Li Yue gave Wen Yuanxing a blank look, stood up and walked inside quickly, “No one is here, why are you awake?”

Wen Yan’s room wasn’t too small, there was a big table in the middle and a bamboo basket was placed there. Wen Yan was standing next to the table, “I’m a light sleeper, Xiao Yi was too noisy. He keeps tossing and turning, I couldn’t sleep so I did some sewing.”

He hesitated for a moment, glanced at the little baby lying on the bed and asked, “That… is Jiang Zhou here?”

Li Yue’s eyes turned red. From the day Wen Yan came back, they never mentioned Jiang Zhou in front of him, in case they would stimulate Wen Yan’s emotion. Now, that bastard was here. She looked at Wen Yan’s sad face, Li Yue only felt she wanted to skinned Jiang Zhou’s skin.

But she didn’t know, Wen Yan actually wasn’t sad but hesitated. He didn’t know the person outside was her husband or not. He still remembered, after Jiang Zhou fell off the cart and carried home. He took care of him all night in fear, but soon he discovered something was wrong. After woke up, Jiang Zhou still lie down on the bed after eating. He thought that Jiang Zhou was injured somewhere and planned to massage his body.

Who knew, Jiang Zhou actually avoided him. His eyes were completely strange and guarded, he kept talking about soaking goji berries with warm water. He had doubts in his heart, but he kept pretending there was nothing wrong. Instead, he tested every day to see if it wasn’t just his imagination.

Later, he found out that this ‘Jiang Zhou’ wasn’t his own Jiang Zhou at all. Not only their living habits were different but his behaviors weren’t the same. He also found that ‘Jiang Zhou’ always blurted out many words he never heard before; not counting this ‘Jiang Zhou’ always looked in the mirror and touched his face as if he couldn’t recognize his own image.

He was a little confused but tried to hide it so this ‘Jiang Zhou’ wouldn’t notice it. He continued to observe quietly. Then one day, he found ‘Jiang Zhou’ talked to himself on the mountain, because he was faraway, he couldn’t hear it. After ‘Jiang Zhou’ left, he went to see the place ‘Jiang Zhou’ was squatting. There was a nest of foxes under the cover of bushes, when the foxes saw him, the all ran away.

At that time, he wondered if Jiang Zhou was possessed by a fox?

He kept thinking about it and remembered all the details. The real Jiang Zhou didn’t like to eat chicken very much but Wen Yan loved it; so, there was no shortage of chicken dish on the table and Jiang Zhou rarely moved his chopstick towards them. But this ‘Jiang Zhou’ liked to eat chicken dish. He heard that chicken was fox’s favorite food. Even the habit looked his face in the mirror, isn’t fox demon paid special care to their appearance?

But he didn’t dare to talk about his theory. After all, the matter of being possessed wasn’t a good thing. Especially, he was pregnant and living under the same roof as this demon; fox demon favorite thing was absorbing energy, although this demon had no intention of harming anyone but he wasn’t sure if one day they would show their fangs.

Wen Yan also thought of his husband, what if one day Jiang Zhou came back? If he told everyone that Jiang Zhou was possessed by a demon, no matter what Jiang Zhou did in the future; people would talk about it and bullied him. Therefore, he quietly pressed the matter and looked for opportunity to leave safely.

Then the spice business incident happened, he found the chance and pretended to have a big fight with ‘Jiang Zhou’. That night he returned to Banshan Village. He always glad that demon never came to look for him. But now, Jiang Zhou was here!

He sat in the bed stiffly, his hands and feet felt cold. The baby who was sleeping on the bed seemed to sense his daddy’s uneasiness and woke up whimpering.

Wen Yan felt distressed for a moment, then hugged and coaxed the baby until he fell asleep again. He looked at Li Yue, “Is he still outside?”

Li Yue hesitated for a bit and called Wen Yuanxing, “Husband, go and see if Jiang Zhou still here?”

Wen Yuanxing responded and walked to the door. He carefully opened a crack and looked outside. Jiang Zhou was still there! He slammed the door shut again.

Jiang Zhou had been paying close attention to the movement inside, when he saw the door opened a bit. He wanted to say something but the door actually closed again so fast, he didn’t know what to do.

He looked at the stewed pig trotter he bought, he felt helpless. This dish was still warm but it would be cold if he kept standing here, the taste won’t be good. He knocked on the door again, this time it was Wen Yan who opened the door. Jiang Zhou looked at him up and down carefully and said,

“You’re so thin, didn’t I told you to eat more? Now it’s autumn, your clothes are too little, what if you catch a cold?”

His voice was filled with concern just like his husband. Wen Yan was stunned by the familiarity; he was about to step forwards to Jiang Zhou, suddenly a child’s cry came from behind him. He saw Jiang Zhou’s eye brighten up and tried to look behind him. For some reason, his heart felt uneasy, he stepped back and asked lightly,

“Why did you come here?”

Jiang Zhou looked at Wen Yan’s indifferent, he felt uncomfortable. He knew there was misunderstanding between them, so he explained,

“You… I have something to tell you, I know it may be insane. But don’t be surprised, when I’m done you will understand. You must feel that I wasn’t myself a while ago.”

Jiang Zhou said the words carefully, he tried to make it easy for Wen Yan to understand. After all, the matter of soul transmigration was too shocking,

“I don’t know how to tell you; I was possessed by another person while unconscious at that time. But now, I already woken up.” Wen Yan frowned at him and wondered about his credibility.

Jiang Zhou slowly talked about the past, including many experiences that only both of them knew. From the time they met and knew each other until Wen Yan’s pregnancy,

“….. I knew you were pregnant that day, I was so excited and fell off the cart. This accident gave the other soul to penetrate my body. I wasn’t at your side while the child born, ah Yan, how have you been this time?”

Wen Yan gripped the door frame tightly with his hands and shook his head. He hadn’t told anyone about his fears and sufferings, so they slowly faded away in the night alone.

When Jiang Zhou talked about the past, he actually believed most of it. After all, some things were only the two of them knew and impossible for others to guess. Wen Yan took over the things Jiang Zhou gave him and asked, “What is this?”

Jiang Zhou smiled, “It’s trotter stew, this could nourish your body.”

Wen Yan lifted the lid and it exuded a strong aroma of meat mixed with soybeans, this made people swallowed. He looked at Jiang Zhou then opened the entire lid revealing the soup inside.

The soup was milky white from stewing for so long, the trotter also looked soft and chewy. Wen Yan took a sip with a spoon.

“How was it?” Jiang Zhou looked at him, this was his first time stewing a trotter. He followed the recipe from the traveler’s memory, he thought Wen Yan would find it delicious and like it.

Unexpectedly, Wen Yan’s face turned bad and said, “You go back!”

Jiang Zhou was speechless. “….” Did he say something wrong just now?

Before he could reply, Wen Yan slammed the door on his face.

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Wen Yan was leaning against the door and patted his chest, he almost got cheated by the fox demon!