Chen Hai was stunned for a moment, and shouted: "Hey, old man, you must be mistaken! So, it means that I can find this lover's fruit, so I am the one who is in love? How come I don't know who I am in love with!"
"That's Ruan Qiuping!" Chen Hai pointed at Ruan Qiuping and said, "Why does Ruan Qiuping come down to earth to meet her lover every day?! If he is heartless, then what is he meeting every day? And... and he has married his lover. Look at the ring on his hand. If he has no feelings for that person, then why did he get married... "
"Chen Hai." Ruan Qiuping interrupted Chen Hai with a frown.
Chen Hai scratched his head, as if realizing that he had said something wrong: "Oh, by the way, this cannot be told to others, right..."
"Don't worry, I'm just a lazy immortal. Even if I know something, I won't tell anyone." The Moon Fairy smiled. He packed up the love fruits he had picked, turned to look at Chen Hai and Ruan Qiuping, and said, "But I'm not talking nonsense about the love fruit. Are you two affectionate or heartless people? The love fruit may know more about it than you two do!
After Yue Lao left, Chen Hai looked at his back and muttered softly: "This old man is talking nonsense! How can this rotten fruit understand me better than I do myself? What's so heartless... I have said no more than twenty words to the goddess in the past few decades, who should I like... "
Chen Hai glanced at Ruan Qiuping with a puzzled expression: "Ruan Qiuping, why aren't you angry all this time? Didn't that old man just slander you, saying that you don't like Yu Huan?"
Ruan Qiuping was silent for a while, then suddenly said, "I found the Bitterness Pearl yesterday. What the Moon Fairy said was indeed true. The Bitterness Pearl can only come out when it smells the bitterness in a person's blood."
Chen Hai blinked, looking a little bewildered: "What did that old man say just now... You have to work hard to find the pearl of love, and you have to love to find your true love. Just because you are sure that the first half of his sentence is right, you think the second half of his sentence is also right?"
Ruan Qiuping nodded.
Chen Hai's expression became a little strange: "...So you don't like Yu Huan?"
Ruan Qiuping thought about it carefully, and then said: "I think I like Yu Huan. I feel happy when I see him happy, and sad when I see him sad. I hope he will be happy all his life and will not encounter any setbacks... But..."
Ruan Qiuping lowered his head, remembering that when he came down to earth today, Yu Huan stood in front of the wardrobe and told him that he had been fully prepared to wait for him every day.
Ruan Qiuping lowered his head, his expression becoming a little dull. He continued, "But I also want to see him find a lover in the mortal world who can truly stay with him forever, and not wait for me so hard."
Ruan Qiuping suddenly remembered that when Yu Huan was sixteen years old, he walked side by side with him on the streets on Christmas after finishing a long-distance run.
Yu Huan said to him: "You have to love me more, love me in a way that you don't want to give me to anyone else for the rest of your life."
At that time, Yu Huan was just a half-grown child in his eyes. He never thought about it in that way, so he didn't quite understand the meaning of this sentence. But now he understands it.
Perhaps, he just couldn't do this, couldn't love Yu Huan more, couldn't love him so much that he didn't want to give him to others.
Rather than watching Yu Huan fall in love with him and waiting for him day after day and year after year, Ruan Qiuping wanted to watch Yu Huan live an ordinary and happy life in the mortal world, and wanted to see Yu Huan build a warm family with the lover who would always be by his side.
If Yu Huan fell in love with an ordinary human, then Yu Huan would not have to wait for him so hard. Then Yu Huan would not be like now, only happy for one and a half days in 365 days. With his lover always by his side, Yu Huan would be happy every day, and filled with happiness from morning to night.
Ruan Qiuping looked up at Chen Hai and said, "Maybe it's because my feelings for Yu Huan are not what lovers believe in."
Ruan Qiuping felt that this was no big deal.
Although he wanted to be friends with Yu Huan rather than lovers, since Yu Huan had fallen in love with him irrevocably, he might as well be Yu Huan's lover.
Ruan Qiuping wanted Yu Huan to obtain supreme happiness, no matter what role he played in Yu Huan's happiness.
"So, the old man didn't lie. Then who do I like?" Chen Hai scratched his head, looking confused.
"Chen Hai, do you have any memories before you became an immortal?" Immortals who have come back from their tribulations need to drink the Love Potion. Even an immortal like Chen Hai, who became an immortal because of his greed, may also need to drink the Love Potion.
Chen Hai thought for a while and said blankly: "I remember most of it, but I don't remember some things."
Ruan Qiuping nodded confidently: "Then I know, you must have fallen in love with someone before you became an immortal, and you were infatuated with that person, but after you became an immortal, you forgot about that person after drinking the love potion, so you can find the love fruit even though you don't know who you like."
"Ah... Am I a betrayer?" Chen Hai said anxiously, "What kind of person was that person I liked before I became an immortal? Was he a glutton like me, or some other monster? Was he a human or an immortal? If he was a human, he would have turned into ashes and died long ago..."
"Maybe you can try the Recalling Soup. I'll bring you the ingredients list tomorrow, and you can collect the ingredients yourself and drink it. Maybe you'll remember it."
"I have been an immortal for hundreds of years, so what does it matter if it's soup?"
"Just give it a try, just in case it works."
If Chen Hai drank the Recalling Soup first, he could give him some feedback, and when Yu Huan drank it later, he would also gain experience.
Before parting with Chen Hai, Chen Hai suddenly turned around and asked Ruan Qiuping: "By the way, you promised me that if I help you find the Lover's Fruit, you will let me reconcile with Jing Yang!"
Ruan Qiuping thought about it, and then said: "Actually, it's very simple to reconcile with Jing Yang. Isn't it because he ignores you that he hates homosexuality? You just need to tell him that you don't reject homosexuality."
The next day, in front of Guanchen Gate.
"Jingyang! I suddenly realized that I don't hate homosexuality all the time! Gay love is great! Gay love is great! I don't like homosexuality!!!"
Ruan Qiuping turned his head away in pain.
Sure enough, after hearing what Chen Hai said, Jing Yang's face turned blue and white. He clenched his fists and gritted his teeth and said, "Get lost!"
Chen Hai: “…”
Chen Hai moved in front of Ruan Qiuping, looked at him with resentment, and said, "Ruan Qiuping, your method doesn't work at all."
Ruan Qiuping: “…”
Brother, I didn’t teach you to say that.
Ruan Qiuping sighed: "The tone is too unnatural, it sounds like sarcasm."
"But I am serious!" Chen Hai frowned, "If Jing Yang is also gay, I won't hate homosexuality."
"You have to talk to him nicely and be more sincere so that he can believe that you really don't hate homosexuality."
"The Guanchen Gate is open!" someone shouted, and Ruan Qiuping hurriedly squeezed in.
When Ruan Qiuping and his group went down, they landed on an old street.
Jingyang said hello to Ruan Qiuping and left. Chen Hai also stuck to Jingyang and ran away.
Ruan Qiuping looked around and suddenly remembered that he had been to this place before.
It is near the apartment where Yu Huan lived during junior high and high school.
Could it be that Yu Huan went to that small apartment
Ruan Qiuping followed the direction of his memory, went upstairs and came to the door of the apartment he lived in at that time.
The original combination lock of the apartment might have been broken, so it was replaced with a new one.
Ruan Qiuping knocked on the door gently, but no one responded.
Ruan Qiuping hesitated for a moment, then pressed the new combination lock and entered the original password of the apartment.
—It was the day when he and Yu Huan met for the first time.
"Click." The door opened.
"Yu Huan?" Ruan Qiuping called softly, but still no one responded.
Ruan Qiuping pushed open the bedroom door and found Yu Huan lying on the bed.
Yu Huan's face was a little red and he was sweating, as if he had a fever.
Ruan Qiuping found the good luck charm in the bedside table and put it in Yu Huan's pocket. Then, he dared to reach out and touch Yu Huan's forehead.
It turns out that I have a fever.
Ruan Qiuping originally wanted to find some medicine for Yu Huan, but there was no medicine in this apartment.
Ruan Qiuping ran to the pharmacy downstairs to buy it, but after returning, he found that Yu Huan was asleep and couldn't even take water, let alone medicine.
Ruan Qiuping frowned and put the medicine down. He stood up, concentrated his mind and energy, and performed a healing spell on Yu Huan.
His power increased several times. Although he couldn't accomplish anything great after being sealed for nine-tenths in the mortal world, he could still cure a minor fever.
After a while, the temperature on Yu Huan's forehead gradually cooled down, but it would take some time for it to recover completely.
Ruan Qiuping breathed a sigh of relief and removed the iron from Yu Huan's forehead.
As soon as his hand left, Yu Huan stretched out his hand and grabbed something in the air, and Ruan Qiuping's name appeared in his muttering.
Only after Ruan Qiuping grabbed his right hand did Yu Huan calm down and continue to sleep.
Ruan Qiuping thought for a moment, then used his other hand to take out the good luck charm from Yu Huan's pocket. He pulled open Yu Huan's clothes, letting the charm stick tightly to Yu Huan's chest, and prayed softly in his heart for Yu Huan to recover quickly.
After doing all this, he lay down peacefully.
Ruan Qiuping crawled into Yu Huan's quilt, interlocked her right leg with his, and gradually fell asleep.
Ruan Qiuping thought, no matter what his feelings were for Yu Huan.
But this kind of feeling is by no means inferior to love.