Chapter 294 - 294 NO FEELINGS FOR YOU

294 NO FEELINGS FOR YOU

“Don’t tell me that…” Bai Chen muttered nervously as his brain came up with another theory. “Don’t tell me Wu Jinhai betrayed Bai Chen by taking back the Power Crystal when he should have returned it?”

Suddenly, Bai Chen managed to connect the dots. The original Bai Chen in this world believed that Wu Jinhai betrayed him, and perhaps it was related to how the sword lost the crystal in the hilt, right?

Without the crystal, Wu Jiang was just an ordinary sword with no spiritual power in it and didn’t even resist when Bai Chen used it to slash his throat until he met his death.

As Bai Chen who was still crouching beside the corpse tried to come up with a possible theory, he suddenly noticed his surroundings had once again changed, and Bai Chen’s corpse in front of him even gradually disappeared as if it was just a hologram and not real.

Even Wu Jiang disappeared into thin air, which was why Bai Chen looked panicked as he finally got up from his crouched position. He then realized that he was still inside the Forbidden Forest, and two figures gradually appeared in front of him to replace Bai Chen’s corpse that had disappeared earlier.

The two figures were wearing white and red clothes, and sure enough, Bai Chen recognized them.

“They are Bai Chen and Wu Jinhai, right?” Bai Chen questioned himself when he saw how the person in white who previously lay lifeless in front of him was now standing in front of a man in red who was none other than Wu Jinhai.

The man in red still had the golden mask covering his face, and the man in white was looking at him with anger in his pair of blue eyes.

“Why didn’t you help Shao Meihui and Bai Renshu to fight that beast, Wu Jinhai? Now they are killed, and you still don’t want to do anything!”

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That was the angry statement that came out of Bai Chen who was standing in front of Wu Jinhai, and upon hearing that, the other Bai Chen looked stunned. Why did the real Bai Chen suddenly mention Shao Meihui and Bai Renshu? And why did he say that they were killed?

Sure enough, Bai Chen still remembered the accident when the three-headed snake killed Shao Meihui during the Beast Hunting Event, but Bai Renshu was still alive then. Bai Renshu was indeed dead, but that man killed himself after returning to Rongyao Imperial Palace, not being killed by a high-level beast.

Now Bai Chen realized that there was a difference between what he experienced and the story that the real Bai Chen experienced, and he was quite confused by it.

At this time, the original Bai Chen was still alive and could even scream at Wu Jinhai, and Bai Chen assumed that this event happened before the original Bai Chen killed himself using Wu Jiang. By now, he could see that the recording was playing backward, and he was carefully trying to make sense of the situation.

“Why should I help them?” Wu Jinhai calmly asked back instead of answering. “Those people are not related to me, so why should I help them?”

Bai Chen still remembered how the other version of Wu Jinhai also refused to help them when they were in the Forbidden Forest a week ago. Back then, he had also been angry at Wu Jinhai, but the man was not affected in the least. Instead, the man had only put him to sleep, and because of that, he had no chance to vent his anger any further.

Now Bai Chen realized that the original Bai Chen in this world was the same as him. The man was also furious that Wu Jinhai had been so careless about what happened to Shao Meihui and Bai Renshu, and he could, more or less, understand the feeling.

“Bai Renshu is my half-brother even though I hate him!” Bai Chen who was standing in front of Wu Jinhai kept scolding the man. “And you even told me that you have feelings for me, right? Why didn’t you listen to me when I asked you to save my half-brother and his lover? Is it because you’re still jealous of Shao Meihui? Didn’t I tell you that I would reject the marriage planned by my father?”

Bai Chen noticed that the story that the real Bai Chen had experienced in this world was similar to what he had experienced. He was forced into a marriage with Shao Meihui, and the real Bai Chen experienced the same thing.

But, why did the real Bai Chen suddenly say that Wu Jinhai had told him that he had feelings for him when they were still in the Forbidden Forest? The current Bai Chen remembered so well that he only made out with Wu Jinhai without talking about their feelings when they were still in the Forbidden Forest, and he realized that the two stories were indeed different.

By now, he was starting to doubt whether the drama he was watching was a real story or not, but before he could think more about it, he could hear how Wu Jinhai was replying to Bai Chen’s words.

“How I told you that I have feelings for you is just a lie,” Wu Jinhai said without showing a hint of hesitation in his voice. “I thought I would be able to use you to get in touch with the Immortal Elder in Dong Lang, but then I discovered that the Immortal Elder had died, and that’s why you are of no use to me now, Bai Chen.”

The two Bai Chens were shocked upon hearing Wu Jinhai’s confident return. Yes, Wu Jinhai did sound convinced by his words, and the two Bai Chens looked hurt by it.

Bai Chen still remembered how Wu Jinhai revealed to him that he indeed had ulterior motives related to the Immortal Elder in Dong Lang, but he didn’t expect that Wu Jinhai would say such a thing to the original Bai Chen.

“W-what did you just say? You’re just using me? You just want to get in touch with the Immortal Elder? You don’t really love me?” Looking hurt, the real Bai Chen steeled his heart to ask four questions in one breath.

The original Bai Chen looked hurt, but Wu Jinhai casually replied, “Yes, I don’t really have any feelings for you because I’m not even gay, Bai Chen. You’re just too stupid to believe in my lies.”