Legend of the Heavenly Fruit
Eps. 2 — Reborn
After Zhou Yuan's gaze darkened, not long after he heard someone muttering.
Zhou Yuan slowly opened his eyes, glaring for a moment, and found a woman looking at him up close. The woman was beautiful, young, seen from her face she was about 20 years old.
"Ah, look at my Husband, he finally opened his eyes again..." The woman said enthusiastically when she found Zhou Yuan staring at her.
The man who was the husband of the woman shortly came and immediately approached, his face brightened when he saw Zhou Yuan. The men have an age that is not much different from the woman, they both look young.
Zhou Yuan looked at the pair of lovers with question marks, 'What happened? Aren't I dead? Why am I here?'
Zhou Yuan wanted to speak yet what came out of his lips was just the word "Come!!" Or the word "Wahh!!", both voices sound like whining and moans that sound small and funny.
There were many questions in Zhou Yuan's mind, he even belatedly realized that he was currently lying on a soft spot.
"Welcome my son..." The woman slowly raised Zhou Yuan's body upwards. "You look confused, are you surprised your mother is so beautiful..." The woman smiled gently, looking at him with affection.
"Mother?" Zhou Yuan became more and more confused but still the words that came out of his mouth were only whines that sounded funny.
"My wife, let me be fat, you better stay in bed. Just yesterday you gave birth so don't move too much..." Said the man next to her, a little worried.
"It's okay my husband, I just want to see our baby more clearly. I can't wait for him to open his eyes and see his mother's father." The woman was still looking at Zhou Yuan, as her eyes reflected in immeasurable happiness.
It was then that Zhou Yuan realized his body was already different, when he raised his hand he found his fingers had shrunk, his two hands had also turned very short.
Not only that all his body also shrank smaller than he remembered. The same reason also explained why the woman could raise Zhou Yuan easily when she should have been forty years old.
Zhou Yuan's gaze then fell towards the mirror facing him, his eyes immediately widened to see a baby being picked up by the woman.
The adopted baby who was none other than himself, Zhou Yuan had turned into a baby.
Zhou Yuan did not understand what was really happening because he remembered that he had been killed while fighting against hundreds of warriors at once.
'Does this mean I am reborn...' Zhou Yuan said in his heart, he already did not care about his body which was now carried by the woman.
If that is true then the assumption is no longer wrong if the woman and the man in front of her are both parents in this life.
Zhou Yuan did not understand why this could happen but one thing, if this second life was real then it was a boon to him.
"My husband, isn't it time for us to give a name?" The woman asked, holding Zhou Yuan in her arms.
"You're right, I almost forgot about that... I'm too happy to see it." The man kissed his wife's cheek before his gaze fell on Zhou Yuan. "How about we call him Yuan, Zhou Yuan."
"Yuan'er, that's a good name." the woman smiled happily. Now she can call her baby a special name.
Zhou Yuan was a little surprised when the name his father gave him was in accordance with the name in his former life. The baby's eyes are slightly widened.
'Could it actually be fate or mere coincidence?'
***
Days changed weeks, weeks changed months and months changed years, without feeling that three years had passed after his birth, little by little Zhou Yuan began to understand himself in this second life.
Zhou Yuan's father Zhou Yao was the son of the Zhou Family and the future leader of the next family, while his mother was Lin Ruyue from the Lin Family, both of these families were from noble families.
Ever since Zhou Yuan's birth, Lin Ruyue and Zhou Yao's partner had been overwhelmed with happiness especially when they saw her child growing up.
Lin Ruyue watched how her son was so special, as long as she had never seen Zhou Yuan cry since infancy, the boy did not want to be pampered even at one year old, Zhou Yuan was already beginning to be good at speaking fluently.
Zhou Yuan was already able to stand at an age that toddlers should not have, he did not talk much except the important thing, from the look of his eyes radiated the light of maturity.
The Zhou family considered Zhou Yuan a great gift, intelligence seems inherent in the three-year-old child along with his growth while Zhou Yuan as the perpetrator seems ordinary because he knows his soul is actually 40 years old.
Zhou Yuan did not tell him about his rebirth to anyone including his parents, he closed the secret meeting and pretended to be a toddler in general.
"Yuan'er, are you sure you want to sleep alone?" Lin Ruyue frowned when Zhou Yuan asked to split up the room one night.
"Mom, I'm a big boy now, I can trust me if I can sleep alone." Zhou Yuan put on a hardened face.
Lin Ruyue smiled faintly, clearly her son was still 3 years old. Lin Ruyue did not first directly agree but rather asked back, because honestly it was okay for Zhou Yuan to room with his parents.
The problem was that Zhou Yuan had been holding back from wanting to separate rooms, he was waiting for this moment to express his wish.
Even though his mother disagreed a little but thanks to the persuasion of his son Lin Ruyue finally relented. "Alright Yuan'er but you have to remember, if you're lonely or scared, you can move rooms with mom again."
"Okay, thank you..." Zhou Yuan smiled widely.
Lin Ruyue smiled gently as she stroked the top of her son's head, she then asked a servant to prepare a room for Zhou Yuan.
"Ah, I can finally be alone..."
After such a long wait, Zhou Yuan was finally able to obtain a privacy room for himself.
During this time he did not have time alone because where he walked there were always his parents who accompanied, even if his mother was busy then there were other caregivers who were by his side at all times.
After all Zhou Yuan's status was enormous in this family, he was the son of the young master of the Zhou family.
Zhou Yuan had just felt how to live to be one of the members of the noble family, during his life here he lived a versatile, luxurious life, whatever he wants, the waiter will give it to him respectfully.
This second life was far reversed with the life of the first, being a beggar, where just to get a bite of rice was very difficult.
The most recent Zhou Yuan felt from this second life was that he felt the name of the family relationship.
The feeling was different, he felt like he was loved, cared for, loved by his parents, something he never felt in his first life.