Chapter 68: Cup of Misfortune

Recap

He blurted out, “Then I will feed you.”
Rong Yu looked at him with sorrow. “I am a useless person; what am I still alive for?”
“Fortunately, I don’t like sword dancing. It would be a pity if a swordsman couldn’t hold a sword.” Rong Yu smiled, as if to comfort himself, “Since I am useless, so be it.”
“No, you can also paint. I saw many of your paintings in this palace, and they are all very good.” Chu Zhuo said nervously, “I will ask someone to do their best to treat you. If you can’t hold a sword, at least you can hold a pen.”
The cold-blooded tyrant who can stop children from crying at night softened his voice: “You still have a few wounds on your back that have not been treated. I will apply medicine for you first.”

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“I dare not trouble your majesty.” Rong Yu said it weakly.

The Blood Jade Bracelet couldn’t help it: Is that what you call weakness? You are hypocritical.

Red Lotus Karma Fire, why pretend to be a white lotus?

Unfortunately, Rong Yu was so engrossed in his acting that he ignored the complaints about the blood-jade bracelet.

Chu Zhuo said without hesitation, “Lie down. Do you want to leave a scar on your back?”

Rong Yu turned his head away. “There’s already a mark, and a few more scars won’t make a difference.”

Chu Zhuo felt very distressed. He didn’t let others do it for him because he didn’t want others to see the mark on the young man’s back.

“Be obedient; this is an order.” Chu Zhuo lowered his voice and said, “I won’t allow you to be rough on your own body.”

The poor little thing suffered too much at the hands of Emperor Qi, and he wanted to make him feel a little sweetness. He will heal the injuries on his body and also heal the injuries in his heart.

Having said that, Rong Yu finally turned over and laid down.

Chu Zhuo pulled the quilt down to Rong Yu’s waist, and a large area of skin was exposed to the air. If it weren’t for those shocking scars, this body should have been an expanse of snow-white and flawless skin, but now it is dotted with bloodstains and bruises, especially a big “slave” character that runs through the shoulder and the entire upper back, which looks very hideous and ugly.

Chu Zhuo thought of the burning iron burning the young man’s skin, and his eyes were full of anger. His hands were shaking a little when he applied medicine to the whip injuries.

He never blinks when he holds the sword to kill people on the battlefield, and he never frowns when he is shot and pulls the arrow out with his bare hands. His hands were as steady as Mount Tai, and blood and pain could not move him.

But when he applied medicine to the young man, his brows were deeply furrowed, and he couldn’t bear to look directly. His heart was broken, and his hands were shaking.

If he had known this, he should have attacked Qi first!

Hearing that the young man was sent to the Emperor Qi by Zheng, it was clear what the intentions were: Zheng was afraid of him, so he sent Ji Yu to Qi to form an alliance; otherwise, a noble would not have fallen to this point.

He was to blame for Ji Yu’s fall into this situation.

Although he knew that Emperor Qi and Emperor Zheng were the culprits, Chu Zhuo was overwhelmed by regret and self-blame. Rong Yu didn’t even need to play the victim card; he would torture himself to death by regrets.

Rong Yu noticed his trembling but comforted him: “Your Majesty, don’t be angry. Compared with what I have suffered in the past, the pain of applying medicine is nothing.”

It would have been better if he didn’t say it. Chu Zhuo almost had a heart attack after he said it.

Rong Yu lay quietly on the pillow, his long black hair scattered on the side, looking very well-behaved. Such a person, Emperor Qi, is also cruel enough to treat him like this.

Chu Zhuo felt indignant. He felt that Rong Yu should be held in the palm of someone’s hand like a treasure, but Emperor Qi broke such a treasure.

He regretted, “I harmed you.”

“What does this have to do with your majesty?” Rong Yu said calmly, “I was originally in the palace, looking forward to your majesty’s attack on the royal city and taking the head of Emperor Qi, so that I could escape from this purgatory on earth. It was your majesty who saved me.”

Chu Zhuo was stunned.

The young man looked forward to his coming every day to save him from the sea of suffering.

With a little bitterness in his mouth, Chu Zhuo said, “I was late.”

“It’s not too late if your majesty comes.” Rong Yu’s tone was gentle, but his voice was like a knife, cutting Chu Zhuo’s heart.

“I heard that your majesty was ill.” Rong Yu asked calmly, “What happened?”
Being ill was an understatement. Everyone knew that Emperor Chu had “suddenly died” once.

In the original plot, Emperor Chu really died, and there was no subsequent plot.

Now that there is such a variable resurrection from the dead, Rong Yu knew that the sun had replaced the identity of Emperor Chu. But he still didn’t know why the sun chose to replace the native identity.

Is it related to the disappeared skeleton?

Chu Zhuo said, “They are all fake; I made them up.”

With just this sentence, no clues can be dug out.

Rong Yu didn’t believe it in his heart, but he also knew that asking like this would lead to no results. Even if it was really the Sun who replaced the identity of Emperor Chu, it now seems that the Sun has no memory of God and completely regards himself as the real Emperor Chu.

“Emperor Qi is still in prison.” Chu Zhuo poured some medicine powder from the medicine bottle and smeared the bloodstains on Rong Yu’s back.

The lighter the action, the heavier the tone. “I wanted to take his head, but now I think that would be too easy for him. Whatever you want to do with him, I’ll do it as you say.”

Rong Yu lay leisurely, Chu Zhuo’s strength was comfortable like a massage, and his voice couldn’t help but carry a hint of laziness: “Your Majesty knows how he treated me.”

Chu Zhuo paused.

Rong Yu said, “Just treat him the way he treated me.”

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After applying the medicine, Chu Zhuo said, “Rest well; I’ll come to see you tomorrow.”

He actually wanted to stay overnight; of course he wouldn’t do anything; Rong Yu was still injured.

But it was the first time they met, and he was so abrupt that it really looked like he was attracted by his beauty. The young man had encountered a scum like Emperor Qi before, and if he acted anxiously and was treated as Emperor Qi, it would be a second injury to the young man.

Chu Zhuo had to endure it.

Rong Yu said, “Your Majesty, take care.”

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As soon as Chu Zhuo left, Rong Yu’s expression faded.

Rong Yu wrapped the quilt: “Little bracelet, why did your master use the identity of Emperor Chu this time?”

Blood Jade Bracelet:… I don’t know; I cut off contact with the Lord God a long time ago.

Rong Yu continued to ask: “Emperor Chu in 5497 (T/N: Current world) looks the same as the Ghost King in 4444 (T/N: Previous/Third world). The Pisces jade pendant left in the coffin of 4444 was unearthed in 4082 (T/N: First world Merman). What explanation do you have for this?”

Blood Jade Bracelet: I can explain this! Do you still remember why Ji Yu could be reborn in 7012 (T/N: Second world Interstellar prison)?

Rong Yu certainly remembered: “Space-time loopholes.”

Blood Jade Bracelet: Yes! Every world has more or less space-time loopholes, and the next world has even more loopholes. It’s like the sky is falling and there are holes everywhere… Even if it is repaired and the big holes are blocked, there will still be more space-time loopholes than in the normal world in a short period of time. It is normal for things like the jade pendant left in the tomb to emerge in other worlds through space-time loopholes.

Rong Yu was not convinced: “It is normal for things to exist in another world, but there is another problem. I have to get the jade pendant in 4082 first before I can drop it in 4444. But from my current understanding, I must drop the jade pendant in 4444 first before I can get it in 4082. So here comes the problem.” Rong Yu looked at the blood jade bracelet and asked, “Did I experience 4082 or 4444 first?”

From Rong Yu’s perspective, he experienced 4082 first, became a carp spirit, and Gu Minghuai bought the auctioned jade pendant for him. But at that time, he did not experience 4444 and never threw the jade pendant into the coffin, so how can the jade pendant be unearthed in 4082?

Blood Jade Bracelet: I have always been with you, so of course the first world is 4082!

Rong Yu responded quickly: “How are the numbers of the universe assigned? Is each number unique?”

Blood Jade Bracelet: Worlds are born and collapsed every moment in the universe. The numbers of collapsed worlds will be retained forever, and the numbers of each world will not be repeated. These world numbers cannot be sorted by any classification. The rate by which time flows in each world is different. Some worlds do not even have the concept of time, and the time before and after can’t be compared. It is not realistic to assign the numbers based on the time of birth. There are so many worlds that the Lord God is too lazy to sort out who was born first and who was born later.

Rong Yu: “Get to the point.”

Blood Jade Bracelet: The universe did not have numbers at the beginning.

The Lord God randomly assigned numbers with one click. Except for world no. 999, which was designated by the Lord God himself.

Rong Yu asked, “Is world no. 999 special?”

Blood Jade Bracelet: Not very special. It’s just that a guardian god there, the Evil God, is an old friend of the Lord God. He could have competed with the Lord God, who was the Sun God, for the position of the Lord God, but the Evil God gave up the competition for the Snow God of that world. Lord God became the Lord of Ten Thousand Gods and had the power to assign numbers to each world. He specially numbered the worlds of Lord Evil God and Lord Snow God to be 999, blessing them to be together forever.

Rong Yu didn’t quite understand: “Do you need to give up your godhood to fall in love?”

Blood Jade Bracelet: Generally, it’s not necessary, but… Forget it; since Lord God likes you, I’ll tell you. Lord God is the Lord of Ten Thousand Gods, only when you reach the Lord God realm are you qualified to compete for the Lord of the Ten Thousand Gods. Lord Evil God and Lord God both reached the Lord God realm at that time, but Lord Snow God’s godhood was destroyed, and he was about to fall. Lord Evil God reversed time and gave up half of his Godhood to save him, and he lost the qualification to compete… It’s really romantic to say that Lord Snow God and Lord Evil God, who were reborn later, forgot their past and fell in love with each other at first sight. Anyone would have thought it was their first time meeting each other, but it was actually a reunion.

Rong Yu murmured, “Anyone would have thought it was their first time meeting each other, but it was actually a reunion. First time meeting each other, but it was actually……a reunion.”

Blood Jade Bracelet: Yes, what a touching love story! Unlike the love story between you and the Lord God, it is simply destructive.

Rong Yu surprisingly did not retort: “Little bracelet, did you say that you have been the Lord God’s natal artifact since you were born, but you have never seen him come to 6666 (T/N: Rong Yu’s original world) ?”

The topic jumped unexpectedly, and the Blood Jade Bracelet said in a daze,

Yes, why would I lie to you about this?

Rong Yu was stunned for a while. “I understand.”

Blood Jade Bracelet: What do you understand?

“I was limited by my own perspective before, thinking that the world I was experiencing was in normal time order. After discovering the abnormality of Yan Zhao and the jade pendant, I thought that the real-time order was reversed.” Rong Yu said slowly, “But in fact, there is no so-called positive order or reverse order. The universe is randomly numbered and cannot be sorted by any classification. The time in each world is different. Some worlds have no concept of time and can’t compare the time before and after.”

Blood Jade Bracelet: Why did you repeat what I just said?

Rong Yu sneered: “You can say this, but you don’t really understand it. Little Bracelet, you have also been in God’s realm with your master, and you have been objectively overlooking the operation of the universe from the perspective of laws for so many years. How come you can’t jump out of the subjective first-person perspective after entering the small world?”

Blood Jade Bracelet:… Observing the operation of the universe is the job of the Lord God, and I haven’t done it. Can you explain it more clearly?

Rong Yu simply broke it up and told it: “Your four worlds have been following me. Is this the order of my world experience? 4082 Chi Yu, 7012 Ji Qingyu, 4444 Wen Yichu, 5497 Ji Yu?”

Blood Jade Bracelet: Yes, yes.

“But based on the discovery of this world, I suspect that the real order of events is 5497, 4444, and 4082. There is no clue to connect 7012 at present, but if the above inference is true and I am experiencing a reverse timeline, then the correct order of events is 5497, 4444, 7012, and 4082.”

Blood Jade Bracelet: I can understand it.

Rong Yu smiled slightly and overturned the above conclusion: “But this is not the fact either.”

Blood Jade Bracelet:? ? ?

Rong Yu said, “If it is in the same world, then time is linear. But there are countless small worlds in the universe, and their time is different and cannot be parallel. The travelers who travel through the world remember every world they have experienced one after another, and these events are also linear in their minds. Just like in my memory, I have experienced 4082, 7012, 4444, and 5497 one after another.”

“But in the world, the order of those events is not sequential like in my memory. Time is not linear, but a chaos without order.”

Time is chaotic.

The world as a whole has no concept of time.

He and Yan Zhao were teleported from one world at the same time, but Yan Zhao arrived at the next world decades earlier than him every time. The time of each world is different, and the teleportation process cannot be explained by the concept of time. In each independent world, time is linear.

Countless independent small worlds together make up the world, and they operate independently without any intersection in time or space. Outsiders are exceptions that break the rules of the world. If the time and space of different worlds intersect, the experience of the traveler in the world is not a straight line but a mess.

Ordinary humans do not need to consider this problem because they will not travel to another world. Travelers are exceptions. Not only can they travel through different worlds, but they may not necessarily travel to the present tense of this world. For example, the work of the gods of the Space-Time Administration often makes time flow back to a certain node that can be turned around.

But most travelers will not think about this problem. They can’t jump out of their own perspective. Just like Rong Yu before, he felt that the sun had let him down, and then there were so many worlds chasing him, and his memory was indeed like this.

He was wrong.

Anyone who uses this so-called world teleportation can be teleported to any time point in any world. It can be the past of a world or the future of a world. Of course, this future is a given. If the future of this world has not been written down by law, it cannot be traveled. The future can also be changed. Rong Yu changed the future of his and the princess of the Celestial Clan by not loving each other. He was not destined by God.

The Pisces jade pendant gave Rong Yu a hint; otherwise, it would be difficult for ordinary people to jump out of their own perspective, calmly observe the operation of the entire universe, and look at things from the perspective of laws.

After he left world no. 6666, he saw the sun after a long absence. That was the result he finally waited for after waiting for 972 vicissitudes of life.

He waited for the Lord God to hunt him down.

The Lord God looked at him with extremely unfamiliar emotionless eyes at that time.

Rong Yu hated him to the bone.

But if…

What if he thought they were meeting again, but it was the first time for the sun?

That was romantic for the evil god and the snow god of world no. 999, thinking it was their first time, but it was actually a reunion. But he and the sun were just the opposite.

He thought it was a reunion, but it was actually the first time.

It was just his reunion.

Rong Yu said calmly, “What if right now, 6666 has not yet been born?”

Blood jade bracelet: !!!

It seems to understand.

“The sun and I are experiencing different world sequences. The only thing that is the same is that we will always meet.” Rong Yu calmly stated the facts.

“Maybe he didn’t forget me at that time; he just hadn’t met me yet.”

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T/N: Hmmmmmm… well, that took a turn… (didn’t expect the angst but hey, here we are.)

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