To the New World

Xu Youling once asked Pei Zhi about Yue Changji and Fang Linshui. Although Pei Zhi immediately showed an expression as if facing a great enemy and seemed very reluctant to answer this question, Xu Youling still pretended to be very bad at reading the air and asked again firmly.

"Why are you asking this?" Pei Zhi was very nervous, carefully choosing every word he spoke. "Do you doubt me?"

"Could you please not be so overreacting..." Xu Youling complained in a low voice.

"Excessive? Really excessive?" Pei Zhi stood up in frustration and walked around the room. He then sat back down next to Xu Youling in frustration, trying to appear calm while leaning closer to her restlessly. "I'm just a little..."

"Please..." Xu Youling's voice softened.

If we have to say that there are still some unresolved issues between him and Pei Zhi...perhaps it is only related to the original protagonist of this world.

Clearly, based on his impression of the original book, Pei Zhi's darkening was largely due to Yue Changji, but it couldn't be said that Fang Linshui had no connection at all. Even though Xu Youling hadn't heard this name in a long time, he had to admit that it still lingered in his mind.

Although he was actually a little confused as to why he had never seen anything about them in Pei Zhi's mental picture.

Pei Zhi pursed his lips and tentatively held Xu Youling's hand. Seeing that he did not resist, he seemed to be slightly relieved. He slowly took his hand and lifted it up, his movements gentle and careful.

"It's just..." He frowned even more, "I don't know how to put it."

How should I put it? The classic, set-up-for-hire tragic childhood of the villain, his obsession with something that serves as a rich character arc, and the difficult collision of his own emotions that are completely shackled within it?

How could I put all this into words? How had I spent my youth, nurtured by the White Pagoda with dreams and hopes, only to be stripped of everything by these two protagonists, thrown time and again into a hopeless situation?

How did all this shape his distrust of guides, and how did it deeply bind his hatred and jealousy of Yue Changji in the eyes of others?

How to put it into words?

Pei Zhi was surprised to find that when he was hesitating about how to say these words, the first thought in his mind was not that Xu Youling would be sad, but that Xu Youling might feel distressed.

It seemed a bit too confident, but Pei Zhi really felt that Xu Youling would be distressed. Just seeing Xu Youling staring at him brightly would make him feel better. However, he absolutely could not use this as an excuse to not say the words that would make Xu Youling feel at ease.

Because of my previous withdrawal and overconfidence, it seems I should be more sincere.

Pei Zhi held Xu Youling's hand and did not let go, but slowly knelt on one knee in front of him, watching Xu Youling's expression gradually change from nervousness to some surprise.

"I only like you, really only you." Pei Zhi lowered his head, lifted his hand and kissed it lightly, "From the beginning to the end, there is only you."

It really is like that.

Only Xu Youling is a guide who is in physical contact with them. Only their emotions and thoughts have been entangled and intertwined, and will continue to be so.

If Xu Youling is willing.

Is Xu Youling willing?

Pei Zhi was almost afraid to raise his head to look into Xu Youling's eyes, so when he raised his head nervously, his heart was beating very fast.

And as he wished, he saw Xu Youling smile.

"Then I will believe you, I really will believe you." Xu Youling smiled with his eyes curved.

Pei Zhi took a very light breath, raised his hand and hugged Xu Youling into his arms, his nose touching his chin.

"Really?" He said in a muffled voice, "Do you really believe me?"

It was obviously something that could be fully understood by exploring the spiritual realm, but Pei Zhi especially hoped that Xu Youling could tell him, because he heard Xu Youling say that it was impossible to do so in the place they were going to.

Love requires crossing the boundary of language to finally know each other and fall in love.

So he hoped that Xu Youling could express herself a little more, be more honest. If he could express his little anxiety and jealousy more directly, Pei Zhi would feel that he had become a happier person.

-

Xu Youling said goodbye to her friends here.

Although he didn't really say all this nonsense directly, he simply said that he would probably... stay outside with Pei Zhi for a long time and would miss them very much.

Song Qi yelled and Lu Heng sneered.

Perhaps he thought he had suffered too much in love, so he showed considerable indignation at Xu Youling's possible actions, but in the end he still wished him all the best.

After hanging up the communicator, Xu Youling and Pei Zhi were clueless about how to leave.

It's not entirely true to say that he had no idea at all, because Xu Youling had actively analyzed the situation and pointed out that he could be electrocuted just like when he first came to this world... and was quickly opposed by Pei Zhi.

"I don't want to show up in an unprepared place holding your body again." Pei Zhi said.

Once Pei Zhi said this, Xu Youling felt very uncomfortable. So even though it was Xu Youling who was in danger at that time, the final outcome was always Xu Youling comforting Pei Zhi with guilt.

"I will never leave you again" and "I really know I was wrong" and so on.

Then Pei Zhi's dark face wouldn't last long, and he would take the initiative to ask for the kiss that he thought he deserved.

When the escape plan was at a dead end and progressing unusually happily, two unexpected people came to the border station.

Almost as soon as the other party entered Pei Zhi's mental perception range, the sentry became unprecedentedly anxious and annoyed, even the German Shepherd raised its head and howled like a wolf. Xu Youling tried his best to persuade him, both comforting him and letting Pei Zhi take full advantage, and only then did he barely calm the furious sentry down.

They are Fang Suiming and Shen Jiayi.

The two men's arrival at the camp wasn't a big deal, but it clearly made Pei Zhi feel very uncomfortable. As they entered the tent with other soldiers, Xu Youling was completely unable to stop Pei Zhi and could only watch as he rushed forward and grabbed Fang Suiming by the collar.

"!" Fang Suiming, completely oblivious to Pei Zhi's approach, stumbled, his face a pale pale. Shen Jiayi, startled, stepped forward and grasped Pei Zhi's wrist.

"I have something to say to your useless sentry." Pei Zhi said coldly.

Xu Youling could only watch as Pei Zhi pulled Fang Suiming up and walked into the heavy snow outside.

He turned around and quickly gestured to Xu Youling, who then quickly followed him out.

-

The snow fell heavily, sinking into the ground, and the cold was biting.

Fang Suiming was thrown to the ground by Pei Zhi, half kneeling on the ground, and looked up at him with jealousy. Xu Youling tentatively touched his sea of ​​consciousness and found that his mental strength was almost gone.

"Pei Zhi..." Fang Suiming gritted his teeth, "How did I offend you? You lunatic..."

Pei Zhi looked at him for a while without saying a word, then turned around and asked Xu Youling, who was standing aside with a surprised look on his face, to come over, and put his arms around him.

"You're wearing too little," Pei Zhi said dissatisfiedly. "We're going on a long journey."

Xu Youling opened her eyes slightly and realized that Pei Zhi was not joking, because the key to the long journey he mentioned was right in front of her.

It was Fang Suiming in Pei Zhi's spiritual realm who carried his hatred after Yue Changji.

What kind of "accident" caused Fang Suiming to lose most of his mental power and become a low-level sentry who couldn't even detect Pei Zhi's approach would probably be a mystery that Xu Youling was not so willing to ask.

Pei Zhi carefully fiddled with Xu Youling's collar and buttons before casting a condescending gaze at Fang Suiming, who was kneeling on the ground, and said in a sarcastic tone, "Commander Shen is truly a man of integrity."

"I don't allow you to talk about him, I don't allow you to talk about him!" Fang Suiming suddenly raised his head.

"Is it important?" Pei Zhi smiled coldly.

He half-knelt down and touched the ice under his feet with one hand. Xu Youling squatted down as well and could see the overlapping traces of glaciers like white waves below, and also - a long rift valley.

He suddenly realized what it was and was stunned for a moment.

"Is this the place?" Pei Zhi looked at Fang Suiming, "You still remember it, right?"

Fang Suiming's face turned pale.

Of course it was here. An unexpected mission accident and a wrong mental guidance judgment made him lose his mind and blamed everything on the madman Pei Zhi, and... he did not succeed in bringing him down.

He did not succeed in bringing him down as his brother Fang Linshui wished.

Pei Zhi understood and stopped looking at him. He turned his head and kissed the top of Xu Youling's head affectionately, whispering, "Don't be afraid of what I'm going to do next, okay?"

Xu Youling agreed.

If such a long time of getting along in this world is not enough to reduce Pei Zhi's desire for revenge and hatred to the threshold of a normal person, then he will make up for it in the future.

He is ready.

Pei Zhi nodded slightly, held Xu Youling's hand with one hand, and pulled out a combat dagger from the side of his leg with the other hand.

Then he stabbed Fang Suiming's back of the hand accurately and neatly!

Fang Suiming's screams were barely human, shaking the snow to a crawl. Pei Zhi, however, remained impassive, seemingly unmoved. He scooped up a drop of blood from the tip of his knife and dotted it onto the ice.

Xu Youling watched the trickle of blood slowly seep into the ice, gradually moving downwards until it disappeared into the rift that had been formed long ago.

"Are you scared?" Pei Zhi asked again in a low voice.

Xu Youling shook his head resolutely and gripped Pei Zhi's hand even tighter. In a trance, he felt their spirits intertwining and merging for the final time. Two faint wisps of light, each entwined in a circle, rose high into the sky above.

Sky.

Xu Youling was surprised to find that the sky above his head was not the gray and white color it had always been, but a bright starry sky.

He didn't know whether he had missed all of this or his consciousness at this moment was just another illusion, but when he turned his head to look at Pei Zhi and realized that Pei Zhi was still standing beside him, holding his hand tightly, he decided to believe in this illusion for a short time.

The illusion of going home with the person I love is like the day before a spring outing, a little nervous and a little expectant.

"Are you ready?" Pei Zhi looked at him with a smile.

Xu Youling once again looked at this face that was full of evil, unforgivable sins and loved him the most, and smiled at Pei Zhi.

"I'm ready," he said.

Follow this inn to reach the sky.

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