Chapter 24: Secrets (Part 2)

  "Miss, is there anything wrong with my appearance?"

  Gu Huanli stared blankly, not daring to shake her head or nod, but her gaze couldn't help being fixed on the person in front of her. The chestnut-colored hair, high nose, thin lips, and emerald green eyes with a hint of gold, just like a cat's eyes. A beauty so stunning that it was impossible to tell whether they were male or female, Gu Huanli thought she could only describe them this way. She dared to bet that she had never seen this person before. Yet, she was certain that this person was someone she seemed to know.

  "Miss?" A smile played on the corner of his lips as he asked in a low, magnetic voice, reaching out to place his hand on Gu Huan's forehead. "No fever."

  Gu Huanli wanted to dodge back, but her legs hadn't recovered yet, so she hadn't retreated far when her feet began to stumble. Fortunately, just before she fell, the person in front of her saved her from falling. She struggled to lift her head, her stomach cramping with pain, "I wasn't sick to begin with, let go first."

  He chuckled softly, and his eyes were like precious emeralds, so deep that they seemed to suck people in with an air of mystery. "Miss, you're really interesting, and..."

  "And what?" Gu Huanli opened his hand, with a hint of annoyance in his eyes.

  He blinked lightly, his sparkling eyes shining brightly. A faint smile seemed to play on the corners of his mouth as he said softly, "Moreover, you're still a person who keeps promises, and didn't tell your family about what happened in heaven."

  "Heaven?" Gu Huan Lian slightly furrowed her brow, watching as the pair of eyes slowly turned golden. Suddenly remembering something, she pointed at him in astonishment and said, "Clumsy Angel?"

  "Stupid... still stupid?" The man's eyes suddenly widened, and he said word by word, "My name is Cassidy, remember, I am Saint Angel Cassidy!"

  Gu Huanli looked up and down at Cassidy, her gaze lingering on him for several seconds. "Wait, if you're an angel... uh, a holy angel, why have you come to the mortal world?"

  "It's all because of you, stupid woman!" Cassidy crossed himself and said with great displeasure, "Because of your mistake, I not only have to face the wall for three months, but also been punished by Archangel Michael to go to the mortal world as your soul guardian."

  "Soul Guardian?" Gu Huanli shook her head, Cassidy's words sounded a bit nonsensical, it seemed that she had been severely stimulated in the few months since her rebirth.

  "Of course, for someone like you who hasn't had their memories erased through reincarnation, Heaven naturally has to keep a close eye on you, lest you reveal the secrets of the soul." Cassio smiled smugly and sat down across from Gu Huanlin. "And I am your guardian from before your rebirth, as well as your monitor."

  "You might as well just say you're here to patch up the hole, instead of calling yourself a Soul Guardian." Gu Huanli dragged out her tone, looking at him with disdain. "I'm saying, clumsy angel, you came here so openly and dared to speak about secrets related to souls without fear of being punished by Archangel Michael?"

  "Hey, at least I still have the magic to make a soundproof wall." Cassidy looked around, his body swaying, causing the redwood chair to creak against the floor.

  "Then I'll ask you a question, was the universe created by an explosion or by the 'brane' theory? Is this space-time where I reincarnated the same one or a parallel space-time?"

  "Secretly." Cassidy's voice was tinged with a manic laugh, "You see, all things in heaven and earth, even the universe itself, were created by God..."

  "You just directly say that you don't understand such profound physical problems and be done with it." Gu Huanli said bluntly, to be honest, she hadn't spoken so recklessly in a long time. Although her brain would still occasionally short-circuit and say something astonishing, after several months of fine-tuning, she had gradually become more like the eight-year-old Gu Huanli. But as an adult soul, it's actually necessary to occasionally say something with a bit of "depth".

  Cassidy hesitated for a moment and said in a low voice, "Parallel time and space."

  "What happened to Gu Huanli from that time and space?"

  "He's dead, gone west, kicked the bucket, bit the dust......" Cassidy was changing his words while also stating a fact, a fact that made Gu Huanli feel sad but also helpless.

  "Then what will become of my brother's fate?"

  "All I can tell you is that his life line is very long."

  "That's enough." Gu Huanli didn't have high hopes of knowing too much, because with her brother's abilities and wrist strength, making a comeback was not difficult at all, and having a long life line also meant longevity. It's fine, it's fine...

  As for her brother in that world, she was relieved.

  Cassidy slanted his eyes, looking at Gu Huanli's sorrowful yet struggling expression, and said with a grin, "What, don't you want to ask about the fate of others?"

  "Does it have anything to do with me?" Gu Huanli raised her head, her expression extremely calm. She repeated, "Apart from my brother, whether those people are dead or alive, good or bad, short-lived or died unexpectedly, does it have anything to do with me?"

  "Clumsy woman, how did you end up like this?!" Cassady shook his head regretfully and said with a pretentious tone. "Do you know why the stable program went wrong when it got to you?"

  "System vulnerability?" Gu Huanli smiled slightly, her eyebrows and eyes calm and serene, "Could it be that I've won the grand prize of Heaven's thousand-year, million-year difficulty?"

  "What a great prize? If such a good thing really exists, why wouldn't it fall on my head?" Cassidy sneered and said with an air of mystery, "Stupid woman, nothing in this world comes for free. Whether it's love or hatred, money or power, even your rebirth, behind everything are countless unexpected events linked together to form inevitability."

  Gu Huanli listened to him, her heart also panicked, but her face remained calm, her eyes fixed on Cassidy, "Oh? Then what is my destiny?"

  Cassidy seemed to have expected Gu Huanli's question, and with a relaxed expression, he raised his leg and replied lazily, "It's a secret."

  "If it's a secret, then don't mention anything related to the secret." Gu Huanliu's eyebrows were upside down, and her pale face showed a hint of murderous intent. Her voice was low, but her words conveyed hatred. "Stupid angel, do you think rebirth is fun? I'm grateful to heaven for giving me a chance to make up for my brother, but at the same time, I also resent heaven for letting me meet Luo Yichen again. And that family, that warm harbor I thought was actually colder than an ice cave, was never where my heart belonged."

  "You foolish woman, your emotions are not quite right." Cassius's face turned serious, he drew a cross on his chest and said solemnly, "Your soul is so simple and transparent that even if you committed the grave sin of suicide, God has already pitied you and given you another chance at life. If you don't cherish it and insist on going your own way, heaven will no longer be the place where your soul belongs."

  "Are you going to hell?" Gu Huanli slightly raised the corner of her mouth, with a hint of disdain in her expression. "Lucifer, who fell into hell, wasn't he originally the Morning Star of Heaven? He was one of the Six-winged Seraphim, and yet didn't he ultimately fall into the underworld, to the deepest part of the abyss?"

  Cassidy made the sign of the cross on his chest, opened and closed his lips, and after a long time, he said in a hoarse voice, "Foolish woman, can't you just keep your mouth shut? In this world, who doesn't want to go to heaven? Do you have to give your soul to the devil?"

  She turned her head to look at the photo of her and her brother on the desk, after a long while, she slowly withdrew her gaze, suddenly smiled brightly at Cassidy, "Whether it's heaven or hell, it's not for me to decide. Although I want to do good deeds, I don't guarantee that I won't do something bad. Yes, as long as I can protect my brother, even if I'm guilty of all sins, what does it matter?"

  That faint smile, as if the petals of flowers are falling and drifting everywhere, lingering in every corner of the dream, clear and transparent, endless.

  Cassidy looked at her with a puzzled expression, seemed to recall something, and sighed helplessly. "Anyway, remember, don't tell anyone about heaven, including your brother."

  "Threat? Or a kind warning?" Gu Huanli smiled lightly, as gentle as the wind. And in the next flash of lightning, she seemed to suddenly understand another thing, something that had been bothering her for a while, and finally understood that at the moment when the soul left the body, what was seen, heard, and thought were all real.

  "It can be seen as a threat, but I hope you take it as a kind warning." Cassidy looked at Gu Huanlin who was deep in thought and suddenly opened his mouth, tapping her head, "Stupid woman, there's nothing to worry about, because I'm here." Then he burst out laughing.

  "It's precisely because you're here that I feel the danger is even more pressing." Gu Huanli also started laughing, not knowing what she was laughing about, but laughing very heartily. It seemed as if she had already forgotten all her worries from earlier, and only felt a heavy secret that finally someone shared with her, and the burden in her heart didn't seem so heavy anymore.

  "Hey, stupid woman, how dare you belittle me! You should know that I am the great Saint Angel Cassidy!"

  "Just for your title, I can fire you." Gu Huanli raised her head, looking at him with a hint of mockery and a few hints of coldness, "My dear home tutor - Cassidy Mischa Collins, Mr."

  "Please be assured, Miss. I will do my utmost to fulfill Master's wishes and cultivate you into a model of a noble lady, both lovely and well-behaved." Cassadio placed one hand on his chest, slightly inclining his body forward as he replied respectfully.

  Although the two words "cute" were spoken softly, the two words "understanding" were gritted through clenched teeth. So, Gu Huanli scratched his chin, and a childlike smile floated to the corner of his mouth, "If I said something I shouldn't have said, what kind of punishment would I receive?"

  Cassio's face grew heavier, and he said slowly, "The master's punishment will only befall the person you hold dear. If you don't want to lose someone completely, it's best..." His hand made a zipping motion across his lips.

  Cold sweat dripped from Gu Huanli's forehead, Cassidy looked at her with satisfaction as she stiffened and moved her lips slightly, then promised him that as long as she was alive, even for a second, she would not tell anyone else the secret of rebirth.

  "This is what good kids do." he said.