Tianshi generation 38 years.
On the eaves, Su Lin looked at the airship rising in the distance.
Colorful cloths were hung all over the streets and alleys like fluttering flags, and the queen stood on a high platform in the city, holding the church's hymn.
"Xiao Lin, why are you sitting here again?" Jiang Yin came over with a cup of Teni tea in her hand. "Look... the ship is rising higher and higher, and it's very close to the city in the sky. Over the past eight years, we have seen it being built bit by bit. Every piece of wood, every rivet... is inseparable from our contribution, and is the hope of the entire kingdom."
Su Lin didn't go to see it. He didn't want to see the inevitable outcome.
People's prayers and chants flowed all night long, fishermen put down their nets, tailors stopped sewing, and almost everyone was looking forward to it.
"...Speaking of which." Jiang Yin lowered her head, and the bun on the back of her head shook: "You have lived in my house for eight years."
He is such a weirdo.
During the past eight years, he either wandered the streets or sat on the eaves listening to storytelling in teahouses.
The place where they were sitting had long since moved from the third floor to the fifth floor. The cloth shop continued to expand, and even Jiang Yin had grown to over 30 years old, with some traces of time on his face. But he...
It has never changed.
Jiang Yin stared at him. His face hadn't changed at all, still retaining the stunning look she had when she first saw him eight years ago.
But she was inevitably falling into the years.
Last night, Jiang Yin wanted to confess her feelings to him for the forty-eighth time. She stood alone in the room and encouraged herself: "Come on, Jiang Yin, you can do it... It's been eight years, and you couldn't say it every time. This time... You must express your feelings, and you can't hesitate any longer..."
But when she finally made up her mind...she suddenly looked up and looked in the mirror.
She thought of the gossip of the neighbors.
[You are already thirty and still not married. I guess you won’t be able to find anyone good in the future. ]
【If you don’t pick people when you are young, you will be picked by others when you are old. 】
[Why hasn't Mr. Jiang gotten married yet? What's the point of having so much money? If you don't get married, your life will definitely not be happy. ]
[She is no longer a little girl... No one likes her anymore. ]
…
This was just her own wish... She liked that person, from the moment they met, from the first words they said, from the first glance they made... She liked him. It didn't matter whether they got married or not, she just wanted to boldly express her feelings.
...That's right, go ahead and say it.
Go ahead and say it, Jiang Yin.
"…What are you looking at?"
Jiang Yin came back to her senses and found that Su Lin had opened his eyes. His gilded eyes were like a pool of broken light.
Her lips moved slightly, and looking at those eyes, she felt dazed for a moment, as if she saw the statue standing in the church, or the candlelight fluttering under the stained glass windows... It was a kind of indifference filled with divinity.
In the distance, the airship had risen deep into the clouds. People's hymns flowed into a river. The moonlight flowed over their shoulders, over her trembling lips, over her pounding heart, and into his golden eyes.
He looked back at her indifferently, as if he could withdraw from this silent gaze at any time.
...Jiang Yin, Jiang Yin.
She placed her right hand over her heart and felt the throbbing that had lasted for eight years.
...You can't run away anymore. If you keep running away...it will really be your whole life.
She could guess why his appearance remained unchanged. Perhaps, he was the legendary mermaid. Perhaps... he was the god in heaven. In comparison, her life span was just a drop in the ocean. If, she didn't speak up...
At this moment, she felt that she had finally done the bravest thing in her life.
I abandoned the scriptures in my heart, and with blasphemous thoughts, I opened my mouth.
"Su Lin." Her voice was extremely trembling: "I like——"
No matter who you are, no matter who you are... whatever it is, this is my deepest thought at the moment, and I want to say it out.
Su Lin's eyes moved slightly.
“Bang!”
Suddenly, a firework bloomed in the sky.
“Pah-pah-!!!”
Then, there was the sound of hundreds of fireworks exploding. The bright colors in the sky were crowded together, and the sound of firecrackers instantly drowned out Jiang Yin's voice. All he could see was her slightly moving lips, and he couldn't hear anything.
In the brilliant light, she was facing away from the light, her face hidden in the shadows, with only a few strands of light floating in her hair.
——The airship is returning.
The crew found that the city in the sky was impossible to approach, so they had to return. At the moment after midnight, the ceremony of light arrived and fireworks were set off all over the city.
It was not until the fireworks dimmed that Su Lin spoke, hesitantly asking, "What did you just say?"
The corners of Jiang Yin's mouth twitched, and her eyes slid to the ground, trembling.
Soon, she raised her head, touched the wrinkles at the corners of her eyes, and smiled at him. It was a very ordinary smile: "No, I didn't say anything, haha... I didn't say anything..."
"Um... from now on, please continue to live here. I like you very much..."
Her voice trembled, and she wanted to stop talking, but her tongue held the sound, and she continued speaking as if nothing had happened:
"...tea."
Big tears suddenly streamed down her cheeks.
She didn't know why she was crying.
But as she looked at his face which had never changed over the years, she suddenly realized that perhaps this request would never have an answer.
She is thirty years old this year.
And he still looks about twenty.
I guess when she is forty, fifty, or sixty... with white hair, wrinkles all over her face, unsteady steps, and sickly... he will still look like he is twenty.
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