Before he died, my grandfather said: "No matter what you hear tonight, don't open your eyes."
The moment I opened my eyes, I saw Lin Wanqing standing in front of the window, her body twisted into a weird angle. After dawn, there was a clear pinch mark on her neck - it was my fingerprint.
My name is Chen Xun, and my hometown is called Lianqiao Village, which is besieged by thousand-year-old ghost locust trees. On the first seven nights of my grandfather's life, I saw with my own eyes that he was chained and dragged into a mass grave.
I saw a crystal coffin deep in the ancient well, and inside lay a man in a dragon robe - that face was exactly the same as mine. He said that he had been waiting for me for six hundred years, that his blood was flowing in me, and that the woman in my arms was carrying his "perfect vessel" in her belly.
The whole village was waiting for me to hand over the child. I opened the "Book of Lu Ban" left by my grandfather, and on the last page there was a forbidden technique - "Changing Life". Use my yang life to exchange for the eternal separation of yin and yang.
But at the last moment when the formation was about to be completed, Lin Wanqing pushed me away: "You will die if you do this! I won't allow it!"
That night, she put on a red wedding dress and hanged herself in the Lin family's old house. The last words left to me were: "The prince wants me. I will leave, but the child will stay."
Many years later, someone found two skeletons hugging each other at the bottom of a well at the ruins of Lianqiao Village. There is a line of words engraved next to it: "Wanwan, live well. - Your two fathers."
From then on, the laughter of two men could be heard every night on the reservoir construction site - one hoarse, the other gentle.
