Four Split Personalities

Chapter 2587: Chapter 1222: Unknown to Others (VI)_2

"Cut it out, my grandson’s already over one ninety. What the hell would I be looking for some old partner for."

Du Tian burst out laughing, then ground his teeth and said, "But seriously though, that brat is really fucking useless. I specifically tweaked his ’peach blossom’ fortune for him a while back, the romances were all drifting his way, and that little punk just couldn’t catch a single one. No, not even ’couldn’t catch’—he never even got to touch them in the first place!"

"Gu Yan Yue" chuckled, clapped her hands, and said, "You just love worrying for nothing. I’ve seen Xiao Yu, that child is so likable. What’s there to worry about, you think he can’t find a nice girl?"

Du Tian sighed. "But..."

"So when are you going to give our Xiao Dong some peach blossoms too, huh?"

"Gu Yan Yue" suddenly changed the subject, clinging to Du Tian’s sleeve and shaking it as she said solemnly, "Honestly, if it weren’t for the fact that the stash of porn mags Xiao Dong’s been collecting over the years has only grown, and they’re all healthy, pretty young ladies, as his mom I would’ve thought my Child got bent by someone."

"Uh... stuff like peach blossoms... that needs long-term planning..."

Du Tian scratched the tip of his nose, then also switched tracks. "But anyway..."

"But what?" "Gu Yan Yue" jumped in immediately.

Du Tian didn’t even think about it, and said dead serious, "But if the kid needs porn mags and the like, I can still provide some as a friendly favor."

"Talk business!"

Yi Nan raised a hand to press the throbbing vein at his temple, forcibly ending this topic that was very likely to socially kill his own son. He asked Du Tian in a low voice, "You knew beforehand?"

Du Tian shook his head and waved a hand. "I only divined that you’d have something urgent to come to me about today. As for the specifics, I didn’t know."

"All right, well now you know."

Yi Nan frowned tightly at Du Tian and asked, "Then why did you say back then that Xiao Le could practice the Yin-Yang Technique?"

"Because she’s the same as Xiao White, her fate collides with the Three Waters Ending Star—Ming Chi, Prison Spring, and Quanyou. If I’d told the truth then and admitted that I couldn’t see whether this kid would end up tangled with those leftover historical issues in the future, with everyone that on edge at the time, they’d have immediately decided not to let her touch the Yin-Yang Technique. And if that really got her killed, then what?"

Du Tian shook his head and said in a low voice, "What, were we supposed to just let her drop dead one day like Xiao White and turn into a Ghost?"

Yi Nan and "Gu Yan Yue" both fell silent, because they suddenly realized that if Du Tian hadn’t handed out that calming pill back then, when everyone hadn’t yet formed any emotional attachment to the newborn Guxiaole, and their nerves were stretched taut from that catastrophe, they really might have chosen to keep Guxiaole as a Common person to avoid extra trouble.

A Child whose fate is tied to the Three Waters Ending Star— even if the Gu Family were confident they could keep her alive, even if they thought they could change her fate, under the premise of what Du Tian had just said, that so‑called "changing fate" might not have meant much.

Being able to leave something half‑said and never say it fully, being able to express it vaguely and never make it clear, is the basic literacy of a God Stick—and in this regard, this man who once bore the title of "Divine Calculator" is simply a model of the industry.

But after knowing each other for so many years, even though Du Tian hadn’t spelled it out, Yi Nan and "Gu Yan Yue" could vaguely sense that if they really hadn’t let Guxiaole learn the Yin-Yang Technique back then, this kid would very likely have... been doomed.

"But you don’t need to worry too much either."

Du Tian picked at his ear, blowing on his fingertip as he said, "Unlike your kids, there’s almost no causal link between Guxiaole and that phenomenon, so I think this being a coincidence is more likely."

Yi Nan frowned. "Coincidence? What do you mean?"

"Exactly what it sounds like."

Du Tian pushed up the toad-shaped sunglasses that had slipped down his nose and said seriously, "As I see it, the more likely scenario is: your eldest niece, inside The Realm of Innocence, intersected with ’Sin’ over some matter. That gave her a bit of confusion, so she tried to figure it out in reality through Medium secret technique or Yin-Yang arts or whatever—anyway, that kind of thing—to get to the bottom of it."

"Gu Yan Yue" nodded slightly, muttering with a complicated look, "I remember that Child’s curiosity wasn’t that strong."

"This has nothing to do with curiosity."

Du Tian waggled his index finger and shrugged. "Under any worldview, the Strength of Sin is extremely special. Whether it’s its nature or its very existence, it has a strong pull on Aberrants like us. So even if it’s just subconscious, if that girl really came into contact with it... there’s nothing strange about her doing anything at all."

Yi Nan lightly clenched his fist. "Then what should we do?"

"Let’s not talk about what to do yet. First you need to give me a straight answer."

Du Tian stood up straight and stared at Yi Nan rather solemnly. "Her attempt— you did interfere with it, didn’t you?"

Yi Nan immediately nodded without thinking. "That, I can guarantee."

"How strong was the interference?"

Du Tian narrowed his eyes behind his sunglasses.

"I interfered it into a creamy chicken-wing rice bowl."

Yi Nan gave the answer with complete precision.

"Oh, so you interfered it into a creamy... what the actual hell, a creamy chicken‑wing rice bowl?!"

Du Tian broke composure on the spot, exclaiming in shocked disbelief, "Care to explain the logical correlation there?"

"We’d run out of gas at home around noon and couldn’t cook, so we ordered delivery. One of the dishes was a creamy chicken‑wing rice bowl."

Yi Nan gave an extremely honest and down‑to‑earth reason, then added after a brief pause, "It was really good."

Du Tian rubbed his chin, musing, "I see. So the reason you rewrote the result into a creamy chicken‑wing rice bowl was to make Guxiaole, who already had a strong impression of it, produce Confusion and think she..."

"No."

Yi Nan shook his head and said very honestly, "I was in a panic and didn’t think that far. I just changed it to that on reflex."

"Gu Yan Yue" glanced at Yi Nan with some concern. "Honey, are you hungry?"

"Whether he’s hungry or not, leave that aside for now."

Feeling very much like he’d been messed with, Du Tian cut "Gu Yan Yue" off with a dark face and continued asking Yi Nan, "Then did you see the divination result before you rewrote it?"

Yi Nan shook his head again. "I deliberately didn’t look, so I have no idea what the original content was."

"Whew, good thing it was you. If it had been Ji Wutong or Cui Fan, with their itchy hands and itchy eyes..."

A flash of lingering fear passed through Du Tian’s eyes. He didn’t finish the sentence, just relaxed back into his seat and said calmly, "In that case, my personal judgment is that your eldest niece probably hasn’t fully established a connection with this matter yet. Accordingly, there shouldn’t be any danger."

"How do you figure?"

"Gu Yan Yue" asked Du Tian anxiously.

"Didn’t I just say it? Xiao Le’s different from your Yi Dong and Xiao Yu—their causal ties with that incident are very deep. Hers with that old case are extremely shallow. So if she just accidentally made contact with it in The Realm of Innocence, there shouldn’t be an issue, and it won’t form any complicated web of cause and effect."

Du Tian first handed them another calming pill, then frowned and said, "Unless..."

The couple both froze and asked in unison, "Unless what?"

"Unless, outside The Realm of Innocence, Guxiaole has come into contact with that phenomenon’s ’vessel’ in reality."

Du Tian rubbed the Copper Coin in his hand, gave a dry laugh, and spread his hands. "If that’s the case, I can give you a hundred‑percent guarantee—she’s already been pulled in."

Yi Nan and "Gu Yan Yue" both choked up.

"But the odds of something like that happening are basically infinitely close to zero."

Du Tian laughed heartily and waved a hand. "That girl usually just stays in Japan, and after flying over here she’s been sticking to you two Tian Tian. Think about it carefully—there’s just no way."

The couple exchanged a glance, still shaken, and let out a breath in unison.

"Just live your life like you always do. Pretend this never happened, and don’t try to dig into anything. Remember: this stage doesn’t belong to us anymore."

Du Tian clapped his hands, gave this as his closing statement, and then simply jumped out the window by himself.

And one second later, there was a loud ’thud’ as he hit the ground, his scream ringing out very clearly.

Chapter 1222: The End