Qingxi furrowed her brows and listened intently, not missing a single word Chen Zhi said. She was deeply troubled. Chen Zhi thought she wasn't Yue Chen, had forgotten the past, and considered herself as someone else. Ten years could indeed change a lot of things. Truly, only those who stayed and remembered would suffer more.

　　Day and night, she had been yearning and torturing herself. Yu Su was the most important childhood playmate of her young lady and the only friend in the palace. But time played tricks on them. She no longer remembered these things, leaving the prince alone in his hopeless waiting.

　　"Young lady, you are Yue Chen. You are the one," Qingxi said to Chen Zhi with unwavering determination. That woman remembered her past. Why had her young lady forgotten? Deep sorrow filled her eyes. Her young lady had forgotten everything completely.

　　"Qingxi, you don't understand. This body is Yue Chen's, but the soul inside has changed. I know this sounds strange, but the facts are right in front of us. Don't you have any doubts? I'm so different from the previous Yue Chen," Qingxi was sent by the Prince Regent. Lüzhi was waiting outside, and Rong Quan was also nearby. It would be easy for the Prince Regent to know what she said.

　　"Since I woke up in this body, not a single one of my actions is like those of the previous Yue Chen." They were all people in ancient times. Many things that couldn't be explained were attributed to the supernatural, so they should believe it easily. "Have you ever heard of a soul taking over a corpse?"

　　Qingxi knelt down and kowtowed solemnly. "No matter what the young lady says, Qingxi believes it." The Prince Regent's speculation was completely correct. It was indeed a soul entering the body, and her young lady had been away for ten years. If it weren't for the young lady, she and Lüzhi would have frozen to death on the roadside in the winter fifteen years ago. It was the young lady who took pity on them and brought them into the mansion.

　　"Young lady, don't worry about this. The Prince Regent treats you well out of his own will. You don't need to feel burdened." The Prince Regent treated the young lady well, and the young lady also treated the Prince Regent well. Between masters, it has always been mutual, not just one - sided. The young lady just forgot the past for now. Fortunately, the young lady has come back, and one day, she will surely recall all the past.

　　Chen Zhi felt that what she said just now was completely in vain. She had been so straightforward, but why couldn't Qingxi understand? Did she really not understand, or was she pretending to be ignorant?

　　After thinking for a while, Chen Zhi had an answer in her mind. Qingxi was just a little maid. How could she dare to guess the master's thoughts? Even if she seemed not to be bound by excessive etiquette on the surface and might be a bit bolder towards others, when it came to the Prince Regent who had cultivated her, she naturally wouldn't dare to overstep any boundaries.

　　"Forget it, you can go," It seemed that they would just pretend not to hear what she said. Since everything was caused by the Prince Regent, and he was in the Weiyun Temple at the moment, she would just go directly to him.

　　His kindness to her was because he thought she was Yue Chen, the Yue Chen who had come back to life after hitting the pillar and dying in the cold palace. He thought it was an opportunity to change his regrets and make up for the past, mistaking it as a fate given by the heavens for him and Yue Chen to start anew. This feeling was too heavy for her to bear.

　　No one knew this secret. As long as she didn't say it, no one would know she was no longer Yue Chen. She knew what she was doing and what consequences it would bring. She was like a thief, stealing the kindness that should belong to the original owner. Even if she wanted this kindness so much, she should get it in an upright way, not through such underhanded means. Even if this secret would never be known, she couldn't deceive herself. She couldn't have a clear conscience.

　　She was Chen Zhi, and she wanted others to be kind to Chen Zhi, not to steal what was meant for Yue Chen. Yue Chen was dead. She had felt all of Ayin's kindness towards this body. There was really a lack of fate between them. But what was missed was missed after all.

　　After figuring this out, Chen Zhi got up and ran towards the door. When Ayin parted with her, he had said that he was temporarily staying in the room on the right side of the Weiyun Temple. There were not many pilgrims today, and even fewer stayed for the night. It was easy for her to find the room where Ayin was staying.

　　Seeing that it was her, Yu Su immediately got up and greeted her, a faint smile on his face that couldn't be hidden. "Why is Ayuan here?"

　　Chen Zhi ran over and took his outstretched arm, walking into the room with him. "I came to find you. I have something to tell you." Ayuan was what he called her. This must have been how he addressed Yue Chen before. Thinking of this, her mood became a bit lower.

　　"What is it, Ayuan?" Yu Su led her to sit by the table. On the table were delicate pastries that she used to like. He gently pushed them towards her.

　　"Ayin, actually... I'm not Yue Chen. I'm a monster that has occupied someone else's body. Are you... afraid of me?" Chen Zhi said hesitantly, not daring to look at Yu Su. She was afraid of what she might read in his eyes. He must be very disappointed. He had rushed here day and night from the border, only to save a different soul. His Yue Chen had left, perhaps had completely died.

　　When she saw him for the first time, her mind was a bit confused due to the head injury. She didn't think too much about it at that moment. After that, she didn't see him again, and she didn't catch that fleeting sense of familiarity that came quickly and faintly in her heart. Later, the women in the harem came to provoke her. She couldn't catch that feeling, and after this disturbance, she completely forgot about it.

　　Not only his face, the name, his address to her, and her address to him, everything was so obvious yet so unbelievable at this moment. It was as if the person in front of her was someone she hadn't seen for a long time and was very important, but her rationality told her it was impossible. She wasn't from this dynasty. Could it be that after transmigrating into Yue Chen's body, although she didn't inherit Yue Chen's past memories, she was still influenced by it unconsciously? It seemed that this was the only reason left.

　　"I'm not Yue Chen. I'm Chen Zhi. I hope you're kind to me not because of Yue Chen, but just because of Chen Zhi." She was really a greedy person, making such an excessive request. Clearly, she knew in her heart that his kindness was for Yue Chen, but she was already almost unable to tell whether this sense of familiarity towards her was because of this body or because of herself. She wanted to get an answer while she could still tell the difference.

　　"I understand. The one I'm kind to is not Yue Chen, nor Chen Zhi. It's just because it's you." Chen Zhi was just her new name in the past ten years. Whether it was Yue Chen or Chen Zhi, the person he wanted to be kind to was right in front of him.

　　Chen Zhi had imagined many reasons for his answer in her heart, but she was still shocked. He actually accepted so easily that she was Chen Zhi and said that no matter who she was, his kindness was just for her? Just because it was her?!

　　Joy welled up in her heart. She had mustered so much courage, and he knew her name. From now on, could she accept his kindness with a clear conscience? Not because of Yue Chen, but just because of her. But she still had a small doubt and blurted it out. "Are you sure you understand the same thing as I'm saying?"

　　"Yes," Yu Su replied.

　　"Alright, since you understand, then I can feel at ease." She had told him that she wasn't a substitute for Yue Chen. Ayin clearly knew she wasn't Yue Chen, and this was the first time she had such a feeling towards someone else.

　　She used to be very quiet, so dull that she was out of place with those around her. Those circles were so strange to her. She had tried hard but still couldn't fit in. She was used to being alone. That was why she could accept coming to another time and space so calmly, without any attachment to the past.