The place Ruan Qiuping chose was a little remote, so as soon as he left the house, it was dark in front of him.
Without closing their eyes, they all felt like they were sleeping in the earth.
Because everywhere was filled with the smell of earth and decay, like the smell of rust.
Ruan Qiuping couldn't help but hold Yu Huan's hand tightly.
"Has the world become like this?" Yu Huan looked around, his expression slightly bewildered.
Ruan Qiuping whispered, "Now is their time to rest. They will feel better after a while."
As six bells rang, the lights in the basement lit up one after another. People began to get up to work, vendors set up their stalls, and factories started operations. The city finally seemed to be somewhat prosperous.
Ruan Qiuping and Yu Huan changed into the fluorescent clothes that were the most popular among the people here, tried the nutritional supplements that were most commonly used by the people here, went to the antique-style ground-based cinema, and visited the small stalls and markets that sold all kinds of rare things.
Although compared with the original high-tech city, the world here is inevitably regrettable, but the novelty still prevails. After playing for nearly a whole day, the two gods did not feel tired at all, but felt more and more interested.
"Ruan Ruan, let's go to the ground and take a look." Yu Huan suggested.
Ruan Qiuping always responded to Yu Huan's requests, and he was also curious about the situation on the ground, so he used magic to bring Yu Huan directly to the ground.
Instantly, an unpleasant smell came to their faces. Ruan Qiuping hurriedly used magic to help the two of them hold their breath, and they barely recovered.
Looking around, everything here has become gray, the sky is gray, the land is gray, and the collapsed buildings are also gray.
It looks very depressing.
"The ground here is not as lively as the underground." Yu Huan's voice sounded a little lost.
Ruan Qiuping sighed, and suddenly, he thought of something. His eyes lit up immediately, and he said to Yu Huan excitedly, "Yu Huan, do you want to go to the place where we used to live?"
Yu Huan was stunned for a moment and nodded.
As expected, the former villa has become a ruin, with only half of the wall still standing next to the familiar bricks and tiles.
Ruan Qiuping picked up a brick and was in a daze, but Yu Huan suddenly smiled and took his hand: "Ruan Ruan, lend me some magic."
Ruan Qiuping turned to look at him: "How do I borrow it?"
Yu Huan held Ruan Qiuping's hand tighter and patiently instructed: "Close your eyes, stimulate the spiritual power from your inner elixir, and then transfer it to me through our skin. It doesn't need to be too much."
"Okay." Ruan Qiuping closed his eyes and kissed Yu Huan's lips.
Yu Huan was stunned for a moment, but reacted quickly, hugged him, and kissed him back passionately.
After transferring the spiritual power, before Yu Huan asked any more questions, Ruan Qiuping raised his eyebrows and started to defend himself very logically: "I didn't mean to take advantage of you. It's just that the fairies in the storybooks absorb spiritual power in this way. Some... are even more excessive!"
Yu Huan laughed and touched Ruan Qiuping's forehead: "Thank you, Ruan Ruan, for letting me be a fairy for the rest of my life. But I'll have to trouble Ruan Ruan to tell me later, how do other fairies go about absorbing spiritual energy?"
Ruan Qiuping's ears suddenly felt hot. He coughed lightly and pushed Yu Huan away: "... Ahem, what do you want spiritual power for?"
"Ruan Ruan knew it immediately."
After Yu Huan finished speaking, he closed his eyes and reached out to touch the half of the wall that had not collapsed.
In a flash, dust rose up, and pieces of earth from the ruins jumped onto the broken walls like they had long legs. The rubble was cleared away inch by inch, and bricks and tiles were piled up one by one.
First the wall, then the gate.
Ruan Qiuping and Yu Huan walked into the gate, and the cobblestone ground began to spread from their feet. At the end of the cobblestones, their former home also rose from the ground.
When you walk in, magic restores the original glass windows, the low seats, even the decorations on the walls and the spiral staircases, inch by inch, all of which are exactly the same as before.
Ruan Qiuping couldn't help but exclaimed.
Yu Huan took out the music box from the drawer, and said with some regret: "I just can't cook."
"This is enough!" Ruan Qiuping threw himself on the sofa with a smile, "We don't need to eat anyway."
Yu Huan turned the spring and the music box made a clear and pleasant sound.
Yu Huan looked at Ruan Qiuping, his fingertips gently touching his cheek. His eyes were bright, and he smiled with a cherished smile: "Ruan Ruan, when I think about being able to stay here with you for a whole year, I feel like I'm dreaming."
Ruan Qiuping held his hand, her eyes filled with a smile as bright as the sun: "I am like a dream, I miss you more than you do."
Yu Huan didn't childishly argue with him about these things, but just leaned over, smiled and kissed him very gently.
Everything in the villa was exactly the same as before, but when they turned to look outside, they found that the flowers and trees they had just created with magic were quickly destroyed by air pollution. Ruan Qiuping had no choice but to cover the place with a transparent cover, then exhaust the poisonous gas inside and replanted the flowers and trees. Bright red roses spread and bloomed on the walls, and the gray walls and red flowers set off each other beautifully.
It is beautiful, but lacks popularity.
Ruan Qiuping brushed the roses with his fingertips, turned to Yu Huan and said, "Our home has returned to its original state. Do we still need to look for a house underground?"
Yu Huan thought about the rusty air underground and said, "Since this place has been repaired, we can live here on weekdays. If you get bored, you can go underground."
"Then let's go back underground in two days. I want to live here for a while first." Ruan Qiuping said.
"It's all right. We have a whole year."
"Yes, we have a whole year." Ruan Qiuping looked up at Yu Huan and couldn't help laughing again, "That's great!"
Yu Huan stretched out his hand and held Ruan Qiuping in his arms: "It's just that there is nothing good to eat here, and there are only nutritional supplements underground. I'm afraid it will make Ruan Ruan's mouth bitter."
"I'm not Chen Hai, so I don't care about these foods. But when we come down next year, we can bring some seeds, so that we can cook for ourselves." Ruan Qiuping said, "In two years, we can bring Fengfeng over. I can feel that Fengfeng misses you very much, but if Fengfeng comes, Dongdong will definitely come too..."
Ruan Qiuping couldn't help but count on his fingers and continued to plan: "You can stay here for a whole year, so let's rest here for two or three days, and then go to the underground to play. I think underground e-books are quite useful. You like reading, so let's go buy one... Yu Huan, what do you think?"
Ruan Qiuping looked up and suddenly found that Yu Huan's face had turned a little paler.
Ruan Qiuping: "Yu Huan, what's wrong?"
Yu Huan didn't say anything, but let go of the hand that was around Ruan Qiuping.
Ruan Qiuping lowered his head and took Yu Huan's hand, and his face suddenly lost color.
—Yu Huan’s right hand began to become transparent again!
"Yu... Yu Huan..." Ruan Qiuping called his name in panic.
Yu Huan reluctantly pulled the corner of his lips: "Ruan Ruan, it seems that I can't stay with you for a whole year."
Ruan Qiuping: "No... No! This is on earth! It's different from heaven. If you can accompany me for one day in heaven, you should be able to accompany me for one year on earth!"
Yu Huan rubbed the corners of Ruan Qiuping's eyes with his fingertips.
He didn't know how to comfort Ruan Qiuping, so he just hugged him tightly, then gently kissed his forehead, his eyes, and his cheeks.
Ruan Qiuping also hugged him, but the tighter his arms were, the emptier his arms felt.
Finally he opened his eyes and saw only a handful of bones on the ground.
No, that's not true. Yu Huan would be able to accompany him for one day in heaven. One day in heaven is equal to one year on earth. Now that they have come to earth, Yu Huan will be able to accompany him for a whole year.
They all agreed to live above ground and play underground.
They all agreed to bring seeds to grow vegetables and fruits next year.
It had only been less than a day, why did Yu Huan leave
Ruan Qiuping picked up the bones, but couldn't help kneeling on the ground and crying loudly.
Many years have passed.
Ruan Qiuping finally understood how Xiao Yuhuan felt when he found out on the bus that day that he had missed eight hours and fifty minutes of time with him because of sleeping.
He knew how lost and wronged little Yuhuan felt at that time, and he felt the pain a thousand times more.
After Yu Huan's body disappeared, his consciousness was not completely gone. He could see Ruan Qiuping squatting down to pick up his finger bones. He could see Ruan Qiuping holding those finger bones and crying bitterly.
Yu Huan tried his best to mobilize the aura around him and move it towards Ruan Qiuping.
Want to give him a hug.
He moved towards Ruan Qiuping with all his strength, like a stranded fish rubbing its belly against the sand, like a man with his limbs cut off being thrown into the sea. He used all his strength to fight against the air that was trying to blow him away.
In the end, he finally attached himself to Ruan Qiuping's back.
Before being blown away by the wind, before his consciousness faded, he finally gave Ruan Qiuping a silent and breathless hug.
After returning to heaven, Ruan Qiuping secretly drank three jars of Ruan Shengfeng's wine, and then did a stupid thing while drunk.
He bought sleeping pills for the divine beasts.
He heard that this pill was extremely powerful. If a god took it, one pill would make him sleep for half a year.
He stretched out his fingers to count, and said with a drunken smile: This is great! After taking two pills, I will be able to see Yu Huan when I wake up.
Then he took two pills directly.
This medicine is really effective. When I woke up, it was three days before the Spring Festival.
Ruan Qiuping waited happily for three days, and finally Yu Huan arrived.
However, when Yu Huan learned about this from the Medicine Fairy, he became very angry with Ruan Qiuping.
Yu Huan seldom got angry. The last time he got so angry was when he was on Duanqing Mountain and heard him say those nonsense to Yue Lao.
Therefore, Ruan Qiuping was very frightened. When Yu Huan fed him the tonic, he didn't even dare to cry out in pain, and drank it all up in one gulp.
Even so, Yu Huan was still angry, and almost lifted his ears to scold him: "Ruan Qiuping! Do you know the seriousness of this matter? The pills are used to subdue ferocious beasts, not for you! You don't want to wait for me, and you want to just sleep, then what are you living for? You live just to wait for me, right? If I'm not here, you don't have to live, right? You just want to just sleep, right? You took two pills last year and slept for a year, so will you take them again next year? Will you take them again the year after? If I don't recover completely in a hundred years, will you feed yourself two hundred pills? You think that immortals live too long and are too boring, and you want to die early, right?!"
Ruan Qiuping curled up in the corner of the bed wrapped in a quilt and apologized to him repeatedly.
What do you mean by "me"? Was I drunk? Was I confused? Was I wrong? I will never do that again. He said these words several times, but Yu Huan's expression did not improve.
In order to "make amends", he quickly picked up another bowl of tonic medicine on the table, pinched his nose and drank it. After drinking it, he tugged at Yu Huan's sleeve and said pitifully: "... Yu Huan, this medicine is really bitter, is there any sugar?"
Yu Huan said coldly: "No?"
Ruan Qiuping leaned over and pecked Yu Huan on the mouth quickly, then said with a smile: "Even if there is no candy, a kiss is still fine."
Yu Huan: "Ruan Qiuping!"
... Be serious! I'm mad at you!
Ruan Qiuping lay back on the bed and blinked: "Yu Huan, I feel so cold, is it the side effect of the tonic or the sequelae of the sleeping pills? Yu Huan, come in and warm me up, okay?"
Yu Huan was in a stalemate with him for three seconds, but finally took off his coat expressionlessly and went in to keep him warm.
Ruan Qiuping looked up at Yu Huan's face before carefully placing an arm around his waist.
Yu Huan watched his movements, and the anger in his heart suddenly dissipated.
… Actually, I wasn’t angry at first.
It just hurts.
Yu Huan lowered his eyes, but finally reached out and hugged Ruan Qiuping tightly in his arms.
After a long time, he finally asked:
"Ruan Ruan, wait for me?... Is it very tiring?"
Is it because he is working too hard that he doesn't even care about his own body and insists on taking the sleeping pill which is extremely harmful to the body.
"... I know I was wrong." Ruan Qiuping buried his head in Yu Huan's chest and hugged him tightly. "I knew you couldn't stay in the mortal world for a year, so I lost my balance and drank on impulse. Then my mind was not clear... I won't use that sleeping pill again in the future, really."
Yu Huan leaned over and gently kissed Ruan Qiuping on the forehead.
"Ruan Ruan, is it okay to treat the Spring Festival as a gift?"
"… Gift?"
"Well, don't think of it as a light, nor as an end. Just think of it as an insignificant gift in life, as the cake on the plate that you like the most, so you put it on the plate last."
Ruan Qiuping blinked: "When you were waiting for me, did you also regard my appearance as an insignificant gift?"
Yu Huan was speechless.
He sighed and said, "Ruan Ruan, I finally understand why you always said you wanted to find someone to spend your life with when you were in the mortal world?"
Ruan Qiuping asked nervously, "Do you think so now?"
"No... It seems that I am still more selfish than Ruan Ruan."
Yu Huan bit Ruan Qiuping's lips lightly.
I hope Ruan Ruan can wait for me, but not in a way that makes the wait so painful.
I hope Ruan Ruan can love me forever and only me.
Year after year passed, and Yu Huan appeared year after year.
Ruan Qiuping also gradually learned how to wait.
Whether in the mortal world or in heaven, Yu Huan can only appear for one day, so Ruan Qiuping will become particularly cherishing the time when Yu Huan appears.
He no longer deliberately remembered the loss that Yu Huan brought him when he left, and only allowed himself to look forward to the surprise that Yu Huan would bring him when he appeared.
When Yu Huan appears, he will hug Yu Huan happily.
When Yu Huan was about to leave, he would also say goodbye to Yu Huan with a smile.
Fortunately, every separation is meaningful.
The number of Yu Huan's remains increased year by year, and the time Yu Huan appeared also became longer year by year.
When they met for the tenth time, Yu Huan would appear for a whole day every year, but when he left, he would scatter bones all over the ground, which often scared others.
When they met for the fifteenth time, Yu Huan appeared for a day and a half. This also made Ruan Qiuping realize once again that Yu Huan would not only appear on the Spring Festival, but perhaps in the future, he would appear for a longer period of time.
Meanwhile, more than five thousand years had passed in the mortal world, and the mortals encountered again the natural disaster they had avoided before, but this time no one could save them.
Human civilization on Earth is coming to an end for the first time.
Ruan Qiuping was looking back at the disaster through the Mirror. Yu Huan hugged Ruan Qiuping's shoulders and told him that the souls of those who had died were all properly placed in the Yama Palace, waiting for their next reunion with the world.
When Yu Huan left, the corpse had been completely restored and was beginning to slowly restore its inner elixir.
Ruan Qiuping was so happy that he almost wanted to pull Yu Huan's bones and dance in the cave.
When they met fortieth time, Yu Huan appeared for four or five days every year, and more than 15,000 years had passed in the mortal world. The Earth finally began to heal itself and life appeared again.
When they met for the fiftieth time, Yu Huan could appear for a full seven days each time. The mortal world had become more interesting now, and the second time they entered the ancient times. Of the seven days that Yu Huan appeared every year, Ruan Qiuping basically spent five days with Yu Huan in the mortal world.
However, many gods who had come to experience tribulations began to gather together and come down to earth. Among the high-ranking officials in the royal city, three out of ten were gods who had come down to earth to experience tribulations.
Ruan Qiuping and Yu Huan sat on the city wall in hiding, watching their fight was very interesting.
Not to mention that some gods of the same period were reincarnated as father and son, which doubled the joy of watching the show.
When they met for the eightieth time, mortals entered modern civilization for the second time.
Everything returned to its original state.
And Yu Huan's inner elixir has also been completely restored.
When Yu Huan disappeared that year, he no longer turned into a pile of bones on the ground. The inner elixir in his chest condensed into flesh and skin for him, and he fell asleep peacefully.
This was the first time that Ruan Qiuping saw Yu Huan’s “corpse” in its entirety.
Of course, Ruan Qiuping didn't think that this was Yu Huan's body, it was just a body without a breath.
Ruan Qiuping made a bed out of thousand-year-old ice, placed it in the cave, and placed Yu Huan's "body" on it.
When they met for the eighty-first time.
It is in a sea of roses.
Ruan Qiuping used magic to make roses bloom all over the cave in the cold winter.
During that year's Spring Festival, there were very few people setting off fireworks in the sky.
Because in the early morning hours, countless fire phoenixes were flying in the sky, spitting fireworks from their mouths, leaving behind figures more beautiful than fireworks.
Ruan Qiuping, with the Fire Phoenix in the sky and the red roses on the ground as his backdrop, walked step by step to the holy and flawless snow-white ice bed.
As soon as Yu Huan opened his eyes, he saw his lover placing a bouquet of red roses on his pillow, with a smile and tears in her eyes.
"Yu Huan, how long do you think you'll be back this time?"
Yu Huan wiped away his tears and kissed him tenderly.
"forever."
One month later, the mortal world
Ruan Qiuping, 15 years old, male.
Monitor of Class 1-2 of Songqing High School.
The young master of a well-known group, spoiled by his parents since childhood, has a slightly spoiled personality, but has excellent academic performance.
Apart from that, he had incredible luck. He would always win at scratch-off prizes and rock-paper-scissors. He once set a record of winning 35 consecutive cups of a carbonated beverage and then another one.
Looking at the notebook in his hand, Yu Huan circled the age on the first line with some hesitation.
Fifteen years old...
He looked up at the boy who happened to pass by the window, took a breath, and closed the notebook in his hand.
Forget it, I’m only fifteen, so I should just study hard.
Let’s start with just ordinary friends.
But I heard that Ruan Ruan has been spoiled since childhood and has a bad personality, so it is not easy to be his friend.
Then we will be ordinary friends in the first year of high school, good friends in the second year of high school, and…
“Knock, knock.”
Yu Huan's desk was suddenly knocked twice, making crisp sounds.
Seeing that hand, Yu Huan's eyes moved, he closed his notebook and raised his head.
Sure enough, he saw a familiar face.
The man narrowed his eyes and said in a slightly aggressive tone: "Hey, transfer student, I heard that you asked people about me on your first day here. What does that mean? Do you have a grudge against me?"
Yu Huan: “…”
What to do? It's a bit difficult to be just ordinary friends.
Ruan Qiuping stretched out his hand and gestured, and four or five classmates surrounded Yu Huan.
Then he pulled out a chair and sat opposite Yu Huan. He was about to say something but suddenly stopped.
He moved closer to Yu Huan's face, stared into his eyes, and studied his facial features.
Ruan Qiuping's eyes were very bright, like black agate shining with light, and her cheeks were slightly red, and her white skin was rosy like the finest soft peaches.
… so cute.
Now even with such a domineering look, he is still so cute.
Yu Huan couldn't help but tilt his head back.
He was afraid that if he got any closer, he would not be able to resist kissing her.
"Hey." Ruan Qiuping suddenly lowered his voice. Although he still had that look of being the only one in the world, his ears were burning red.
"…in love?"
Yu Huan: “…?”
Ruan Qiuping kicked his foot under the table.
"Let's talk about it or not. If we don't want to talk about it, forget it."
Yu Huan threw the notebook in his hand into the desk pocket and said with a smile:
"talk."
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