It turned out that Yu Huan had been secretly calling Ruan Qiuping "troublemaker" in his heart.
Although Yu Huan had never met Ruan Qiuping when he was a child, this did not prevent Ruan Qiuping from making his presence felt in his childhood.
After all, the name Ruan Qiuping would ring in his ears every now and then.
Those who made eye contact with Ruan Qiuping, those who accidentally touched the corner of Ruan Qiuping's clothes, those who originally lived near the Ruan family... all lined up to shake hands with Yu Huan to get rid of the bad luck.
There was a time when little Yuhuan felt like he was almost like a stone statue standing on the side of the road, and everyone wanted to come over and touch him.
And every time this happened, he could only frown, purse his lips, and stretch out his little hands to let people touch him.
Little Yuhuan frowned and thought with great melancholy, if he were really a stone, both of his hands would have been rubbed to pieces.
Yu Huan was only a three and a half year old little boy at that time. His little head really couldn't understand why he had to help Ruan Qiuping clean up his mess every day when he was neither a relative nor a friend of his and had never even met him
When he told his mother about his doubts, his mother said, you and Ruan Qiuping were not only born on the same day of the same month of the same year, but one is the future lucky god and the other is the future unlucky god, like the sun and the moon, and the yin and yang, it is a destiny predestined by heaven, and the connection between you is not even weaker than that between brothers. Now that the unlucky god cannot control his own bad luck, it is reasonable for you to eliminate the bad luck he brings to others.
Xiao Yuhuan did not agree with this. He pursed his lips and muttered quietly in his heart:
"Tsk, what a troublemaker."
Later, when little Yuhuan grew up a little, read some books, learned some words, and wrote a talisman to dispel bad luck, he was finally able to avoid physical contact with other people.
But even if he avoided other people's skin contact, Yu Huan couldn't avoid being surrounded by people every time he went out.
It was not until Yu Huan mastered the most advanced invisibility technique that he was finally able to live a peaceful life.
Yu Huan's childhood experiences made him hate people, but practicing invisibility every day was not conducive to the practice of other spells. So Yu Huan searched for half a year and finally set up a secret residence in the west, the most desolate, bleak and least visited place in the entire heaven.
On this mountain, as long as you avoid the troublemaker Ruan Qiuping and his family, you can live the most peaceful life in the world.
After all, those little gods who are looking for the God of Fortune everywhere and want to get some good luck would never dare to come near the God of Bad Luck's house.
The mountain was indeed very large. Although Yu Huan had not deliberately looked for Ruan Qiuping, he had lived here for more than ten years and had never seen Ruan Qiuping once.
Until one day, he practiced transfiguration for the first time and turned into a little hedgehog.
He tentatively curled up his body and let himself roll down the hillside, but his way was blocked by a foot halfway.
"Ouch! Little hedgehog!"
A pair of fair hands carefully picked it up from the ground, and Yu Huan, who had turned into a hedgehog, saw a pair of bright and excited eyes.
Yu Huan was thinking worriedly, wondering if it would be too embarrassing if he turned back into human form at this moment, and he was secretly wondering about the identity of this young man.
Logically speaking, in this place, the only young immortal king of this age... seems to be that troublemaker Ruan Qiuping.
But…
He also felt that it was not quite like that.
The rumored Ruan Qiuping seemed to be born with an unlucky look, with skin as white as a ghost, pupils as black as coal, dry hair, weird personality, and skinny body. He was a gloomy character who never appeared in the sun.
Although Yu Huan didn't quite believe the rumors, the young man in front of him didn't look at all like the gloomy and weird "troublemaker" in the rumors.
The young man has a fair complexion and a bright and charming smile. Although his figure is a little thin, the thin belt tied in his white robe makes him look like an ethereal being that is not tainted by this world.
He is... a pretty good-looking boy.
"Great! We'll have grilled hedgehog as a snack today... Wouldn't it be too lame to grill it? How about pickling it or frying it?" The young man sat cross-legged on a rock, frowning in thought.
Yu Huan: “…”
Forget it, let me withdraw the word "not vulgar" that I just mentioned.
Seeing that the young man had already started thinking of various ways to eat it, the hedgehog Yu Huan leaped up, ready to escape from the clutches of the devil. However, as soon as he stretched out his front foot, he was pulled back by someone and tightly grasped in the palm of his hand!
"ah!"
The young man next to him suddenly let out a scream!
Yu Huan turned his head hurriedly, only to see that the boy's finger had accidentally pierced into the thorn on his back, and blood was instantly gushing out.
…Does it hurt
Yu Huan involuntarily relaxed his body and stared closely at the place where the boy was injured.
"It's over, it's over!"
The young boy was seen mumbling anxiously while taking out a silk cloth from his arms and carefully wiping the blood-stained thorns on the hedgehog's back.
"What should I do, little hedgehog... You're stuck with the blood of the God of Mold. It's hard for you not to die."
It was indeed Ruan Qiuping... But what happened to his blood
Yu Huan looked down and saw a few drops of blood falling on the lawn. In an instant, a few weeds began to burn and rot where the blood had dripped.
Only then did Yu Huan realize that the blood-stained thorns on his back began to feel numb, but not painful.
Ruan Qiuping wiped the blood off the hedgehog, looked at its intact body, blinked absentmindedly, and then murmured slowly: "... How come you... How come you are not hurt by my blood? Is it... a miracle?"
It's not a miracle, because he is a lucky god.
Moreover, he was not completely unaffected by the blood.
This was the first time that Yu Huan used the Transfiguration. After the Transfiguration, his magic power became much weaker than usual. This time, it was stained with Ruan Qiuping's blood. Although it didn't hurt, his originally weak magic power was suppressed a little bit, so that he could neither use the Teleportation to disappear nor change into his original form directly on the spot.
In other words... even if Ruan Qiuping wanted to roast it and eat it at this moment, he would have no power to resist.
Is he going to die here
Perhaps Yu Huan's worry was too obvious, and it was reflected exactly on that hedgehog face.
Ruan Qiuping even understood the "expression" on his face. He smiled and lifted the hedgehog Yu Huan up and shook it, saying, "Don't worry, I won't eat you."
Phew... Fortunately.
Hedgehog Yu Huan heaved a sigh of relief.
"—You are not an ordinary hedgehog, you are a miracle hedgehog!" Ruan Qiuping kissed the hedgehog on the face, his black eyes sparkling with light, and his smile was more excited than digging up treasure.
The hedgehog Yu Huan blinked slowly.
…Ah, I was kissed.
The molestation that Yu Huan suffered during this day was more than just being kissed. He was held in the hands of others and touched all over. He was even pressed into a basin by Ruan Qiuping to take a bath. At night, he was even carried into bed by Ruan Qiuping.
"Qiqi, you can be called Qiqi from now on, okay?"
Ruan Qiuping covered him with half a blanket, and gently stroked his back along his pubic region with his fingers. The warm breath spread over him as he spoke. His expression was serious and full of expectation, as if he was talking to a babbling fairy child, "Qiqi, why don't you start cultivating immortality? When you cultivate immortality and become a human, you can be my friend."
…Who wants to be your friend
He, Yu Huan, never makes friends.
The hedgehog Yu Huan, who had been bitten for the entire day, thought silently in his heart.
"Qiqi, thank you." Ruan Qiuping closed his eyes, moved closer, and gently rubbed the tip of the hedgehog Yu Huan's nose with the tip of his nose, "Thank you for not being hurt by my blood."
His mouth was opened wide, as if he couldn't stop laughing.
Even when he finally fell asleep, the curve at the corner of his lips did not drop at all.
I was so happy as if I had had some huge beautiful dream.
Yu Huan really didn't know what he was so happy about.
He just met a hedgehog that would not be hurt by his blood.
The hedgehog Yu Huan stared at him for a long while, and finally closed his eyes and fell asleep leaning on his soft palm.
When Ruan Qiuping woke up, Yu Huan had already returned to his original form and used invisibility to hide himself.
Ruan Qiuping couldn't find the little hedgehog, and he panicked all of a sudden, rummaging through boxes and cabinets looking for any trace of the hedgehog.
He searched for a long time but couldn't find it, and finally could only sit at the head of the bed in a daze.
His face was pale and he lowered his head to look at his hands.
There was clearly no other expression on his face, but Yu Huan felt that he looked even more confused than a lost child.
Yu Huan only felt that his heart was gently pierced by a small thorn.
He didn't even have time to think before his body spontaneously turned into the hedgehog, rolling from a corner to Ruan Qiuping's feet, gently pulling up his trouser legs and looking up at his face.
Ruan Qiuping called out the hedgehog's name in surprise, picked him up and kissed him madly.
Hedgehog Yu Huan turned his head away in disgust.
Ruan Qiuping stuffed all the elixirs he had saved into the hedgehog's mouth to eat, and told the hedgehog everything that had happened to him.
He would take the hedgehog Yuhuan hunting and let the hedgehog Yuhuan sit on his shoulders.
"Qiqi, do you know what is the most important thing in hunting?"
Ruan Qiuping held the fish in his left hand and the chicken in his right hand, and said, "Don't talk to them, and don't give them any names."
As soon as Ruan Qiuping finished speaking, he picked up the fish in his left hand, looked at the fish's mouth opening and closing, and said, "Right, fish."
Hedgehog Yu Huan didn't know the reason, he just rubbed Ruan Qiuping's shoulder gently with his chin.
Ruan Qiuping would pull him aside and tell him some things that sounded boring.
For example, today he hopped up the stairs on one foot without falling.
For example, his mother fried two eggs for him this morning, and the eggs were fried perfectly, not burnt at all.
For example, he stood under a tree, stretched out his hand, and a leaf just fell into his palm.
"Qiqi, do you know? That is a particularly complete leaf, it is so beautiful!" Ruan Qiuping smiled contentedly, "Today is such a lucky day!"
Yu Huan didn't understand. How could such ordinary daily life show good luck
But even if he didn't understand, it didn't stop him from moving his body, resting his cheek on Ruan Qiuping's palm, finding a comfortable position and falling asleep.
Yu Huan is still a deity after all. Although he doesn't often interact with people, he can't pretend to be a hedgehog every day.
His mother’s birthday was coming up in the next two days, so Yu Huan had to transform into a human form and leave for a while.
But on the third day, when he turned into a hedgehog and returned to Ruan Qiuping's house, he was so angry that all the thorns on his body stood up - Ruan Qiuping actually had a new hedgehog!
The hedgehog Yu Huan stood in the corner and saw Ruan Qiuping pick up the fake hedgehog and put his cheek against its belly, like a unique hug: "Don't get lost next time, Qiqi."
The hedgehog Yu Huan gritted his teeth and turned away angrily.
Oh! Stupid? God!
Yu Huan was sulking alone for seven days. When he reappeared in front of Ruan Qiuping in stealth mode, the fake hedgehog was already dead.
Looking at the wounds on the hedgehog's body, it looks like it was caught and bitten to death by a roc.
Yu Huan followed Ruan Qiuping in stealth and watched Ruan Qiuping hide the hedgehog in a family cemetery far away.
Ruan Qiuping wrote a few words on the tombstone.
"Little Thorn's grave."
Ruan Qiuping touched the tombstone and said, "Xiao Ci, actually, I know you are not Qiqi, but I am still very grateful that you can stay with me. If you see me in the next life, you must take a detour, otherwise you will be unlucky. I killed you, and maybe also killed Qiqi. I'm sorry."
Ruan Qiuping lowered his eyes and used magic to create countless flowers and plants on the small grave.
Seeing his dejected look, Yu Huan felt inexplicably upset.
Yu Huan stood there and thought for a moment, but finally made up his mind. He turned into a hedgehog again and rolled at Ruan Qiuping's feet just like the first time they met.
“Qiqi!”
Ruan Qiuping's eyes suddenly lit up, and he squatted down as if he wanted to hug him. The hedgehog Yu Huan also stood there, curled up his hands and tilted his head, waiting for him to hug him, but Ruan Qiuping stopped when he stretched out his hand halfway.
The light in Ruan Qiuping's eyes gradually dimmed. He glanced at Xiao Ci's grave next to him and slowly lowered his head.
"… Forget it, Qiqi, just go away. You will be in trouble if you follow me."
Hedgehog Yu Huan stood up and stretched out his little hand to pull up his trouser legs.
However, Ruan Qiuping gently pulled his hand away and disappeared on the spot with a dejected look on his face.
Yu Huan looked at his back, blinked helplessly, and finally changed back into human form, hid his body, and followed him step by step.
Yu Huan thought that he was not a pervert or a voyeur. He also did not admit that he would have any special interest in Ruan Qiuping because of this.
He just "ran into" Ruan Qiuping by coincidence often after that.
He "accidentally" moved his residence near the place where Ruan Qiuping usually practiced martial arts.
"According to an accident, he discovered that Ruan Qiuping often slacked off in the name of practicing martial arts.
"Occasionally" I saw Ruan Qiuping's daily life of being disliked, avoiding people and being avoided by others.
Finally, he "accidentally" found out that the "troublemaker" Ruan Qiuping, whom he originally thought of, was the most hated, despised and disliked person in the entire heaven, and was actually him, Yu Huan.
Oh, by the way, Yu Huan finally understood what Ruan Qiuping meant when he said to the hedgehog, “Don’t give your prey a name when hunting.”
Ruan Qiuping seemed to lack friends with whom he could communicate and chat, but he was a talkative person. Therefore, every time he caught a wild rabbit, pheasant, wild bird or wild fox, he would hold these animals and talk non-stop.
Just like he did with the hedgehog Yu Huan, he would often give those small animals a name, then hold them in his arms and chatter to them about his daily trivialities.
When it got dark and he was ready to take the prey home, he realized that he had spent a whole day with the prey, not only named it, but also told it his own story. So he suddenly couldn't bear to kill it and eat it, so he had to pout and release it back to the forest, patting his head and warning himself, "Next time I catch prey, I must stuff it into the sack quickly and accurately without even looking at it."
Even so, the probability of his hunting failure is still much higher than the probability of success.
Since when did it start, Yu Huan's "accidental encounters" with Ruan Qiuping every now and then became an indispensable habit in his life.
Yu Huan didn't know what kind of emotion this was at first.
He just knew that he liked to be around Ruan Qiuping and watch him.
When winter comes, Ruan Qiuping will stretch out his hands and catch snowflakes with a smile, then roll around on the snow alone, making snowballs of different sizes, using teleportation to have snowball fights with himself.
When spring comes, Ruan Qiuping would search all over the mountains for wild flowers to make a wreath for his mother. After the wreath was made, he would hesitate and finally climb up a tree to present the wreath to the treetops in the distance.
When Ruan Dongdong was about to be born, Ruan Qiuping didn't dare to get close to her mother. He didn't go home for three days and moved his entire bed to the mountain. Only after Ruan Dongdong was born did he climb up the tree at the gate of the yard, push aside the leaves, and carefully look at the little girl in the cradle in the yard with a smile that could warm everything.
Ruan Qiuping was not active in school. He was late, left early and absent every day. However, Yu Huan had seen him pick up and put down his schoolbag countless times, and had seen him walking back and forth alone on the small path through the college countless times.
Ruan Qiuping had never participated in any group activities at the college. He nonchalantly crossed out his name on the attendance list of all members at the football match, but on the lawn separated by a wall, he listened to the shouts of his classmates, lowered his head slightly, and kicked stones by himself.
Yu Huan often watched him from the side, and he had lifted his invisibility mask countless times, wanting to walk over and talk to him.
However, due to Ruan Qiuping's disgust for the god of luck, he was unable to step forward.
He could only take the initiative to ask people to distribute bad luck-eliminating talismans to Ruan Qiuping's classmates and teachers. He could only use his own blood and spiritual power to write the supreme good luck talisman that could not be given away.
He could only use the thinnest and smallest brush to carefully write three words in the corner of the Supreme Good Luck Charm:
"To Ruan Ruan."
Day after day, year after year.
Yu Huan, the favored son of heaven, finally experienced firsthand the nervousness that made his palms sweat and the cowardice that made his heart shrink.
—It’s secret love.