Reborn in the 80s: Everyone Falls For Me
Chapter 618 - 617: Darkness (1 more)

Chapter 618: Chapter 617: Darkness (1 more)

"Your husband?"

Ye Tian enunciated each word slowly, the phrase trickling from his lips. His pale eyes shimmered with a profound light, like the depths of an ancient well or the endless expanse of the sea.

Mysterious and strange.

The fingers on the handle of my umbrella were distinct, his grip firm as he held on to the umbrella shaft. Slowly lifting his gaze, which had been lowered, he looked straight ahead, past Xu Niannian’s head, towards the front.

"You have a husband..."

He spoke methodically, yet his tone was utterly hollow, devoid of surprise, sorrow, dissatisfaction, or disappointment, like a dead pool, serene and still.

Xu Niannian didn’t know if her guess was right or wrong, but if there was even the slightest possibility, she wouldn’t give Ye Tian a chance.

It was precisely because he was the Uncle Ye who had helped her in a past life that she was even less willing to give him any hope.

Yet, listening to his emotionless words, Xu Niannian couldn’t shake the feeling that she might have guessed wrong.

She chuckled, "That’s right, I even have a child now, Mr. Ye, don’t you know?"

She had once seen him while holding her eldest treasure.

Just at that moment, a snowflake drifted from outside and settled on Xu Niannian’s shoulder under the umbrella.

Ye Tian reached a hand towards her as if intending to brush the snowflake from her shoulder.

But Xu Niannian instinctively stepped back, and thus, Ye Tian’s hand fell through the air, stopping mid-reach.

Quickly Xu Niannian brushed off the snowflake herself, "I can take care of it."

It was then that Xu Niannian noticed the blood on Ye Tian’s pure white suit.

A slash on the side, likely from a dagger, was bleeding profusely.

Xu Niannian was alarmed, "Oh, Mr. Ye, you’re injured."

"Am I?" He looked down at his arm, "It’s nothing."

"How can it be nothing? The wound is so deep." Xu Niannian remembered how Jin Yu had downplayed his serious injuries, saying they were nothing, and suddenly she couldn’t help feeling annoyed.

"Do you men not know how to look after your own bodies?"

Thinking of Jin Yu, concern tinged Xu Niannian’s reproachful tone.

Ye Tian’s indifferent eyes finally showed a flicker of emotion, "Are you worried about me?"

Xu Niannian: "..."

Oops, she might have unintentionally caused a misunderstanding.

She was just thinking about her own dog at home.

But no matter what, Ye Tian was still a benefactor from her past life.

She should show some concern.

Ah, no, that’s not right.

Xu Niannian suddenly remembered something crucial.

The Buddhist abbot at Ling Shan Temple had said that this wasn’t the 1980s from her previous life’s world, but rather a space similar to the 1980s of her past life.

Meaning this Ye Tian wasn’t Uncle Ye who had helped her in her younger years, right?

Just a similar person from a different space?

With this realization, Xu Niannian suddenly lost any sense of closeness to Ye Tian.

It wasn’t the same person as Uncle Ye from her past life after all.

There she was, foolishly being cordial to him.

A young and attractive woman being friendly to a man not much older than herself is bound to be misunderstood.

Xu Niannian’s thoughts churned, causing her to forget to respond to Ye Tian’s question.

Ye Tian took her silence as consent.

In the depths of his eyes, the endless darkness began to be tinged with a hint of light.

"Could you help me bandage this?" he asked.

Snapping back to reality, Xu Niannian saw the blood still flowing from his wound. It was cold outside, and even though she knew he was not the same Uncle Ye who had helped her, she didn’t refuse to help.

Yet her demeanor had grown more distant.

"Sure."

She bent down, tearing off a layer of sheer fabric from her dress and wrapping it around his arm over his clothing, tying it tight.

"Um, Mr. Ye, I’m not very good at bandaging, so I can only stop the bleeding for now. There’s a hospital up ahead, perhaps you should go there and have a nurse treat you properly. I don’t have any tools to disinfect the wound right now."

"No need."

Ye Tian looked at the wound on his arm, his gaze growing darker.

His eyes, clear and piercing, stared at Xu Niannian, becoming increasingly vacant.

"Do you know? In this world, some people who step into darkness find themselves forever shrouded in it. The salvation of light will never reach those who dwell in the dark, which is why those trapped in darkness forever long for light, and yet also forever despise it."

"Hm?" Xu Niannian looked at him, puzzled by his sudden cryptic question.

But she didn’t agree with what he was saying.

"That’s not true. I was in darkness too, but I still love the light."

Seeing Ye Tian speak like this, Xu Niannian thought he might be facing some kind of trouble.

Even though he was not that Uncle Ye who had changed her life, seeing that familiar face, she felt compelled to offer some consolation.

"You’ve been in darkness before?" Ye Tian laughed suddenly, but there was no sound, just a strange curve to his mouth.

Xu Niannian looked at him and nodded.

"I don’t want to delve into my past experiences in detail, but I also felt engulfed by darkness and thought I was the most miserable person in the world. I hated the light because I believed that it would never shine on me. What others had, I lacked; what others didn’t have, I still lacked."