Chapter 64 Chapter 64

Grass leaf ring.

Xibai liked it the first time he saw it.

The girl raised her head, said "Oh", and stood up and said, "I just made this up for fun. The prize area is here."

She gestured to Xibai to take a look at the things next to it.

"Hmm." Xibai hesitated for a moment, but still said, "Can you make an exception? I can use all my points to exchange for this ring."

It was dark around, and the girl took a closer look at his face with the help of the lamp.

"Hey, you are Xibai, right?"

Xibai was stunned, "Do you know me?"

"My name is Fang Yu. You helped me at an academic conference before. Have you forgotten?" The girl said excitedly.

Xibai blinked and shook his head embarrassedly.

He helped many ghosts and many people, and he often helped as much as he could, so he didn't remember it very well.

"It's okay, I just remember it." Fang Yu said, and she picked up the woven grass ring, "Take it if you like it, it's not worth much."

Xi Bai: "That..."

In fact, he wanted to ask for advice.

Fang Yu immediately understood, "Oh! You want to weave it yourself, right? No problem, I'll teach you!"

So the original prize redemption suddenly turned into a straw ring weaving tutorial.

Fang Yu searched for several styles that she knew on the Internet, and Xi Bai picked a simpler one that didn't seem that difficult to learn. The interwoven grass leaves were in the shape of warp and weft, connected end to end to form a ring, and the small flower at the top of the grass leaf just replaced the original jewelry.

Although it looked like the easiest one, Xibai still encountered many difficulties when he really started.

However, he was a quick learner and not clumsy. After about an hour, Xibai followed Fang Yu step by step and learned how to weave the grass ring.

"Well, that's it!" Fang Yu praised, and then saw Xibai picked up the other grass leaves beside him and started weaving the second one.

"Eh? Do you want to practice more?"

Xibai's ears blushed and said, "No, I'll do two."

Fang Yu blinked and then understood.

"Okay, then you do it, and ask me if you don't understand."

"Well, thank you!" Xibai thanked him seriously.

Without following step by step, Xibai's weaving progress was much slower, but fortunately Fang Yu guided him very carefully, so there were no big mistakes.

Gradually, a ring that was a circle larger than Xibai's finger took shape under his hand.

Fang Yu was confused at first, but soon, looking at Xibai's serious and focused eyes, she understood.

"You should like him very much." Fang Yu said seriously.

Xibai was stunned for a moment before reacting.

He thought about it, then smiled, "Strictly speaking, he should like me more." He

has been single for thousands of years, hiding and observing himself for a long time, and finally pretending to be a human to approach himself. Thinking

about it one by one, Xibai realized: Gu Chi, it seems that he really likes him!

After weaving the two rings, Xibai put them together in a small box.

"Thank you." Xibai said.

It was already very late, and even the students who were attending the garden party had left one after another, leaving only a few staff members still handling the prize redemption matters.

Although it was already early spring, the temperature at night was still relatively low.

After Fang Yu and Xi Bai waved goodbye, she sat back in her seat and blew into her palms.

Ten minutes later, she heard footsteps again.

Thinking it was her companions from the student union, she looked up, only to see that it was Xi Bai who had turned back again.

"Did you forget something?" Fang Yu asked.

Before she finished speaking, an electric hot water bag was put into her arms, warm and just charged.

Xi Bai said with a smile: "The temperature is quite cold recently, girls should keep warm."

"Thank you for teaching me how to weave a ring. I have something else to do, so I'll leave first."

While Fang Yu was in a daze, Xi Bai had already waved goodbye to her, and hurried away while checking the time on the screen of her mobile phone.

Not long after, another girl happened to come to the warehouse to get the prize and saw the hot water bag in Fang Yu's hand.

"Hey, isn't this the one Xi Bai just exchanged?" She said with a teasing expression, "So it was given to you, tut tut, you're lucky in love!"

"No, don't talk nonsense, Xi Bai has someone she likes, and she's in a good relationship." Fang Yu answered seriously.

The girl crossed her arms, "Then he also gave you a hot water bottle, Aquaman?"

"No." Fang Yu looked at the thin back that had already walked far away. For a moment, she felt that she was gradually overlapping with the figure who spoke up to help her out at an academic conference a few years ago.

She smiled and said, "It's just that some people are born kind and beautiful."

That's all.

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[White: I'm going back to the dormitory. Have you arrived yet?]

[Gu: Yes, just arrived]

[Gu: [Big dog licks]]

After the two of them were together, Gu Chi's expressions became more and more straightforward. Xi Bai was shy about this for a while.

When Xi Bai returned to the dormitory, she glanced at the crack under the dormitory door before opening the door, but she saw that the room seemed to be dark and there was no light on.

Didn't Gu Chi say he was already here?

Xi Bai pushed the door open and walked in.

A slight chill instantly enveloped him, and he realized that the room was filled with a layer of light black mist.

The wispy cool air gradually condensed, and the touch became clearer. Xi Bai quickly recognized that it was Gu Chi's hand.

The tension that he couldn't control just now quickly dissipated at this moment.

A tall black shadow floating in the air embraced Xibai from behind, or more accurately, entangled him.

With strong infatuation and love, he was not willing to let go of anyone even the slightest entanglement.

"Baby."

Gu Chi's voice was different from usual, deeper and farther than before, as if it came from an unreachable abyss.

Xibai hummed, and his feet felt floating.

He found that the scenery around him was falling, but Xibai soon realized: he was the one floating.

A few seconds later, Xibai saw another self with his eyes closed, lifted up by the black mist, taking off his shoes, socks, and coat...

"Don't take off my clothes!" Xibai shouted.

The rolling black mist paused obviously, and Xibai could actually see some disappointment from that moment.

Soon, "he" was carried to the bed by the black mist in his base clothes, and the quilt was thoughtfully covered to prevent his naked body from getting cold.

There was a warmth behind him, and when Xibai turned around, Gu Chi had already appeared behind him.

A Gu Chi who made him feel refreshed again, and his eyes lit up instantly.

He had seen Gu Chi in casual clothes, Gu Chi in autumn clothes, Gu Chi in a black shirt, and Gu Chi who had unlocked his red pupils a few days ago.

But today, Gu Chi gave his true self without reservation and sent it to Xibai, his beloved - in the complete form of a ghost king.

He was tall, with bright red eyes and whiter skin than Xibai had seen before, and his facial features were slightly sharper. He had lost the warm feeling of a big dog, but was more in line with the aura of the "King of Ghosts in the Underworld".

His clothes had also changed from the usual familiar outfit to the wide sleeves of ancient times. The ink-like background was faintly permeated with scattered golden light and mottled dark red spots. Xibai thought it was blood at first, but after a closer look, he found that it was the color of the red spider lily.

Gu Chi lowered his head slightly, and a slight itch brushed past his ears. Xibai then realized that his hair had also grown longer.

"What?" Gu Chi laughed, "Don't you dare recognize me?"

The familiar smile finally made Xi Bai regain the atmosphere of their old times. He reached out and touched Gu Chi's sleeve.

The fabric felt very good, like soft satin, but with some slight differences.

"Indeed, it's a little different." Xi Bai lowered his head and raised his eyebrows, not really looking into Gu Chi's eyes.

The more he did this, the more Gu Chi wanted to see Xi Bai's reaction.

Taking Xi Bai's hand and clenching it in his palm, Gu Chi lowered his head and kissed her boyfriend's ear from the side, followed by a series of delicate kisses, all the way to her slender neck.

"What's different?" Gu Chi asked, and gently bit that pretty little Adam's apple.

Xibai cried softly, his fragile Adam's apple was bitten by his teeth, and his lips rubbed against Gu Chi's slightly cool lips.

He felt that he was floating even more powerfully. It was his first time to leave his body, so he was unfamiliar with the control of his soul. Now he was flustered and began to float even more.

A black mist stretched out and became thinner, wrapping around his waist and dragging the floating Xibai back.

Gu Chi's hands were a little dishonest, "Baby, what's different about me?"

Xibai refused to say that he felt that Gu Chi looked more handsome than before, and a little bit shy.

He held it in for a long time before finally saying, "You seem to feel cooler now than before."

The human body temperature is very hot, but the body of the ghost king Gu Chi is cool.

Gu Chi was so angry that he almost laughed when he heard this obviously irrelevant answer.

He locked the person tightly in his arms, "Cool? Not necessarily?" The

hot thing pressed against his lower back and spine, and when Xi Bai realized what it was, his entire soul almost turned red.

He was so ashamed that he wanted to bury his face in the black mist in front of him.

"You, how come you have become so lustful!" Xi Bai stammered.

Gu Chi accepted all his accusations, "But I am a ghost myself, not a good person."

And he had been holding it in for thousands of years before he met Xi Bai, so how could he hold it in?

"That's not the way to say it." Xi Bai suddenly became serious. "There are good ghosts and bad people!"

He didn't meet many bad people, but there were not too few either. Some people would buy the life span of living people in order to prolong their lives; but there were also ghosts who would still linger in the world after death and were unwilling to leave, just for the righteousness in their hearts when they were alive.

Gu Chi looked at Xi Bai who suddenly became serious and couldn't help but smile.

"Yeah." He nudged Xi Bai's cheek, "I used the wrong words."

Xi Bai realized that he was a little too serious, and he felt a little embarrassed after he realized it.

"No, I don't mean to blame you..."

Gu Chi wanted to say that he knew.

But on second thought, he hummed, his eyes slightly widened, "Is that so? But I'm already sad."

His pupils seemed to become slightly wider, with a bit more lively vitality. When Xibai met them, he actually saw some of the natural grievance that Gu Chi often showed in his human form.

"Well, then what do you say we should do?" Xibai grabbed Gu Chi's robe and asked nervously.

Gu Chi came closer, "Then just kiss me."

Although she suspected that her boyfriend was taking advantage of her, Xibai still turned around, hugged Gu Chi's neck, and kissed Gu Chi in the ghost king form in the form of a soul.

After the long kiss, Gu Chi touched his nose.

"Is there a difference in kissing?"

Xibai bumped his head against him.

Gu Chi smiled and hugged him tightly, kissing Xi Bai on the cheek again.

A serious boyfriend is really adorable.

At midnight, the second hand stepped on the 12 o'clock of the dial.

"Oh, right." Xi Bai remembered something, "I brought you a gift."

He reached into his pocket and searched for a while but found nothing. Then he realized that he was a soul.

Just as he was trying to find his physical body, a black mist had already flexibly reached into the pocket of Xi Bai's clothes and took out a small box from it.

"This?" Gu Chi controlled the black mist and brought the box in front of him, as if he was doing something with his own arm.

Xi Bai nodded, "Yeah!" After

exchanging glances, Gu Chi opened the box.

When he saw the two grass rings neatly placed inside, he once again heard the irregular heartbeat from his body that was not made of human structure.

"You didn't come to the lantern festival tonight." Xi Bai said, taking out the larger ring, "I wanted to bring you some interesting gifts, so I asked someone to teach me how to weave rings." Gu

Chi had already stretched out his hand unconsciously, and Xi Bai blushed as she put the ring on him.

"It's not a very expensive thing, and it's not even worth the money." Xibai said, and glared at Gu Chi with pretended dominance, "But you are not allowed to dislike it, you must wear it well!"

Gu Chi was even a little speechless at this time.

He stared at the ring of the perfect size on his middle finger, and his heart began to get hot.

Xibai's soul floated a little uncontrollably on the net, and he nervously grabbed Gu Chi's arm to stabilize his body.

"Don't be afraid, I'm here." Gu Chi said.

The black mist turned into a black cloud, and lifted Xibai up steadily.

For a moment, the original height was reversed.

Xibai looked down at Gu Chi, and saw that the other party was holding another ring and holding up his hand.

The tall man raised his head, and in his vertical pupils, which were obviously not human, there was a deep affection that did not match his temperament.

At this moment, Xibai even had an illusion that Gu Chi was proposing to him. Xibai

saw Gu Chi smiling at him.

He also saw Gu Chi holding the grass ring and pointing it at his finger.

The ring was slowly put on his finger, and the moment it fit perfectly, the two people's heartbeats almost hit the same rhythm.

Xibai and Gu Chi realized one thing at the same time.

At this moment, and every moment in the future.

They will always have only each other.

Xibai was put down and held in his arms again.

Gu Chi's palm covered the back of his hand, and the two interlocked their fingers. The grass leaf rings of different sizes but the same style touched each other, and their ears were filled with each other's breath.

"Wear it well." Xi Bai's tone suddenly became a little lost.

After all, the grass leaf ring is a plant, and it will wither soon. "Then it won't be so beautiful."

Gu Chi smiled and kissed the corner of Xi Bai's lips.

"Baby, close your eyes."

Xi Bai was puzzled, but seeing Gu Chi nodded, he did as he was told and closed his eyelids.

In the darkness, he felt that Gu Chi once again lifted his palm, but unlike before, this time, Gu Chi held the hand with the ring.

There seemed to be a distant and ancient sound in his ears, floating between the black mist and the cool pine fragrance, ethereal and like an illusion.

Soon, Gu Chi's voice sounded again.

"Okay."

Xi Bai opened his eyes, lowered his head subconsciously, and widened his eyes in surprise.

The grass leaf ring on his hand has changed.

The original ring was soft after woven grass leaves, and as time passed, its saturated green color gradually faded.

But at this moment, the grass leaves seemed to have turned into another material, like jade, and also like gemstones, but it still has a slightly tough texture of grass.

Xi Bai lowered his head and sniffed lightly.

The faint fragrance of the plant is still there!

"Amazing, how did you do it!" He hugged Gu Chi's arm and asked with shining eyes.

Gu Chi raised his eyebrows slightly and pointed to his face.

Xi Bai took a sip of the fruit, shaking Gu Chi's arm like a child who saw something new, "Tell me quickly."

Gu Chi looked at her boyfriend with a smile on his face.

"Then your husband is a god after all."

The Ghost King controls the life and death of thousands of creatures, so it is not difficult to keep a plant alive forever.

And the jade-like texture is just some small magic to change the material.

None of this is important.

What's important is that this is the first formal gift Xi Bai gave him after they got together.

Whether it's the extraordinary meaning or just to make Xi Bai happy.

Gu Chi naturally wants this ring to last forever like their love for each other.

Year after year, eternal and immortal.

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Midnight on the Lantern Festival.

A stream of light passed through the layers of black mist above the dome of the underworld and landed on a platform protruding from a stone mountain.

Xibai stepped onto the stone surface unsteadily. Although Gu Chi's hand was around his waist and the latter could not let him fall, Xibai subconsciously shrank a little into his arms, grabbed the collar of Gu Chi's outer robe, and carefully looked at the empty cliff under his feet.

Gu Chi looked at Xibai's appearance and curled his lips with satisfaction.

Xibai slowed down a little and then peeked out from Gu Chi's arms.

To his surprise, the underworld was somewhat different from what he imagined.

In Xibai's imagination, the underworld should be a gloomy, gray, and freezing cold place, with desolate and desolate wasteland everywhere, or a place full of rugged and strange rocks.

Or at a glance, it is the eighteen levels of hell, with corpses and screaming ghosts everywhere, or endless ice and hellfire - this is what is recorded in many books.

Seeing what Xibai was thinking, Gu Chi smiled.

"Hell is not here."

He didn't want to take Xibai to such a place.

"The original underworld was indeed desolate, but that was a thousand years ago." Gu Chi pulled Xibai and jumped down from the mountain.

Xibai was startled at first, but when he found that the scenery around him was only moving slowly upwards, he remembered that he was now a soul and would not fall directly.

That means Newton can't control him anymore.

After landing, Xibai saw two long doorposts.

He raised his head and saw a huge door that was as big as a city standing in front of him.

There was a plaque on the door with five powerful characters written on it.

Fengdu Ghost Gate

Fengdu is the underworld and also the city of ghosts.

Outside the Ghost Gate is the world of the living, and after passing the Ghost Gate is what people often call "the underworld". He

was stepping on a flat loess road. Although it was loess, the soil was compacted and would not make him squint his eyes.

There were several ghost messengers whispering on the side of the road. Xibai listened carefully and realized that this was the legendary "Yellow Spring Road".

"Why is the Yellow Spring Road so quiet today? Isn't it usually very windy?"

"Yeah, it's weird. Hey, that's..."

"...Your Highness the Ghost King!"

Gu Chi signaled them not to be polite, looked down at Xi Bai and said, "Do you want to go there in person, or should I take you directly into the city?"

"Where is ahead?" Xi Bai asked first.

"Yellow Spring Road, Naihe Bridge, Sansheng Stone, Wangchuan River." Gu Chi said concisely.

"I want to see!" Xi Bai said immediately.

Gu Chi raised his eyebrows and led him forward.

When passing through the gate of hell, Xi Bai couldn't help but look up.

"What do you feel?" Gu Chi asked him.

Xi Bai thought for a while, "Well, there's nothing special."

As the two left, the wind that had been blowing on the Yellow Spring Road for thousands of years started to blow again, and the yellow earth flew, blowing the wandering souls on the road to sway.

The wind here never stops.

But someone suppressed all the wind and sand to protect his beloved.

As they walked, the scene around them changed.

The roadside was no longer an endless darkness, but a bottomless pool, and above the surface of the pool was an endless swaying bright red, gorgeous as fire.

"That is..."

"Higanbana."

Gu Chi raised his hand and a Higanbana that bloomed like a flame flew into his hand.

Xi Bai reached out, took the Higanbana, lowered his head and sniffed it gently.

He grabbed Gu Chi's clothes and sniffed them.

"It really smells the same."

Gu Chi held Xi Bai's hand that was grabbing his sleeve and smiled at him.

"So many Higanbana." Xi Bai looked around at the vast sea of ​​flowers around him. No wonder the smell on Gu Chi was so obvious.

"In fact, there weren't that many."

"What?"

"The red spider lilies did bloom on both sides of the Yellow Spring Road, but although there were many in the past, they were not as dense as they are now." Gu Chi said, looking at Xi Bai, "Until those two years."

The words paused here, and Xi Bai suddenly understood what the two years Gu Chi was talking about were.

It was the two years from the age of sixteen to eighteen when Gu Chi was hiding from him.

"After a person dies, his soul returns to the underworld and must take the Yellow Spring Road."

Naturally, ghosts and gods go from the underworld to the human world and also go out of the Ghost Gate at the intersection of the Yellow Spring Road.

And in those two years, there was a tall figure who had been wandering on the Yellow Spring Road.

Every time he wanted to go out, he would always hesitate again and again before stepping out of the Ghost Gate.

The Buddha walked in the world, and every step gave birth to a lotus of compassion.

Where the Ghost King walked, there were only red spider lilies, which represent death.

"So in those two years, the red spider lilies bloomed more and more, until later, it became an unprecedented sea of ​​flowers."

Xibai stared at the sea of ​​red spider lilies for a long time.

At first, he only thought that the huge number was shocking, but now when he looks at it again, Xibai's eyes looking at the clusters of red spider lilies have already trembled slightly with water light.

He suddenly remembered the flower language he saw when he searched the Internet out of curiosity when he received the first batch of red spider lilies sent by Gu Chi that day.

Red red spider lilies.

Represents the love and longing separated by yin and yang.