The man, around thirty years old, was dressed in a gray suit and looked very refined. As he entered the store, he touched his wristwatch and nodded at me, saying, "In this world with so many places for romance, I'm afraid your store is unlike any other."
I was slightly taken aback. When my soul left my body, I saw that this wedding company was not normal. The man's words at this moment made me feel inexplicably puzzled.
Before I could speak, he looked at Du Xiaolan, who was sitting on a chair, with a puzzled smile and said, "Hello."
"Hello," Du Xiaolan replied with a smile and then looked at me, full of confusion.
The man smiled and sat down, looking at me and saying, "You are not an ordinary person. Your romantic fate has already been arranged, but you are forcing it."
I quickly stood up from the chair, looked at the man, and nodded repeatedly, asking, "How do you know?"
He smiled like a wise person and said, "I naturally know."
"Are you a fortune teller?" Xia Xiaolan also became interested and approached and sat down next to the man.
The man always had a smile on his face and said, "You could say that."
Du Xiaolan quickly said, "Then can you tell me when my luck in romance will come?"
"You?" The man chuckled and said in a low voice, "Your romantic luck has already arrived, and you know it better than I do."
Du Xiaolan suddenly fell silent. I walked over and asked with a smile, "Xiaolan, it seems like you're keeping a lot to yourself."
"Go to hell," she glared at me and got up, sitting back in front of the dressing table.
As soon as I sat down, the man coughed lightly, looked at me, and said, "Hello, my name is Shang Jingtong."
"Yin Mingyang," I introduced myself and then asked, "How did you know about my romantic fate?"
"The divine secrets must not be revealed." Shang Jingtong pointed to the sky with his finger and continued, "Young man, I want to ask you to help me with something."
"What is it?" At some point, I became wary of this inexplicable request.
Shang Jingtong squinted and said, "This may seem far-fetched to others, but to you, it will be very normal."
His words piqued my curiosity, and I hurriedly asked, "What exactly is it?"
Shang Jingtong fell silent and closed his eyes, taking a long breath. Suddenly, he opened his eyes, looked straight at me, and said, "I want you to go back to the past and help me sever the ties of love!"
"What? Go back to the past?" I almost jumped up. This guy was really too crazy.
"Yes, you don't have to be so nervous," Shang Jingtong said calmly. "I know my request is a bit too abrupt, but only you can help me."
This guy was really out of his mind. I believe in spirits and gods, but going back to the past is purely a fantasy. If I could really go back to the past, I wonder how many people I could save.
I regarded him as a lunatic and asked, "When do you want me to go back to help you?"
"Yin Shang," Shang Jingtong said, looking at me expectantly.
I swallowed hard, really wanting to drive him out of the store. There were already a lot of troubling things these days, and he was here teasing me, which I found intolerable.
Standing up, I pushed open the glass door and issued an order for him to leave: "I'm sorry, your idea is too unrealistic, I'm unable to help."
Shang Jingtong did not argue, stood up, still smiling at me, "Don't rush to refuse, you will agree to my request, here's my phone number, call me if you can."
After writing a series of numbers on the paper with a pen and handing it to me, he turned and walked outside.
This kind of fantastic story was just nonsense to me, so without even looking, I crumpled up the paper with the phone number and threw it into the trash can, then turned to Du Xiaolan, "This guy is just a lunatic, I thought he was really something."
Du Xiaolan said, "Mingyang, I think what he said is not unreasonable."
"How come you're going crazy with him?" I gave her a glare.
Du Xiaolan hurriedly shook her head and said, "No, I mean, when he just came in, what he said seemed to be true."
"Oh?" I wondered and remembered every word Shang Jingtong said from the moment he entered the store until the last word, he seemed to really know a lot of things.
Du Xiaolan was about to speak, but I hurriedly waved and said, "Forget it, don't think about it, I don't want to go crazy with a lunatic."
Du Xiaolan sighed, came to the trash can, took out the crumpled paper, and looked at the phone number, suddenly doubtful, "Mingyang, did you see this paper just now?"
I shook my head and said, "No."
"Look at what's written on it." She handed me the paper.
I glanced at it, and indeed, it was undoubtedly a phone number, but in the lower right corner of the paper, there was a person's name written.
"Meng Xier!"
I muttered, and Du Xiaolan looked at me with a somber expression and asked, "Mingyang, isn't this the woman who visited you in the hospital?"
I nodded, Meng Xier said she was Meng Po, and just now, Shang Jingtong knew her name, and even asked me to go back to the Yin Shang era to help him cut off the emotional ties. In addition, Du Xiaolan had told me the legend about Meng Po. Could it be that Shang Jingtong was the Taoist who had a relationship with Meng Xier years ago?
This idea rose in my mind, and I hurried to go outside, but five minutes had already passed, and Shang Jingtong had long disappeared.
The legend about Meng Po that Du Xiaolan had told me kept replaying in my mind, the Taoist ascending to immortality, and Meng Xier falling to hell and becoming Meng Po.
Presumably, when Shang Jingtong asked me to go back to the Yin Shang era, he wanted to cut off his and Meng Xier's emotional ties.
Taking a deep breath, these strange occurrences kept happening to me, leaving me unsure of what to do.
Du Xiaolan knocked on the table and asked solemnly, "Going back to the past seems like a lot of fun, do you want to give him a call?"
I asked in return, "Do you really think it's that fun?"
Du Xiaolan's eyes twinkled with excitement: "Of course! The place he's taking us to is the ancient Shang Dynasty, where the Fengshen Bang began. We might even see Daji, and if we get her autograph, we can show it off for a lifetime."
I can only say that Du Xiaolan is a big-hearted but simple-minded person. I used to not believe in ghosts and monsters, but just because of this man's words, I now believe that there may be a way to go back to the past in this world.
Seeing her eager look, I sighed. Honestly, if he really is the Taoist who abandoned Meng Xier back then, I would be more than willing to go back to the Shang Dynasty and sever their romantic ties. After all, this way, the reincarnated soul wouldn't have to drink the soup of forgetfulness, and would still remember the person they loved after reincarnation.