"Well..."
Lan Yu paused for a moment, then said, "Let me be frank, inside this ring of yours... dwells a... soul that doesn't belong to this world."
Qi Yasheng excitedly interjected, "It's him! It must be him! It's Old Master Ai's father! It must be Old Master Ai's father's spirit residing inside!"
Then, turning to Su Ruyi, he said, "Otherwise, how come this ring fell out of your pocket by itself when you mentioned him? You didn't take it out; I saw it clearly from that angle. It jumped out by itself!"
Lan Yu rolled her eyes at Qi Yasheng: "Don't make a fuss! You're always shouting and yelling. What kind of scholar are you? Alright, go get us some more water—and remember to put on the raincoats on the wall."
Qi Yasheng looked at Su Ruyi with a pitiful expression: "Are you really going to send me away?"
Lan Yu interjected, "Don't ask Doctor Su. I already calculated it for you; your birth chart is entirely Yin. It's best for you to avoid these kinds of things and magical artifacts. Actually, it's also best for you to stay away from my Little Plum Mountain!"
"Alright, alright! I'm leaving, I'm leaving now, okay?" With that, Qi Yasheng picked up the empty water bottle with a bit of a scramble, put on her raincoat, and plunged into the heavy rain.
Su Ruyi immediately asked, "Master Qingfeng, do you know who the living soul inside this ring of mine is?"
Lan Yu still held the ring, shook her head and said, "We'll only know if you call out."
How can we get him to come out?
"Now is fine—it's another rainy day, very gloomy and damp, and there's no sun. Do you want to call?"
Su Ruyi nodded solemnly.
So Lan Yu got up and, with a "click," locked the ticket office door from the inside.
He still held the thumb ring in his palm: "What did Ai Wenxing do when the gold ingot fell out of the thumb ring?"
Su Ruyi recalled for a moment: "It was said that his mother wiped the ring!"
"Then let's wipe it clean!" With that, Lan Yu used the edge of the crumpled handkerchief to wrap around the thumb ring and wipe it.
He wiped her face about seven or eight times when Su Ruyi suddenly felt dizzy. Then her head tilted back, her eyes closed, and she fell back into the chair.
The next scene in Su Ruyi's memory was running through an endless expanse of white mist.
Suddenly, a voice that was both strange and familiar called out to her from behind: "Girl, girl! You, you, you're still alive?!"
Su Ruyi turned around and saw a middle-aged man dressed as a hunter.
The man had an unfamiliar face, yet it felt strangely familiar—just like his voice.
Seeing Su Ruyi's somewhat bewildered expression, the hunter sighed, "That's great, you're still alive! That puts most of my mind at ease!"
Su Ruyi stared blankly at his face, suddenly feeling as if she had remembered something.
Lan Yu said she had a place to come from, and yes, something seemed to have happened in the world she came from.
Suddenly she remembered what had happened, and it felt like a thousand arrows pierced her heart—her entire family, except for her, had been wiped out overnight!
As an only child, she is the young mistress of the family!
He is the young master who is loved by everyone!
That world is somewhat strange.
At that time, she was too weak to fight against those enemies.
So, her parents used their last bit of strength to send her away from that world.
But... she still couldn't remember what happened after she left.
When the hunter smiled, there were radiating wrinkles at the corners of his eyes, and his face was becoming more and more familiar.
Su Ruyi felt that some memories were so close, yet they seemed to be separated by a thin veil, impossible to grasp.
When I think about it carefully, I feel a sharp pain in my temples.
The hunter spoke again:
"Girl, are you scared?"
Don't be afraid!
It's very safe in this white fog; I've been here for quite some time now.
Those who hunted your family, and those who hunted you—I've never seen them in this white fog.
"You escaped here too, that's great!"
As he spoke, he tugged at his hair, his expression turning strange. After a moment of stunned silence, he suddenly threw his head back and laughed:
"So, it really was me who went crazy, not that many years had passed!"
If many years have passed, then your appearance should have changed!
But you are just like I was when I first met you.
It's my heart!
My heart is possessed by inner demons!
"Girl, how many days have passed?"
"..." Su Ruyi didn't know how to answer.
Reality is too cruel.
Su Ruyi's eyes never left the hunter's face.
She remembered something else—when her parents sent her away from that world, they put the family heirloom thumb ring on her thumb.
That jade dragon thumb ring with traces of blood-red hue was originally from her original world!
It belongs to Father!
She only remembers being pushed by a powerful force, to the point that her soul almost left her body.
When I woke up, I was in front of a young man with a somewhat blank look in his eyes.
“Aiwenxing! It’s him!” Su Ruyi blurted out.
The hunter's smile faded: "What? My little Xing... he couldn't get back? He knows the way down the mountain very well, doesn't he?"
Tears suddenly welled up in Su Ruyi's eyes—she finally realized that the hunter in front of her was indeed Ai Ganbei, the one who had seen her off that day!
It turns out that the girl in Aivenxing's memory really was her!
Once she understood this, she suddenly gasped.
When her parents sent her off to leave this world, she fell so hard that she forgot about the massacre of her entire family.
After waking up, all she could think about was how to get home.
She had no idea where she was.
They grabbed onto the hunter father and son in front of them as if they were grasping at a straw.
The judgment of direction was also completely wrong; it could be said that he just randomly pointed in a direction.
To some extent, Su Ruyi's appearance was nothing short of a disaster for the Ai family father and son.
During Ai Ganbei's escort of Su Ruyi back home, Su Ruyi at that time vaguely recalled some things about her own world.
She knew in her heart that the ring was the only way for her to return to her own world.
When she left, her family's courtyard was already surrounded by a dense swarm of enemies.
The parents... are unlikely to have survived.
She knew, of course, that her parents sent her away for her own good, but in that instant, she wanted to go back.
However, I still don't know how to get back.
And the thumb ring, somehow, had returned to her hand!
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