"Halfway there!"
Luan Hua opened her mouth almost instinctively.
The girl looked up in a panic, her eyes filled with unconcealed tension and fear.
The old lady also glanced at her suspiciously.
When Lin's mother returned home, she saw her daughter standing in the middle of the yard, looking timid and hesitant. Her good mood for the day was ruined.
"You debt collector! What are you doing blocking the doorway? Get back to work!"
"No...that..." Lin Banjian hesitated, his eyes darting around.
"Did you stuff an eggplant in your mouth? Speak up!"
"Mother... someone's coming..." Lin Banjian could see Luan Hua's shoes out of the corner of his eye.
"Madam, hello." Luan Hua stepped forward.
He knew that Lin Banjian had a difficult childhood, but now it seemed that the reality was even more serious than he had imagined.
"Who are you...?" Lin's mother looked him up and down.
Luan Hua bought a decent set of clothes specifically to see Lin Banjian. He was already quite handsome, after all, he was a man who had appeared in the Three Realms Handsome Men Picture, not to mention that he had been the Demon Lord, so although his clothes were ordinary now, his aura was extraordinary.
This startled Lin's mother.
She wondered to herself, "Could it be some important person who has come from somewhere?"
“I am a descendant of the Zhou family of Changyang, named Luan Hua. I have suffered from a hidden illness since childhood, and I have sought out famous doctors everywhere without success. A few days ago, a miracle doctor came to my house. He told me that there is a woman in Qinggeng who is a goddess reincarnated and descended to earth. Marrying her will cure me. However, Qinggeng is a place of outstanding people and spirits, and I cannot be presumptuous. So I changed into plain clothes and came here in person.”
Of course, all of the above is fabricated by Luan Hua.
The Zhou family of Changyang was a well-known local powerful family. Lin's mother had heard of them but was skeptical. She didn't believe anyone would dare to impersonate a member of the Zhou family.
"A goddess? Lin Banjian?" Lin's mother looked at Lin Banjian, then at Luan Hua. "No, no." Even if her daughter was a monster, she couldn't be a goddess.
Lin Banjian looked down at his toes.
Luan Hua laughed, "Why not? The moment I entered the village and saw your daughter, my illness was half cured. Isn't that amazing? What else could she be but a goddess reincarnated?"
"This..." Seeing that Luan Hua didn't seem to be lying, Lin's mother began to believe him.
Luan Hua pressed his advantage, saying, "Therefore, I want to marry your daughter, and from now on she will live with me in the Zhou family."
Become a daughter-in-law of the Zhou family!
Lin's mother's eyes lit up when she heard this.
She coughed twice, feigning modesty, "My daughter's life event is of great importance and cannot be taken lightly. Please wait a couple of days, young master, while my whole family discusses it. Please stay at our house for the next few days, and we will prepare a superior room for you."
Luan Hua nodded slightly, "Then I'll have to trouble you, Madam."
That evening, Lin's mother called a meeting with the whole family. Because her eldest son, Lin Zhiqiang, was studying away from home, she wrote him a letter explaining the situation.
Lin's father lacked his own opinions and simply followed his wife's every word. His younger sister, Lin Zhile, was still young, so her words were not taken seriously. As for Lin Banjian, the discussion was about her, but the whole family treated her as if she didn't exist and didn't ask her a single question.
A few days later, the older brother, Lin Zhiqiang, replied, saying that everything was up to their mother to decide.
Finally, Lin's mother made the decision: as long as Luan Hua showed "sufficient sincerity," she would give Lin Banjian to him.
When Lin's mother told Luan Hua, Luan Hua nodded and smiled, saying okay, and promised to inform her family within a few days that her family would come with people and betrothal gifts to propose marriage.
Lin's mother beamed and said he was her good son-in-law.
That night, Luan Hua broke into her boudoir.
Lin Banjian saw a dark shadow climb into her room through the window and screamed in fright. Luan Hua quickly covered her mouth.
"Shh—" He touched her lips with his finger.
"You heard what your mother said during the day, didn't you?"
Lin Banjian's eyes were filled with tears, and he nodded gently.
"You know your family doesn't value you, so they sold you to me for a high price."
Lin Banjian's expression darkened. "Then what can I do?"
“But I’m not from the Zhou family of Changyang, and I have no money.” Luan Hua leaned against her bed. “I’m an orphan and a penniless man.”
"Huh?" Lin Banjian was dumbfounded.
"Huh?" Luan Hua pinched her delicate little nose. "I am now, but that doesn't mean I will always be."
Lin Banjian didn't understand.
"Everything I've said is a lie, but there's only one truth—Lin Banjian, I want to marry you."
Lin Banjian's face suddenly turned bright red.
"You, you, you..." She stammered, unable to utter another word for a long time.
"I've already planned everything for our marriage, Banjian..." She gently held her hand, "Will you trust me?"
He pressed her hand against his chest, and she felt his heartbeat, pounding against her parched and destitute heart.
"I……"
She thought about her situation. In the Lin family, she was just a servant, ordered around by everyone, often beaten and scolded, and never even had enough to eat. In the village, she was even more of a monster; no one wanted to approach her or talk to her.
"Can we eat our fill? Are there new clothes to wear? Is the work... tiring?" She asked timidly, like a little deer.
Luan Hua felt a pang of heartache and pulled her into a tight embrace. “There’s plenty of good food to eat, plenty of pretty clothes, and no one will force you to work.”
"Okay, then I'm willing to marry you. Even if you're an orphan, even if you have no money."
"Half-seen..." Luan Hua excitedly called her name.
The Lin family never received the betrothal gifts from Changyang, and they even lost the person.
Luan Hua and Lin Banjian eloped in the middle of the night.
He carried Lin Banjian on his back, the wind whistling past his ears.
By the time the Lin family discovered this, they had already boarded the ship.
The swaying boat sailed out of the darkness, the thick fog dissipated, and a new dawn greeted Lin Banjian.
Luan Hua took Lin Ban to a very far place where they adopted new identities and no one would bother them.
Relying on the information she had gathered when she was the Demon Lord, Luan Hua quickly expanded her small business into a large and successful enterprise, and Lin Banjian was able to live a wealthy life as she had wished.
After getting married, the couple had two children, and the family of four lived happily together.
They didn't cultivate immortality; they were just ordinary people, so their lifespans were also those of ordinary people.
When Lin Banjian turned sixty, his health gradually deteriorated, and he consulted many doctors, but none of them could help him.
Lin Banjian, whose hair was now completely white, lay on the bed, surrounded by her children and grandchildren. Luan Hua held her hand tightly, just like the first night.
"My husband, the luckiest thing in my life... is marrying you." Despite his slurred speech, Lin Banjian still insisted on saying these words.
“Half a glimpse…” Luan Hua burst into tears.
"Leaving aside the first half of my life, but... I've had a very happy second half of my life..." Lin Banjian said with a smile, her eyes full of her husband.
"Half-seen...half-seen..." Luan Hua pressed her hand against his face, unwilling to let go.
“Luan Hua…” she called his name.
"Thank you, I am very happy."
Lin Banjian slowly turned his eyes and looked around. All he saw were his descendants with sorrowful faces.
She fixed her gaze on Luan Hua's face for the last time, then smiled and slowly closed her eyes.
"Halfway there!!!"
Luan Hua suddenly threw himself onto the bed, but no matter how desperately he called out, his wife would not wake up again.
He eventually fainted from crying.
When he woke up again, he felt a chill all over his body.
It turned out that it had snowed heavily.
He reached out his hand, trembling, and a snowflake landed in his palm, melting and disappearing in the blink of an eye.
"If only it were true..."
if……
It's true...
That's good...
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