Personas

Left alone to handle the task of creating furniture, machinery tables, and so forth, Chi Dujuan complained. However, he also knew that even if Zhu Jin understood what Bai Shuixian wanted, he would not be able to build any of those things. Only him, Xuan Yueji, Yu Lanhua, Tou Juhua, and Lu Lianhua understood, felt, and could help Bai Shuixian with the things she wanted.

The five of them had been with Bai Shuixian since she passed in the previous life and three of them were with her even before that. Those three were him, Xuan Yueji, and Lu Lianhua. Each of them had their own roles as people who lived in her mind and space.

He was in charge of overriding her negative emotions and to bring her positive thoughts that could change her current depression. Xuan Yueji held traumatic memories of her life and this was why Bai Shuixian had moments of which she could not remember. Lu Lianhua had the biggest role to play in the entire system.

However, the thing was that all the personas did not know what his main role was. Lu Lianhua once said that he was in charge of ridding Bai Shuixian from suicidal thoughts, however there were times when she was suicidal and he did nothing. There was also another time when he announced that he was a holder of trauma, but he did not tell them what type of trauma he held.

Each of them were trauma holders, but they were for different things. For example, Xuan Yueji held family traumas while he held sexual traumas. Yu Lanhua held traumas of failures and embarrassment while Tou Juhua held traumas of anxieties and panic.

In the end of the day though, they were all there to protect Bai Shuixian, so none of them made problems for each other. Not only that, each of them had their own personalities and skillset. It was hard to start a fight when all their skills made them understand each other too much.

An example could be how Xuan Yueji is a warrior with no knowledge of how to forge. The task to create weapons and more is then put on Yu Lanhua who is a blacksmith. Yu Lanhua also gets along with Lu Lianhua the best out of all of them since she knows how to mine and he is an engineer and jewelcrafter.

Tou Juhua is an enchanter and gets along with everyone since she can enchant weapons, tools, jewels, and even plants. As for him, he got along with Bai Shuixian the most since he was an alchemist. Plants were what started mankind and she had an interest in practicing medicine.

Aside from personalities, they all had names corresponding to plants which was something he loved to death. The name Bai Shuixian may have come from irresponsible parents, but it was a beautiful name that meant white narcissus. Xuan Yueji came from the black chinese rose.

Maybe it was because of the direct difference of black and white, but Xuan Yueji was at the front more so than any other personas. He came out even more than Bai Shuxian. However, he also was a really strong person as everytime he was at the front, she could not remember a single thing.

No matter how much time passed, Bai Shuixian never remembered a single thing that Xuan Yueji did or chose to do. If no one told her, she would not know that it happened. This worried him, but he understood that it could be due to the fact that he held the most memories compared to any other persona.

As for him, he was red azaleas. Yu Lanhua was blue orchid and Tou Juhua was yellow chrysanthemum. Lu Lianhua was a green lotus, but it was still hard to know why he was a lotus.

Their names were not just named after plants, but represented what their inner soul or spirit was. Out of many hundreds of plants, lotuses were the most holy and respected plant with even Guanyin sitting on a lotus chair. However, Lu Lianhua never once demonstrated his "holiness" or power.

Despite thinking and saying all of these things, Chi Dujuan knew that just much as they were new to Bai Shuixian, they were also mysterious. They were not like the people with multiple personality disorder and they were not like people with bipolar disorder. In fact, their symptoms and the way they worked were much much different from the normal populace.

If someone wanted to explain how they worked, they had to include multiple inhumane elements such as magic, spirituality, and immortality. Without such things, it was hard to explain what they did, were responsible for, and there for. The only important thing that could be explained without the elements was that they existed to protect the owner of the body which was Bai Shuixian.

Sighing, Chi Dujuan called out, "Lanhua, come help me. You know that this is not my subject."

After waiting for a few minutes, another voice finally popped up and said, "What do you need help with?"

"Xiao Xian wants to make this room the entry room and then create deeper pathways that lead to her's, Zhu Jin's, Yueji's, my, your's, Juhua's, and Lianhua's rooms," Chi Dujuan answered.

"Ah, this… I can't help you. Go ask Lianhua," Yu Lanhua replied.

"Is he still busy? I remember that he said he wanted to make something for Xiao Xian," Chi Duyuan asked.

"He just finished," Yu Lanhua answered.

"Alright, I see. I'll ask him to switch with me," Chi Duyuan said.

After he said that, Yu Lanhua disappeared and Chi Duyuan asked Lu Lianhua to switch with him to build everything that Bai Shuixian wanted.

"Hm… That's a little difficult considering that everything is underground," Lu Lianhua stated upon hearing everything. "If the walls were stone instead of dirt, it would be easier to build."

Hearing what Lu Lianhua stated, Chi Dujuan said, "Can't you just use magic? I mean, that's what I called you here for. It would take months to finish if we don't use magic."

"I was just about to do that," Lu Lianhua replied and waved his hands.

Immediately after he waved his hands, perfectly symmetrical pathways opened up, the floors were replaced with beautiful wood, and the walls had evened out with wood linings and paintings hanging. The entry room was furnitured with hundreds of items that came out of nowhere and if one entered each individual room, they would find that the rooms were also furnitured with top-grade quality products. In the entire process, lavatories were also made with intricate channels to connect to the farm plots that were miles away.

At the forefront but not controlling the body, Chi Dujuan clapped his hands with appreciation, "Truly, I wish I had magic like you. To be able to furnish and build everything I want with just a wave of my hands."

"You can… if you merge with me," Lu Lianhua teased out.

"You're truly mean. I still want to explore the world. I'll merge with you later on in my life," Chi Dujuan stated.

Chuckling, Lu Lianhua said, "I'm just joking. There can't be anymore merges in her body."

Tilting his head in Bai Shuixian's universe, Chi Dujuan asked with confusion, "Why not?"

"Hm… Because it has all been merged already. You guys were the products of those merges. If you were to merge again, the balance in her body would be messed with and she can go crazy," Lu Lianhua answered.

"Crazy?" Chi Dujuan slowly repeated. "How come I haven't heard of that from Yueji?"

"He's an old man, but not as old as me. Yueji was the product of not one merging, but multiple mergings which is why he is very chaotic. A long time ago, I had to collect some of the traumas he held due to the constant merges going on," Lu Lianhua explained.

"Too much trauma can make us go crazy?" Chi Dujuan asked with a frown. "I thought it only pertained to the owner."

"If it were any other human, it would not make us go crazy. Instead, it would form another persona to cope with the trauma," Lu Lianhua stated. "However, Xiao Xian is not just an ordinary person. She came from another place that makes her special and thus, also makes us special."

"You know so much, but yet don't tell us anything," Chi Dujuan bitterly said. "Sometimes, I wish you could just open up a bit more. Of course, it's a personal opinion."

"It's not time yet," Lu Lianhua replied to the bitter in Chi Dujuan.

"When did time become involved with us?" he asked.

Sighing, Lu Lianhua answered, "It has long been involved with us. Just that no one knows."

As Chi Dujuan heard that, he sulked. To think that there was such a secret belonging to the owner and no one but Lu Lianhua knew. That was a bitter taste in his mouth.

"Say, how long have you been with Xiao Xian?" Chi Dujuan asked with curiosity.

"Hm… That requires quite a lot of thinking," Lu Lianhua answered.

"Why? You just need to tell me how many years," Chi Dujuan insisted.

"Hm… Well, it's been a long time, so I can't remember. However, it should be at least a million years?" Lu Lianhua said.

Chi Dujuan dropped at the number. It was just an estimate, but for goodness sake! He never knew that Bai Shuixian was an ancestor of the entire continent!

However, thinking again, he had another question, "Wait, doesn't that mean that Xiao Xian is a goddess?"