianhua☆Magika!#

By the way, it’s strange… In my outline, I thought the ending of this world was pretty sweet. They stayed with each other, fulfilling their wishes, and seeing each other off with a smile… Why did it end up looking like this after I typed it out? I thought I followed my outline well?

Don’t beat me up, please, it must be the fault of my life for being too harsh on me recently QAQ!

By the way, the key sentence for the next world, #If everyone were a string of data, then if the main server is there, nobody will die… How great would it be if you turned into a string of data that is forever alongside me#

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