Recap
Yan Zhao said: “I’m not trying to be brave.”
I’m just not used to it.
Rong Yu said: “You can truly see the light of day again.”
Yan Zhao looked at the young man’s back and thought to himself, I have seen him a long time ago.
The first ray of light he saw in thousands of years was not the sun today.
But a young man in red clothes as bright as fire, bright and dazzling.
Hitting his eyes and reaching his heart.
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Rong Yu walked a few steps ahead and then stopped and turned to look at Yan Zhao.
Yan Zhao said: “Don’t wait for me, I can keep up. Don’t worry.”
Most ghosts cannot survive in the sun, and a few can survive in the sunlight but move slowly. Yan Zhao does not have this problem at all. At most, he is slightly uncomfortable, but there will be no substantial harm, and it will not hinder his actions.
He was touched again when he thought that Rong Yu was so considerate and worried that he wouldn’t be able to keep up under the sun.
Rong Yu said: “I’m not worried. I just don’t know the road. Do you know the way? Come and show me.”
Yesterday, Rong Yu was carried into the mountains in a sedan chair by the paper figures. The paper money scattered along the way was also blown away by the wind so Rong Yu could not find his way out.
This mountain has no name, but because it surrounds Yuexi Town, people here call it Yuexi Mountain. There are no temples or fruit trees on the mountain. It is rarely visited on weekdays. Only when people die are they carried up the mountain for burial. It is also called the Graveyard Mountain. Every year, only during the Qingming Festival* does it get more lively.
*(Qingming Festival, also known as Tomb-Sweeping Day or Pure Brightness Festival, is a traditional Chinese festival celebrated around early April. It’s a time when people honor their ancestors by cleaning and tidying their graves, offering food and burning incense to show respect.)
Most of the people in the town make a living by farming, and some go up to the mountains to cut firewood to support their families, but they only move around in the periphery and dare not go deep. At night, they can hear ghosts crying and no one dares to enter. Even if it’s not night, the beasts in the mountains are not vegetarians.
Wasn’t Hu Wei killed by a tiger?
Yan Zhao’s tomb is deep in the mountains. The sedan chair took a long time getting to its destination yesterday. In other words, if you don’t have anyone asking to come up , no one will come here at all.
Yan Zhao: “…”
The excitement that just arose instantly disappeared without a trace.
He said: “I don’t know either.”
As a thousand-year-old hikikomori, how can it be possible to understand the outside world?
Rong Yu curled his lips. He can’t read neither does he know the roads. Staying at home for too long will really cause irreversible damage to the brain.
“You don’t know the way? Then how did you bring me in yesterday?”
Yan Zhao said: “I can’t sense direction, but I can sense you.”
It was only the second day after he woke up that he could speak much more fluently, and he was expected to be able to communicate like a normal person soon.
Yan Zhao had been sleeping in the tomb for thousands of years. Yesterday, he suddenly had a strong premonition that the person he was waiting for was coming. Then he opened his eyes and cast a spell to let the paper figure go to welcome his bride.
He doesn’t know the road, he only knows the person, or in other words, the soul he has been waiting for.
Rong Yu found a big rock and sat down: “As a statement of love, it sounds good, but at this time, it seems very useless.”
His body is that of a completely frail scholar. The mountain road is rugged, and it is easy for him to lose his strength. He couldn’t wander around in the mountains like a headless fly because he didn’t want to tire himself out.
The Ghost King, who was suddenly classified as useless by his sweetheart, was slightly anxious. He originally thought that he could carry him down the mountain, he would teleport, and he might be able to figure out the direction down the mountain by exploring around. Then he remembered that he was very cold, it would take a lot of time to search like this, and Rong Yu would feel uncomfortable if he were carried for a long time, so he dismissed the idea silently.
He didn’t dare to leave Rong Yu’s side to find his own way. There were countless ferocious beasts in the mountains, and it was only because of the suppression of his ghost energy that he didn’t dare to get close. He must stay by Rong Yu’s side every step of the way.
Yan Zhao eliminated one method after another and finally came up with an idea: “We can wait until night and ask the other ghosts for directions.”
Ghosts generally don’t come out when the sun is strong, at least until evening. Now, even if Yan Zhao ordered them to be summoned, they would not dare to come out. They would die when they came out, and they would be destroyed on the spot in the sun.
Rong Yu looked up at the sunlight, put his hand in front of his forehead and squinted his eyes: “It’s only noon… How long will it take for the sun to set?”
But he couldn’t think of anything else for the moment. Yan Zhao couldn’t explore the path alone and leave him out of his protection range. Carrying him on his back would be too cold for his body…
Thinking about it this way, waiting until the sun sets is actually the only way.
Unexpectedly, when they wanted to go back and take revenge on those villains, the first obstacle they encountered was getting lost…
“Forget it. It doesn’t hurt to let them jump around for one more day.” Rong Yu massaged his calf. “I don’t want to leave now, anyway. Come here and massage my legs.”
Yan Zhao shook his head slightly, with a bit of helplessness and indulgence, and sat down on the stone next to Rong Yu.
Rong Yu put both legs on his lap without politeness.
Yan Zhao gently kneaded and massaged his calf. “Are you tired after just a few steps?”
Rong Yu said slowly: “If I were like you, I would float faster than you.”
In order to appear beside his lover, Yan Zhao also adopted a down-to-earth way of walking. But he is a ghost, after all, with no shadow or footprints, and his feet are actually still off the ground.
Yan Zhao curled his lower lip.
“If it weren’t for the coldness of my soul, I would have carried you to find a way down the mountain.” His smile faded again, and he lowered his eyes and said, “It’s a pity…”
I don’t even dare to hug you for a long time.
Rong Yu could see Yan Zhao’s dejection, which made him feel an inexplicably whiplash. The Sun he knew was always proud and dazzling, and would never show such an inferiority complex.
The most yin body, the most yang soul, under the extreme rejection of body and will, self-rejection is the inevitable result.
Meeting a loved one again, who is bright and dazzling and shaped like a flame, makes the ghost even more ashamed.
“It’s quite cold.” Rong Yu said, “You massaged my legs a few times with your hands, and I thought you were using an ice chisel. If you massaged it a few more times, my legs will become broken and cold.”
Yan Zhao’s hand froze, and he didn’t dare to touch him again.
Rong Yu didn’t put his legs down from his lap.
Yan Zhao was puzzled. He looked up and found Rong Yu looking at him.
At this time, a gust of wind blew, causing the rustling leaves to fall, the clothes and sleeves to fly, and the undecorated ink hair to fly messily. Eyes with crow eyelashes and phoenixes, red lips and snowy skin, he is as alluring as an incubus.
No matter how delicate and white the skin is, it contains the soul of the devil, and there will always be a hint of demonic aura, which can charm the heart, confuse the ghost’s heart, and seize the soul.
Yan Zhao’s expression suddenly changed slightly, and just as he was about to take action, Rong Yu took the lead and grabbed a red chain snake that climbed up along the stone from behind.
Animals have an instinctive fear of strong men and are more sensitive to danger. They were held motionless in Rong Yu’s hands, and even the snake did not dare to move.
Rong Yu used to be a being who could make all beasts surrender. No matter how the tiger falls, he still won’t be able to tame a small snake.
“I just need a hair tie.” Rong Yu tied the red chain snake in his hair and tied it in a knot. “I’ll make do with you.”
Red Chain Snake: “…”
Yan Zhao: “…”
Blood Jade Bracelet: Don’t you find it disgusting?
It’s really scary to see people using live snakes as belts and hairbands.
Rong Yu: It’s not that disgusting, just a little aggrieved. I used to have a headband that was like a candle dragon. When I got tired of wearing it for a few days, I put it away. If I had known that I would now be reduced to using a red chain snake as a hair tie, I would not have despised the candle dragon at all.
Blood Jade Bracelet:……
“Why don’t you continue massaging?” Rong Yu complained, “I didn’t ask you to stop.”
Yan Zhao was stunned by Rong Yu’s operation. After confirming that the snake was very obedient and would not hurt Rong Yu, he came back to his senses and said, “Aren’t you cold?“
“If I dislike you, even if you are the sun god, I won’t feel warm around you. If I like you, even if you are a ghost from the underworld. In my heart, you’re not as cold as the wind that blew just now.”
It’s just that both of them are you.
It’s you who I dislike, yet it is also you who I like.
Rong Yu said: “I don’t think that you are cold.”
Yan Zhao’s heart trembled slightly.
Since he doesn’t dislike that he’s cold, he just likes him.
Yan Zhao still didn’t dare to touch him. “You don’t dislike that I’m cold, but I’m afraid you’ll be cold.”
“Is this the reason why you don’t dare to come and marry me?” Rong Yu asked, “You stole me from my original marriage, but you were afraid that it would hurt me, because you thought you were not worthy?”
They are separated by yin and yang. In the eyes of the world, people in the upper world still have a good life, but if they are entangled by ghosts in the underworld, it will be a great misfortune. Of course, most ghosts don’t think so. The ghosts always think, “It’s your luck that I like you, so I’ll take advantage of you.”
But of course Yan Zhao wouldn’t think so.
He loves Rong Yu.
Hence the low self-esteem.
Yan Zhao was silent. For this reason, there was another, more important reason that he could not name.
He didn’t know where the feeling came from. He didn’t dare to formally get married. He was always afraid that if his life was too perfect, his sweetheart would leave him.
So he would rather it be not so perfect.
No matter how big the regret is, it is better than losing what he has now.
“I’ll put away all those thoughts you have. It’s just that our temperatures are different. What’s the big deal?” Rong Yu said, “To solve this problem, either you return to the land of the living and restore your body temperature. Or I die. Let’s be cold together. It’s impossible for you to be alive again, so I’d better die…”
Yan Zhao rarely became angry: “No!”
“If you don’t want me to die, then you can only let me get used to your body temperature. You have already made plans to hug me for an hour every day, but you still don’t dare to carry me down the mountain? I told you that your legs are cold, not to tell you not to touch me, but to tell you not to touch me. I want to exercise more.” Rong Yu sighed at this point. “I can’t even get used to you on my skin. How can I bear your touch inside my body?”
Yan Zhao: “…?!”
Wait, what did Rong, Rong Yu say just now?
Is it what he thinks he meant?
“Why don’t you continue? After you’ve finished massaging, carry me down the mountain to find the way.” Rong Yu said, “Once I get used to this, we’ll get married sooner. The wedding ceremony can’t be completed, so there is really no need to worship.”
He said it so straightforwardly that Yan Zhao would be a fool if he couldn’t understand it.
He felt his non-existent heartbeat speeding up crazily. After hesitating for a moment, he finally told the truth: “It’s more than that.”
Rong Yu asked: “What other reasons are there?”
Yan Zhao whispered: “I’m afraid that if the marriage is consummated, you will leave.”
Rong Yu remained calm. “Huh? We’ll be together forever after we get married. How can I leave?”
“I don’t know.” Yan Zhao pursed his lips. “But I’m scared.”
“You’re a moron who worries about everything under the sky. I won’t leave you right after we get married.”
At least he won’t leave immediately. This time the candle can burn for three years, which is more than enough time for marriage.
“Really? You’re not lying to me?”
“Why would I lie?” Rong Yu raised his eyebrows. “Do you want me to swear?”
“No need.” Yan Zhao was not willing to let him swear a poisonous oath and quickly stopped him.
Rong Yu made the final confirmation: “Are you willing to get married?”
Yan Zhao hesitated. “Let’s talk about it…”
Rong Yu: “…”
Yes, it’s a waste of time.
If he doesn’t want to get married, they won’t get married. Originally, he was just fulfilling the promise he made in his previous life, but why did he act like he was begging for marriage?
Rong Yu also has a temper, and he has a very big temper. If Yan Zhao rejects him a few more times, even if he changes his mind and wants to get married, Rong Yu won’t cooperate with him anymore.
But the conversation is not useless at all. At least Yan Zhao is willing to go behind Rong Yu’s back to find the way. But he still doesn’t dare to carry it for too long. After walking a few steps, he was so nervous that he stopped. Stopping like this is naturally not very efficient.
At dusk, when he passed a familiar big tree again, Rong Yu finally faced the fact that Yan Zhao was a fool.
Rong Yu lay on his back: “I simply doubt that you are building a wall for yourself. Do you really not know that you have walked this road five times?”
Yan Zhao froze, not wanting to expose his crazy nature in front of his sweetheart. “I know.”
Rong Yu sneered: “You really don’t know, you have walked this road six times.”
Yan Zhao: “…”
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