Shangshen of Penglai, Shu Yun, accepts an old friend's request to protect their son through his tribulation and picks up a pitiful little apprentice along the way.
Unexpectedly, after she...
Seeing Feng Ziyi's expression, she inexplicably curved her lips into a smile. "Are you so frustrated making you wait here for me?"
Feng Ziyi deliberately let out a long sigh and looked at her resentfully, "That's right, someone asked me for a favor, and in the end, they just crammed me into this tiny room and wouldn't let me out. Is this how you ask for a favor?"
She doesn't even remember how he cried, made a scene, and threatened suicide after he caused trouble, begging her to help him resolve the issue.
Shu Yun walked up to him and waved.
Feng Ziyi pretended not to understand, "What?"
"Stop pretending," Shu Yun rolled her eyes at him, shooed him aside, and sat down comfortably on the soft couch herself. "Here are the pills you stole."
Feng Ziyi stretched out his hand and drew a line in the air. A flash of white light appeared, and a medicine gourd appeared in the air and fell into Shu Yun's hand.
Shu Yun pulled out the stopper, looked at the contents, and frowned, saying, "Why are there only three?"
Feng Ziyi pouted. "Last time you had an accident in the far north, I emptied my father's pharmacy and distributed it all to those little fairies in Penglai. I also used some when I was treating your injuries. You know my father's personality; it's rare for him to be diligent, so only these three pills are left."
Shu Yun shook the medicine gourd, her heart filled with worry, "Three pills are hardly enough..."
Upon hearing her words, Feng Ziyi tensed up immediately. He sat up straight and stared intently at Shu Yun. "Has your injury worsened?"
Before Shu Yun could speak, he added anxiously, "I told you to heal your injuries before going to see him, but you wouldn't listen. How is it now? How much has it worsened? What are we going to do now? If I suddenly ask my father to refine pills, he might become suspicious. What if he follows the clues and finds out about you? I..."
"Stop, stop," Shu Yun said, her head aching from his long string of wild imaginings. "My injury isn't that serious. Three is fine, as long as I have them."
Feng Ziyi looked serious. He was afraid that Shu Yun would be stubborn. She had always been like this since she was a child, keeping everything to herself and making people guess. "Don't be stubborn. Just tell me if three pills are enough. If not, I'll go back and find a god to cause trouble and fight with."
When he returns covered in injuries, his father will definitely continue to beat him while simultaneously refining pills to heal his wounds.
Shu Yun remained calm and expressed her support for his actions of causing trouble, faking an accident to extort money from his father, and swindling pills. "Then go ahead. Anyway, I won't be in Penglai this time, so I can't cover for you. You can handle it yourself."
Feng Ziyi carefully observed Shu Yun's expression. Since she still had time to chat with him, her injuries must not have worsened.
He relaxed a little, finally managing to come down from his room to talk to her for a while. "Have you found him?"
Shu Yun was thinking about the plague. Grinding the three pills into powder and adding them to the decoction would make them more effective, but it certainly wouldn't save everyone who had the plague. She still had to think of a way to save the rest.
She casually replied, "What?"
Feng Ziyi frowned: "Jiang Yan!"
He reached out and touched Shu Yun's forehead, but she slapped his hand away. As he shook her hand off, he said, "Are you really alright? I feel like your mind has become much duller, and your hearing has also deteriorated."
"..." Shu Yun put the medicine gourd aside and leaned back lazily. Feng Ziyi had arrived, and she was surrounded by an acquaintance, so she relaxed a lot.
Feng Ziyi frowned. "Still haven't found it?"
Shu Yun said calmly, "Found it."
"Why the look on your face after I found you?"
Shu Yun tilted her head to look at him, a little curious, "What kind of expression is that?"
Feng Ziyi thought for a moment, "It's a bit hard to describe, it's just... um... not as happy as I imagined."
He moved closer to Shu Yun. "Tell me, what's wrong?"
Shu Yun rarely had the chance to sit down and talk quietly with Feng Ziyi, this troublemaker. She didn't know why, perhaps because she had been feeling increasingly tired lately. She didn't want to speak, but after a long silence, she still whispered what she hadn't intended to say.
"I found Jiang Yan, but the situation is not quite what I expected."
When Feng Ziyi saw that she had really opened up to him, he was taken aback for a moment, and then asked, "What's wrong?"
Shu Yun crossed her arms and shrank back into the soft couch to warm herself up. "It's just... I thought that after I found Jiang Yan, I planned to stay by his side peacefully, love him like ordinary people in the mortal world, get married, and have children."
She didn't look at Feng Ziyi or anything else, as if she was simply emptying her mind. "Jiang Yan is born with a rebellious nature. His fate of becoming a demon cultivator is tragic. A rebellious nature can't lead to immortality. At first, I thought I would accompany him in every life. Anyway, I promised him that I would stay by his side forever."
"But after I finally found him, I discovered... the soul was the same, but he seemed to have changed..."
Feng Ziyi pondered for a moment and said, "The face has changed? That shouldn't be the case. It should still look the same, but you never know about reincarnation. It's really possible that it's become ugly..."
Shu Yun was speechless. She shouldn't have said these things to this brat. She said irritably, "Your face hasn't changed."
Feng Ziyi asked, puzzled, "Then how has he changed?"
Shu Yun remained silent.
Feng Ziyi then asked, "Even if he's changed, do you still like him?"
Shu Yun remained silent.
How could she not like it? Her mind kept replaying the last time she saw Jiang Yan.
Jiang Yan, dressed in black with bloodshot eyes, quietly fell into the black sea in front of her, his expression towards her showing the same obedient and gentle demeanor he always had in front of her.
Every time she recalls that scene, it makes her breathless and her eyes sting with tears.
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