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The atmosphere in the library was ambiguous and slightly drunken. Jiang Nian stood quietly, waiting for Xiao Yingzhu's reply.

The gaze that fell on his face was as light as the bright moon, invisible and shadowless.

Jiang Nian clearly felt a warm sensation that seemed to be real.

The distance between them was shortened due to the unusual noise outside just now. Even though Jiang Nian had just taken a few steps back, he was still within a few steps.

As long as Xiao Yingzhu moved a little closer, the faint shadows on the ground would gently cover it.

Because of the height difference, the girl was looking up at him.

Under the candlelight, the expression on her face was extremely clear, and her dark pupils shone brightly, as if she could see through everything she wanted to explore, and no one could escape her gaze.

Similarly, as Xiao Yingzhu's gaze shifted downwards, Jiang Nian's hand, which was hanging relaxedly at his side, became particularly visible under the light, and the slightly bent fingertips indicated that its owner was slightly uneasy.

This is indeed reasonable.

Being in a foreign land, a different era.

There is no one here who can completely belong to her, nor is there any hometown where she can sleep peacefully. Even all traces of the past have been erased.

Her relatives, her friends, and those passers-by who knew how she grew up were all buried in this heavy time.

Now, in these few short months, she had to find someone in this era who she could completely trust and to whom she could confide her secrets, and on this basis, become each other's most inseparable helper.

It's almost harder than climbing to the sky.

Here, all you see is the vast ocean, and all you see in the distance are strangers.

He can avoid all kinds of calculations from his enemies, and face the possibility of being discovered by others that he has taken over someone else's body, so as to change other people's original views of the original owner, make his own behavior reasonable, and then use local materials to make an anthelmintic that can turn the tide.

Every step here is extremely dangerous.

If there is a mistake in the design, unpredictable things will happen, disrupting everything that has been planned.

Xiao Yingzhu was outside her plan, a variable she could not predict, and an extremely dangerous hidden object in all her arrangements.

The person standing in front of her at this moment was beyond her expectations. He was the bomb that she was most afraid of and worried about, and she didn't know when it would explode.

It may bring her fatal harm, or it may help her eliminate all obstacles in front of her, cut through the thorns and bring the fruits of victory to her.

Fifty percent uncertainty lies before Jiang Nian. All the entanglements about how to face Xiao Yingzhu in the future stem from her inability to clearly determine whether this thunder can be touched or not.

For a short period of time, Jiang Nian couldn't sort out his thoughts about Xiao Yingzhu and his own thoughts when Xiao Yingzhu faced her.

Before being able to find out Xiao Yingzhu's true intentions, all the ideas put forward now should be regarded as one's own imagination.

But things are different now.

She thought clearly about what she wanted, and also saw clearly what Xiao Yingzhu said and did to her in that rainy night.

They all revealed a little bit of it to her.

——He could have clearly not done these ambiguous and eye-catching things, touched the woman he had never interacted with before, and used the most difficult-to-control emotions to determine everything about the two of them in the future.

But Xiao Yingzhu did just that.

There is a tacit understanding between both parties, a hidden place that cannot be explored. What is covered by the night rain is the entrance to an unknown winding path after the fog is lifted.

Jiang Nian looked up at Xiao Yingzhu. Under the flickering candlelight, there was a hint of a starry smile in his eyes, just like the eternal flower she had imagined during their night chat in the teahouse long ago.

Because of her words and actions, it slowly blossomed here, revealing its dark inner self, and extended an invitation to her as promised.

This time, Xiao Yingzhu no longer said "as you wish".

Because this is a vision that belongs to them alone, not just one person.

They are both an ally and the unspeakable external aid.

What should it be?

Jiang Nian watched Xiao Yingzhu's movements, her mind was blank, only a flash of red light passed through her eyes, and the bright red color illuminated her eyes.

The red and black earrings he wore when he first met Xiao Yingzhu reappeared at this moment.

As he lowered his head, the black tassels fell to her shoulders, along with her black hair, and tangled with her fine hair.

Xiao Yingzhu's hands were warm and cool, and his slender fingers twisted the other side of her earring. When Jiang Nian's sight was covered by his shadow, the cold earring fell on her left ear which was not wearing any jewelry.

The crisp fragrance was as aggressive as its owner. The moment he leaned over slightly and lowered his head to get closer to her, it mercilessly rushed into her nostrils and all over her body.

As if leaving a mark on her body, until the moment Xiao Yingzhu raised her head and put down her hand again, the heart-pounding fragrance was still slowly lingering around where she could breathe.

Jiang Nian couldn't help but hold her breath. The pendant on her earlobe was cool and hung quietly beside her neck. The eye-catching red color represented the medal of her successful bet, and it also guaranteed her safety and power in all her future actions.

She didn't expect that Xiao Yingzhu would use the other half of his earring as evidence instead of words, and it fell prominently next to her face, letting everyone know that they had reached one contract after another.

Jiang Nian reached out and gently held the invisible earring, pinched the ornament on it, looked up at him, and asked softly, "What color is this one?"

If they are in pairs, the colors may be opposite.

Xiao Yingzhu looked at her quietly, his gaze moving to her cheek as she asked.

The dazzling red on the white earlobe is an oath to some forbidden fruit that outsiders cannot explore.

This extremely obvious warning will make everyone treat her with the same respect as they treat Xiao Yingzhu.

It is just a piece of jewelry, but it can bear the weight of power and interests, and can make people of ordinary background leap forward and become the one with the right to speak.

Jiang Nian felt that he had won the gamble.

But rather than winning, it was more like her behavior and analysis pleased Xiao Yingzhu, and Xiao Yingzhu rewarded her for this.

Strong foreign aid.

When in Pingzhou, Jiang Nian thought that if his ally could become someone he could trust and put in more effort to help him, his future would be much easier.

But Xiao Yingzhu does things without leaving any traces. If he doesn't want to show you something, he will make sure that you can't find it, and you won't even be able to detect its existence.

Therefore, Jiang Nian gave up this fantastic idea at the beginning and prepared to exchange his own achievements for goods.

Unexpectedly, in just one month, their relationship became even more unbreakable.

He even gave her this token that represented him.

He really trusts her.

He did give her trust as she requested.

What was this, a god you could pray to? A devil who could grant wishes for nothing?

After all, if Xiao Yingzhu turns against him later, there is also the risk of sacrificing her.

Jiang Nian waited for a long time but didn't see Xiao Yingzhu's answer. However, because of these thoughts that suddenly flashed into his mind, he couldn't help but smile lightly and turned his head away.

She didn't want Xiao Yingzhu to know about her thoughts, otherwise he would easily think that she was taking things too far and thinking about something out of line.

Jiang Nian walked a few steps to the side, his eyes swept across the long row of bookshelves, and suddenly paused somewhere.

There's something tucked next to the book over there.

It seems to be a round mirror.

Needless to say, it must have been given by Shouzan to Xiao Yingzhu's mother.

Thinking of the record in the Princess's diary about how close the four of them were, Jiang Nian walked over and took out the book.

Small, clear, round mirrors are very common in modern times, but not in Huandu.

The pendant on the earlobe was very light, but the tiny tassels made her neck feel a little itchy.

Jiang Nian raised his hand to adjust the position of the earrings while picking up the mirror to look at it.

Her face was clearly reflected in the mirror. As she picked up the hair that was scattered around her ears, the earrings that Xiao Yingzhu had just put on her were revealed.

It was different from what she expected.

I thought they were earrings of symmetrical color, but now it seems that they are a transparent crow feather black.

Jiang Nian was a little surprised and subconsciously turned to look at Xiao Yingzhu, but saw that Xiao Yingzhu was looking down at another part of the bookshelf.

The book in his hand was the second volume of the book she had just stopped to read.

Thinking that he had not yet explained his discovery here, Jiang Nian picked up the round mirror in his hand and walked towards Xiao Yingzhu.

"This book was brought by Shouzan."

"What's recorded above are some plants that have not been discovered yet."

"It might contain the one we're looking for."

Noticing Jiang Nian's choice of words, Xiao Yingzhu closed the book and was about to say something casually, but when he lowered his eyes, he saw the mirror in her hand. He stopped talking for a moment and raised his eyes in surprise.

"Did you find this mirror here?"

His thoughts were racing, and Jiang Nian didn't understand why, so he held it up to show him.

"Yes."

Xiao Yingzhu glanced at the book in her hand that she had just flipped through, and then her eyes fell on the mirror in her hand.

"This book and the mirror in your hand—are they from the same source?"

"——" Jiang Nian's breath was caught, and then he answered with understanding, "Yes."

"Shouzan and you are from the same place?"

"......I have no idea."

Jiang Nian shook his head.

She did not ignore Xiao Yingzhu's inquiring gaze, looked at him, and then thought of a way.

"But I can see if they are from the same place."

They all subtly avoided words related to time.

It seemed that this could help them ignore the thousand-year gap between them.

Jiang Nian took the book that Xiao Yingzhu put in her hand, flipped through the first two pages and looked at them, then opened the back of the book without hesitation to look at the numbers.

Wherever she looked, there was only a blank in her eyes.

As if she had noticed something, she took out a few books from the row where this one was placed and looked at them.

In the end, Jiang Nian’s idea was confirmed.

For some reason, the years when the books were printed are all blurred.

Make her unable to see clearly.

“…”

Jiang Nian put the book back into Xiao Yingzhu's hands with regret.

"Maybe, because there are books of this kind where I live." Although the cover and some of the contents are different, the titles are still the same, and they are all similar.

"But if you want to divide the years very finely, I don't think I can find it."