Although it was a bit difficult to say, Ye Chen still had the courage to ask such a seemingly stupid question.
"Can't you feel this yourself?"
Jing Lingwei asked back.
"this……"
Ye Chen was suddenly speechless.
It was because he knew Jing Lingwei was sincere to him that he had the patience to tell her so much.
After just thinking about it, he said angrily: "Then...who am I?"
Although Nangong Dou had already said that Jing Lingwei had devoted her whole life to cultivation and had never experienced love between a man and a woman in the world.
But, after all, it was just Nangong Dou’s words.
Jing Lingwei has lived for more than 400 years, which is equivalent to five times the life span of ordinary people. Who knows whether Jing Lingwei has... during these long 400 years...
"what do you mean?"
Jing Lingwei was ashamed and angry, "Didn't you notice the first time we..."
"Ah, I understand. Sorry, I was a little confused just now and said the wrong thing!"
Before Jing Lingwei finished speaking, Ye Chen suddenly understood and hurriedly apologized with a smile.
With this reminder from the other party, he suddenly remembered that before marrying him, Jing Lingwei was indeed a saint.
"Ye Chen, it seems you really dislike me!"
Jing Lingwei smiled bitterly, "In that case, I apologize to you here. I shouldn't have concealed my true identity and deceived your feelings!"
When she said this, she was on the verge of tears, her eyes were misty with tears, and her voice was a bit choked up.
Ye Chen was a little embarrassed and also a little guilty.
He could see that Jing Lingwei's sad and aggrieved look was not just an act.
As if to change the subject, he hurriedly looked around and said something else, "Then, was our meeting planned by you, or was it just a coincidence?"
"Just a random coincidence!"
Jing Lingwei didn't dare to look into Ye Chen's eyes, lowered her head, and a gentle voice came from her cherry-like mouth, "At the beginning, I knew that there was no hope of entering the fairyland, and I only had a few decades to live, so
I simply don’t want to go into seclusion anymore and want to be an ordinary person again and experience the most ordinary emotions in the remaining time.”
"So, you joined the Phantom Sect and became the Saint of the Phantom Sect?"
Ye Chen said in surprise.
"The addition of the Phantom Gate was just an accident!"
Jing Lingwei explained patiently: "In the beginning, I sealed my whole body cultivation and lived alone in a remote village, planting vegetables and plowing the land every day. I originally wanted to integrate into the life of ordinary civilians."
"But, the good times don't last long!"
"Not long after I lived in seclusion there, the village was ransacked by a group of bandits. I couldn't bear the murder of those simple villagers, so I unleashed a bit of cultivation and killed all the bandits on the spot."
"But because I showed the cultivation that only a warrior can have, the villagers, while grateful to me, also started to stay away from me!"
"From that time on, I knew that it was impossible for me to integrate into the common people!"
"In addition, when I started to kill that group of robbers, I was secretly seen by an assassin from the Phantom Gate. He felt that although I was a woman, my methods were very similar to their assassins from the Phantom Gate, so he asked me
Are you willing to be an assassin?"
"I knew there was no hope of integrating into ordinary people, so I simply agreed to the assassin's proposal and joined the Phantom Gate from now on!"
"My original intention was just to blend in with the low-level warriors, but in several tests of the Phantom Sect, I performed extremely well. Gradually, I finally attracted the attention of the master of the Phantom Sect."
"Is this your mother Ye Mei?"
Ye Chen asked.
But then, he seemed to have thought of something, and sighed: "If my guess is right, you mother and daughter must also be fake, right?"
"Yes, it is indeed fake!"
Jing Lingwei nodded, "However, the fact that she is the wife of the former Phantom Sect master is true!"
"Then does she know your identity?"
Ye Chen asked again.
"I didn't know it at first, but since I fell in love with you, I was afraid of making mistakes, so I secretly revealed my identity to her and asked her to cooperate with me in the mother-daughter recognition scene!"
"You took all this trouble, are you just afraid that I would know that you are Jing Lingwei?"
Ye Chen smiled bitterly.
"That's right!"
Jing Lingwei glanced at Ye Chen secretly and said, "If I let you know my identity, I'm afraid you will stay away from me like everyone else!"
At this point, she laughed at herself and added: "Actually, there were several times when I wanted to leave silently, but when I really wanted to make up my mind, I realized that the depth of my feelings for you has far exceeded mine.
Imagine, I don’t want to leave and I can’t leave!”
"You may think I'm selfish, but I really can't let you go!"
"When I was deceiving you and hiding it from you, I felt very guilty!"
"Especially when I'm with you, I've always been very conflicted.
I can't help but think, if one day you find out that I am more than 400 years older than you, and you leave me in anger, or call me shameless, how should I face you?"
"It's just that every time I see you risking your life for me, my heart will be deeply touched again, and my determination to leave you will be shaken again and again!"
"In addition, you are alone in the world of cultivation. You often encounter some powerful enemies whose cultivation is far higher than yours. I am afraid that something unexpected will happen to you, so I can only selfishly follow you with a complicated and guilty mind.
around you."
Hearing this, Ye Chen's expression became even more bitter, "So, you have been protecting me secretly these past few years?"
"This...is so!"
Jing Lingwei hesitated for a moment, then nodded, "Although I have never shown up, I will not put your life in danger."
"But I have been injured several times and encountered many powerful enemies that I couldn't handle. Why didn't you show up?"
Ye Chen said in surprise.
"But every time, aren't you always able to escape with your own abilities, or turn defeat into victory?"
Jing Lingwei smiled bitterly and said: "I am hiding in the dark, just to protect your life from threats. If I take action at the slightest danger, wouldn't I be exposed?"
"I see!"
Ye Chen cast an apologetic look at Jing Lingwei, "I've been really hard on you these past years!"
Although Jing Lingwei deceived him, which made him feel a little unhappy.
But the other party was like a guardian, silently guarding me for so many years, and he still felt guilty.
This intention alone was enough to resolve all the unhappiness in his heart.
Especially when he recalled that he had had various ties with some women in the past few years, and even accidentally crossed the line, he cautiously tried again: "By the way, since you have been secretly protecting me, then what I have done in the past few years...
Do you know everything you do and everyone you come into contact with?"