Secrets: Priestess

Chapter 2 The Disappearing Girlfriend

What would happen if a person had the memories of three lives at the same time?

Jiang Zhe did not question his past life on Earth, nor did he reject Tai Poslan's identity.

But he was clearly aware that the memories belonging to Claire in his mind were not his.

This is the foreign feeling of external memory.

Perhaps it involves extraordinary knowledge such as spirits.

Jiang Zhe still couldn't understand these mysterious phenomena at this time, but through Claire's memory, or to be more precise, most of Claire's memory, he figured out that his body had been replaced by Claire.

For some unknown reason, Claire wanted a male body.

He was chosen as the lover.

After the first reincarnation ritual failed for unknown reasons, Claire performed a second reincarnation ritual.

Judging from the results, the ceremony was a success...

In the swaying carriage, Jiang Zhe, who was trying hard to maintain a ladylike sitting posture, felt bitter in her heart.

The inexplicable time travel has not yet been figured out.

He was inexplicably transformed from a young man into a young girl...

he.

No, it's her turn.

The girl left her with many memories, enough for her to live a stable life as Cléa Meazza.

Stable...

Jiang Zhe let out a breath.

The officer in the carriage was very kind to her.

Although she was involved in a kidnapping case, the police officers did not interrogate her forcefully. Instead, they allowed her to calm down and rest as much as possible.

Jiang Zhe guessed that this was related to her identity——

Claire Meazza.

The second daughter of Count Meazza.

When Jiang Zhe was dating Claire in college, he only thought that Claire was a collateral relative of the noble Meazza family.

As an orphan who relied on scholarships to attend school, Tai and Claire's daily life wasn't exactly tight, but it was still below average for Tingen University, one of the two most prestigious universities in the Kingdom of Loen.

Now that he had obtained the other party's memory, Jiang Zhe suddenly understood.

It was Claire who concealed her identity.

And these police officers handling the case obviously knew Claire's identity.

A horse-drawn carriage with the police system logo of "crossed swords and a crown" painted on the side drove all the way from the suburbs to the university district.

We stopped some distance away from the university area.

There waited another ordinary, unmarked carriage.

The two people standing and waiting in front of the carriage were the ones Jiang Zhe remembered, belonging to the Meazza family.

The plump girl in a brown tight windbreaker and with a face that was 50% similar to Claire's was Claire's aunt.

The middle-aged man standing tall beside him in a white shirt, black pants and black vest is the butler of Meazza's family.

Both of them were supposed to be in the capital, Backlund, but now they appeared here, obviously because of the kidnapping case.

When the woman saw Jiang Zhe getting off the carriage, she rushed forward and hugged her in her arms, tears of excitement hanging in the corners of her eyes: "You are finally back!"

The woman's embrace was very strong.

"I'm sorry to have worried you, Aunt Jessica." Jiang Zhe, who only had memories of Claire and not Claire herself, was not used to being in a woman's arms. He suppressed his embarrassment and comforted her.

The male deacon thanked the police officer who was traveling with Jiang Zhe, while Jessica hugged Jiang Zhe tightly and kept saying a lot of worried words.

According to his memory, Jiang Zhe knew that in the Meazza family, the one closest to Claire was this aunt.

The dignified father and the dignified mother rarely showed any unnecessary emotions in front of Claire.

Claire, the second daughter of Meazza, did not stay in Backlund to study, but came to Tingen to attend university. This might have been due to the family atmosphere.

Elsewhere, a young police officer with black hair and green eyes watched the victim being held tightly by a woman as she boarded the opposite carriage. He whispered to the person beside him, "Captain, aren't you planning on using your abilities to get some clues?" The gray-eyed man with a slightly high hairline, taking off his police hat, shook his head. "That would look like prying into the privacy of aristocrats... and it would cause trouble. We've confirmed that the girl has no trace of the Extraordinary. She's not the Beyonder we're looking for."

The young police officer raised an eyebrow in dissatisfaction and said, "But who knows what clues that unnaturally beautiful noble lady might hold... and how can we allow someone who has come into contact with the paranormal to wander around the world?"

Watching the carriage gradually recede from sight, the gray-eyed man patted the young man's shoulder: "It's not that no one is in charge, it's just that it's not our responsibility yet..."

"Let's go, our teammates are still tracking down Ty Poslan and his accomplices."

Late at night.

A crimson moon hangs high in the night sky.

A faint crimson light shone into the room through the window screen, covering the woman lying on the bed.

Even though he has Claire's memories and is familiar with women's lifestyles, Jiang Zhe is still not used to living as a woman.

In addition, the younger sister-in-law who was frightened by the kidnapping case pestered Jiang Zhe to sleep with her, which made Jiang Zhe even more at a loss.

After a lot of trouble, and after going through a series of trivial tasks that made Jiang Zhe exhausted, such as feeding, bathing, and going to the toilet, he smelled the faint fragrance of Aunt Jessica's hair beside his pillow.

Jiang Zhe's thoughts were wandering.

Through conversation with Jessica, she learned that a total of three days had passed from the time she was reported missing to the time she was rescued.

However, during this period she always left the school under the pretext of internship, and the university had lax management of interns and graduates like her, so the exact number of days she was missing is difficult to estimate, and further official investigation is needed.

But the maximum period shall not exceed twenty days.

Twenty days...

Jiang Zhe tried hard to capture the recent "memories of Claire" in his mind.

Unfortunately, Claire's memory avoided almost all of her extraordinary experiences—she had no memory of Claire's recent days.

Even the smallest living habits were not avoided by her, but the extraordinary elements were erased - Claire's actions made Jiang Zhe puzzled.

The only extraordinary knowledge Jiang Zhe currently has comes from the first failed reincarnation ceremony.

She had thought the knowledge that emerged upon seeing the altar was the golden finger that enabled her to travel through time—but unfortunately, it wasn't. It was probably the fragment of Claire's memory she had obtained during her first failed reincarnation ritual...

Through communication with Jessica, Jiang Zhe learned that the Tingen police who escorted her back were the extraordinary people affiliated with the Church of the Goddess of Night - the Night Watchmen.

But her eyes did not see anything extraordinary in those people.

Jessica said that the family steward who came with her was also a Beyonder. Jiang Zhe also didn't see anything from him.

She is not "special".

A faint sense of loss and depression fills my heart.

The bewilderment of crossing here, the panic and helplessness of having a male body taken away, the complex love-hate relationship with the murderer, the curiosity and doubt about the extraordinary power...

All kinds of emotions weighed on Jiang Zhe's heart.

Jiang Zhe turned sideways and sighed softly.

At this moment, a pair of gentle arms embraced her from behind.

The warmth and softness touched her back, as if giving her strength.

This force weakened Jiang Zhe's charming mood caused by his male consciousness - although she didn't sigh in fear because of the kidnapping case, she was quite moved by Jessica's gentle comforting gesture.

It also makes Jiang Zhe wonder——

Why did Claire choose to abandon everything and commit a crime when she clearly came from a prominent family and had a family that loved her?

Is it for power beyond mortals?
Jiang Zhe curled up his body, which had become much smaller and more charming. He curled up the female body that Jessica praised as more beautiful than "Backlund's most dazzling gem" and said softly, "Good night."

Soon, the exhausted Jiang Zhe fell into a deep sleep.

In his dream, Jiang Zhe dreamed of "her"...

I dreamt that her slender hands were holding a pen and writing something on paper:
"My dear, I have taken everything from you, and I have left everything I can. From now on, we will never see each other again."

With a soft sigh, the paper was turned.

On the back, the words "Peace is a blessing" are written in slightly messy handwriting.

"Peace is a blessing, health is the foundation, and contentment is the greatest happiness." This is a blessing from the world-famous Emperor Roselle, which means: live in the present.

(End of this chapter)