Chapter 218 When the Dream Ends:
Rong Xie certainly didn't intend to really abandon Shen Bing Si; he was just caught up in his emotions, and by the time he realized what was happening, he had already walked more than ten steps.
What should be done now? Shen Bingsi was determined to jump into the flower demon's trap. Things weren't as simple as Tianjing had said. The flower demon's true form was destroyed, and only a wisp of resentment was attached to Shen Bingsi... This was clearly a case of weeds scattering seeds, a new seed of evil being sown into Shen Bingsi's consciousness, controlling him, and forming some kind of damned soul contract with him, to devour this big idiot Shen Bingsi like eating a twig (that's what Rong Xieguan called someone who fell into the same pit twice). In this way, the flower demon could be reborn in evil, endlessly, and even several Jiang Caijie officials couldn't kill it all.
Rong Xie felt a wave of despair and couldn't help but cover his face.
Stay calm, stay calm, there will definitely be a way...
Something cool reached out from behind, brushed against Rong Xie's earlobe, and touched his cheek.
Rong Xie stopped rubbing his face and looked at the extra hand that had appeared next to his cheek in confusion.
Those were Shen Bingsi's hands; he couldn't mistake them. But how could Shen Bingsi have touched him so accurately?
Wait a minute, when he broke down and vented, Shen Bingsi also happened to touch him. This is not a coincidence, nor is it that Shen Bingsi accidentally received the sound Rong Xie made. This time, Rong Xie didn't even make a sound.
Rong Xie turned around abruptly, and before he could see what was happening behind him, he was pulled into a familiar embrace.
His forehead rested precisely under Rong Xie's chin, and he could see Rong Xie's Adam's apple bobbing up and down. The embrace felt so real that Rong Xie once thought he was hallucinating.
A cool hand stroked his hair from top to bottom, comforting him. Shen Bingsi's slightly hoarse voice came from above him: "Don't cry, Rong'er, I'm sorry, it's all my fault..."
"How come you..." Rong Xie struggled to lift his head from Shen Bingsi's chin, reaching out to touch his face. Unfortunately, his fingers still passed through Shen Bingsi's face, touching something cold and hard. "How come you can see me again?"
Shen Bingsi realized that Rong Xie was talking to him, so she loosened her embrace slightly and looked down at him: "You didn't cry?"
Rong Xie's eyes were red, but his face was clean, not the tear-streaked face that Shen Bingsi had imagined when she saw him covering his face.
"Cry? When did I cry?" Rong Xie denied it outright. He looked up at Shen Bing Si with some anger. "But you, you haven't answered me yet. How come you can see me again? Weren't you pretending not to see or hear me just now, acting all happy?"
Rong Xie had no idea that his vivid expression and furious demeanor were, in Shen Bing Si's eyes, like a masterpiece, something she could never get enough of looking at.
Just moments before, Shen Bingsi had witnessed his own defeat at the hands of the Flower Demon at a crucial moment due to his own lack of strength. This led to Rong Xie, who had rushed back because he trusted him, being directly confronted by the self-destruction of the Jiang Adjudicator and dying in vain...
He wasn't as brave or decisive as he appeared, especially when it came to Rong Xie's matter.
Every time, he would hesitate and think, what if he failed? What if Rong Xie got hurt because of his failure? He had to force himself to suppress these cowardly thoughts, because he didn't want Rong Xie to think of him as a cowardly, hesitant coward.
In the nightmare he just had, the pent-up fear in his heart erupted all at once, almost shattering his reason and causing him to sign a foolish contract with the flower fairy...
Fortunately, once again, his Rong'er came to his side, waking him up like an angel. His tears fell for him, and his anger arose because of him. He didn't know how handsome he looked now, enough to bewitch Shen Bingsi and make all his dreams revolve around him alone.
Shen Bingsi fell silent. The longer Shen Bingsi remained silent, the more puzzled Rong Xie became. Just when he thought Shen Bingsi had been distracted by the flower fairy again, as she had at the beginning, his face pressed down close, and his cool lips touched hers, which were slightly warm from crying.
The warmth began to spread, like a drop of ice falling into warm spring water, melting and dissipating in an instant, merging with the spring water, joyfully flowing from winter to spring.
The deeper the kiss, the stronger and more real their feelings for each other became. Rong Xie gripped Shen Bing Si's clothes tightly, and Shen Bing Si tightened her grip on his back, as if she wanted to merge him into her own body.
"Sizzle".
A wisp of white smoke rose from the top of Shen Bingsi's head, and something detached from his consciousness, drifting helplessly into the air.
If the two of them regain their senses and look up together, they will see a translucent, miniature flower plate floating in mid-air, twisted and contorted. It seems to have just been squeezed out from somewhere and is desperately slapping the flower plate in the middle with its petals on both sides, just like a person whose eyes have been stabbed and is slapping their face.
"Ah...it's so bright, so bright!" The tiny scream was drowned out by the sizzling sound of resentment evaporating. If you didn't listen carefully, you wouldn't hear it at all; you'd think it was just a trivial noise in the sizzling sound. "I can't eat anything...I can't eat anything...I hate sunshine and loving people the most..."
After the kiss ended, the two were reluctant to part. Rong Xie raised his hazy eyes and looked at the person so close to him, his heart filled with happiness.
He raised his hand and couldn't help but touch Shen Bingsi's face. Shen Bingsi let him touch it for a while, then smiled and asked, "Handsome, isn't he?"
Rong Xie's cheeks flushed slightly as he lifted himself up and hugged Shen Bingsi's neck: "As long as she's alive."
Shen Bingsi put her arm around Rong Xie's waist and picked him up: "Liar, someone as picky as you, if I became ugly, you would definitely kick me away without hesitation."
"How could that be?" Rong Xie buried his face in Shen Bingsi's neck and rubbed against her.
Shen Bingsi carried him forward, listing his "crimes": "You just said you didn't want me anymore, that you weren't in the mood to make a scene with me again, and that I was faking it. I just had a nightmare, and aren't people in dreams supposed to be incapable of thinking?"
"Even in my dreams, you can't forget me, and you can't say you'll love me like a best friend," Rong Xie, who hadn't been angry at first, became furious again at this thought. "What damn best friend? If you dare mention that again, I'll—"
After trying for a while, nothing came of it. Shen Bingsi, unwilling to let him remain halfway through, interjected, "I won't dare do it again! We're clearly inseparable, my dear Daoist partners. I'll fight anyone who mentions 'best friends' again!"
“Ew… even my darling Daoist partner is disgusting.” Rong Xie patted Shen Bing Si on the back.
"What should we call her? We need some kind of address, right?" Shen Bingsi strode along happily, making Rong Xie bob up and down. "Madam? Darling? Wife? Or..."
"Let's call her Rong'er," Rong Xie said, twisting the fabric on Shen Bingsi's shoulder, his cheeks flushed.
“Okay,” Shen Bingsi turned her head and leaned close to Rong Xie’s ear, her voice gentle, “My Rong’er.”
One person carried the other, striding forward. The rolling gloom dispersed to both sides, and light pierced through the black fog, shining in from the outside.
Rong Xie frowned. The light on his eyelids was so intense that it turned his vision orange-red. He couldn't keep his eyes closed any longer, so he groaned softly and reluctantly opened them.
"He's awake!" someone shouted. "He's awake! He's awake!"
There was a commotion in the room. Someone kicked a stool on the floor, someone slipped and dropped a basin of water. Everyone was running around in the small room.
Finally, a sharp shout came from outside: "Don't panic!"
The people who were running around finally quieted down and automatically made way for Judge Jiang to walk in.
Rong Xie felt the bright lamp being brought over again and shone on his face. He covered his face, and his vision darkened. The lamp was then removed, and someone leaned down very close, asking gently, "How are you feeling? Is anything bothering you?"
“Brother Jiang…?” Rong Xie realized he was lying in bed. “What… happened to me? Oh right…”
He remembered; he had come to dispel the resentment of the flower demon in Shen Bingsi's consciousness and rescue him from his nightmare.
Did he... succeed?
Rong Xie immediately opened his eyes wide and looked at Judge Jiang for help, hoping that Judge Jiang could tell him the result immediately. Judge Jiang just took a wet towel and pressed it on his forehead.
"Bing Si, where is Bing Si? Has he come out yet?"
Jiang Caijie smiled without saying a word, his gaze shifting to the inside of the bed.
Rong Xie wanted to look in that direction, but his neck felt stiff and he couldn't turn it. He felt something gripping his limbs and pressing firmly on his waist, like an octopus wrapped around him.
"Hiss..." Just as Rong Xie was wondering if he was sleeping in the wrong position and his body was twisted and wouldn't obey him, he suddenly heard a familiar hissing sound in his ear.
Every time Shen Bingsi was about to wake up, she would hum like this, like a big, furry dog poking out from under the covers.
Rong Xie finally realized what was bothering him.
A short while later.
Rong Xie kicked Shen Bingsi away with lightning speed, straightened his clothes, and sat upright in a chair far from the bed. A kind incense master poured him a cup of hot tea to warm his throat.
Rong Xie didn't know why he needed to warm his throat, nor did he want to delve into it. He picked up the teacup and tried to bury his face in it.
Just now, he and Shen Bingsi were entangled and tightly embraced, having a passionate dream in front of more than a dozen people.
Although there was a perfectly legitimate reason, Rong Xie didn't know why. Before he entered the dream, he was just lying on the edge of the bed with one hand on Shen Bingsi's arm. But after going through countless hardships to pull Shen Bingsi out of the dream, they ended up on the bed.
Rong Xie's eyelids twitched. Could it be because at the end of the dream, they embraced, and then Shen Bingsi inexplicably picked him up and walked forward while talking to him...
Why did Shen Bingsi carry him when he was perfectly fine? He has both arms and legs and can walk on his own. Besides, they were chatting at the time, so why did she have to carry him? Wouldn't that seem strange?
Rong Xie squinted, peering through the gaps in the people swaying around the bed to get a glimpse of Shen Bingsi, who had just woken up.
Shen Bingsi happened to look over as well.
Their eyes met, and Shen Bingsi's gaze became intense, as if everyone else in the room had disappeared, leaving only the two of them.
Rong Xie's heart skipped a beat. He quickly looked away, picked up the empty cup, and took a sip.
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