"Blue Flame, you don't need to do so much for me, and you don't need to rely on me as your belief support. Cultivation is not child's play."
Blue Flame: "I've never taken this lightly! I'm very serious!"
"Then why did you say such a thing?"
Lan Yan finally frowned. "Why can't I say such things? Xiao Xi, Mu Jin could become a demon for her master, and I can also cultivate for you and become a powerful person. Just thinking that I can be by your side anytime, anywhere makes me content."
Mu Xi also looked at Lan Yan, and suddenly said with a hint of helplessness, "Lan Yan, do you know what you're saying...?"
Lan Yan nodded, and said with absolute certainty, "I know, and I am perfectly clear-headed. I've finally told you these things. Do you know how relieved I am now?"
Mu Xi's eyes were complicated: "But... I can't give you an answer, and I can't respond to you. If you do this, I will never be able to face you again."
Lan Yan chuckled, "Xiao Xi, do you think I don't know?"
Mu Xi raised her eyes.
Lan Yan said, "Do you think I don't know what you're thinking? You're wrong. I knew it from the moment I met you in the Five Continents. You didn't choose to stay and become empress there, and you won't easily marry anyone or have children here either."
"That's why I'm even more determined to find a master to cultivate myself. Xiao Xi, no matter what you've been through, no matter how long it takes you to open your heart to love someone, it doesn't matter."
"I can wait for you for one decade, or I can wait for ten decades!"
Mu Xi's expression changed; a hint of confusion appeared beneath her calm and beautiful face.
She never expected Lan Yan to say such a thing to her!
Recalling the time when the young emperor held her and murmured to her during the Five Dynasties period, she felt a little heartache. However, she had more of an older sister's expectations and affection for him.
Once it turned into love, she became afraid.
When she met her friends and classmates from ten years ago again, everything was different. Only Lan Yan remained the same as before, carefree and innocent.
No wonder my second sister-in-law said he was a good candidate for cultivation, with a single-minded focus.
But she couldn't bear his affection; the feelings felt like a burden, and she feared she couldn't carry them.
How many couples in this world can be like Second Brother and Second Sister-in-law, remaining inseparable through life and death?
She only envied the relationship between her second brother and sister-in-law, but did not aspire to it. Since such a relationship was rare in the world, why should she waste time searching for it? And what she could do was not all about petty love and affection.
So, sometimes it wasn't that she didn't see Lan Yan's feelings for her, but she just didn't want to break the ice and lose this friend.
"Ten decades... I probably won't have that much time left in my life." Mu Xi smiled, looking calmly at Lan Yan. "If I never marry in this life, are you also going to remain unmarried for the rest of your life?"
Lan Yan actually grinned, his smile appearing exceptionally genuine. "I will cultivate diligently. After reaching the Foundation Establishment stage, I will have an extra fifty years of lifespan, and after reaching the Core Formation stage, I will have an extra two hundred years of lifespan."
Xiao Xi, it would be better if you really didn't get married. That way, at least you wouldn't like anyone else. In the next life, I'll find you, stay by your side, and wait for you to be reborn into another family. The first person you'll see when you open your eyes will be me.
In my next life, I'll scheme and plot to make you like me, hehe.
Perhaps caught up in Lan Yan's absurd idea, Mu Xi couldn't help but laugh and say, "Next life... even if you find me, I won't remember you."
Lan Yan replied, "What does it matter? When Master found Mu Jin, Mu Jin didn't remember her either."
Mu Xi was taken aback; Lan Yan's determination touched her.
However, Lan Yan's honesty brought her a kind of indescribable... subtle joy.
"So, Xiao Xi, please promise me, okay? Don't rush to reject me. I'm not that fragile, but I want you to know that I can always be with you."
Mu Xi tugged at his hand, and this time, Lan Yan was caught off guard, and Mu Xi successfully broke free.
However, Mu Xi smiled slightly and said, "Lan Yan, I can't spend my whole life wasting your time or testing you. This isn't your problem, it's mine... I don't know how to like someone anymore."
"If I ever figure it out, I'll tell you first, okay?"
Blue Flame immediately nodded, "Okay!"
"Then you can keep drawing, I'm leaving now."
Lan Yan suddenly said, "Wait a minute!"
He walked back, picked up a painting, and handed it to Mu Xi, saying, "This painting is for you."
Mu Xi took it, waved her hand, and left.
On the way, Lan Yan's words kept replaying in her mind, and she still felt conflicted. But she also thought that perhaps she shouldn't avoid this matter.
She has always believed in love, but she's unsure if her life, which is always full of unexpected events, will also allow her to have someone who will never leave her...
She unconsciously plucked at the daffodils by the roadside, but suddenly realized that what she was holding in her hand was the painting that Lan Yan had just given her.
Lan Yan's painting skills are inherited from his family. He has already mastered the craft at a young age, and she believes that Lan Yan's paintings will not disappoint her.
She opened the painting, and upon seeing it, she was stunned for a long time!
The person in the painting is her. She is in a thick snow, her down jacket covered with snowflakes. She is holding a snowball in her left hand and her right hand is empty because she just threw one!
She laughed heartily, without gloves, her face and hands red from the cold.
The painting is very lifelike. Lan Yan painted her a bit simple-minded, like a doll in a New Year's painting.
But it was this painting that stirred up her memories, bringing back long-frozen events as if they had suddenly thawed and returned clearly to her mind!
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