Becoming the Villain's Discarded Wife
Chapter 100 Heavenly Path

Chapter 100: Chapter 100 Heavenly Path

"Why are you here?" Nanzhi looked around the still pitch-black surroundings, somewhat puzzled.

If the original host had truly died, shouldn’t she be reincarnated?

Could it be that the whole idea of reincarnation didn’t work in the world she found in the book?

"Could you first tell me what happened to Gougou? I haven’t seen him in many years!" The voice sounded cheerful, as if it was overjoyed to see Nanzhi.

Not seen him for many years?

Nanzhi felt clueless, she had only travelled here two months ago, so why would the original host say she hadn’t seen Gougou for many years?

"He’s nearly four years old now, well-behaved and very smart, I even gave him a full name."

"Really?" The voice sounded slightly surprised, yet suddenly changed its tone, "Is his name Zhiyu? Zhiyu of the Jing Mountain?"

Nanzhi was taken aback, how did she know the name she gave Zhiyu?

"How do you know?"

"Because I am you, I know everything."

The voice laughed, only to abruptly become somewhat despondent, "But I haven’t gone out in so long, now that you’re here, I can finally leave!"

Nanzhi started to feel wary, what did she mean by she was her?

Why would her arrival allow the other to leave?

"Don’t worry, I won’t hurt you."

"Who exactly are you?"

Nanzhi mustered the courage to ask, after all, she was in her own dream; since it was her dream, she was the boss!

"I should have left, but the destiny of this small world was unstable and I was trapped here, repeating what happens on the screen every day, like a dead loop, looping all the events before my death." The voice sounded melancholic, which made Nanzhi strangely sorrowful.

"I’ve always wanted to leave, but for many, many years I’ve been stuck in this loop without success. But today you’re here! I can leave and go where I truly belong!"

Nanzhi felt clueless, what did she mean by where she truly belongs?

"Your true place? Where is that?"

"The Three Thousand Small Worlds, this place is nothing more than a spot abandoned by the Heavenly Path. Now that you’re here, I can return to my place and continue being a ’substitute spirit’, I don’t need to stay here anymore."

"’Substitute spirit’? What is that?"

The voice suddenly coughed softly, then spoke again: "Just like you travelled to this world, the original bodies are simply operated by us ’substitute spirits’, we just need to leave at a specific time, give the body back to you when you arrive, and we can accumulate corresponding merits, then go on to complete the next task."

"What is merit? So the ’me’ before was just you at the helm?"

The Substitute Spirit hesitated, unsure of how to explain, after mulling over it for some time, it finally spoke: "When a small world can’t function, it needs to change its original trajectory, and we ’substitute spirits’ are specifically in charge of this. As long as the task is completed, the small world will give us a certain amount of merit. Merit can be converted into destiny. When it reaches a certain level, we can free ourselves from the status of ’substitute spirit’].

As for what we have to do in these tasks, we only make the body do the same things as the original storyline, and when the destined ones like you arrive, we can consider our task completed. To truly get married and give birth requires a soul, otherwise, one is just a walking corpse. As you said, the original host was only a piece of your soul that was drawn over."

Upon hearing the words of the Substitute Spirit, Nanzhi was thoroughly stunned.

Did it mean, the original host was just a person made of part of her soul and the spirit?

So the one that was with Shen Wenchen was another her?

Even the person who had lived in this world for twenty years was herself?

Recalling that she was only eighteen in her last life, Nanzhi became even more puzzled.

Could it be she lost her soul before she was born?

"Everything has causes and consequences, and it is inevitable that you would come here."

The Substitute Spirit seemed to know what Nanzhi was thinking, it merely shook its head and said this sentence.

"So why would you say that you have been trapped here for many years? Do you know something else?"

The Substitute Spirit was taken aback. It wasn’t sure whether it should say the rest, after some thought, it finally said: "I should have been trapped here because the destiny here is unstable, causing the collapse of the world’s rules. That’s why I haven’t been able to leave for so many years. But the fact that you could come here means that this small world is nurturing a new Heavenly Path. Only when a new Heavenly Path is successfully nurtured can this small world return to its rightful track, and everything can go back to normal."

After listening to what the Substitute Spirit said, Nanzhi fell into contemplation.

Nurturing a Heavenly Path?

That means this small world is not complete.

The Substitute Spirit saw her silent for a long time, and realizing that it had said too much, still decided to give a warning after some hesitation: "You need to be more careful."

"Careful of what?"

But just as Nanzhi finished asking without getting a reply, the darkness around her gradually began to disperse. The floating screens suddenly started to disintegrate, disappearing bit by bit.

The Substitute Spirit’s cheerful voice came back: "I’m leaving, you guys need to be careful."

Nanzhi wanted to say something, but found herself unable to move, paralyzed where she was. She could only watch wide-eyed as her surroundings changed.

Suddenly, it seemed like a blurred shadow appeared in front of her.

The shadow was very happy, circling around Nanzhi a few times before it slowly started to fade, eventually disappearing from Nanzhi’s sight.

For some reason, she felt a heaviness in her head, feeling dizzy and only wanting to lie down. But just as she was about to pass out, she faintly heard Shen Miaomiao’s anxious voice and what seemed like Zhiyu’s crying.

"Sister Nanzhi!"

Struggling to open her eyes, her vision wasn’t filled with strange screens, but rather a little girl’s tearful face.

She had just fallen asleep, only to be suddenly startled awake by Zhiyu to find that Sister Nanzhi was trembling and had her eyes tightly shut, looking as if she was having a nightmare. No matter how hard the girl tried to wake her, it was to no avail. The girl was nearly scared to death!

"Mom, mom, you woke up!" Seeing that his mother had woken up, the young boy rubbed the tears off his face. He couldn’t always cry and let his mother take care of him.

"What..what happened?" Nanzhi was baffled, how did she fall asleep?

But it seemed like she dreamt of something after falling asleep. But what was it?

No matter how hard she thought, she couldn’t recall anything.

"Sister Nanzhi, just now you were trembling all over, and you kept shouting something about the ’Heavenly Path’, it scared me to death!"

The little girl was wiping off the sweat from Nanzhi’s face with a handkerchief while describing her earlier terrifying appearance.

"Heavenly Path?"

Nanzhi felt this term was familiar yet she couldn’t recall where she had heard it, so she just silently memorized it.

Meanwhile in the backyard, the River Clam which was filling itself with water from the well paused its actions, with the bizarre water pillar immediately dispersing, only leaving behind a wet trace on the ground.

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