Chapter 153

Chapter 153

Song Xiaotian and I spent a full half-month lying in hospital beds.

During this time, Old Zhao Seven also woke up, and his body recovered rapidly.

Initially, the doctors had even issued a critical condition notice for him. Since he had no family, the notice was given to Meng Yifan.

Even we thought Old Zhao Seven’s injuries were so severe that he might not pull through, but he truly was an extraordinary man. Not only did he wake up, but he healed at an incredible speed.

After twenty days in the hospital, we couldn’t take it anymore and processed our discharge papers.

In those twenty days, I never saw Anning again.

She never reappeared, as if she had never existed in the first place.

Du Yuwei was gone, and she seemed to have vanished along with her.

I even asked Song Xiaotian to find a way to track her down, but he came up empty-handed.

I didn’t know if I would ever see her again.

I also didn’t know if I wanted to see her, or if I just wanted to see that face that looked exactly like Du Yuwei’s.

The day we left the hospital, the three of us, plus Old Zhao Seven, gathered at a hotpot restaurant.

The doctors had originally instructed us to be careful with what we ate since our injuries hadn’t fully healed.

But perhaps because we were close to the Sichuan-Chongqing region, we all loved spicy food. Old Zhao Seven said this was a case of “fighting poison with poison,” and that at worst, we’d just go back to the hospital for another two days.

That evening, we huddled in the hotpot restaurant.

However, I wasn’t in high spirits.

Not long ago, I had experienced the most painful life-and-death parting of my life.

Yet, in the end, I discovered that the person wasn’t my kin, but my enemy.

If I could clearly recognize my original identity, my heart wouldn’t be in such agony.

What pained me was that I possessed the memories of two people simultaneously, and both sets of memories were equally profound to me.

I had to admire my own psychological resilience; after all this, I actually hadn’t gone insane.

“You already know?”

At the dinner table, Old Zhao Seven suddenly asked me.

Meng Yifan and Song Xiaotian looked on with curiosity, asking what he meant.

I nodded and said I already knew.

“Know what?” Song Xiaotian asked relentlessly. “What exactly do you know? Tell us already.”

“I am not Chen Mo.” I looked at him and Meng Yifan. “My name is Li Fuguang. My father is Li Yanzhou, and my mother is Tang Wanhe. Fifteen years ago, I was kidnapped by Lv Zhengxian and murdered by him to extend Chen Mo’s life.”

Clatter!

Both of their chopsticks hit the floor instantly.

The two of them looked at me in disbelief, as if they had turned into idiots.

Meng Yifan was the most shocked; after all, we had been brothers for over a decade.

We were in the same class in middle school, the same school in high school, and the same university. We were as close as brothers. Now that I was telling him I wasn’t Chen Mo but someone else, I figured it was a hard fact for him to swallow.

“Wh-wh-what!”

Meng Yifan was so scared he started to stutter. “I… you, you’re not Chen Mo! How am I supposed to make sense of that!”

“If you aren’t Chen Mo, why do you have Chen Mo’s face?” Song Xiaotian added hurriedly. “Since Li Fuguang gave his life to extend Chen Mo’s, then Li Fuguang is dead. The one living should be Chen Mo. Plus, you look like Chen Mo. How could you be Li Fuguang?”

I tried to explain it to them, but in truth, I couldn’t fully explain it myself.

Because I didn’t know… what method Chen Guowen and the others had used to achieve Soul Reincarnation in Corpse.

“You still don’t know everything.”

Old Zhao Seven set down his chopsticks and said to me, “You only know half of it.”

I looked at Old Zhao Seven in confusion, remaining silent.

Old Zhao Seven continued, “I know Chen Mo’s Birth Date and Time, and I know Li Fuguang’s Birth Date and Time. I used Four Pillars Astrology to calculate the fate of both.”

As he spoke, he pulled out a piece of paper and handed it to me. It was covered in dense writing.

“Chen Mo’s Fate Pattern was one of early death. His chart shows that he died in his youth-specifically, at the age of eleven, he did not survive that major illness.”

“But strangely, the chart continued to show a trajectory for Chen Mo’s fate, though it was a trajectory I couldn’t decipher.”

“As for Li Fuguang’s Fate Pattern, it was also one of early death. The chart shows he also died in his youth, murdered. Equally strange is that the chart also continued to show a trajectory for Li Fuguang’s fate, and I couldn’t decipher his trajectory either.”

“When I overlapped the charts of these two people, I discovered that after the age of eleven, their fate trajectories both moved in the same direction. Combining this with what Chen Guowen did back then, I concluded that the souls of Chen Mo and Li Fuguang are living in the same body. This body is Chen Mo’s.”

Old Zhao Seven looked at me, stunned as I was, and reconstructed the more complete truth of that year, as well as the complete version of me. “Back then, Chen Mo did indeed die. But Chen Guowen and his father, Chen He, couldn’t accept that fact. They couldn’t take the blow, unwilling to accept that even after killing seven people, they still couldn’t resurrect Chen Mo.”

“So, they forcibly transferred Li Fuguang’s soul into Chen Mo’s body, attempting to use ‘Soul Reincarnation in Corpse’ to let Chen Mo live in another way. Even if the person who woke up was no longer Chen Mo, it would still be Chen Mo’s body and Chen Mo’s appearance.”

“However, Chen Guowen and Chen He never imagined that after Li Fuguang’s soul entered Chen Mo’s physical form, Chen Mo’s own soul would remain inside. These two souls didn’t reject each other; they resided in one physical body simultaneously. Furthermore, Chen Mo’s soul took the lead, resulting in the body having Chen Mo’s memories after waking up, but not Li Fuguang’s.”

“And that was exactly what Chen Guowen and Chen He wanted to see. They thought they had accidentally resurrected Chen Mo. They didn’t know they had created a precedent never before seen in the history of numerology: Two Souls in One Life.”

Old Zhao Seven said word for word, “You are both Chen Mo and Li Fuguang.”

I froze in my chair, unable to process it for a long time.

I… I am both Chen Mo and Li Fuguang…

Inside my body, there are two souls at the same time?