Su Shi looked at Xin Ling blankly.
Retracing the memories in his mind, an image appeared before his eyes.
A girl with short hair, like a porcelain doll, following a boy, “Su Shi, wait for me!”
The boy said impatiently, “Can you stop following me?”
The girl was also angry and shouted, “But I like playing with you!”
The boy shook his head, ”Don’t put feelings for me, it won’t work. I’ll go to another world to become the protagonist.”
“Another world?”
The little girl was stunned for a moment, then tears quickly filled her eyes, “Wooo~~ Brother Su Shi is going to die, I don’t want Brother Su Shi to die!”
“….”
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In front of the stall.
The boy grabbed the candy the girl had just bought and put it in his mouth, “Little kid shouldn’t eat too much candy or you’ll get diabetes.”
The girl said aggressively, “Aren’t you a kid too?”
“I’ll tell you a secret, I’m actually an alien and I’m over 100 or 200 years old.”
“I have buried 10,000 candyman on Mars, and if you buy me candy every day, I will give all this wealth to you before I leave this world.”
The boy was talking nonsense.
The girl snorted, “I don’t believe that.”
The girl gulped as she watched the boy chew his candy, “Is it sweet?”
“It’s sweet… eh?”
The boy’s eyes widened.
The little girl stood on tiptoe, and her lips touched the boy’s lips.
After a while, the girl leaves, satisfied.
She licked her lips and carefully felt its taste, “This is indeed sweet~~”
“????”
The boy’s gaze was dull, “You’ve been a hooligan as such a young age!”
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The boy was lying on the roof with his hands under his head, looking at the snowflakes falling in the air, his eyes were a little lost.
The little girl climbed up from the ladder and lay beside him.
“Brother Su Shi, what are you thinking about?”
The girl asked in a slurred voice.
The boy was silent for a moment and said: “Ling’er. I’m leaving.”
The little girl blinked her eyes and said: ”Where are you going?”
“To Youzhou.”
“Then when are you coming back?”
“If everything goes well, then I will never return.”
The boy said lightly: “If I really come back, then my mission has failed.”
“Mission?”
The little girl looked clueless. She had no idea what the boy was talking about, but she realised that they might have to part ways.
She tugged on the boy’s sleeve and said nervously, “Brother Su Shi, don’t go, okay?”
Looking at the girl who was holding back her tears, the boy scratched his small head, “If one day, I really come back, we will find a place with beautiful and pretty scenery.”
“You will plough the fields and knit, you will carry water and water the garden.”
The girl was confused, ”Then what will you do?”
“I will recite a poem for you.”
“We will live in a hut far away from the human neighbourhood, without the sound of horses and carriages….picking chrysanthemums under the fence facing east, we can enjoy the beautiful sunrise together.”
The little girl wiped her tears and said seriously, “I’ll wait for your return!”
Not long after that, the original story began.
Su Shi was brought by Yun Qiluo to the Netherworld Rakshasa Sect.
To avoid suspicion, he only returned a few times in the past ten years.
Only Su Renzong and his wife knew about it, and Xin Ling never met him again after that.
Su Shi remembered everything.
The memory picture dissipated, and the little girl in pink slowly overlapped with the girl in red in front of him.
Xin Ling was not the heroine of the original story, so he didn’t worry about changing the plot, and he didn’t think much from what he said.
Unexpectedly, the other party always remembers it.
Xin Ling was in a good mood and said with a smile, “So you failed your mission?”
She still didn’t understand ‘my mission’ that Su Shi had said back then.
Su Shi was silent for a moment.
He raised his glass, drank it all, then got up and said, “Shall we go for a walk?”
Xin Ling was stunned, ”Now?”
The two of them walked out of the shop and strolled through the streets.
The closer we got to the day of the festival, the colder the weather became, frost clung to the rocks, and puffs of breath condensed in the air.
The pedestrians around them were incessant, but they didn’t notice the two of them.
Seeing Xin Ling’s confusion, Su Shi explained, “I have used my dao to cover our breath so that no one can see our faces clearly, lest rumours spread again.”
Xin Ling glanced at him, “You’re worried that your wives will find out, right?”
Su Shi, “…..”
“But it’s fine.”
Xin Ling stretched her waist, her dress fluttering, “No one can see us, I feel much more comfortable.”
“If the pastries find out, they might accuse me of eating alone.”
“The pastries?”
Su Shi wondered, “You’re not talking about the Fusu Society, are you?”
Xin Ling was stunned for a moment, “You know about this?”
Of course Su Shi knew.
When he first met Jiang Tiyi, the police chief in Xuefeng City, she was one of the branch leaders of the Fusu Society.
This organisation was huge and had members all over the Nine Regions.
The Southwest Region was even a gathering place for hardline pastries.
Su Shi looked at her, “You are also one of the congregation?”
Xin Ling’s expression was unnatural, “That’s right.”
At that moment, they passed by a stall. Her eyes lit up and she dragged Su Shi there.
“Honey stone?”
“I didn’t expect there to still be people selling these.”
Honey stone is made from sugarcane juice after being dried in the sun.
It can be used for medicine and cooking, but if eaten directly it tastes too sweet and oily, so only few people eat this type of sugar nowadays.
Xin Ling bought a piece and said with a smile, ”I haven’t tried it again for over ten years, I wonder if the taste has changed.”
Su Shi suddenly lowered his head and chewed on the candy.
“Well, it hasn’t changed. It’s still very sweet.”
“????”
Xin Ling stomped on him angrily, “You stole my candy again!”
Su Shi said solemnly, “Eating sugar can easily lead to diabetes, and I’m doing this for your own good.”
“Bah, you think I’m still as gullible as before?”
Xin Ling rolled her eyes at him, but then couldn’t help but laugh again.
The way Su Shi snatched the candy, it was as if they went back to the winter thirteen years ago.
Her heartbeat suddenly increased and she asked softly, ”Is it sweet?”
“It’s sweet….huh?”
As soon as Su Shi finished speaking, his entire body froze.
I saw Xin Ling standing on tiptoe, and his soft lips touched hers gently.
People seemed to be passing by, yet no one paid any attention to them, as if this moment the world was their own.
“That is indeed quite sweet.”
Xin Ling’s face turned red.
Then she turned around and ran away.
Su Shi stood in place, unable to come back to his senses for some time.
“Thirteen years have passed since we met each other…”
“That hooligan girl hasn’t changed at all.”
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