Faceted Jade a.k.a Carven Jade [ENG Translation]

CHAPTER 22 (II)

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He, Fu Changling, had been in love with Qin Yan for at least forty-two years.
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The Karma Prison was unsealed by him, but in the past forty years, Qin Yan had chosen to bear the brunt of the punishment on his own in his stead. Even to the point of death, when his meridians were severed, his Jindan obliterated, he was deprived of his sight, his Sea of Consciousness disintegrated, and he was spat on by everyone in front of the Judgement Platform and mutilated, he never disclosed anything about this past—not even a single word.

Fu Changling felt like he could barely breathe. He should have felt pain, yet somehow, as if he were being held under water, he was all numb and disoriented.

He tightly gripped his sleeve and stared intently at the formation before him.

Many pairs of rapacious and crazed eyes were lurking beneath that water.

He was the one who unsealed the Karma Prison.

Su Wenji had it right. If he entered the Xuanji Secret Realm, he would destroy Yunze.

It was ridiculous that he didn't believe it and even went so far as to dismiss it.

He was the one who wrecked the Xuanji Secret Realm and broke the first seal of the Karma Prison's energy channels back then!

Yet he persisted in declaring that Qin Yan had wronged Yunze, that he was diabolical, and hence deserved to spend eternity in hell and be nailed to the pagoda wall for the remainder of his life in penitence!

He remembered the look on Qin Yan's face when he uttered those words. He'd always been dispassionate, but there was finally a ripple of emotion at that moment, and then his long sword slashed down on him with a mountain-splitting, earth-shattering force.

He had assumed that Qin Yan was angered by him, but now he understood.

That was nowhere near anger. That was clearly—sorrow.

It was he who unsealed the Karma Prison; it was he who destroyed the Xuanji Secret Realm; yet it was Qin Yan who went through the torture at the Golden Light Temple, was spat on, and was roundly denounced by all.

Why didn't he tell him?

Fu Changling raised his gaze. He saw Qin Yan struggling to get up in the distance, and he couldn't help but burst out laughing. Even though his vision became so blurry, he couldn't stop laughing.

He found it preposterous and absurd, and this absurdity was loaded with anguish and despair.

He had a slew of questions he wanted to ask that person.

Why did he not tell him anything in his previous life?

How much was he kept in the dark? How much had he been misled?

In his previous life, when and how did he come to be Sui Yan MoJun?

Who coerced him into it? Who caused him this harm?

Seventeen-year-old Qin Yan was a virtuous gentleman, a brilliant moon beaming in the sky, an exquisite jade of Yunze, and a talent of great worth in his day.

He would annihilate evildoers and aid the helpless in the secret realm, and he would put his life on the line for the sake of a man of virtue and a promise. Why, for the sake of the Karma Prison's so-called Gōng method, would he kill his master, harm his fellow disciples, and turn his back on his sect at the expense of the common people of the realm?

It was ludicrous that he learned about it so late in life.

He despised the fact that he only found out about it so late!