Ruan Qiuping had always been able to quickly complete the tasks assigned by Sima Ming when he came down to earth these days. After each task was completed, he would take Yu Huan to visit the places they had been to before.
We reviewed one place after another, from the abandoned factory where we first met, to the reed riverside where we met together when we were old, and finally a trip to the coast where we held our wedding.
Many, many years have passed in the mortal world. Some places have been completely covered by new buildings, while some places still retain traces of their original appearance.
For example, the abandoned factory has been transformed into a high-end shopping mall. The originally deserted place has become a bustling shopping center with tall buildings and dense crowds of people.
For example, the Reed Riverbank has become a commercial tourist attraction, but it is well protected, just a little complicated. There are many activities on the water for tourists to enjoy, and the reed field has also become a famous photo-taking spot for internet celebrities. There are crowds of people everywhere, and you can't find a quiet place.
However, there has not been any significant changes to the coast. Perhaps it is because this coast is a tourist attraction under the Guilai Group and the wedding venue of its founder, so it has been deliberately kept as it is.
When Yu Huan held Ruan Qiuping's hand and walked in this place, there would always be an expression on his face that seemed like he was in a dream, as if he felt that everything was both strange and familiar.
There are some things that I can only remember fragments of, and there are other things that I have no memory of at all.
"I brought you to this place to familiarize you with it first, so that you can be mentally prepared for your past experiences. After all, the Millennium Lotus will be extracted soon, and the Love Recalling Soup will be made soon. Then eighty years of memories will suddenly appear in your mind. I'm afraid that if you are not prepared at all, you will not be able to accept it."
The sky darkened and a cool night breeze blew over from the beach. Many tourists returned to the hotel with their necks hunched due to the cold.
Yu Huan held Ruan Qiuping's hand and walked out of the coastal villa, smiling and saying, "If you can't accept it by then, you must be very reluctant to accept it. After all, then you will completely remember the first time you met Ruan Ruan in the world, the whole process of knowing each other and falling in love."
Ruan Qiuping also looked at Yu Huan and smiled, then lowered his head and held Yu Huan's hand tightly.
Yu Huan pushed open the door and looked at the room in front of him, his expression a little dazed: "Ruan Ruan, is this your wedding room?"
Ruan Qiuping took a look and nodded: "Indeed, there is still no change here."
This villa has been renovated and maintained many times, but there is still no obvious change in appearance, and the furnishings inside remain the same.
A festive scene naturally emerged in Yu Huan's mind.
He closed his eyes and thought carefully for a while, then waved his hand, and the whole room was covered with red. There were red beds, roses, and the wall was covered with the word "囍" (happiness) - everything you could imagine.
Ruan Qiuping suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart, and he took a step back cautiously and looked at Yu Huan: "Yu Huan, what do you want to do?"
Yu Huan smiled gently and considerately: "Since I'm here to revisit the old place with Ruan Ruan, I naturally want to relive the old times with Ruan Ruan."
Ruan Qiuping: “…”
Ruan Qiuping counted on his fingers and said, "Yu Huan, you are going to hold your wedding in less than a week. Now you have redecorated the former wedding room like this. When you get married, will it be considered your second or third marriage?"
Yu Huan thought about it for a while, and seemed to feel that living in the bridal chamber for the third time would indeed wear off the novelty, so he removed the decoration with a sense of disappointment.
The whole house returned to its plain and simple appearance.
Ruan Qiuping breathed a sigh of relief.
The room returned to normal and the atmosphere was no longer so heated.
Ruan Qiuping opened the curtains and looked at the scenery outside the floor-to-ceiling windows. He involuntarily talked about what happened during the three days they stayed here.
"You were sent down to the mortal world because you did something wrong. The time was extended to three days. You were very happy. On one of the days, you played outside all day..."
Yu Huan walked over and gently put his arms around Ruan Qiuping's waist from behind: "Why did Ruan Qiuping always skip ahead when she was explaining that thing to me?"
Ruan Qiuping: "Why are you skipping?"
"Ruan Ruan always tells me what we did, what games we played, and what food we ate, but she never tells me where we kissed for the first time, where we confessed our love for the first time, or in which scene we confirmed our relationship for the first time."
Ruan Qiuping hesitated for a moment, then said, "The first time... the first kiss and confession was on the second floor of a western restaurant. You were 32 years old that year. But it was actually very unexpected for me. I didn't have time to react at all, because you also know that it was the first time you met after you became an adult. Then you proposed to me when you were 33, and we got married when you were 34... And for me, all these things happened within just three days."
Yu Huan laughed softly and nuzzled the back of Ruan Qiuping's neck with the tip of his nose: "It seems like you really can't wait."
Ruan Qiuping sighed: "Yes, but I can understand that. After all, you can only see me once a year, so you must be impatient."
"Then you must have fallen in love with Ruan Ruan when you were a teenager. What about Ruan Ruan? When did Ruan Ruan know that you loved me, and when did you confess to me?" Yu Huan hugged Ruan Qiuping's waist tightly again.
Ruan Qiuping looked at the silent sea and the endless night outside the French window, turned around, looked into Yu Huan's eyes, and said to him very seriously: "Yu Huan, I have something to tell you."
Yu Huan: "You say."
Ruan Qiuping looked at Yu Huan's dark and clear eyes, then involuntarily looked away and fixed his gaze on the buttons of Yu Huan's shirt, saying: "In fact, when you were going through tribulations in the mortal world, it seems that you had some misunderstandings about me..."
"What misunderstanding?"
"You seem to think that I don't love you." Ruan Qiuping lowered his head and whispered, "It's your fault. I'm not good at expressing my feelings. I know you can only see me once a year and I feel insecure, but I never say anything to you to express my love."
Ruan Qiuping lowered his head and took out the suicide note from his Qiankun bag: "But I didn't realize what you were thinking until I saw this suicide note. I realized that I had done something wrong. I didn't tell you in person that I loved you, which made you regret it for the rest of your life... Now think about it, you went through the tribulation and suffered those twenty-one golden lights, and I don't know how many of them were because of this misunderstanding... The Memory Soup will be ready soon, and you will remember the past by then. I'm telling you this in advance just to tell you that your idea is wrong. Don't let your imagination run wild after you recover your memory..."
Yu Huan took the suicide note and read it carefully.
Ruan Qiuping looked at Yu Huan staring at the suicide note in silence and tugged at his sleeves: "Yu Huan, have you finished reading it?"
Yu Huan looked away: "I've finished reading it."
Ruan Qiuping looked up at me, his eyes flickering with anxiety, and his voice was tinged with caution: "... Then... do you believe that I love you now?"
Yu Huan was silent for a while, then suddenly smiled with his eyes bent: "I believe that Ruan Ruan's feelings towards you now are not sympathetic, guilty, or pitying. I believe that Ruan Ruan loves you."
The stone in Ruan Qiuping's heart finally fell to the ground, his eyes smiled happily into crescents, he raised his head, hooked his arms around Yu Huan's neck, and kissed him: "... That's right, you have to believe that I love you."
Yu Huan smiled and put the suicide note in his hand aside, then put his arm around Ruan Qiuping's waist and gave her a deep kiss.
To be honest, apart from the content in the suicide note that said he didn't believe Ruan Ruan's love for himself, there was another sentence in it: "…if you meet a cunning immortal, you don't know where you will be deceived." It also made Yu Huan quite concerned.
Although at first glance it seems like he is entrusting himself with his final arrangements.
But she always felt that something was odd, as if the mortal world didn't know that there was a "cunning immortal" pursuing Ruan Ruan.
When Yu Huan took off Ruan Qiuping's coat, the lucky charm in his pocket fell lightly onto the bed.
Ruan Qiuping picked up the talisman and said, "By the way, I remembered something else?"
"What's up?"
"Didn't you once ask me why the last Supreme Good Luck Charm was consumed so quickly and became ineffective in less than two months? Do you know why?"
"Because what?" Yu Huan asked softly as he unbuttoned Ruan Qiuping's shirt.
Ruan Qiuping raised his head gently: "In fact, it has been used for more than two months, because I was always afraid that my bad luck would be passed on to you, so I let this supreme good luck charm accompany you in the mortal world for many years... If it weren't for this charm, I probably wouldn't even dare to touch you."
Yu Huan half-knelt beside the bed, clasped Ruan Qiuping's right hand holding the talisman, pushed him down on the bed, kissed him, and said with a smile: "Really? Then this talisman has done a great job."
The two bodies were pressed tightly together, with their interlocked fingers clenching tightly inch by inch. The Supreme Good Luck Charm was sandwiched between their interlocked right hands, with only a hint of golden luster showing through the gap.
At this moment, this minute, this second, a familiar scene suddenly flashed through Yu Huan's mind.
The movement froze instantly.
"What's wrong?" Ruan Qiuping asked.
Yu Huan: "... I seem to have thought of something again."
"What did you think of? Why do you look like that?" Ruan Qiuping wiped away his frown with his index finger with a look of worry. "A small fragment makes you so worried. When you drink the memory soup, all the memories of the past 81 years will come flooding back. How will you bear it?"
Yu Huan: “…”
Yu Huan just felt that the memory just now became clearer.
I finally understood the meaning of the words in the suicide note: "If you meet a cunning immortal, you don't know where you will be deceived."
I also know what the sentence "If some god expresses his love to you in the future, you must open your eyes and see clearly" means.
Because a dim room, intense passion, and a body covered in sweat suddenly appeared in front of him.
And that petty-minded man, gritting his teeth, making a vengeful and vicious sound.
"Ruan Ruan, do you think that the lucky god in the sky knew that he gave you the talisman and used this place?"
Yu Huan: “…”
Yu Huan silently got up from Ruan Qiuping, hugged his head, and slowly squatted on the ground.
sorry.
The memory of that time in the mortal world seems a little too much for me to bear.