"Are you sure, I... am I going to descend to the mortal world to experience tribulations after being deified?" Ruan Qiuping asked again, "Like other people who were deified, are they going to descend to the mortal world to experience tribulations?"
"What's wrong? Do you want to make some trouble? Others who are deified have to go down to earth to experience tribulations, why shouldn't you do the same?" Siming threw a list of names of names to go through tribulations to Ruan Qiuping and said with a smile, "I think you are so happy that you are silly. Take a good look at yourself. The first list is all down."
People say that the most beautiful thing in the world is a false alarm. But for Ruan Qiuping, this false alarm lasted too long.
In the long hundred years, he suffered too much injustice and had too many nightmares because of this false alarm. The despair of not obeying fate had permeated his bones and blood, so that when the truth came out, he actually felt a kind of panic and felt that he was trapped in the clouds and standing on the void. He was afraid of waking up suddenly and finding that everything was just a dream.
Ruan Qiuping held the list and read it over and over again, finally gaining some sense of reality.
When Ruan Qiuping walked through the gate of Siming College, he immediately saw Yu Huan waiting for him under the willow tree.
It was snowing a few days ago. But it seemed that a warm breeze blew at night, the snow melted, and spring quietly arrived in heaven.
The dead tree that was covered in silver in the winter now sprouted new green branches.
Yu Huan was standing sideways under the weeping willow. When a gust of wind blew, a few willow branches gently brushed his hair and shoulders, adding a touch of freshness to his white attire.
Ruan Qiuping felt an itch in his heart just by looking at him, as if a bud had sprouted deep in his heart.
He grinned almost involuntarily, wanting to rush over to hug Yu Huan and tell him the good news that he could really become a god like an ordinary person.
But just as he moved his feet, two fairies on his left and right were about to pass by him. Ruan Qiuping was so scared that he held his breath and turned sideways to avoid their touch.
But if you can hide two of them, there will be no more.
Perhaps because the school had just finished their classes, the students all rushed over. It seemed that they thought Ruan Qiuping was carrying a magical good luck charm. They pretended not to see Ruan Qiuping and did not avoid him at all. Instead, they rushed in a straight line towards Yu Huan under the willow tree.
Ruan Qiuping was so frightened just trying to hide from all these people that he finally moved his spell to the corner.
Yu Huan had been surrounded by those students. At this time, Ruan Qiuping heard them talking.
"Jishen is now single again, right? Go for it!"
"That God of Bad Luck is so ungrateful! What do you think he was thinking? He would rather be struck by lightning than marry the God of Good Luck, even though the God of Good Luck was so good to him."
"Hahaha, I actually want to thank him. At least he gave me a glimmer of hope, right?"
"Let's go, let's comfort the god of luck."
"I brought a lot of medicinal pills with me! I heard that Jishen was so angry that he became ill. This is just the right time to replenish his body!"
"Stop talking nonsense, hurry up, hurry up!"
Ruan Qiuping touched his nose and stopped where he was.
He is looking for Yu Huan... Is this not good
It's so embarrassing with so many people watching.
But Yu Huan is really... so popular in the world.
"Ruan Qiuping."
Just as Ruan Qiuping was pacing here and there, a voice suddenly came from behind.
Ruan Qiuping turned his head and saw that it was Qiyue.
It seemed like he hadn't seen Qi Yue for a long time.
Although Ruan Qiuping didn't like Qiyue very much, he still asked politely, "Senior, what do you want to talk to me about?"
Qi Yue took out a few porcelain bottles from her bosom and said, "I heard that you were struck by lightning a few days ago. Here are some medicines. Take them."
Ruan Qiuping waved his hand: "Thank you, but no thanks, my injuries are all healed."
Qi Yue seemed very surprised: "... I heard yesterday that you were going to be deified, I didn't expect it to be true. Forty-nine heavenly thunders, and it's only been a few days, and you're all healed."
"Did you hear about it yesterday?"
"It was found when the Fuhua Gate handed over the files."
"Vanity Gate? Do I have to go down to earth to experience trials and tribulations?"
"Of course I do, but you have to wait until your cultivation level improves a little bit before you can come down to earth to experience the tribulations."
Whether it was Siming's list of deities or the handover files of Fuhua Sect, it turned out that so many places said that he was going to descend to the mortal world to be deified... Ruan Qiuping felt completely at ease.
"... You don't have to be afraid of going down to the mortal world to experience the tribulation." Qi Yue hesitated for a moment and said, "I will go down to the mortal world to help you."
Ruan Qiuping was stunned, and he really didn't understand why Qi Yue was so hypocritical: "...Are you afraid of violating the rules anymore?"
After all, when he came down to earth and stayed with Yu Huan, Qi Yue had the most opinions.
"I will help you within the prescribed scope."
"No, thank you." Ruan Qiuping said, "I don't need your help."
Qi Yue looked up into Ruan Qiuping's eyes, took a step forward, and asked tentatively: "... Are you, are you angry with me?"
What was she angry about? Was she angry that he had threatened her several times to delete Yu Huan's memory
... That is indeed a bit infuriating.
Ruan Qiuping frowned as he saw the two of them getting too close, then took a step back uncomfortably: "Sorry, I have something to do, so I have to leave first."
But just as Ruan Qiuping turned around, Qi Yue grabbed her wrist and said, "Ruan Qiuping, I have something to ask you. Why... would you rather suffer the thunderbolt than cancel your engagement with Yu Huan? Is it because... you are attached to him?"
... What does it mean to belong to someone or not? The moment Ruan Qiuping's wrist was grabbed, he suddenly felt goose bumps all over his arm. He subconsciously pulled it, but it didn't work: "Well, let me go first."
Qi Yue held on tighter: "...you answer my question."
"I have no obligation to answer your questions, and besides..." Ruan Qiuping glanced at Qi Yue's hand that was holding his wrist, "I don't have a good luck charm with me, and I don't know if you have a bad luck charm with you, but your bad luck charm should not be able to overcome the bad luck of touching me. If you want to die, just grab me."
Qi Yue's face changed.
He seemed to want to let go, but he continued to hold on for the sake of face. His face turned pale with fear, but he said stubbornly, "I'm not afraid of these."
Having said that, the strength of his hands obviously weakened a little, as if he was expecting Ruan Qiuping to pull his hand away himself.
Ruan Qiuping sighed inwardly and was about to pull his hand away when a tall figure suddenly passed by his eyes.
Yu Huan suddenly appeared in front of him, grabbed Qi Yue's hand, and said coldly: "Qi Yue Xianjun, long time no see."
"It's not that long. You've only been on leave for three months."
"Really? Why do I feel like it's been more than fifty years since we last met?"
Qi Yue's eyes flickered a little: "... Do you remember?"
Yu Huan chuckled and said, "So, Immortal Qiyue knows me. I thought there was no difference between my appearance when I was in the mortal world and my appearance now. You couldn't tell the difference, so you deliberately said that to me."
Ruan Qiuping was confused. He poked Yu Huan's arm and asked, "Did anything happen between you two in the mortal world that I don't know about?"
Today seemed to be the first time Yu Huan met Qi Yue after recovering his memory, but there was this kind of atmosphere between these two people... It was obvious that something had happened.
The sarcastic smile on Yu Huan's face froze. He lowered his head, took Ruan Qiuping's index finger that was poking him into his palm, and whispered, "... It's not a big deal."
"If it's not a big deal, then what is it?"
Yu Huan didn't answer him, but turned his head away, his ears turning a little red.
Ruan Qiuping involuntarily stretched out his hand and touched his ear, and Yu Huan immediately jumped a few meters away like a cat.
Ruan Qiuping didn't want to let him go, and he stuck out his hand and pinched his ear, then asked with a smile: "Yu Huan, tell me, what's going on? Why are your ears red?"
Yu Huan covered his ears with his hands, hugged Ruan Qiuping with his hands, and stopped him with a red face: "Ruan Qiuping!"
Ruan Qiuping looked up at him, his eyes sparkling: "What's the matter?"
Yu Huan: “…”
Qi Yue, who was standing next to him, looked at all this coldly, and then said, "I'm leaving first, you guys have fun here."
But no one paid any attention to him. When he turned around, he just happened to hear Ruan Qiuping asking softly, "What's the matter, Yu Huan..."
Ruan Qiuping pestered Yu Huan for a long time, and when they were almost at the door of his house, Yu Huan finally spoke: "... That time at the beach, Qi Yue came back again and wanted to erase my memory while you were away."
Ruan Qiuping opened his eyes wide: "What about this?! He is too despicable, and then what? Did he bully you?"
"I was carrying a lucky charm with me at the time, so he couldn't do anything to me."
Ruan Qiuping breathed a sigh of relief, but quickly continued to ask: "But you just said that he deliberately said something to you, what was it?"
Yu Huan turned his head away, as if he didn't want to say anything.
"Yu Huan..."
Ruan Qiuping poked his waist.
Yu Huan lowered his head, his ears red like the sunset glow, he whispered: "It's nothing, he just told me... you and Ji Shen are engaged."
Ruan Qiuping didn't react immediately: "Jishen, isn't that you..."
wrong!
Yu Huan didn’t know at that time!
In other words, at that time, Yu Huan… Yu Huan always thought that he and Tian Yu had another divine engagement? !
Yu Huan was 33 years old when he met Qi Yue. On the day after this incident, Yu Huan proposed to him. The next year, Yu Huan couldn't wait to marry him...
Ruan Qiuping suddenly became a little restless.
He seemed to finally understand why Yu Huan suddenly kissed him so roughly that night, why he always disliked the useless good luck charm, why he mentioned the gods in the suicide note, and why he covered his face and said he felt ashamed after recovering his memory...
"Ruan Ruan." Yu Huan turned his head to look at him, his face reddening a little, "Do you also think that I was childish and embarrassing at that time?"
But Ruan Qiuping didn't say anything.
"Ruan Ruan?" Yu Huan asked again.
Ruan Qiuping suddenly lowered her head and reached out to hug him.
"Yu Huan..." Ruan Qiuping said in a deep and dull voice, "Were you very sad at that time?"
Yu Huan was stunned for a moment, then said: "...Okay. At that time, I just felt that I was a mortal and couldn't ask for too much. As long as Ruan Ruan could accompany me for the rest of my life, I would be happy enough. If Ruan Ruan could like me more, that would be great."
Ruan Qiuping felt as if his heart was gently pricked by a long, thin needle. He felt angry and wanted to find Qi Yue to settle the score, but he also felt sad and wanted to continue hugging Yu Huan.
In the end, he chose the latter. He hugged Yu Huan tighter, lowered his head, and said, "We... we can now be together forever."
Yu Huan was silent for a while, then nodded: "Yeah."
Ruan Qiuping looked up at Yu Huan and suddenly asked, "But why do I feel that... we are not as close as we were back then?"
Yu Huan lowered his eyes, gently touched Ruan Qiuping's black hair, and said in a slightly hoarse voice: "... Maybe I have become greedy, thinking that I can be with Ruan Ruan forever, and I can't help but ask for more."
The slender silver needle circled in my heart, bringing a dense, slight tingling pain.
Ruan Qiuping didn't know what he was thinking at this moment. He looked at Yu Huan, and his bright black and white pupils were reflected by the sky with other colors, appearing clearer and clearer: "Yu Huan... Can I come to your house tonight?"
Yu Huan blinked slowly: "... my home?"
Ruan Qiuping suddenly realized the ambiguity in his words. He stood further away with a thud. His face instantly turned red. He hurriedly explained, "I didn't... I didn't want to do anything to you. I just... too many things happened today, and I learned a lot of things. Then I really wanted to... want to be with you."
Yu Huan nodded with his eyes bent: "Okay."
Ruan Qiuping found some fruit wine at Yu Huan's house and drank some with Yu Huan.
Yu Huan said that the alcohol content of these wines was not high, but he didn't expect it to be true.
After finishing the jar of fruit wine, Ruan Qiuping only felt his face a little red, but his mind was still clear.
Yu Huan's alcohol tolerance was actually no match for Ruan Qiuping today. After a while, he lowered his head and said nothing.
Ruan Qiuping leaned over the table, poked Yu Huan's cheek with his finger, and asked, "Yu Huan, why didn't you tell me about my other engagement when you thought I had it?"
Yu Huan: “…I dare not say.”
"Why, do you not trust me so much?"
Yu Huan grabbed Ruan Qiuping's hand, and said with a drunken smile, "It's not that I don't believe Ruan Ruan, but I feel that as a mortal, I am too insignificant to shake Ruan Ruan in the slightest."
"No," Ruan Qiuping whispered, "Your strength is more important than anyone else's."
"Then you... you asked someone to collect the photos in the villa because you thought I would bring my fiancée to our villa?"
"Actually, I don't know. I was afraid that Ruan Ruan would no longer live in our villa, and I was also afraid that Ruan Ruan would take other people to live in our villa... I asked people to put away those photos because I thought that if Ruan Ruan remembered those photos, she would look for them. If she didn't remember those photos... then the old photos wouldn't ruin your and the new couple's mood. Maybe when she occasionally thinks of this, she will remember me as a good person in her heart." Yu Huan paused, smiled and lowered his head, "I just didn't expect that person to be me, and I didn't expect that even if... even if I became the person I once envied the most, I couldn't... couldn't..."
Yu Huan's voice became smaller and smaller, and in the end, he fell drunk before he could finish his words.
But Ruan Qiuping knew what he wanted to say.
Ruan Qiuping drank the remaining wine and did not feel a burning sensation in his throat, but rather a sour sensation on the tip of his nose.
Ruan Qiuping placed Yu Huan on the bed and covered him with a quilt.
Then he turned and walked out of the cave.
He felt uncomfortable and wanted to vent his anger on the culprit.
Ruan Qiuping took advantage of the drunkenness to ask Jing Yang for Qi Yue's address, then picked up a stone and smashed the door of Qi Yue's house: "Qi Yue, get out of here!"
—Just like Qi Yue once took the lead in smashing the Ruan family’s door with mud.
Qi Yue quickly opened the door and saw Ruan Qiuping, he looked a little surprised: "... You drank?"
"I'm not drunk." Ruan Qiuping said calmly, "I didn't come here to question you or argue with you. I just want to beat you up. Put your hands down, let's fight."
Qi Yue frowned and took a step back: "... What are you crazy about?!"
"I'll count to three. If you don't stop, I'll stop first. Three."
"Ruan Qiuping, are you sure you are sane?"
"two."
"You must tell me the reason!"
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Ruan Qiuping remembered his spell and threw it out, and Qi Yue dodged in a somewhat embarrassed manner.
But he reacted quickly, dodging Ruan Qiuping's attacks while casting spells to fight against Ruan Qiuping.
In the past, Ruan Qiuping would definitely not be Qi Yue's opponent, but his cultivation level has greatly increased, almost to the point of being a god, and Qi Yue can't resist him even if he tries his best. After more than ten rounds, Qi Yue was knocked to the ground and spit out a mouthful of blood. He wiped the blood from his lips, looked at Ruan Qiuping coldly, and asked hatefully: "Now that you are done with your anger, can you tell me why you did this?"
"You haven't let out all your anger yet." Ruan Qiuping walked up to him and looked down at him. "I hope you can improve your cultivation. Don't let me knock you down in just two hits. It's not satisfying at all. As for the reason..."
Ruan Qiuping paused, his voice turned cold: "I should ask you, what is your hatred against us? Why did you even go so far as to secretly try to erase Yu Huan's memory when he was going through a catastrophe?"
“… I did that for the sake of rules.”
"Then you told Yu Huan about the engagement and deliberately made him misunderstand, was it also for the sake of rules?!"
Qi Yue's face changed, and she forced herself to stand up, gritting her teeth and said, "... I just can't stand the way you seduced me while flirting with other people!"
Ruan Qiuping thought he was going to talk about some deep hatred, but he never expected that he would actually say such a thing.
Ruan Qiuping suspected that there was something wrong with his ears: "… What did you say? Are you talking about me? I didn't say a few words to you before the practical class. When did I seduce you?!"
"Do you really not know, or are you pretending not to know... What did you say? Do you have any recollection of it?!"
"What on earth did I say?" Ruan Qiuping was shocked.
Qi Yue took out a communication mirror from her arms with some difficulty, fiddled with it for a few times, and then threw it to Ruan Qiuping.
Ruan Qiuping took it and looked at it curiously, with a surprised look on his face: "... Are you Qi Mantian?"
It turns out that Qi Yue is the Qi Mantian who was chatting nicely with him on the communication mirror more than 70 years ago, but after knowing his identity, he started to insult him
"Yes." Qi Yue gritted her teeth. "Do you know what you did to me? You seduced me, and then you turned around and hooked up with someone else!"
Ruan Qiuping: "... Are you crazy? How did I seduce you?... Aren't the chat records quite normal?"
Qi Yue took a deep breath, staggered over, flipped through the chat history again, pointed at a few of them and showed them to Ruan Qiuping: "You're not going to admit it anymore, right? Look at this one... I said I was tanned, and you immediately said that you like dark skin, and you think men with dark skin are handsome... If this isn't seduction, what is it?!"
Ruan Qiuping: "...Brother, I am also a man, and I thought that men with dark skin were quite handsome. Is there any problem with that?"
"Oh, I started to quibble with you, but weren't you deliberately pretending to lie to me at that time?"
"How did I lie to you? Did my profile say I was a prostitute?"
"Yes, you didn't fill in anything in your profile, but your original profile picture was a pink cloud. How do you explain it? If you didn't want to deliberately mislead me and make me think you were a nobody, why did you choose this profile picture?"
Ruan Qiuping felt that he could not communicate with the mentally retarded people.
He took a deep breath and finally said, "I don't know what I said that caused you to misunderstand me, nor do I know where your delusional thoughts come from. I used to really treat you as a friend, but now I really hate you. Whether you are Qi Mantian or Qi Yue, I hate you very much. And I want to emphasize it one last time. I have never liked you from the beginning to the end, let alone seduced you."
"If you don't like me, who do you like? Yu Huan? I see you're getting entangled with him again."
Ruan Qiuping frowned: "This has nothing to do with you."
"But do you really like him, or are you teasing him like you teased me?" Qi Yue sneered, "You were the one who married him in the mortal world, and you were the one who would rather suffer the thunder than break the engagement in heaven. Are you sure you like him? I think you don't know what love is."
Ruan Qiuping was silent for a while, then suddenly raised his head and looked at Qi Yue, then said: "... Yes, you are right, I may not know what love is, but if one day I fall in love with someone, then this person must be Yu Huan."
Ruan Qiuping took a deep breath and continued, "I don't have much else to say. I just hope you can stay away from me and Yu Huan from now on, because when I see you, I think of how Yu Huan was sad for more than 50 years because of your words, and I can't help but want to hit you."
After Ruan Qiuping finished speaking, he turned around and walked away step by step.
But as soon as he pushed the door open, he saw Yu Huan standing in front of it.
Ruan Qiuping didn't know where to put his hands and feet: "Yu... Yu Huan... why did you wake up? When did you come?"
"I just arrived." Yu Huan said, "Since you said, if you love someone, then this person must be me."
A slight smile appeared in Yu Huan's eyes.
Ruan Qiuping's ears turned red in the moonlight.
He took a step forward and opened the door behind him.
Then he took a deep breath, looked up at Yu Huan, and said, "... Yu Huan, I... I have something to say to you."
"you say."
Ruan Qiuping looked into Yu Huan's eyes and said, "I once asked you what our relationship was. You said whatever relationship we were in, so... then... can we continue to be lovers?"
Ruan Qiuping stumbled when speaking: "I... I know that I may not be qualified as a lover now... But, but I know that I want to be with you, and I feel happy when I see you... I once said that compared to me, I hope you can be with another person for a long time and be happy, but I am about to become a god now, and I can live for a long, long time. I can also stay by your side and give you everlasting happiness. I may not be able to give you such a passionate and selfish love now, but I am confident that I will like you more and more every day... If not one year, then ten years, if not ten years, then a hundred years... At least one day, I will like you as much as you like me... Yu Huan, are you willing to be with me like this?"
After Ruan Qiuping said this, his heart started beating wildly and he even held his breath.
In the gentle night, in the bright moonlight, in the spring breeze that brought the faint fragrance of flowers, Ruan Qiuping finally waited for a staggering, deep embrace that seemed to rub him into his bones and an uncontrollable kiss.
And what is buried between the lips and teeth.
"I do."