After Rebirth, the Love-Struck Cannon Fodder Woke Up - Chapter 29

Chapter 29: Confession

◎ Repeated Rejections, Obsessive Delusion ◎

Du Lianxin was held tightly in the woman’s arms, her nostrils filled with the familiar, elegant body fragrance.

Affected by the previous memory, her emotions were extremely low. She only wanted to escape the person in front of her.

“Let go of me! Senior Sister and I have nothing to talk about!”

Du Lianxin began to struggle with force, but the woman refused to let go.

In her extreme agitation, she attacked Senior Sister for the first time.

A sharp palm strike instantly came. Shen Anlan did not dodge and took the blow head-on.

Her injury hadn’t fully healed, and suffering an attack now immediately worsened her condition.

Du Lianxin had assumed Senior Sister would dodge. She was utterly unprepared for the current situation.

She hadn’t intended to hurt her. For a while, she didn’t dare to attack again, only allowing the woman to hold her and fly into the distance.

After about half a zhancha, Shen Anlan landed with the girl on a hill and cast a soundproofing restriction around them.

Seeing that the restraints around her were gone, Du Lianxin quickly retreated backward, putting distance between herself and the woman.

Shen Anlan felt another pang of pain at her distant manner.

“Lianxin, everything in the past life wasn’t what you thought. Listen to my explanation…”

The girl raised her hand, interrupting her. “Senior Sister, I said that is already the past, something that should be forgotten. Why bring it up again? By now, I no longer care whether or not there was a so-called misunderstanding.”

“But I care!”

Shen Anlan’s eyes were rarely red.

“In the previous life, my cultivation was completely destroyed. You took care of me for more than half a month without changing your clothes. I said at that time that I liked the current life, far away from disputes. But you secretly used the forbidden technique to save me. I was angry that you didn’t understand me at all, and even angrier that you didn’t value your own life! The reason I left was to find a spiritual object to save you!”

Du Lianxin’s expression was very faint, showing she did not believe the woman’s words.

Shen Anlan suppressed the bitterness in her heart and continued: “I encountered people from the Asura Sect halfway. Feng Ruo led people to besiege me. I severely injured her, but at a critical moment, I was sucked into a world inside an ancient bronze mirror. I was trapped for a long time. After getting out, I returned to the small courtyard but couldn’t find any trace of you, Lianxin.”

The girl interrupted her. “The ancient mirror Senior Sister mentioned couldn’t be the spiritual treasure that appeared in Donglin Town in this life, could it?”

Shen Anlan nodded. “That’s right.”

Du Lianxin twitched the corner of her mouth, her smile somewhat sarcastic.

“That’s strange. Back in Donglin Town, Senior Sister, with Core Formation cultivation, was able to get out in a very short time after being trapped, yet in the previous life, when Senior Sister had reached Soul Transformation, you were trapped in that world for more than ten days?”

A sad look appeared in Shen Anlan’s eyes. “Lianxin doesn’t believe me?”

The girl countered: “Does Senior Sister think those words are believable? According to Senior Sister’s words, the higher the cultivation, the easier it is to be trapped in the world inside the mirror?”

Shen Anlan shook her head painfully. “No, I didn’t mean that. When I entered the world inside the mirror in the previous life, just like in this life, I encountered a strange entity that was an illusion of you, Lianxin. Only by killing the strange entity was there a chance to leave. But at that time, I simply couldn’t do it!

Looking at a face identical to yours, Lianxin, I would subconsciously recall every little bit of time we spent together during those days. The prolonged delay, combined with the rules of the world inside the mirror, caused my consciousness to gradually become blurred.

Later, at a crucial moment, I recalled the daily moments of you taking care of me. At that instant, I recovered my consciousness, killed the strange entity, found the core of the treasure, destroyed it, and escaped the world inside the mirror.”

Du Lianxin listened to these words, feeling no emotion, but rather a little numb.

“What happened after that? Did Senior Sister know I had returned to the sect?”

Tears filled Shen Anlan’s eyes. She nodded. “I knew I had been delayed for a long time in the world inside the mirror. After getting out, I immediately returned to the small courtyard, didn’t see Lianxin’s figure, and found nothing even after searching nearby. I thought, Lianxin, perhaps you returned to the Clear River Sect? So I immediately rushed back.

Unexpectedly, the Elder told me that after you lost your cultivation, Lianxin, you were ashamed to stay in the sect, requested to leave voluntarily, and returned to your hometown. I knew the Elder was lying, because you had told me, Lianxin, that your homeland had long been destroyed by a natural disaster.

I interrogated the Elder, learned the truth, and then killed him with a single sword strike. After leaving the sect, I searched everywhere for your whereabouts, Lianxin, and finally found you in a wooden house on a desolate mountain.”

The girl’s eyes were cast down. “I was no longer in the world at that time. Senior Sister should have only found my corpse.”

Recalling the scene at that time, Shen Anlan’s hands, hidden in her sleeves, trembled slightly, and tears fell like broken strings of pearls.

“Yes… I came too late… Lianxin, can you give me another chance? In this life, I want to treat you well.”

The girl’s gaze was cold. “Senior Sister, do you think that’s possible?”

Du Lianxin believed this explanation, but that didn’t mean she would let bygones be bygones regarding everything that happened in the previous life.

Moreover… for more than ten years in the previous life, Senior Sister was indifferent to her. Would she suddenly fall in love with her after being reborn?

Du Lianxin was skeptical of this.

She believed that Senior Sister was acting this way now simply because of a slight sense of guilt in her heart.

Perhaps there was another reason… In the previous life, she was always pursuing Shen Anlan. In this life, she had never done so again. After recovering her memory, Senior Sister was temporarily unaccustomed to it?

Du Lianxin thought that with time, those old habits would slowly fade, and it was nothing significant.

Shen Anlan saw the girl’s cold expression, and the pain in her heart intensified.

“It was all my fault. I shouldn’t have left you alone in that small courtyard when you needed me the most. Lianxin… I regret it…”

Seeing the woman attempt to approach, Du Lianxin continued to retreat several steps.

“Senior Sister, there is no medicine for regret in the world. Since the misunderstanding of the past life has been clarified, from now on, we will interact as ordinary senior and junior sisters. Senior Sister should also stop calling me Lianxin; calling me Junior Sister is enough.”

Hearing this, the sorrow in Shen Anlan’s heart deepened, and she almost lost control of her emotions.

“Why? Didn’t Feng Ruo call you that too? If she can, why can’t I?”

The nightmare scene surfaced in her mind again. She instantly thought of another possibility, and a hint of madness tainted her eyes.

“Could it be that… Lianxin, you have fallen in love with her?”

Her tone was full of interrogation. Du Lianxin found it ridiculous upon hearing it.

“What if I have, and what if I haven’t? What does it have to do with Senior Sister?”

These words further provoked Shen Anlan.

The consistently cold and emotionless celestial being became obsessive and delusional at that moment.

Du Lianxin only felt a blur before her eyes. Before she could react, she was tightly hugged. Immediately after, her lips were met with warmth, and her mind went blank.

After realizing what was happening, she was overcome with shame and indignation. She exerted all her strength, trying to push Shen Anlan away, but inadvertently touched an extremely soft spot.

The girl’s body instantly froze. Most of the spiritual energy she had gathered in her hands dissipated at that moment.

The woman who was forcibly kissing her did not stop because of this. Du Lianxin’s nostrils were filled with the other party’s elegant body fragrance.

Whether in the previous life or this life, when had she ever been so offended?

In her heart, only two people who were mutually in love could do such intimate things. Even in the previous life, no matter how much she adored Shen Anlan, she had never crossed the line by half a step.

In this life, she had clearly decided to stay away from this person, yet she insisted on provoking her.

“Let go… ngh… Let go of me!”

Seeing that the woman would not let go, Du Lianxin became extremely agitated. She simply hardened her heart and bit down on the soft lips.

Shen Anlan winced in pain, and the force in her hands slightly lessened.

Du Lianxin took the opportunity to break free from the woman’s embrace. Her peripheral vision caught sight of bl00d flowing from the corner of the woman’s mouth. Her heart paused, and she uncomfortably shifted her gaze.

“I don’t like Feng Ruo. Senior Sister, don’t do this again in the future.”

Shen Anlan, however, was stuck in an impossible line of thought. Lianxin resisted her intimacy, and she was convinced that the girl had fallen for someone else.

“If it’s not Feng Ruo, then who is it? Gu Xianzi? Ye Qiuwan? Or is it the Ghost King Qingdai we met in Donglin Town?”

Du Lianxin had always thought Shen Anlan was cold and emotionless, but now, she only felt that she was unreasonable.

“I don’t like anyone. Please, Senior Sister, stop making baseless speculations!”

As she said this, she gazed at the woman in purple. Because her lips had been bitten, they were clearly red and swollen, although the bleeding had slowly stopped.

It was clearly Shen Anlan who had forced the kiss, yet she displayed a look of heartbroken anguish, as if Du Lianxin were the abusive villain.

Du Lianxin was utterly exasperated. She simply turned around, wanting to leave this place.

However, after only two steps, she was hugged from behind.

“Lianxin, don’t go…”

A murmured whisper reached her ears. The girl was about to struggle. In the next instant, the collar of her clothing near her neck was dampened by warm tears.

In the previous life, Du Lianxin had never seen Shen Anlan cry.

Even when she was rescued from the Nine-Layered Ice Domain and learned that her cultivation was completely destroyed, her expression was calm, and she did not shed a single tear.

Today, ever since they started talking about the past life, Senior Sister’s tears had not stopped.

Compared to her former cold and emotionless image, the current Shen Anlan seemed to possess a touch more humanity.

Realizing this, Du Lianxin was momentarily dazed.

If this person had been like this in the previous life, would the outcome have been different?

This thought had barely arisen before she immediately shook it out of her mind.

Since she had already decided to stay away from the other party, she should not harbor any unrealistic fantasies.

Du Lianxin tried hard to ignore the unusual sensation on her neck and said flatly: “The way Senior Sister is treating me now is largely due to guilt. In fact, Senior Sister doesn’t owe me anything. Senior Sister, don’t forget, you saved my life. Using the forbidden technique to save you was merely repaying the kindness. From now on, we owe each other nothing.”

“No!” Shen Anlan immediately cried harder, clinging desperately to the girl, afraid that the person would vanish before her eyes the next moment.

“I don’t want us to owe each other nothing! Lianxin, I truly like you. I am very certain that this is not guilt. Don’t be so cold, okay? Can you… can you get closer to me like you did in the previous life, and stay by my side often…”

“Senior Sister, I said that everything in the past life is over. Senior Sister only recently recovered her memory and is simply unaccustomed to my change. Given time, you will gradually let it go.”

Shen Anlan fell silent for a moment upon hearing this. The obsession in her eyes grew even more intense.

“Must Lianxin leave me?”

The girl was about to answer “Yes,” but at that moment, a wet, licking sensation came from her neck. The hands tightly clutching her waist also began to move subtly around her body.

“Senior Sister, stop…”

Du Lianxin’s body was naturally very sensitive. Being deliberately teased like this by the person she once deeply loved, she quickly became unable to bear it.

She bit her lip, the corners of her eyes gradually turning red, and tears welled up in her eyes.

“Stop… Shen Anlan, don’t make me hate you!”

Perhaps the word ‘hate’ stung the woman. The restless hands tightly embracing the girl’s waist slowly ceased their movement, but she did not release her. Instead, she hugged her even tighter, as if intending to merge the girl into her very being.

Du Lianxin instinctively felt that the current Shen Anlan was very dangerous, so she simply remained silent.

The temperature from the tightly pressed body was not her own. Her mind was in turmoil, wondering how things had escalated to this point.

The wet, licking sensation on her neck persisted. After a while, she couldn’t take it anymore and cautiously spoke: “Senior Sister, can you let go of me first?”