"Little Ruanruan, are you alright?" Gu Chen asked anxiously as he released Little Ruanruan.
Little Ruanruan opened her eyes, and the wind was still howling in her ears, but she didn't feel a gust of wind.
"Brother Gu Chen, I'm fine," the little girl said sweetly in her soft, childlike voice.
With bright, large eyes, she looked around in confusion. They were actually in an ancient house with old walls. "Brother Gu Chen, where are we?"
"This is the ruins of an ancient city."
Xiao Ruanruan looked away and glanced at Gu Chen. "Brother Gu Chen, have you really been here before?"
"Yes!" Gu Chen nodded. "I really have been here."
Xiao Ruanruan thought for a moment, looked at Gu Chen, and asked seriously, "Before or after the time travel?"
When Gu Chen heard Xiao Ruanruan's question, his deep eyes dimmed slightly, his thin lips pressed into a tight line, and he lowered his head with a somewhat aggrieved look. "Xiao Ruanruan, do you not believe me when you ask me this?"
Little Softie: ……
"Brother Gu Chen, no, I was just... curious! Please don't be angry..."
Gu Chen looked at Xiao Ruanruan with a wronged expression, "If Xiao Ruanruan hugs me, I won't be angry anymore."
Little Ruanruan helplessly hugged Gu Chen.
Gu Chen pulled her into his arms, a smile unconsciously curving his lips.
He had worked so hard to create an opportunity, but a storm unexpectedly helped him.
He buried his head in Xiao Ruanruan's neck. "I came here before I transmigrated, and I came here after I transmigrated. Xixi's idea of treasure hunting is not wrong. There is a diamond vein buried under this desert. I applied to the country and the Gu family and the country jointly developed it."
Xiao Ruanruan turned her head in shock to look at Gu Chen's face. This should be a trade secret, right? Gu Chen just told her this as if it were a casual conversation?
But Gu Chen's head was already buried in her neck, and when she moved, her little face just happened to touch Gu Chen's lips.
Little Softie: ……
Her heartbeat changed unconsciously. Although she had gotten used to thinking of herself as a four-year-old child in the six months since she traveled back in time, her heartbeat changed involuntarily.
Many times, she doesn't even remember that she is actually a soul in her twenties.
But in this situation, she simply can't act like a four-year-old like she does with her brothers!
Her pointed ears turned slightly red, and she instinctively wanted to stand up and escape from Gu Chen's embrace.
Gu Chen hugged her even tighter, "Ruan Ruan, I came back for you!"
Her body suddenly stiffened and she couldn't move.
“Before I transmigrated, the time you saved me, it wasn’t that I didn’t want to talk to you. It was just that I had a lot of things to deal with and it was very dangerous. I was worried that if I talked to you, it would only implicate you.”
Xiao Ruanruan's chaotic emotions vanished instantly, and she asked seriously, "Is it related to the Nightmare?"
"Mmm!" Gu Chen buried his head in her neck, so his voice sounded a little muffled.
Xiao Ruanruan suddenly realized why, shortly after Gu Chen was taken away before she transmigrated, Hei Yan began to cause her trouble.
She had always thought that the Dark Nightmare was after her time machine technology, but it turns out that wasn't all of it!
"Ruan Ruan, before you came into my life, the only meaning of my life was to fight against the Black Nightmare. I originally wanted to donate everything of the Gu family after defeating the Black Nightmare, and then find a place to live out my days alone."
It was the time I spent with you that showed me another possibility in life.
But after the Dark Nightmare disappeared, when I went to look for you again, I found that you had also vanished. I went to great lengths to find any trace of your research into time machines.
Using the clues I found, I tried to build a time machine just like yours, but... my time machine could never match your precision. So, although I returned the first time, I only went back to when I was eight years old, while you were only four.
But actually, I'm only two years older than you.
Xiao Ruanruan listened to Gu Chen's aggrieved voice and was a little confused. Was he four or two years older than her? Was that a big difference?
It doesn't seem to make much of a difference. Even though Gu Chen is ten years older than her now, she doesn't feel it's a big problem!
Why should Brother Gu Chen feel wronged because of this?
Gu Chen seemed to see through her thoughts, and his muffled voice sounded even more aggrieved, "Lu Wei said I'm an old man and not good enough for you."
Little Softie: ……
What nonsense is Lu Wei spouting?
After the words popped into her mind subconsciously, Xiao Ruanruan realized why Lu Wei would say that Brother Gu Chen was an old man who was not good enough for her.
And then I thought about how my brothers always kept a close watch on Gu Chen...
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