"What's wrong?"
Chu Yun's hand froze in midair as he knowingly asked.
It was as though a bolt of lightning had struck the Sky Demoness's heart. The moment she saw the mole on Chu Yun's hand, turbulent waves surged within her, and her emotions churned violently!
The position was exactly the same, without the slightest deviation!
Even its shape and size were completely identical!
Could there truly be such a coincidence in this world?
The Sky Demoness came back to herself, her gaze fixed tightly on Chu Yun.
She suddenly stood up and grabbed Chu Yun's thigh directly.
"Hey, hey, hey!"
"What are you doing?!"
"Although this prince's charm is immense, you don't need to be this wild, do you?" Chu Yun hurriedly said after setting down his bowl.
The Sky Demoness ignored everything else. She directly lifted his trouser leg, her pupils fixed intently on the base of Chu Yun's thigh.
When she saw the mark on his leg, her expression trembled. Her eyes stared at it unblinkingly as shock, delight, confusion, and all manner of emotions surfaced one after another in her gaze, tangled beyond measure.
Seeing her hand resting on his thigh, Chu Yun could not help but say, "So obsessed with this prince? Why don't we just get down to business right away, then?"
The Sky Demoness had no mind left to listen to him.
The storm raging in her heart had already caused her expression to slip out of control.
"It really is you!"
"Su Ziheng, you're Su Ziheng's reincarnation, aren't you?!"
The Sky Demoness looked at him, her words filled with agitation, as though she wanted Chu Yun to give her the answer at once.
Chu Yun frowned.
He could not admit it now. Otherwise, if he acknowledged that he was Su Ziheng, then all the teasing and bullying he had done to her before would directly lower her impression of him.
Therefore, forgetting was the best excuse.
"This prince doesn't know who this Su Ziheng you speak of is. But if you say he was my past life, then perhaps that is indeed possible."
The Sky Demoness was puzzled. "What do you mean? You don't know who you were in your past life?"
The Sky Demoness felt that something did not add up. If Chu Yun did not know who he had been in his past life, how had he seen through her identity?
"Since things have come to this, I won't hide it from you."
"To tell the truth, I really don't know who I was in my past life. I have no memories of it."
"As for how I saw through your identity, it is because ever since I could remember, I have had a pair of extraordinary eyes that can see through most of the karmic ties in this world."
"That includes yours."
Chu Yun casually made up an excuse.
And just as he expected, after Chu Yun explained it like that, she did not ask what kind of eyes he possessed.
At this moment, all of her focus was on Chu Yun's past life.
"These two places alone are completely identical between you and Ziheng—the birthmark and the mole on your hand. Their positions, sizes, and shapes are exactly the same!"
"How could there possibly be such a coincidence in the world!"
Deep down, the Sky Demoness desperately wanted to believe that Chu Yun was Su Ziheng.
After all, when she had been young, Su Ziheng had been her only spiritual anchor.
It was precisely because he had died that Yu Qingxin became the female emperor of the demonic path, the Sky Demoness.
Yet beneath that incomparably glorious exterior lay a heart she had sealed away herself.
And Su Ziheng was the only key capable of unlocking that seal!
However, reason was still telling the Sky Demoness—
A reincarnation and their past life could not possibly share completely identical traits.
Perhaps this really was some inconceivable coincidence.
After all, Chu Yun himself had said that he did not possess Su Ziheng's memories.
After hearing her words, Chu Yun said, "I've had these two marks ever since I could remember."
"But these two things alone aren't enough to draw such a definite conclusion."
"Unless you have another way to verify it."
As if inspired by those words, a flash of insight struck the Sky Demoness's mind.
"Right!"
"There is something that can determine whether you really are Ziheng!"
With a thought from the Sky Demoness, a withered flower appeared in her hand.
"This was a flower Ziheng personally raised back then. In the beginning, it was only able to grow and bloom because of a single drop of Ziheng's blood."
"After he died, this flower withered."
"I sealed it within my soul for many years. When I became an emperor, I even placed a seal upon this flower. Only Ziheng's soul power can undo it and make this flower bloom again!"
"Now, try it!"
"If you can make this flower bloom again, then without a doubt, your past life was Ziheng!"
The Sky Demoness could scarcely wait. The expression on her face was enough to explain everything.
The importance and attention she placed on this matter nearly surpassed everything else.
Watching her reaction, Chu Yun was somewhat surprised as well.
The Sky Demoness's response was far greater than he had imagined.
This showed just how important Su Ziheng was in her heart!
That sense of irreplaceable singularity—no one could take his place!
Chu Yun silently accepted the flower and placed it in his palm. He activated his soul power and slowly poured it into the flower.
Whoosh!!
Then, the flower that had already withered visibly regained its luster. Its fragrance spread as it blossomed anew!
"Ziheng... it really is you..."
Seeing this, the Sky Demoness completely confirmed Chu Yun's identity.
Her eyes brimmed with tears, and those memories that had been sealed away for so long surfaced in her mind one by one.
She remembered how, when they had both been in their teens, they had depended on each other for survival. So that she could have a single steamed bun to eat, Su Ziheng endured a beating for an entire hour.
She remembered that night when heavy snow filled the sky. She had fallen ill and nearly frozen to death. It was Su Ziheng, relying on sheer willpower and suffering frostbite all over his body, who carried her into a cave...
She remembered the look in Su Ziheng's eyes as he lay dying. Through his tear-blurred gaze, there had still been the genuine feelings he had suppressed for many years...
All of it, every last bit of it—Yu Qingxin could never forget it through life after life.
"So who exactly was this Su Ziheng?"
"What did my past life have to do with you?"
Having reached this point, Chu Yun could only keep pretending and knowingly ask.
Tears slid down the Sky Demoness's face. She gently wiped them away, then looked at him with complicated emotions. "He was a very good person, and once... the most important person in my life."
"Since you don't remember, there's no need to deliberately try to recall it."
"Your past life is ultimately your past life. Right now, you are still Chu Yun, the Ninth Prince of the Great Xia Dynasty. That will absolutely never change."
Chu Yun met her eyes. "The way you look... doesn't seem very good, Sky Demoness..."
For once, the Sky Demoness revealed a faint smile. "Don't call me Sky Demoness anymore. Call me Xin'er."
"That's what you used to call me too."
"You don't need to worry about me either. I'm only too happy, that's all."
The Sky Demoness thought for a moment, then spoke to him earnestly. "Chu Yun, from now on, remember this: no matter what happens, I will stand by your side unconditionally and accompany you through it."
"Whether you believe it now or not, time will prove all of this."
Feeling her sincerity, Chu Yun looked into her eyes. "There is no need to prove it. I believe you!"
The two held each other's gaze, then smiled at one another.
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