Just when Ji Xian cautiously opened his arms and was about to hug Ruan Qiuping back, Ruan Qiuping let go of him.
Ji's arms froze awkwardly in the air for a moment, then silently dropped down.
Ruan Qiu's emotions had gradually stabilized. He loosened his arms around Ji Xi and took two steps back.
Ji Xi has no memories of the mortal world.
So Ruan Qiuping doesn’t know what to do now.
He couldn't say sorry to Yu Huan.
He couldn't say thank you to Yu Huan for his hard work.
He also couldn't ask Yu Huan, what should I do to make you truly happy
Even when he just couldn't help but hug Yu Huan, he had to rack his brains to explain the reason for the hug.
But Ruan Qiuping felt that no matter what he said, he could not explain this sudden hug.
Being suddenly hugged by someone whom he had only met twice... Ji Xi must have felt very confused.
Ruan Qiuping lowered his head and said, "I... I am so unlucky. I hugged you to... take advantage of your good fortune. Besides, you were good at holding my hand, so I am even if I hug you."
Ruan Qiuping's voice became increasingly weak, and he sounded less and less confident.
Ji Xi suddenly smiled, his eyebrows and eyes relaxed, his voice was as gentle as the warm breeze: "You are my fiancé, when you hug me, you don't have to explain anything to me."
Ruan Qiuping was silent for a while, and suddenly said: "... You adapt to this identity so quickly."
Just because of the two lines of words on the Heavenly Marriage Stone, she really treated him as her fiancé.
We've only met twice and there's no emotional basis between us.
The person chosen on the Heavenly Marriage Stone is him, Ruan Qiuping. If he chooses someone else, will Ji Xi also...
"What did Ruan Ruan say?" Yu Huan seemed not to hear clearly.
Yu Huan's words interrupted Ruan Qiuping's thoughts.
He looked up blankly and asked, "... What did you call me?"
"Ruan Ruan, is it okay? After all, given our current relationship, if I still call you by your name, it would seem too distant." Yu Huan said with a smile.
Ruan Qiuping blinked and said quietly, "Okay."
In more than two hundred years, only two people have called him that.
One is Yu Huan on earth, the other is Yu Huan in heaven... they are the same person.
Ruan Qiuping suddenly felt relieved. Looking at the stranger Ji Xian in front of him who had an ethereal air and was admired and respected by thousands of people, he suddenly felt that this person was covered with layers of Yu Huan's shadow.
No matter what Yu Huan becomes, he is still the same Yu Huan.
What he needed to do now was to quickly find the Millennium Lotus, quickly make it into the Love Recalling Soup, and then make Yu Huan become... more complete.
"Ruan Qiuping!"
Suddenly, Chen Hai's voice was heard in the distance.
Ruan Qiuping turned his head and saw Chen Hai and Yang Yang walking towards him together.
"Is this Ruan Ruan's new friend?" Yu Huan asked.
friend
Jingyang is his friend, as for Chen Hai...
Ruan Qiuping nodded and said, "I guess so."
Wait, why “Protestant” friends
How did Ji know that he had no friends
Ruan Qiuping was just about to go out and ask when he heard the master of ceremonies who was in charge of the sealing ceremony hurriedly calling Ji to come over.
"Then I'll go over first. Ruan Ruan, bye." Ji Xi smiled gently.
"Goodbye." Ruan Qiuping said.
Never mind, there’s nothing to ask.
After all, everyone in the world knows that he has no friends.
Ji Xian left. Chen Hai looked at his back and sniffed the air vigorously. His expression was very comfortable: "As expected of Ji Xian who succeeded in sealing at the twenty-first level! This feeling is different!"
"Have you made up?" Ruan Qiuping asked.
"We've made peace a long time ago!" Chen Hai glanced at Ruan Qiuping, "You said you would help me at the beginning, but you went to find Yu Huan as soon as you came down to earth, and disappeared as soon as you went up to heaven... What did you do to help me?"
Ruan Qiuping touched his nose and smiled embarrassedly.
At that time, he said he wanted to help Chen Hai and Jing Yang reconcile, but not long after, he began to practice the aging technique from morning to night. After practicing for several days in a row, he put this matter out of his mind again.
"I'm going to pick up my sister first." Jing Yang said, "Wait here for a while, I have something else to tell you."
Ruan Qiuping nodded.
"Yeah, I know. Jingyang, go quickly. I'll be waiting for you here!" Chen Hai said enthusiastically.
Ruan Qiuping: “…”
Ruan Qiuping glanced at Chen Hai and felt goosebumps all over his body.
After Jing Yang left, Ruan Qiuping looked at Chen Hai with a strange expression: "… How did you make peace with him?"
"I'll just keep pestering him!" Chen Hai said proudly, "Jing Yang is really soft-hearted, and now he believes that I don't support homosexuality!"
"… But I feel like he's still a little cold towards you."
"Okay." Chen Hai said firmly, "Now he won't let me go. Sometimes he even gently asks me, 'Can you leave now? I still have some things to do.'"
Ruan Qiuping: “…”
Isn't this a euphemism for get lost
"By the way." Ruan Qiuping asked, "How is your Remembrance Soup going?"
Chen Hai said: "It's not going well. I can't find the Siku Pearl."
"Did you do as I told you? Recall sad things, then bleed or cry or something."
"It's useless. One day I accidentally got trapped inside and cried because I was hungry... but I didn't find the Bitterness Pearl."
Ruan Qiuping: "... The saddest thing for you is crying from hunger?"
"Besides this, what else is there?"
Ruan Qiuping: “…”
What a happy child.
Ruan Qiuping said: "Since you helped me find the Lover's Fruit, and I didn't help you reconcile with Jing Yang, then I will go find you the Thoughts and Bitterness Pearl, and then we will go find the Millennium Lotus together."
Chen Hai lowered his head, kicked the stone with his foot, and suddenly said: "Actually... I don't want to look for it anymore."
Ruan Qiuping asked in confusion: "Why? Don't you want to know the memories you have lost?"
"What if I regain my memory... and find out that my lover is dead? What if I find out that I have lived a miserable life? What if I find out... I find out that I owe someone a huge debt of gratitude, and that I have been a bad guy for a long time in the past two hundred years... I am scared."
Chen Hai paused for a moment, then kicked a stone far away: "Besides, I'm living a good life now, why should I try to regain my memory and make myself unhappy?"
Ruan Qiuping was silent for a while, then said: "I found the bitter bead and gave it to you. As for whether you want to find the thousand-year-old lotus to make the remembrance soup, you can consider it yourself."
Jingyang came back soon, and when he came back, he was accompanied by a young girl, who should be the sister that Jingyang mentioned.
However, what surprised Ruan Qiuping was that this girl turned out to be the girl who almost cried because of her position at the enthronement ceremony and who finally wrote him a note to apologize.
He originally thought that this girl's behavior and appearance were somewhat similar to Jing Yang, but he didn't expect that she was actually Jing Yang's sister.
When the boy saw Ruan Qiuping, his eyes lit up: "So you are my brother's friend? My name is Jing Shanshan."
"My name is Ruan Qiuping."
The boy suddenly tugged at Jingyang's sleeve and asked him, "Brother, the rumors are all lies, right? It's not bad to be in contact with Mei Xi, right? Otherwise, why aren't you afraid of him and still talk to him?"
"Because we have the bad luck-dispelling talisman given by Ji Xi." Jing Yang took the talisman from his arms, but when he held it in front of his eyes, he frowned again.
This talisman has started to turn gray and is almost ineffective.
"Is it all right with this talisman?!" Jing Shanshan's eyes lit up, "I want this talisman too! Brother! Wait for me, I also want to ask Ji Xi for a talisman!"
After saying that, she ran away again.
Jingyang sighed: "Just got him back, and he ran away again..."
Ruan Qiuping looked at Jing Shanshan's back, and his heart softened as if he saw the grown-up Ruan Dongdong.
"By the way, you said you had something to discuss with me. What is it?" Ruan Qiuping turned around and asked Jing Yang.
Jing Yang: "It's still about the academy. You haven't been to the academy these two days, so I have to tell you something. First, during this period, the immortals who came down to the mortal world have all returned one after another, but our recording of the immortals' affairs involves their privacy. We also signed a confidentiality agreement at the time. If we talk about what happened when those immortals came down to the mortal world, they would be struck by lightning."
After Jing Yang finished speaking, he handed a piece of paper to Ruan Qiuping and Chen Hai. "Here is the privacy range I sorted out. You can take a good look at it. It's basically about what kind of hatred they made in the human world, what kind of grudges they made, who they loved, who they hated, or what wrong things they did in the human world... These are all things that cannot be said. Chen Hai, you must pay attention to this. You have a big mouth and you speak without thinking. If you leak it and get struck by lightning, you won't be killed, but you will be hurt. As for Ruan Qiuping... your situation is a little special. I heard from Chen Hai that you are going to make remembrance soup for Yu Huan. The remembrance soup is to let Yu Huan recall his deeds in the human world. This should not be within the range of being struck by lightning, so you can rest assured."
"After the practical course, we still have a group project summary assignment. The practical courses for other groups are only two months in total, but our group's activities last longer, so our group has a much tighter time to write the project summary than other groups. Three days later is the final deadline, and I'm thinking of finding time in these two days for us to do this assignment together."
"I'm going to the Mangyi Snow Mountain to pick thousand-year-old lotuses today and tomorrow. I'll do my homework the next day."
Jingyang frowned and said, "I guess you can't go."
"Why?"
Jing Yang pointed to the sky above his head, and then said: "When I went to pick up my sister just now, I heard people talking about it. I learned that throughout the ages, every time there was a new event in the Heavenly Palace, there would always be a period of abnormal weather. The bigger the event, the longer the abnormal weather would last. I heard that it has started to rain heavily in the west, and it is snowing heavily on the Mangyi Snow Mountain. It is difficult to even go up, let alone pick the thousand-year-old lotus."
"…It started to rain heavily in the west?" Ruan Qiuping's face turned pale.
Chen Hai said, "What's wrong? It's just raining, why are you so nervous? Did you forget to collect the clothes you hung out to dry?"
"You guys go first, I have something to do." Ruan Qiuping said hurriedly, and left using teleportation.
Ruan Qiuping used instant teleportation to reach the mountain, but it was raining heavily and the soil was very slippery, plus his bad luck, Ruan Qiuping slipped into a deep ditch as soon as he landed.
Ruan Qiuping's shoulder hit the rocks at the bottom of the pit heavily, and he grimaced in pain.
He staggered to his feet and crawled out of the pit again.
He had just stood up when he saw several trees as thick as bowls nearby suddenly being broken by the wind and collapsing to the ground with a thud.
Ruan Qiuping's heart sank slowly.
A tree this thick was in such a state, so I wonder what the sapling on Yu Huan's grave, which was not much thicker than a thumb, must have been destroyed to death.
The sky seemed to be broken, and heavy rain suddenly poured down. Raindrops as big as beans hit the top of the head and then fell along the chin.
Ruan Qiuping clenched his fists tightly, almost breaking the flesh in his palms.
He is such a waste.
If you can't plant the tree in your heart, you won't be able to plant the tree on your grave either.
Ruan Qiuping walked quickly towards the apple tree, sometimes deep and sometimes shallow.
When he was about to reach his destination, he trembled all over and raised his head in embarrassment.
He suddenly opened his eyes wide -
In a world of strong winds and heavy rains.
A young apple sapling stretched out its leaves neatly and languidly in the sunshine.
A man in a white robe stood beside the sunshine, holding an umbrella in his hand, his plain robe without a single stain.
Hearing the noise, he slowly turned around.
The moment he saw Ruan Qiuping, the corners of his lips curved up and a smile filled his eyes:
"Ruan Ruan, is this your apple tree?"