Life is a dream (10)
"I... I'm fine. I just went out to observe the surroundings. Don't worry." He hesitated for a while, but still put his hand on her back and patted her gently.
After hearing this, she was still choking with sobs and hugged him tightly. Xu Xing looked down and could only see the top of her head, not her expression.
He waited quietly, patting her back from time to time to help her calm down.
After a while, Li Zhaoyue sniffed her nose and her tears stopped. She then felt vaguely embarrassed, so she hurriedly stepped out of Xu Xing's arms and stood aside at a loss.
Lou Daoyan had been watching the show for a long time. Seeing the two of them looking shy, he sneered, "It was just a hug, wasn't it necessary to be like this?"
Li Zhaoyue's face turned even redder when these words came out, and Xu Xing also turned away. She hurriedly walked to the table and sat down, constantly pouring water into her mouth.
Seeing this, Lou Daoyan frowned and asked, "Are you that thirsty? Why did you drink so much?"
Li Zhaoyue remained silent.
In the end, Xu Xing coughed lightly and changed the subject.
"I just explored the surroundings. It's blocked by prohibitions and entanglements. So this formation is almost unbreakable from the inside."
Loudaoyan turned the teacup and listened to him talk.
Xu Xing sat down next to Li Zhaoyue, poured himself a cup of tea, and continued, "But there is a way we can take a risk and try."
After saying that, he looked towards Lou Daoyan.
Lou Daoyan stopped stroking the rim of the teacup and looked at him with a half-smile: "What are you looking at me for? If I knew the solution, I wouldn't be here."
"Maintaining the ban and entanglement requires strong resentment. You are still alive now, so you must have resentment." Xu Xing said with a smile.
Lou Daoyan hated his confident look and said disgustedly, "I don't have any resentment."
"Really?" Xu Xing stretched out his voice and unfolded the compass he had been holding in his hand.
The compass looked exactly the same as Li Zhaoyue's except that there was no gold on the corners.
She looked at him in surprise.
Xu Xing began to inject energy into the compass scale, and then Lou Daoyan's body suddenly began to glow.
Xu Xing threw the compass into Li Zhaoyue's arms, quickly and ruthlessly grabbed Lou Daoyan's wrist, and forced it to turn over in his extremely angry eyes.
A small red mole was revealed, followed by a flash of white light, and suddenly an old book appeared next to Li Zhaoyue's hand.
Li Zhaoyue picked up the book and stroked the cover with his fingers. The book suddenly began to turn pages spontaneously.
The handwriting is very beautiful, with the date written on it. It seems to be a daily notebook recording life.
"Give it back to me!" Lou Daoyan tried to snatch it, but Xu Xing broke his wrist and he fell to the ground.
"It seems that Young Master Lou is indeed hiding something." Xu Xing said with a smile.
Lou Daoyan glanced at him, then turned to Li Zhaoyue and said, "This thing is my personal property, please return it to me, young lady."
Since it was his personal belonging, Li Zhaoyue didn't want to look at it any more. He quickly sorted it out and was about to hand it to him. However, Xu Xing intercepted it halfway.
He brushed his fingers across the cover of the booklet and said with a smile, "I've discovered that the source of the resentment lies within this booklet. I wonder what Young Master Lou has hidden within it? Could you please tell me about it?"
Lou Daoyan shook his hand off and looked at the two of them sinisterly.
"I didn't let you in, but you're trying to find a way out through me. Don't you think it's ridiculous?" he shouted.
"This place isn't a good place. If I really knew how to get out, I wouldn't have wasted my time here and become like this, half-human, half-ghost."
"No." Xu Xing tapped the book lightly with his finger and looked at Lou Daoyan tenderly. "You stayed here just because of the curse that concerns the fate of your family, right?"
After saying this, the smile on Xu Xing's face became even brighter.
Yan was lying on the ground in the corridor, not saying a word.
Li Zhaoyue looked at Xu Xing, then at Lou Daoyan, squatted down, and sighed: "Master Lou, if there is a chance to leave, why not use it? If you must have a reason to stay here, then this reason must be valuable, but is this value really there?"
"At that time, the entire Floating Island was looking forward to the brilliant future of this genius. But you suddenly disappeared, and I was sad for a long time."
She has a gentle look and a beautiful expression.
"I used to see those kendo disciples so full of energy and wielding their swords so handsomely. Because I didn't have much talent, I could only stand on the ground and watch them fly around. You used to be one of those flying people, but now you shouldn't be trapped here. You deserve a broader life."
Loudaoyan was stunned, staring into her eyes, his breathing seemed to stop.
After a long pause, he closed his eyes in frustration and said in a hoarse voice, "If I can be sacrificed in exchange for the continuation of the entire family, I am willing to do so."
Are you really willing?
He heard the doubt in his heart.
Are you really willing?
"But this is unfair to you." Li Zhaoyue said firmly.
Loudaoyan was startled again, his eyes slightly opened, looking at her in surprise.
"Everything has its rise and fall. If you insist on eternity, you are going against the will of heaven. Your sacrifice is meaningless." Li Zhaoyue's big eyes were full of determination. Although he looked like a simple person, the words he said at this moment were thought-provoking.
He sighed resignedly and said, "Okay, I'll take you out."
"However," he changed the subject, "the resentment accumulated by the Lou family curse is too great to be dispelled. This matter is complicated and difficult to resolve. Once you're involved, you can't get out."
"What about you?" Xu Xing suddenly asked.
Lou Daoyan looked at him and smiled slightly: "We will meet again."
The edge of his body had begun to dissipate, and his last gaze fell on the book that Li Zhaoyue was holding tightly.
"As long as we find that thing, we'll see each other again."
Li Zhaoyue and Xu Xing looked at each other and touched the cover of the book at the same time.
However, an accident happened.
The book was like a magnet, firmly drawing their hands together.
There was a moment of silence between the two of them. Then, Li Zhaoyue looked at Xu Xing and burst out laughing. The tense atmosphere in the room was greatly diluted by this laughter, and the haze between their brows dissipated a lot.
"It seems that we can only stick together like this for the time being." Xu Xing shrugged and said.
Li Zhaoyue blinked and whispered, "I always feel that from the beginning until now, we have always been in an illusion, or perhaps it can be said that the Lou Mansion is a huge maze."
"Perhaps the person behind this just wants to trap us here and kill us."
Xu Xing was stunned and looked at her.
Xu Xingsheng is handsome, with sword-like eyebrows, a straight nose, full lips, and two bright phoenix eyes. When he smiles, his small canine tooth on the right side is always exposed, making him look naughty and youthful.
He is now looking at Li Zhaoyue with this kind of smile.
Her heart was pounding wildly, and a strange heat slowly climbed up from her cheeks to the tips of her ears. Li Zhaoyue coughed lightly and subconsciously wanted to stay away from him.
But just as she took a step outside, her path was blocked. Xu Xing approached her, one hand on the page of the book leading her hand to grab her collar, and the other hand moved towards her cheek.
Li Zhaoyue was extremely panicked. He closed his eyes tightly with an expression as if he was going to die bravely.
A chuckle came from her ear, she opened her eyes, and saw Xu Xing with an ambiguous smile on his face. His hand turned in the direction, brushed across her cheek, and straightened the gold hairpin that was about to slip out of her hair.
"What were you thinking about just now, Senior Sister?" After doing all this, he distanced himself from her and asked in a low voice.
Seeing the obvious amusement in his eyes, Li Zhaoyue held her hot face and snorted softly: "I'm not thinking anything."
"Really?" Xu Xing stretched out his voice, as if teasing a cat.
"Xu Xing!" Li Zhaoyue was so angry that he stomped his feet hard.
Xu Xing lowered his head and let out a few low laughs from his throat. Then the hand that helped her hold the gold hairpin cleverly turned and ruffled her hair.
"Xu Xing! Your hair will get messy like this!" Li Zhaoyue glared at him angrily and said loudly.
Xu Xing just looked at her calmly and asked, "Why did Ah Yue have such thoughts just now?"
Li Zhaoyue held his chin and asked hesitantly, "Do you still remember that I was taken to the underworld?"
Xu Xing nodded.
"If I...if I leave Yiziyuan and there are no people around that the spiritual people are afraid of, I will be pulled into a strange space. In that space, a spiritual person will attack me." Li Zhaoyue whispered.
"But so far, the spirit hasn't appeared, so I suspect we haven't been able to get out of the illusion. Or maybe, this illusion has many layers, and we may have just emerged from the last layer."
After Li Zhaoyue finished speaking, he looked at Xu Xing anxiously for many times, and only felt relieved when he saw his brows relaxed.
"You're right." Xu Xing looked at her with a smile.
Li Zhaoyue heard him praising her and smiled sheepishly: "I was just guessing. After all, my studies are not good and I am always confused. Maybe I guessed right."
"No," Xu Xing shook his head. The backs of their hands were stuck to the same page. Xu Xing reached forward and gently grasped her hand.
The broad palm covered the back of the hand, bringing a strange tremor.
She looked at him in surprise.
The young man smiled sweetly, his eyes gentle, and said softly, "You are very good. There is no need to doubt yourself. It is definitely not luck that you can observe so carefully."
"Ayue, you are very smart."
Li Zhaoyue was stunned, and a warm feeling spread in his heart. He smiled brightly and responded with his eyes curved.
"Then continue to tell us your guess." Xu Xing said softly.
Li Zhaoyue nodded and suddenly paused.
"What's wrong?" Xu Xing asked.
She pointed to her left hand entwined with his, her ears slightly reddened: "But... can you let go?"
Xu Xing woke up as if from a dream and let go of her hand with a snap.
The fingertips still retained the scorching heat from their clasped hands. Li Zhaoyue bit her lower lip and whispered, "Can I borrow your compass? There are some things I want to verify myself."
"Okay." Xu Xing took a step forward to grab the compass on the table, but he didn't notice that their hands were connected. Li Zhaoyue was caught off guard and was pulled to the right, about to fall to the ground.
His eyes darkened and he leaned back deliberately. As Li Zhaoyue screamed, Xu Xing fell on his back and hugged the person in his arms as he wished.
Li Zhaoyue's forehead hit Xu Xing's chin, and the pain made her cry. She wanted to climb up from Xu Xing, but she fell back because she had no strength.
Xu Xing chuckled a few times, making Li Zhaoyue blush. Feeling embarrassed and annoyed, she couldn't do anything about him, so she punched him in the chest in frustration.
Xu Xing hissed and said in a trembling voice: "It hurts...it hurts..."
Li Zhaoyue was so angry just now that he didn't control his strength well. He thought he really hurt him, so he went to check in a panic, but saw that the boy who was crying out in pain just now had curved eyebrows and a bright smile, looking like nothing had happened.
Those light brown eyes were bright, and if you looked closely you could see her shadow in them.
Xu Xing was fine at all, he was just lying to her!
Realizing this, Li Zhaoyue hit Xu Xing's chest mercilessly, and regardless of the boy's screams of pain, he climbed up from him.
The moonlight was like water, softening the blush on her face, making it look like she had applied a light layer of rouge.
"Give me the compass." She turned her head and stretched out her hand to him.
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