Chapter 77: Heartbeat

The matter between Yi Luo and Bai Heng came to an end, and Qiao Jin inexplicably felt relieved.

He lay on the table, drawing circles and daydreaming.

Yi Luo had found Bai Heng, but what about him? When could he see the person he wanted to see?

When he thought of this, a hand fell on his head and touched his head.

Qiao Jin tilted his head, resting it on his arm, and looked at Jiang Li.

Because of his movement, the hand that had been on his head slid to his face, and Jiang Li's fingertips fell on his forehead, slightly cool.

Qiao Jin's heart suddenly trembled, pursed his lips, not knowing what to say, closed his eyes, but couldn't suppress his complicated emotions.

Finally, he said goodbye to Jiang Li and left in a panic.

When Yu Chi came back and followed Feng Wuqing and Gu Jue to Jiang Li's side, Qiao Jin had already left. Jiang Li

happened to have pens, ink, paper and inkstone here, so Yu Chi did not beat around the bush and went straight to the point, taking out a piece of paper and writing with a pen.

"Miss Jiang Li, do you know that Qiao Jin is looking for a girl she met in her childhood?"

Jiang Li looked at the ink on the paper, the handwriting was very beautiful, and she smiled and nodded in response to Yu Chi's question.

Yu Chi wrote again.

"That girl is actually you, right?"

Jiang Li still nodded, she was not surprised that Yu Chi and the others knew about this.

After all, in Luoyang City, most people knew that Qiao Jin was looking for a girl she had met in her childhood.

"Why don't you recognize him?"

Jiang Li was silent for a long time after reading this sentence. Finally, she took a deep breath, took a pen, picked up a piece of paper, and slowly began to write.

She wrote calmly, her gestures showed her good upbringing, and her handwriting was beautiful.

[Since he didn't recognize me, I didn't want to delay him. After all, I didn't have much time to live.]

"Do you like him?"

[I think I do.]

In fact, she herself couldn't figure out what kind of feelings this was.

At the beginning, what was given to Qiao Jin to eat was not maltose, but her demon pill.

The method of exchanging life for life can certainly allow Qiao Jin to survive, but Qiao Jin was too young at that time and could not support her demon power and life span.

So, she refined all of this into the demon pill and fed it to Qiao Jin.

Later, she fell into a deep sleep and woke up only five years later. She

changed her identity again and entered the City Lord's Mansion openly.

She always remembered the day when she met Qiao Jin again. At that time, Qiao Jin had grown up a lot and matured a lot.

The drizzle fell on the oil-paper umbrella she was holding. The air was humid and the sky was slightly dark.

She walked on the bluestone path and looked at the young boy standing under the eaves with a faint smile.

In her heart, she said to him, long time no see.

She witnessed Qiao Jin's growth, from a young boy to a high-spirited man, she did not miss it.

At the same time, she also witnessed Qiao Jin being excluded. Everyone scolded him, saying that he was mentally ill and crazy.

Qiao Jin endured it alone at that time, and he didn't tell anyone.

But he couldn't refute it.

Because except himself, no one had seen the so-called fairy he talked about.

Including his relatives.

In fact, after experiencing such a thing, Qiao Jin was not a particularly cheerful person.

The brightness he showed to the outside world was a reflection of the pain he endured silently.

When everyone denied Qiao Jin and said that Qiao Jin was wrong, no one stood by Qiao Jin and spoke for him.

Jiang Li couldn't say anything to comfort Qiao Jin. She could only stay by Qiao Jin's side while he was digesting the pain silently. Although she couldn't do anything, at least she didn't leave him alone.

She understood.

If everyone said Qiao Jin was wrong, then in the end Qiao Jin would think that she was wrong and that what others said was right.

It was also at that time that she gave Qiao Jin candy.

She was a little nervous because she thought Qiao Jin would taste it.

Qiao Jin held the candy in her mouth and stared at Jiang Li for a long time with red eyes. In the end, she said nothing.

When Qiao Jin was fifteen years old, Qiao Jin left, saying goodbye to her relatives and Jiang Li.

Jiang Li could no longer hear at that time.

When Qiao Jin was leaving, Jiang Li grabbed his sleeve, and was a little flustered.

He gestured frantically and asked Qiao Jin.

[Where are you going? ]

How long will you be gone, and will you come back?

Qiao Jin at that time put aside the sharpness that a young man should have, and gently held Jiang Li's wrist and sent her back to the house.

"I'm just going out for a walk, I will be back. If you have anything, go to my brother. I have taught him sign language."

In order to travel far away this time, Qiao Jin took Qiao Yu to teach sign language for half a month, just because he was afraid that no one would be able to communicate with Jiang Li after he left.

Maybe he could stay and continue to stay in Luoyang City.

But he waited for this day for a long time, and finally waited until he grew up.

He wanted to go and see the outside world that the fairy had described for him.

Who knew that Qiao Jin would be gone for half a year.

When he returned home, the young man who had lost his edge seemed to become more lively again.

This was not a bad thing, at least Jiang Li thought so.

Qiao Jin became very dazzling, a young man full of vigor and vitality, but the first thing he did after returning was to look for his little fairy.

Jiang Li asked him.

[Why do you have to find her?]

Qiao Jin replied.

"We agreed to meet again. I will be sixteen soon."

Jiang Li asked again, with some hidden expectations in his heart.

[What's wrong with sixteen? ]

Qiao Jin looked at Jiang Li and smiled particularly brightly.

"When I turn sixteen, it will be ten years. We agreed that if I still want to marry her ten years later, she will marry me."

Jiang Li looked into his eyes and her eyebrows softened.

[Then do you still want to marry her? ]

Qiao Jin did not hesitate.

"I still want to marry her." Jiang

Li did not move again, nor did she tell the boy in front of her. In fact, she had already returned.

It's just that he didn't recognize her.

And she didn't say it.

Ten years is very short for a demon, so short that it's just a snap of the fingers.

But it's very long for a human, so long that a child grows into a spirited teenager.

She learned the secret technique by chance, and she didn't know how long the demon's life span would be reduced to almost nothing.

She didn't even know how long she could live.

So she just wanted to be with him, and the longer she could see him, the more days she would have.

If she really told Qiao Jin that she was the girl back then, and Qiao Jin married her, and then she passed away, would it be too cruel for Qiao Jin?

She didn't know how painful it would be for Qiao Jin to finally find her after being denied by everyone, and then lose her again. She

didn't understand why Qiao Jin had to endure all this.

When Qiao Jin saw Yi Luo for the first time, he came back and told Jiang Li.

"She looks like her, but not like her."

Jiang Li was Qiao Jin's tree hole. Over the years, she had listened to Qiao Jin's thoughts about her countless times.

When Yi Luo appeared, Jiang Li was undoubtedly panicked for a moment. She asked him.

[Do you think it's her? 】

Qiao Jin did not say anything, but just looked at Jiang Li deeply, then smiled and lowered his head.

She did not miss the loneliness that flashed in Qiao Jin's eyes.

He suddenly changed the subject and answered something that was irrelevant.

"Jiang Li, when I first met you, I was very sad to know that you couldn't speak."

At that time, Jiang Li didn't wear any floral ornaments on her head, only a plain pear blossom jade hairpin.

But just one glance made Qiao Jin feel that Jiang Li was his little fairy.

But the moment he learned that Jiang Li couldn't speak, the feeling in his heart was not loss or regret, but sadness.

Jiang Li asked him.

【Why? 】

He replied.

"I don't know, I just feel very sad, the kind that makes me want to hold back my tears and let them fall."

His voice became more and more choked, and the last two lines of tears fell from the corners of his red eyes, but the corners of his mouth were smiling.

Jiang Li felt that Qiao Jin was so fragile at that time, as if she was about to break.

...

A piece of paper was handed to Jiang Li by Yu Chi, and Jiang Li lowered his head to read it.

"Then do you know about his pursuit of Yi Luo?" Jiang

Li picked up a pen and wrote.

[I know, because I was watching him when he wrote to Bai Heng.]

Qiao Jin had never avoided her, and Qiao Jin undoubtedly trusted Jiang Li.

He even sighed with Jiang Li several times when he wrote back to Bai Heng.

He said that he envied Yi Luo so much for finding Bai Heng.

Yi Luo was really lucky.

So was Bai Heng.

Compared to the unparalleled Second Master Qiao in the eyes of others, Jiang Li saw mostly the fragility and sadness of Qiao Jin.

When he was outside, even when facing relatives and friends, he talked about Yi Luo. Only in private, when he was alone.

He would call his little fairy over and over again and tell about his mistakes.

Yi Luo looked like her. When Qiao Jin saw Yi Luo, he was amazed by her appearance, but those eyes told Qiao Jin clearly.

She was not her.

Those cold eyes.

How could she be the little fairy with gentle eyes under the moon?

To be honest, Jiang Li's eyes were more similar.

But as Yu Chi said.

Qiao Jin's heart recognized her before he did, but he didn't know it.

He himself couldn't explain where the sadness in his heart came from.

In fact, it was the pain that spread from the tip of his heart after knowing that he would leave and couldn't speak. Then his heart tightened and he felt sour.

It choked his throat and soured his nose.

His eyes turned red and he started to cry. He couldn't wipe it away, and he couldn't stop it.