After leisurely finishing the honey-glazed pastry in her hand, Ji Ruwen was just about to try some other fruits when her phone rang.
Ji Ruwen glanced at it and found that Gan Sui had posted on his WeChat Moments a second earlier.
It was a hand holding a crescent-shaped honey horn, a man's hand—the half-moon nails were neatly trimmed, the fingers with distinct knuckles were exceptionally long, and the pale blue veins were visible beneath the fair skin.
Perhaps it's the angle of the shot, but it looks like the food is being fed to the photographer.
Ji Ruwen's gaze lingered on that hand.
He recognized it at a glance; it was Shi Xi's hand.
The caption for this WeChat Moments post was also very simple, consisting of only two words—
It's very sweet.
...
"I just heard from my assistant that Qi Tingsong has left."
"Why did he leave?" Shi Xi swallowed the honeydew melon in her mouth and frowned.
This stuff is cloyingly sweet.
"Really? I just found out too."
Upon hearing this, Gan Sui simply put down his phone as if nothing had happened and said in a calm tone, "Perhaps it's something urgent."
After Shi Xi finished speaking, she immediately observed Gan Sui's reaction. Sure enough, she found that when he heard the news, he did not seem surprised. Upon closer inspection, he was even a little happy.
Even when answering Gan Sui's question, Shi Xi was already thinking—
Why did he ask himself if he was serious about Qi Tingsong?
According to the plot, although Gan Sui had feelings for Qi Tingsong, it was not enough for him to do something so outrageous.
When Shi Xi heard Gan Sui mention Qi Tingsong's presence, she guessed that Gan Sui had done it on purpose.
He originally thought that Gan Sui was helping Qi Tingsong realize that he was not a good person.
But unexpectedly, Qi Tingsong had already left, while Gan Sui remained at the manor... and then I thought back to how serious the two of them were when they were 'acting' not long ago.
The plot has fallen apart like this, and even cold medicine can't detect it.
Shi Xi decided that once she finished the storyline and left this small world, she would take the cold medicine for repair!
At that moment, the capybara, which was dazed in the pool, suddenly felt a chill down its spine.
...
Shi Xi wiped her fingers clean with a tissue. She had just come out of Gan Sui's room when she encountered the servants of the manor.
It was the maid who had reminded him beforehand to take Qi Tingsong with him when he went out.
When the servants saw him, they subtly hinted that Shi Xi should go find Qi Tingsong.
Shi Xi shook her head and said nonchalantly, "Don't worry, he'll come back."
At this point, the plot unfolds to the point where Xu Youchu realizes he seems to have developed genuine feelings for Qi Tingsong, and discovers that Qi Tingsong likes Qin Budu, thus becoming conflicted... Although he is a charming and passionate man who relentlessly pursues Qi Tingsong, he would not destroy other people's relationships without any limits.
Therefore, his words do not contradict the character's established personality.
The servant misunderstood Shi Xi's words as meaning that Qi Tingsong had left because he had something to do.
So he left without worry.
...
When Shi Xi returned to her room, she saw Sui Sui sitting cross-legged on the carpet.
Holding a bag of fruit in his hands, he was stuffing one fruit after another into his mouth, his mouth stuffed full, just like a little hamster.
Suddenly, the capybara's slow, leisurely words popped into Shi Xi's mind—
【This is also very good, I like it very much too】
Shi Xi raised an eyebrow.
I was internally complaining.
The cold medicine is like a durian, with people standing on every pointed end.
Sui Sui was enjoying her meal when she was surprised to see Shi Xi return. She quickly swallowed what was in her mouth and hurriedly stood up.
"Hey bro, you're back."
"Mm." Shi Xi nodded.
Then he took off the bracelet on his wrist, took out a coin from his pocket, and began practicing his divination technique as usual.
One of the bracelets broke completely a few days ago, and now only one remains, which Shi Xi usually wears on her right hand.
One wall in the room was specially made, and Ruan Jingshan told Qin Budu about it the day after he left.
Qin Budu didn't react much, but simply instructed his assistant to modify one wall to make it easier for him to practice his techniques.
After an unknown amount of time, Shi Xi stopped, exhausted. He turned to look at Sui Sui and asked, "Do you still want to die now?"
Sui Sui remained silent, tightening her grip on the fruit. After a long while, she finally spoke, "I don't want to think about it anymore."
"Do me a favor."
"What?" Sui Sui asked casually, popping a fruit into her mouth.
"Find someone to pass on the technique."
Shi Xi could roughly guess why Ruan Jingshan wanted to teach him the Art of Derivation.
Unfortunately, he chose the wrong person.
He didn't have extra time to find the next successor of the Ruan family.
So I'll have to ask Sui Sui for help.
The opponent is a Nightmare Demon; apart from him, an outsider, no one can kill him, and he's incredibly resilient.
If you can discern the deepest desires in someone's heart, the people you choose won't be of poor quality.
"Me?" Sui Sui was puzzled. "Big brother, are you sure you want me to find it?"
Sui Sui really didn't understand why Shi Xi would suddenly say such a thing when he was alive and well.
Finding a successor is essentially the same as taking on apprentices.
There's no way someone can do this for you!
Shi Xi sat cross-legged next to him. "The one you found is guaranteed to be of high quality."
"..."
Now Sui Sui understood; Shi Xi was using him as a quality inspector.
“…Okay then,” Sui Sui said.
"I'll teach you while I'm at it." Shi Xi reached out and unceremoniously picked out a fruit that wasn't so sweet.
During this time, he practiced his techniques, and Sui Sui watched him from the side, so he learned some of them as well.
"Brother, you're exploiting me." Sui Sui said with a resentful look on her face.
Unexpectedly, even after becoming a ghost, he was still able to experience the feeling of being a corporate slave.
Shi Xi bit into the fruit in her mouth, still finding it excessively sweet. She wondered what was wrong with Sui Sui, how she could eat so much in one go.
"So?" Shi Xi looked at Sui Sui.
"...Buy me two more bags of fruit," Sui Sui said. "Only buy for me."
Shi Xi found it amusing and agreed, "Okay, I'll go buy it now."
As the door was about to close, Sui Sui finally couldn't help but ask—
"...Young man, do you know my parents?"
He thought about it for a long time but couldn't figure out why Shi Xi would save him. After thinking about it, this was the only possibility.
Shi Xi stopped in her tracks. "Do you still remember your last name?"
Sui Sui frowned and thought for a long time, feeling a headache coming on. All she could remember was that her father had told her to go to sleep that day and not to move no matter what sound she heard.
He died too young, so young that he could no longer remember what his parents looked like, and in the passing of time, he forgot his own surname.
Shi Xi was not surprised, because he was also a ghost and had also forgotten many things.
Shi Xi looked at Sui Sui, and through that face, she saw another face that was very similar, but full of vicissitudes.
When he first met Sui Sui, he thought she had deliberately transformed into that form. It wasn't until she entered his dream that Shi Xi realized that she actually looked like that.
As for the swing under that tree, Xu Youchu had two... The blind old Taoist priest who raised Xu Youchu once had a son whose nickname was Sui Sui.
"Your surname is Lin, and your name is Lin Sui."
Shi Xi looked into Sui Sui's eyes and said calmly—
"He is the son of the feng shui master Lin Yi."
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