Chapter 230: Still Strong as Old

Pei Jian woke up from a long dream.

The person in the dream is him, and yet not him.

When he woke up, he felt dazed and tired. It was as if he had experienced someone else's entire life, or even several lives, in just one short night.

The situations in the dream were so real and scary.

Pei Jian sat up and went to the bathroom to wash up, hoping to wake up as soon as possible.

When Nian Xi came, Pei Jian had just finished washing up and there was still the fragrance of soapberries on his body.

Last night, Nianxi refused to accompany him and insisted on going back to her room to sleep. Pei Jian shamelessly followed her, but was rejected by her.

It's always hard to guess what a little girl is thinking.

They are a serious couple and they are not having an affair, so I don't know why she is shy.

However, Pei Jian rushed all the way from Beijing, and seeing that Nian Xi was safe, he was finally able to relax. Nian Xi was relieved again, and Pei Jian naturally did not dare to disobey his lady's orders.

If she wants to separate, then let her separate. It's just one night, and he can afford to wait.

Perhaps because his eyes were too resentful last night, Nian Xi took the initiative to look for him early this morning.

If it were in the past, Pei Jian would have climbed up the pole no matter what and gained some benefits for himself.

But when he saw Nianxi again after waking up from the dream, Pei Jian suddenly felt relieved that this was the case.

He stepped forward and hugged Nianxi's waist, bent down and rested his head on her shoulder, and his breath brought out a wet and hot itchy feeling.

Nianxi was most afraid of being tickled, and tried to hide with a smile, but Pei Jian refused to stop her, and rubbed her smooth cheeks with his new stubble, which was painful and itchy. Nianxi raised one hand and stroked his cheek backwards, her tone was her usual gentleness, "What's wrong with you?"

They have been together for too long.

It has been so long that Nian Xi can detect even the slightest change in Pei Yan's emotions.

Even though his back was turned to her, even though he tried to hide it with a joke.

At this moment, Nian Xi's gentle caress is the best comfort.

Pei Jian sniffed the fragrance of her body and his heart gradually calmed down. After a moment of silence, he spoke slowly:

"I had a dream that you and I were reborn back to our teens, before we met."

Nian Xi smiled and asked in agreement, "And then?"

"You didn't go to Chongming Building. You went somewhere else." Pei Yan's voice lowered. "We didn't meet."

“We missed it,” he said.

Nian Xi found it a little funny and wanted to turn her head to look at him, but Pei Jian held her waist stubbornly, preventing her from seeing the gloomy expression on his face.

So she asked again, "Is there anything else?"

Pei Jian shook his head, and the rubbing of his chin made Nian Xi start laughing again, "I don't remember."

In fact, he remembered it very clearly, as if he had just experienced it.

Their rebirth was due to an accident. Nian Xi died of poisoning, and he went back to the past.

Nian Xi did not go to Chongming Building, but went to Qushui, where she met Gu Ci and married him.

They are very happy.

Gu Ci accompanied her to travel around the famous mountains and rivers of Jing Dynasty. She lived a happy life, and it was still wonderful without him.

They also have a pair of cute dragon and phoenix twins.

The girl looks exactly like her, with a pair of big almond eyes, very cute.

As for himself.

He is still the prime minister respected by everyone, with greater power and higher status.

He devoted his entire life to the court and did a lot of practical things. People from all over the country built ancestral temples for him and sang praises of his great achievements.

He is so grand and glorious.

But no one knows the boundless loneliness behind the light.

He was alone all his life.

I kept it for a lifetime.

That was his debt and love, a bond that he could not let go of until his death.

Even in dreams, the desolate loneliness still follows me like a shadow, as if engraved into my bones, like a lonely crescent moon hanging high in the lake on a cold night, so cold and silent that there is not a trace of life.

Pei Jian could feel the pain in his heart tightening.

It seemed as if he did not reborn with Nian Xi, but after her death, he was filled with remorse and desperately sought a way to redeem himself.

He saw the lamps in the shrine, lighting up the entire wall. He knelt before the kind-looking Buddha and prayed for a turn for the better.

At a certain moment, he suddenly felt that this was not a dream. Perhaps it was Pei Jian and Nian Xi in a mustard seed, or perhaps it was something that was happening, or perhaps he had really experienced it.

Who can say for sure?

How could the uncontrollable instinct in his body when Nian Xi just left him and the heartache he felt when facing Nian Xi not be hints from some unknown source?

He is very lucky.

Compared to Pei Shizhang, who wanted to go back to the past and see his wife again until his death, he really had so much.

Not every Pei Jian has a chance to be saved.

"You hurt me." Nian Xi said softly.

Pei Jian finally came back to his senses. He turned Nianxi around, gently rubbed her waist which he had hurt, and leaned forward to touch his forehead with hers. "Nianxi, thank you."

Nian Xi felt that Pei Jian was very strange today.

Sticky.

She had been in for quite a while, and there were still a lot of things waiting for him to deal with outside. But he didn't seem to be in a hurry at all. Didn't he say enough sweet words last night?

Nianxi felt inexplicably shy. It was like returning to the age of sixteen, standing under the osmanthus tree in the corner garden of the Wen Mansion, with the sweet scent of osmanthus filling her memory.

She thought this was great.

They are very nice.

Nian Xi put her arms around his neck and asked, "Thank me for what?"

Pei Jian stared at her with deep eyes, and tucked her hair that he had just messed up behind her ears, and said gently, "Thank you for letting me love you."

Thank you for loving someone as arrogant and greedy as me.

Thank you for coming back.

Thank you for leaving perfection to me.

Pei Jian was suddenly filled with gratitude. He was grateful that Nian Xi forgave him, which led to his dream.

He is not influenced by any Pei Jian in his dreams. He is real and his love is real.

And after this dream, he will only know how to cherish this hard-earned relationship even more.

"Slippery. Tell me the truth, where did you learn that?"

Nian Xi's almond-shaped eyes were filled with clear light. Over the years, she had never changed. Even when he was no longer himself, she still insisted on being herself.

Pei Jian also laughed out loud, "I am the omnipotent Pei Shizhang. I know a lot. Do you want to know?"

Nian Xi had a feeling that he would not say anything nice next, but she was really curious, so she nodded hesitantly and asked:

"for example?"

Pei Jian leaned over, his lips slid across her cheek and pressed against her ear. His voice was very low, but every word passed through her eardrum and reached her heart.

He said, "Come over tonight and I'll show you how to do it."

Nianxi is not an innocent little girl, on the contrary, they have had a lot of happy times. But it cannot be denied that Pei Jian at this moment is still very tempting.

Just a few words can make people blush and feel warm.

Nian Xi put down her arms around him, covered his collar, and patted his still firm chest muscles. She coughed softly and said, "You are already over thirty, you should pay attention to maintenance."

"Pei Shizhang, you and I are now an old married couple."

"Really?"

Pei Jian grinded his back teeth and smiled peacefully, "You probably don't know that your husband is old, strong and healthy."

very good.

That night, Nianxi deeply realized the meaning of getting stronger with age.

Old but strong, a metaphor for being older but having stronger physical and mental strength or greater energy.

Never call a man old.

Because this will stimulate his nerves, causing blood to flow downward, fully strengthening the area he uses to prove his masculine self-esteem.

Nian Xi looked down at her red knees and fell into deep reflection.