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Finally, he sighed resignedly and swiped the answer button heavily: "Hello." His tone was stiff after being suppressed. "Su Wan, what else do you want? Did the police let you out?"

Su Wan's wailing voice came from the other end of the phone, her voice was shrill: "Wuwuwuwu... Li Chuanze, I'm sorry, I know I was wrong... I'm just a fool, please don't hate me." She cried heartbreakingly, and her confession words were incoherent.

Li Chuanze was used to using the speakerphone when making calls, and Su Wan's wailing echoed throughout the small rental house and fell into Ye Ruoliu's ears without missing a beat.

Ye Ruoliu paused while packing the medicine box, glanced at Li Chuanze with an upset look. She didn't want Li Chuanze to agree, but she also felt that her behavior was shameful, so she just stared at Li Chuanze's face silently.

Li Chuanze frowned, his face expressionless. He pressed his throbbing temples with his fingers in frustration and glanced at Ye Ruoliu again.

Ye Ruoliu looked at him and quickly turned away.

Li Chuanze took a deep breath and interrupted Su Wan directly. His voice was cold and hard, with an unquestionable rejection: "Su Wan, listen to me carefully. I will only say this once. I don't like you. I have never liked you.

Things like what you did will only make me dislike you even more. Liking someone doesn't mean you have to like them this way. What you're doing is not liking them, it's just annoying them, understand?

What happened today is bad enough. For the sake of our friendship, I won't bother with you. If there's a next time, don't blame me for being rude to you!

Li Chuanze finished what he wanted to say in one breath. Every word he said was like an icicle, piercing Su Wan's heart.

Su Wan cried even louder. Li Chuanze was annoyed and didn't even listen to what Su Wan was going to say next. He hung up the phone directly and threw the phone on the sofa with a muffled sound.

Then, he looked up at the empty ceiling and suddenly breathed a sigh of relief: "I give up, what's going on?"

He cursed under his breath, his voice full of powerlessness.

"A Liu, have I been set up? Let's find a temple to worship together tomorrow." Li Chuanze held his forehead with the back of his hand, looking as if he had lost all hope in life.

"Okay." Ye Ruoliu replied. She was already accustomed to Li Chuanze's impulsive behavior.

I guess when he wakes up tomorrow, he will be called out by some of his friends to play games and then forget about the appointment.

But she was used to agreeing, otherwise, Li Chuanze would nag endlessly like a screaming chicken.

Ye Ruoliu took a blanket from her bed and threw it on Li Chuanze.

This is his quilt today.

Ye Ruoliu lay in bed, unable to fall asleep for a long time. She thought about the conversation between Li Chuanze and Su Wan, feeling a little happy and a little sad.

What made her secretly happy was that Li Chuanze did not agree to be a date with Su Wan; what made her sad was that Li Chuanze rejected Su Wan without any hesitation.

What should she do if one day she is cruelly rejected by Li Chuanze like Su Wan?

The more she thought about it, the more uncomfortable she felt. She simply rubbed her face twice in frustration and then closed her eyes to sleep.

The light-blocking screens in the rented house weren't very good. It was already light at five in the morning, and Ye Ruoliu, half asleep and half awake, was blinded by the light. She could only cover her head with the quilt and continue sleeping.

Before I had fallen asleep for a while, while my consciousness was still fading, I heard the sound of my door banging.

Ye Ruoliu couldn't sleep because of the noise, so she got up irritably and went to open the door.

As soon as she opened the door, she saw Li Chuanze with messy hair and bruises on the corners of his mouth. However, he enthusiastically showed her a tourist attraction on his mobile phone, Yunxi Temple.

Ye Ruoliu moved closer to him, the distance between them was only five centimeters, she could even hear Li Chuanze's breathing. Li Chuanze's breathing stagnated, and he stared at Ye Ruoliu in a daze.

Ye Ruoliu raised her hand and pressed it hard on the bruise at the corner of Li Chuanze's mouth.

"Ah——" A cry like the howling of ghosts and wolves completely woke Ye Ruoliu from her confusion.

She got up, packed up, and went to wash up. During this time, Li Chuanze followed her and kept asking "why".

At this time, Ye Ruoliu would look at him and continue to press on his wound while he was still not reacting.

After Ye Ruoliu finished washing up and changing her clothes, Li Chuanze was still standing crookedly at the door of the bathroom, looking at Ye Ruoliu sadly.

"You disturbed my sleep." Ye Ruoliu said.

"oh……"

Li Chuanze curled his lips and rubbed the wound at the corner of his mouth that was slightly swollen from being pressed. "I was so excited that I prepared a travel guide overnight and bought the tickets. I even woke you up early in the morning to go with me. You actually treated me like this, humph!"

As Li Chuanze spoke, he looked up to see Ye Ruoliu's reaction. Seeing that Ye Ruoliu was unmoved, he changed his expression and said, "I'm almost dying of pain now, and you don't even look at me."

He frowned and almost got close to Ye Ruoliu's face.

Ye Ruoliu looked up and saw that the place where she had pressed was indeed swollen.

Ye Ruoliu sighed helplessly, reopened the medicine box and sat down, pointing at Li Chuanze's sofa bed.

Li Chuanze immediately sat down obediently, tilted his head back, closed his eyes, raised the corners of his mouth, and looked like he was ready to do whatever he wanted, with a hint of expectation hidden in his eyes.

This time, Ye Ruoliu didn't use alcohol, but switched to an electric compress, and her movements were much gentler than last night. A slightly cool touch, with a faint smell of disinfectant, came as Ye Ruoliu's fingertips accidentally brushed against Li Chuanze's skin.

Li Chuanze's heartbeat couldn't help but quicken, and the tips of his ears had quietly turned red without him noticing.

He opened his eyes and met Ye Ruoliu's extremely serious expression. At this moment, he suddenly felt a little moved. It was hard to describe this feeling. It was like he was electrocuted all over his body, and he wanted to hug the person in front of him in his arms.

"Okay, why are you standing there? Aren't we going to have fun?" Ye Ruoliu's words brought Li Chuanze back to his senses.

After packing up briefly, they set off. They took a bus for nearly an hour, and then climbed for a long time before reaching the mountain gate. The autumn weather was clear and refreshing, and many people came to climb the mountain and visit the temple.

Li Chuanze was quite arrogant when he first left, but the further he walked, the more complaints he made.

Ye Ruoliu's condition wasn't much better. The mountain path was winding and crisscrossed with steps, covered in a light moss, as if no one had walked on it for a long time.

The Yunxi Temple is very famous. Its most famous feature is the "Ten Thousand Steps to Heaven Gate". One has to climb ten thousand steps to reach the temple gate, but most tourists stop climbing after halfway and take the cable car directly up.

But Li Chuanze wanted to challenge himself and refused to take the cable car, so Ye Ruoliu had no choice but to risk her life to accompany him.

The most unique thing about Yunxi Temple is that it is surrounded by clouds and mist when you walk through the mountain. A wisp of smoke rises from the clouds in the sky and then surrounds the temple, making it seem as if the temple is in the clouds, like a palace in heaven. It is precisely because of this that Yunxi Temple is visited by many tourists, who all want to see what the temple looks like when it is shrouded in clouds and mist.

As they walked, they looked at each other, each eager to ask the other to take the cable car. But each was as stubborn as a bear, neither willing to speak first. And so it went on for who knows how long, with no clear path forward and no way back.

It was too late to take the cable car now. Ye Ruoliu didn't care about Li Chuanze anymore. She really couldn't hold on any longer.

Li Chuanze slowly sat down on the stone steps. When he saw Ye Ruoliu sitting down, he instantly collapsed on the ground as if his legs had no bones, gasping for breath.

Sweat soaked the hair on his forehead, and his calves were trembling. The mountain breeze brought a hint of coolness, slightly dispelling the heat. Neither of them spoke, and the only sound around them was the rustling of leaves in the wind.

To the right was an impenetrable forest, to the left a bottomless cliff. In this brief silence, a strange sound drifted faintly from the depths of the forest. It wasn't the sound of wind, nor the cry of birds, but more like a human voice.

Ye Ruoliu thought she had tinnitus due to exhaustion, so she shook her head and patted her ears. But Li Chuanze suddenly grasped her forearm. His hand was so hot that it burned Ye Ruoliu's skin, causing her to shudder.

"Did you hear anything?" Li Chuanze asked, and Ye Ruoliu realized it wasn't an illusion. Hearing him say that, she subconsciously sat up straight, both of them breathing more slowly, and began to listen intently.

"It sounds like someone is shouting for help." Ye Ruoliu said. She did hear the cry for help coming from the depths of the jungle.

The two looked at each other, not knowing what to do. Ye Ruoliu was the first to react and picked up her phone to call the police, but the place was too remote and there was no signal on her phone.

At this critical moment, Li Chuanze lost his patience first: "I'll go see what's going on, you climb up. We've been walking for about two or three hours, and there probably isn't much further to go."

"No, it's too dangerous. Let's go together." Li Chuanze's words made Ye Ruoliu's heart tighten. How could we let this guy go alone? Ye Ruoliu retorted without even thinking.

Ye Ruoliu looked at Li Chuanze, seeing his determined eyes, and gritted her teeth: "Okay, follow me closely, if things go wrong, we'll run, run up."

The two took a deep breath, followed the faint sound, and slowly moved aside the low-hanging branches, trying not to make any sound.

The further they went, the darker the light became, the denser the trees became, and the cries for help grew closer. They finally heard them clearly: the weak sobbing of a child, the thud of rocks hitting something, and the heavy breathing of a man.

Finally, they pushed aside a thin layer of brush and saw a small clearing ahead. A bloated, shabbily dressed man with holes in his clothes was holding a skinny child, no more than ten years old, to the ground with his back to them. The child's face was covered in blood and he struggled desperately, but the man raised a sharp stone high in the air and was about to smash it down on the boy's head.

"Stop!" Li Chuanze shouted.