Chapter 36: Talk Therapy

  "Huh? There's a hint of an affair!"

  Liefu was about to go out on patrol, wrinkled her little nose, she was quite sensitive to some things.

  Don't mind her!

  Don't bother with Lie Ruoyu and Su Tianhe anymore!

  Shamelessly, obscenely, and even disgustingly, Ye Huan's eyes were filled with amusement, while Mu Hun's eyes became straight and stiff. The two of them stared at me, I stared back at you, your eyes had me in them, my eyes also had you in them...

  "Brother..."

  "Brother..."

  "Fate!"

  Su Tianhe was fully focused on divination, Lie Ruoyu was also worried about his grandfather, and under the circumstances where no one noticed, the two of them exchanged a signal, saying to go out and hide for a while, fearing that it would affect Su Tianhe's divination, and then they sneaked out through the door crack...

  ……

  "Let's get started!"

  In the room, Su Tianhe had already wiped clean the crystal ball and took out a stack of drawing paper and a feather pen for sketching from under the table. He pointed at these things and instructed Lie Ruoyu, "When the divination begins, I will burn my life to bring down the starlight from the sky. You remember, when the starlight shines on the crystal ball, the scene you want to know will flash inside the crystal ball. At that time, I will draw it down."

  "He paused for a moment, 'But the consumption of Benming astrology is very large, I may not be able to complete the painting. If it rains, then you will need to replace me to complete this painting, do you understand?'"

  Liejue Yu felt a bit embarrassed, "Su Lao, my painting skills are not very good."

  "Hehe, don't worry about it, as long as you focus on the crystal ball and remember everything inside, roughly sketching it out will do, the rest I'll infer myself!" Su Tianhe smiled, "Any other questions?"

  Lie Wu looked out the window at the cloudless sky and the gradually rising sun, "Su Lao, you said you wanted to bring in stardust, but now... it's daytime!"

  "In ancient astronomy before the Great Change, the Sun was also a kind of star!"

  Su Tianhe smiled proudly, his hand holding the feather pen raised up, and his other hand also raised the painting paper. On his slowly rising arms, extremely mysteriously, a small hole appeared in the center of the thatched cottage roof, and a ray of sunlight shot through from above, shining directly on the crystal ball.

  Then this small hole was like the center of a whirlpool on the water surface, causing the surrounding roofs to rotate, and the small hole became larger and larger, and the sunlight that shot in also became stronger and stronger.

  What's even more miraculous is that the sky outside also darkened at this moment, and on the azure sky with no clouds, a solar eclipse suddenly occurred. But it was different from the usual total eclipse, annular eclipse, or partial eclipse. The sun's outer edges were all dark, leaving only a bright spot in the center. All of the sun's rays seemed to converge on this single point, and suddenly shot into Su Tianhe's thatched cottage, into the crystal ball!

  There is only one sun in the world.

  It was no surprise that almost everyone on the Eastern Continent witnessed this sudden change in the sun, ordinary people began to panic, religious believers started praying to their gods, soldiers strengthened their vigilance under the orders of their respective kings, and even many ferocious beasts in the wilderness showed fearful and uneasy expressions!

  "I'm going!"

  When he first saw the sun's anomaly, someone actually changed the cosmic law between his fingers, Ye Huan, who was hiding outside, couldn't help but exclaim, "Brother, Su Tianhe is so strong, why are you still at odds with him?"

  "Brother, have you seen the brilliant sun in the sky? With my extraordinary talent and flying literary skills, I couldn't help but compose a poem to express my feelings..."

  Her voice sent shivers down Ye Huan's spine, and he saw him raise his arms high, take two elegant strides, and chant: "Ah, round sun, emitting golden light, and that wrinkled little thing in the middle, you're just like a chrysanthemum on your butt, boom, boom, boom, boom..."

  "Brother, I'm asking you what's going on with you and Su Tianhe..." Ye Huan said weakly.

  "Brother, I've already spoken out my answer, the most sincere voice in my heart. Don't you understand yet? Are you so misunderstanding of my inner self?"

  "Alright, I can only express it in some crude language... Alas, what a shame for me as a poet! *sigh* That was two hundred years ago, or was it three hundred? Brother, do you know a secret? Actually, my first master wasn't Su Tianhe!"

  "Oh? Go on!"

  Ye Huan gained interest, unexpectedly the mother's soul could still change owners, so she said that she herself could also...

  "Alas, it seems like three hundred years ago, the time is too long, I don't remember clearly anymore. Brother, anyway, in that year, my previous master died, but I didn't know why I survived... Oh!" He sighed again, "Brother, do you know how a lonely and desolate mother soul like me spent those few years without a master? I struggled, I suffered, I was heartbroken, my heart was cut like a knife..."

  "What's next?"

  "Then, Su Tianhe appeared before me. He was originally a slave captured by the beastmen, a useless person without a mother's soul. Brother, you see, just like now, Su has no mother's soul, I have no master, so we hit it off immediately, our hearts resonated with each other, and we became partners in crime..."

  Ye Huan broke out in a cold sweat, "Mother Soul sir, to put it simply, you voluntarily entered Su Tianhe's body and became his mother soul, right?"

  "Brother, your wisdom, your cleverness, and your quick wit have already proven my insight! This mother soul actually has a bit of a feminine tone! "That's right, I've taken refuge with Su Tianhe, and brother, do you know? Although I don't remember why, I'm an extremely rare attribute-less mother soul. No matter who I attach to, I'll immediately change into attributes that suit the host based on their physique!"

  Ye Huan's gaze was almost devouring him!

  "Sutianhe's physique is most suitable for communicating with the stars, making him a great prophet. So, brother, I became the soul of star divination, and you know what? On the mainland before, there was no mother soul of star divination, so Sutianhe became the ancestor of the mother soul of star divination under my help!"

  "Oh, oh, the key is what comes next, why did you guys have a falling out?"

  Her expression became even more melancholic, "Alas, I can barely understand it myself, brother. Su Tianhe was once a slave, which I've already mentioned. Then, can you imagine the kind of abuse a beastman slave would have suffered?"

  “……”

  Ye Huan could of course imagine it, a human child falling into the hands of a group of brutal beastmen, what good outcome could there be!?

  He couldn't bear to say out loud the scene he had thought of, nodded and said "I understand!"

  "Brother, you understand my heart, you know my intention, how can I be so joyful!?" The mother's soul was in tears, "After becoming Su Tianhe's mother's soul, I shared all his memories, and also shared the pain he experienced as a slave. In the following two hundred years, I accompanied him, sighing together, crying together, sitting silently on a desolate rock when no one was around, with tears in my eyes... My heart is so tormented, brother!"

  "But 120 years ago, Su Tianhe somehow forgot the memory of being a slave..."

  "Brother, I really don't know why this is happening. Su Tianhe actually said that he had never been a slave and hadn't experienced that period of suffering. When I shared this memory with him, he actually said that I was harming him... Good heavens, how can this be? This memory originally belonged to Su Tianhe, but now it's become mine alone. He, he actually disavowed it and left me with this pain all by myself!"

  "Alas, in the days that followed, I kept making Su Tianhe believe that he had indeed been a slave and suffered humiliating treatment. However, Su Tianhe's temper got worse and worse. Not only did he refuse to accept this memory, but he also took back my attributes and soul power. I was like a piece of trash, casually discarded inside his body, without even a glance or a question. Ah, my heart is shattered..."

  "So you guys had a falling out?"

  Ye Huan smiled.

  The encounter between Mu Huan and Su Tianhe can be summed up in one sentence: after sharing Su Tianhe's painful memories, Su Tianhe forgot about them and disavowed them. It was as if someone was being burned by flames, and you swallowed the flames into your own belly to save him, but that person said it never happened.

  Can you not quarrel with someone when something like this happens?

  Moreover, what's even more wonderful is that others don't know why Su Tianhe lost this memory, but Ye Huan, the psychologist, is crystal clear about it!

  At this time, the mother's soul sighed again: "One hundred and twenty years have passed, no one can understand my pain. Su Tianhe really was a slave, I didn't deceive him, ah! Who can understand me? Who can believe me? Who can comfort my heart that has experienced so much?"

  I can!

  Ye Huan smiled with great confidence, "I absolutely believe you, because I know there's a theory in psychology that when a person experiences extreme frustration, their conscious mind will unconsciously throw away this memory to the subconscious, burying it deeply, even they themselves forget about it. Only under deep hypnosis can this memory be dug out!"

  "What did you say, bro?"

  His mother blinked her eyes, he simply couldn't understand psychological terms.

  "Let me give you an example!"

  Ye Huan found a fruit on the golden leaf tree around her, with green skin, looking not yet ripe, very sour. "Now, suppose you are my mother's soul, I took a bite of this fruit... Ah, it's so sour it's killing me!"

  Ye Huan tossed the fruit to Mu Hun, "I think this fruit is too sour, so I'll just toss it to you, take a bite!"

  "Ah, geez, bro, you're killing me!"

  Then, he saw Ye Huan not moving anymore, and after another ten or so seconds, Ye Huan seemed as if nothing had happened before, plucking a ripe fruit, sweetly and smilingly eating it up. Then, she ate the second one, the third one, she was getting happier and happier, almost unable to see Mother Soul over there hugging an unripe fruit, her face purplish-blue from holding her breath.

  "Do you understand now?"

  Yue Huan began to explain, "Su Tianhe's memories of being a slave are like this sour fruit. Su Tianhe took a bite and didn't like it, so he threw it to you. You've been holding onto it, with your mouth puckering up in distaste and your throat getting dry. But what about Su Tianhe? He found even more, sweeter fruits and started eating them greedily, nonstop. When he ate too much, his brain was only filled with sweet memories. As for this sour fruit... just forget about it while it's still in your hands!"

  "Brother..."

  "Older brother?"

  "Brother!!!"

  "Oh no!"

  The mother's expression changed rapidly, and at this moment, Ye Huan even thought of that out-of-tune Dan Ge. No wonder, their tone of speech was so similar. The mother's spirit jumped up, "Brother, you are the guiding light for your brother, the pioneer! To be honest, I still don't understand what you're saying... No way, my brother didn't study, and his knowledge is poor, but I figured it out, Brother, you understand me, you really understand me!"

  As he spoke, he hugged Ye Huan and burst into tears.

  This mother's soul speaks and handles things out of tune, but the hardships she has suffered over the past few hundred years are not fake. He choked for a while, "Brother, why didn't I meet you back then? Only you can understand the desolation, helplessness, and grief in my heart!"

  Ye Huan smiled humbly, "Actually, I just understand some human psychology... Alright, to be honest, what we just did was a conversation therapy. Now, is your knot untied?"

  "Uh-huh!"

  Mother's soul nodded repeatedly.

  "What about in the future? Are you still planning on staying with Su Tianhe?"

  "Brother, you're an expert, can you tell me if Su Tianhe still has a chance to recall that memory of being a slave?"

  This silly-looking mother asked the big bad wolf, "Mr. Wolf, how do you cook braised rabbit meat?"

  Ye Huan said, "In my opinion, he won't be able to take it anymore, and in the future, he might become even more ruthless towards you. For example, he'll suspect that you're harming him, imprison you, beat you, or even expel you from his body...". He imitated the tone of the mother's soul, "Ah, at that time, you'll be left to wander in the wilderness, desolate, lonely, and helpless, facing your remaining life amidst tears and sighs..."

  "No!!!"

  "Brother, I've made up my mind! From now on, brother will follow you!"

  Huh?

  Is it that simple?

  Ye Huan had long been planning to capture this mother soul, with hundreds of years of experience and the ability to adapt to her master's attributes, what a perfect mother soul... except that her personality was a bit off. But he still didn't expect the mother soul to agree so quickly, and she even took the initiative to speak!

  "Sir, why must you follow me?" Ye Huan began to put on airs, at this time, one had to show the noble character of the future master, right?