"...Yu...Yu Huan..."
Ruan Qiuping reached out his hand in panic and held Yu Huan's hand. His voice was trembling slightly, and he didn't know what to say. He could only call Yu Huan's name in a low voice as if to please him.
But Yu Huan pried his hands apart one by one, his lips curled up into a cold arc: "I guess there is no better person in the world than Ruan Ruan. You always think about me. You don't love me at all, but you force yourself to pretend to be affectionate to me. Why? Seeing me fall into the love you give me, are you moved by yourself?"
"Yu Huan..." Ruan Qiuping stammered, "I'm sorry... I did something wrong..."
"How could Ruan Ruan be wrong? I was wrong. I was wrong because I was ignorant and thought that Ruan Ruan would love me."
"... Yu Huan, I... I will never lie to you again..."
"There is no future. Since Ruan Ruan doesn't love me, I will force you to marry me. I will cancel your wedding. I will trouble Ruan Ruan to meet me at 8 o'clock to cancel the marriage certificate. However, in order to repay Ruan Ruan for saying she loves me and creating a beautiful dream for me, I will take all the forty-nine thunders. From now on, we owe each other nothing, and we don't need to see each other again."
Ruan Qiuping froze in place, as if he had fallen into an icy cave. He felt the cold winter wind rushing towards him, penetrating his skin, soaking his blood, and making his heart grow colder and colder.
He stretched out his hands in panic, trying to grab the corner of Yu Huan's clothes, but he only grabbed a ball of cold air.
—Yu Huan turned around and left, as if he didn’t want to look at him again.
Ruan Qiuping called out his name and hurriedly tried to catch up.
"... That's it!" The matchmaker behind him suddenly grabbed Ruan Qiuping, "You didn't like him in the first place, this is a chance for him to completely break up with you."
Ruan Qiuping, however, acted as if he heard nothing. He pulled his hand away from Yue Lao, and with a pale face, he staggered towards Yu Huan.
Yue Lao looked at Ruan Qiuping's back, then glanced at the empty rock edge and frowned tightly.
Yu Huan took a few steps and then used teleportation to disappear. Ruan Qiuping had no way to follow him, so he also used teleportation to come to Jishen Mansion.
However, Yu Huan had cast a barrier around Jishen Mansion, and Ruan Qiuping was so confused that he kept making mistakes when casting spells, and he couldn't get in.
About ten minutes later, the immortal servant of Jishen Mansion pushed open the door and walked out. Through a barrier, he handed Ruan Qiuping a Qiankun bag and said, "Ren Xianjun, this contains everything you brought with you. The God asked me to return it to you, and... you, you don't have to force your way through the barrier anymore. The God gave me this Qiankun bag and left. I don't know where he went."
Cave... Yu Huan must be in the cave!
Ruan Qiuping clenched the Qiankun bag in his hand and immediately teleported to the cave.
Sure enough, the cave also changed.
Another barrier was added outside the cave, which was thicker than the one at Jishen Mansion.
Yu Huan was indeed inside.
Ruan Qiuping slapped the barrier and called Yu Huan's name: "Yu Huan, Yu Huan, come out, I have something to tell you."
But someone answered.
Ruan Qiuping suddenly became panic-stricken, and his words were somewhat incoherent: "Yu Huan... Yu Huan, please don't ignore me, please see me..."
"...Yu Huan, can you please not be like this? Yu Huan, please don't avoid seeing me. I know I was wrong. Can you... can you please not destroy the marriage record..."
But no matter what he said, the people inside remained silent.
Ruan Qiuping's voice gradually became lower. He leaned against the barrier and begged humbly, "Yu Huan, if you hate me, you can cancel your marriage with me, but can you please not ignore me?"
"I know, I know where I went wrong, I will never make such a mistake again... I will never tell you a lie again... I will never deceive you again, I will never lie to you again, I will never let you get hurt again. You can be angry with me however you want, you can hit me, you can scold me, but can you please come out and see me?"
"I know I shouldn't have lied to you, but... I was too superficial. I just wanted to make you happy..." Ruan Qiuping's face was pale and bloodless, his voice was low and hoarse, "I was too stupid and foolish to do this, and I didn't know what to do. You suffered a lot in the mortal world because of me, and you said in your suicide note that I didn't love you, so I thought that you had returned to heaven now, and I didn't want to repeat the same mistakes and let you experience the suffering you experienced in the mortal world again, so I lied to you... said I liked you, and that I could pick the human fruit. When I said these things, you looked very happy, and I looked at you smiling, and I felt satisfied in my heart, so I couldn't help but continue to lie to you... But now I really know I was wrong, I don't ask you to forgive me, I..."
Ruan Qiuping's voice trembled slightly: "... I just hope you can see me again, I just hope you won't ignore me, I just hope... I just hope... you won't break up with me, Yu Huan, please don't leave me, okay..."
The barrier was empty and silent, without any sound.
Ruan Qiuping suddenly gritted his teeth and began to use magic to forcibly break the barrier.
Once, twice, three times.
His body became exhausted and beads of sweat dripped down his forehead.
“Pah.”
There was a sound of breaking glass, and the barrier opened.
Yu Huan casually created the barrier, and it took Ruan Qiuping more than twenty minutes to break it.
Ruan Qiuping's heart began beating violently and he immediately ran into the cave.
But the moment he walked in, he felt that all the hot sweat on his body cooled down.
—All the furniture in the cave was completely moved out, leaving only the flat and empty ground and walls.
Even the Eternal Daytime Spell that had been permanently cast here was withdrawn by Yu Huan.
This secret place that belonged to the two of them alone, this cave that was once filled with memories of their time together, this "home" where he had taken care of Yu Huan every night for 81 days, had become dark and empty.
A gust of cold wind blew in from the broken barrier, making people feel cold all over.
Ruan Qiuping stood at a loss in the empty cave, feeling as if a huge hole was torn in his heart.
A solid pain started from the heart and soon spread throughout the body. Every breath brought on this pain, and even the chest cavity was aching.
He suddenly realized that he had lost something important.
And it will never come back.
Ruan Qiuping stood in this empty cave for a long time, and suddenly his mind flashed with what Yu Huan had said to him.
Yu Huan said that he wanted him to go with him to destroy the marriage record, and he would accept the punishment of heavenly thunder alone.
… no.
He messed up everything because he did the wrong thing. He was the one who couldn't reap the fruits of others' labor, and he had no way to bring Yu Huan selfish, exclusive, passionate, and unique love.
He should also be the one to bear the thunder of that day.
Ruan Qiuping turned around, walked out of the cave step by step, and returned home.
The family had just finished lunch. Ruan Dongdong was happily swinging on the swing, Ruan Shengfeng was sitting on the dream chair reading an ancient book, and Xia Fushui was counting the dowry over and over again.
Seeing Ruan Qiuping coming back, they were all a little surprised: "Qiuping, why are you back? Didn't you move to Jishen Mansion yesterday?"
It seems that Yu Huan hasn't told them about the cancellation of the wedding.
Ruan Qiuping: "I forgot to take something, I came back to get it."
Ruan Qiuping was holding the escalator and going up the stairs one step at a time when Xia Fushui suddenly shouted from downstairs: "... Qiuping, even though you are married and have moved out, you are still a member of the Ruan family. You can come back whenever you want in the future."
Ruan Qiuping turned his head and smiled at Xia Fushui: "Well, I know, I will come back often."
Ruan Qiuping sat in the room for a while, then picked up a pen and paper to leave a letter for his parents.
But after thinking for a long time, I still didn't know what to write down.
In the end, I only wrote one line of words.
"I'm out for fun, don't look for me."
He put the letter in the drawer, then took out the Qiankun bag and found the mask that Yu Huan had bought for him.
Just as Ruan Qiuping was about to put on the mask, the door creaked open, and then Ruan Dongdong ran over.
"Brother!" Ruan Dongdong said crisply, "Are you in a bad mood?"
Ruan Qiuping grinned and gave her a bright smile: "Brother is fine, what's wrong?"
"Mom and Dad said you're not feeling well, so they asked me to come and see you." Ruan Dongdong looked at Ruan Qiuping with a pair of black and white eyes, his face full of curiosity, "Why is my brother not feeling well?"
Ruan Qiuping's voice was relatively calm: "My brother is moving away, so I can't bear to leave Dongdong."
Ruan Dongdong stretched out his arms, with an innocent smile on his face: "Do you want to hug me, brother? Mom said I can hug you for a while."
Ruan Qiuping moved his lips: "...Is it okay?"
"Yes, mom said I can hug you!" Ruan Dongdong said seriously.
Ruan Qiuping exhaled, but his breath was trembling. He closed his eyes, stretched out his arms, and hugged Ruan Dongdong tightly in his arms.
His nose felt sore and his eyes became warm. He wanted to cry but held it back.
He let go of Ruan Dongdong, his eyes red, but still with a smile on his face: "Thank you Dongdong, brother is not sad at all now."
He touched Ruan Dongdong's head and said, "Dongdong, when your brother leaves home, you must be nicer to your parents, listen to them, don't make them angry, and grow up quickly, okay?"
"I know!"
Ruan Dongdong chuckled happily.
Ruan Qiuping looked at Ruan Dongdong and suddenly thought:
It turned out that there was something good happening today, but he just didn't want to write about it.
After Ruan Qiuping left home, he took the mask to the trading forest, where he bought a pair of teleportation talismans and a coffin.
The coffin seller stared at his mask with curiosity: "Has anyone in your family passed away? But I also heard that someone in the fairy world passed away recently."
Ruan Qiuping: "Sell it?"
“Sell, sell, sell.”
Ruan Qiuping dug a hole next to the apple tree on the back mountain and placed the coffin in it.
Ruan Qiuping originally wanted to dig through the land so that Yu Huan's ashes from his tribulations in the mortal world could be buried together with his own. But after thinking about it, he was afraid that Yu Huan would not want to, so he dug through the land and placed his own coffin next to the urn through a layer of soil.
After putting the coffin in, Ruan Qiuping stuck one of the teleportation talismans on the coffin, and then watered the apple tree.
After doing all this, he went to find the God of Rites.
The God of Rites was shocked: "Didn't you complain that the wedding date was too late the other day and insisted that I move your date forward? Why are you asking the God of Fortune to cancel the marriage today?"
Ruan Qiuping said: "I want to dissolve my marriage now, what should I do?"
"You two were engaged by the Heavenly Marriage Stone. You only need to tear up the marriage certificate in front of the Heavenly Marriage Stone. You don't need to ask me for anything... But... But have you really thought it through? If you do this, the forty-nine heavenly thunders will probably strike you to pieces."
"Thank you." Ruan Qiuping turned around and prepared to leave.
"Hey, don't leave yet, why don't you talk to Jishen? I think you're not in a good state, why don't you calm down first, I'll contact Jishen..."
"We discussed it, and it was he who proposed to dissolve the marriage," said Ruan Qiuping.
The God of Li opened his mouth and paused, not knowing what to do.
The Heavenly Marriage Stone is also on Duanqing Mountain.
Ruan Qiuping actually couldn't understand why the Duanqing Mountain, which sounded the same as "Duanxing", had the Heavenly Marriage Stone and the Blood Man...all the things related to Blood were on this mountain.
As soon as Ruan Qiuping stood in front of the Heavenly Marriage Stone, the stone began to flash the nickname of Ruan Qiuping and Yu Huan.
Ruan Qiuping looked up at the sky, and it was gradually getting dark.
He took out the marriage album, lowered his eyes, and tore it into pieces bit by bit in front of the Heavenly Marriage Stone.
The entire sky suddenly became completely dark, and large patches of dark clouds gathered above Ruan Qiuping's head, covering the sky and shrouding him in darkness.
At the same time, a cold and solemn voice came from the sky: "Ruan Qiuping, you tore up your marriage certificate in front of the Heavenly Marriage Stone? But have you decided to accept the punishment?"
Ruan Qiuping had never been struck by a thunderbolt before, and it was the first time he knew that thunderbolt would ask such a question before striking someone.
He nodded and said, "Yes."
That voice did not cause him much pain. As soon as Ruan Qiuping finished speaking, a flash of lightning illuminated the whole world in white. A bolt of lightning struck down from the top of his head unexpectedly. Ruan Qiuping let out a scream. The pain that was almost like shattering his bones went from the top of his head to his spine. The severe pain knocked him to his knees on the ground and he almost fainted.
… That was a bolt of lightning.
Ruan Qiuping propped himself up and stood up again, casting a spell over himself.
Ruan Qiuping thought that the magic he cast with all his strength would be lucky if it could withstand two heavenly thunders, but he actually had to withstand nine.
It turned out that his magic skills had really improved a lot. Even if he was not struck by the thunder today, he would probably commit suicide before being conferred the title of a god in a short time.
Ruan Qiuping smiled and spat out a mouthful of blood.
His entire life was a waste and useless. He couldn't do anything well. There was no point in lingering on for a while. He just annoyed people for no reason... It was right for him to suffer this thunderbolt today.
When the eleventh heavenly thunderbolt struck down, the magic barrier that Ruan Qiuping had cast with all his strength was completely shattered. The thunderbolt struck towards his head again, and he was knocked to the ground in an instant, unable to get up again.
Ruan Qiuping forced himself to open his eyes and suddenly found a huge rock not far from his hand.
He blinked slowly, not knowing what he was thinking. He just stretched out his hand in a daze and covered the rock with his entire palm.
His mind was in a mess. At this moment, he himself didn't know what he was praying for or what he was expecting.
One second, two seconds, three seconds.
A minute later, a miracle happened.
There are no human fruits growing here.
Ruan Qiuping smiled self-deprecatingly.
What on earth is he fantasizing about
If you know the result, why don’t you give up
Twelve heavenly thunders struck down, and Ruan Qiuping's body twitched for a while, and soon he fainted.
But when the thirteenth heavenly thunder struck him, he was awakened by the pain.
He glanced at the still empty rock edge, his ears ringing and his mind filled with what he had heard before.
Sima Ming said that he was not good.
Yu Huan said that she didn't love him.
Nian Yuhuan held his hand, looked at him with sparkling eyes, and said, "You should love me more and not want to give me to others at all."
Ruan Qiuping is not a fool, he knows that he actually has feelings for Yu Huan.
But others say that it is not love.
If people do not recognize his own.
Yu Huan also did not acknowledge his claim.
They said his passion was possessive, not intense enough, not passionate enough, not selfish enough.
But... how can he be selfish? He is the god of bad luck, he is a disaster, what qualifications does he have to fall in love with someone regardless of everything
Besides, he already knew he was going to die.
Is he, a dying man, going to say to Yu Huan that you must love me for the rest of your life and never fall in love with anyone else again
Why
Why does he deserve that kind of unique, strong, and everlasting love
… He is not worthy of it.
The speed of the thunder seemed to have increased.
Ruan Qiuping was still counting at first, but as he counted, he became a little confused.
He was in a daze, even his sense of pain had become dulled, his mouth was filled with the rusty smell of blood, but his nose could only smell the scent of his own burnt flesh that had been struck by thunder.
The shrill screams gradually turned into weak groans.
Until finally, he could no longer make any sound.
After the last bolt of lightning struck, Ruan Qiuping could no longer even twitch in response to the stress.
It was like a pile of rotten meat, and there was no movement for a long time.
The teleportation talisman on his body suddenly glowed.
The next moment.
The unlucky immortal with blood all over his body and his body charred in front of the Heavenly Marriage Stone had long disappeared.
Only under the apple tree in the back mountain, next to the urn, in the coffin, there was a half-dead body.
Ruan Qiuping finally closed his eyes in his dark coffin and lost all consciousness.
Suddenly, heavy rain began to fall throughout the heaven.
Another bolt of lightning struck in front of the Heavenly Marriage Stone.
The lightning struck other things, but just happened to hit the huge rock that Ruan Qiuping had just touched.
There was a sound of rocks cracking, and the cold rock was broken into pieces by the lightning.
Even the land beneath the rock was cracked with a crack about ten meters long and twenty centimeters wide.
In this huge crack, there are countless densely packed fruits.
They huddled their bodies, hiding under boulders and in the soil.
It was not until the thunder split open all the cover that they tentatively and cautiously stretched their bodies, raised their heads, and looked at the sky where heavy rain was pouring.
This patch of human fruit is the most timid and cowardly human fruit in the entire Duanqing Mountain, but the heavy rain cannot destroy them at all.
Only few people know it.