Two days had passed when Su Mingan changed his body.
The white-haired man was still sitting under the peach tree, sleeping quietly, with the flower rain intertwining on his brows and eyes.
"I'm back." Su Mingan called out.
Yueyue lowered her head and did not respond.
"Wake up." He called again.
She still didn't respond.
He stood there for a long time, his hands stiff, until a peach petal fell on his fingers.
There was no breath flowing through the fingertips.
She had stopped breathing.
In the end, she should have sat here alone, waiting lonely from dawn to dusk, looking far away at the end of the peach blossom forest, waiting for his return... until she stopped breathing.
Su Mingan lowered his head, resting his forehead against the inside of his arm, and remained still for a long time. The only sound in the air was Xiao Kai's subdued breathing.
Time seemed incomparably long at this moment. Su Mingan never looked up and no one could see his expression clearly.
Until Su Mingan finally raised his head, as if he was calm as if nothing had happened.
"You said that after you die, your soul will find a new body. I believe you." Su Mingan said: "Xiao Kai, give me a hand."
Xiao Kai dug the soil diligently, and Su Mingan placed Yueyue in the wooden coffin. As she requested, this was not a true death, so there were no flowers or relics, just plain soil filling.
"...Father, do you really believe that people can be resurrected after death?" Xiao Kai said in a low voice.
Over the past decade, Xiaokai has called Yueyue "Adult" but has always called Su Mingan "Father", and he can't correct it no matter what he does.
"Yeah." Su Ming'an responded: "According to the original plan, I will go inland with you."
"Okay! Then I'll go pack your luggage, you just sit here and wait." Xiao Kai happily put down the shovel, and ran towards the house regardless of the mud all over his body.
“Swish!”
Su Mingan suddenly heard the sound of a knife piercing flesh.
Hot blood splashed on his face and his pupils constricted.
A pointed cane pierced Xiao Kai's chest, and blood flowed all over the floor. The blond man who appeared out of nowhere pulled out the cane with a "swish", took out a silk handkerchief, and slowly wiped the blood-stained gentian flowers on the cane.
Xiao Kai seemed to be still alive and struggling. The blond man raised his foot and crushed Xiao Kai's throat bone in an instant. His toes repeatedly rubbed against the ground, making a creaking sound that made people's teeth ache. Then, the man threw away the bloodstained silk handkerchief like throwing away garbage, letting it fly away with the wind.
The setting sun cast a long shadow. The blond man tilted his head, the sapphire pendant on his ear swayed slightly, and he looked at Su Mingan and smiled:
“…I found you, my friend.”
Without any questions, Su Mingan knew who this was.
“I thought it would take longer.”
"It's my fault for coming too fast." The blond man walked forward.
"When you possessed others before, you couldn't kill people directly. How can you kill people now?" Su Mingan said.
"Some lives belong to me, and I can certainly take them back."
"When did you find out I was here? Did you notice my return to the Holy City?"
"Well... earlier." The blond man lowered his eyes and thought: "I found her around the time you first went out to sea. But I thought you deserved to experience a happy life, so I waited until she died before I appeared in front of you."
...It’s so early.
Die Ying said, "Let the gods live out their lives as ordinary people, come to such a remote place to live out their remaining lives, farming and weaving. Is this what you humans want? I really don't see how it makes any sense to you."
Outside the peach blossom forest, hundreds of shadows approached. They were all humans bewitched by the overlapping shadows, mostly soldiers and farmers.
At this moment,
A hand suddenly stretched out and firmly grasped Dieying's ankle.
"... Stop." Xiao Kai, who had already stopped breathing and was lying in a pool of blood, slowly raised his head. His dark eyes seemed to hide an abyss: "Don't hurt my father."
"I deliberately asked you to leave early to avoid ruining the character you carefully built, but you insisted on standing up." Dieying kicked Xiaokai away.
Xiao Kai was kicked and stood up quickly. The wound on his chest stopped bleeding and even the shattered bones in his neck had healed. This was not something an ordinary person could do. He grabbed Die Ying again: "Don't hurt my father."
"..." Su Mingan's pupils shrank slightly. This newspaper boy who he had watched grow up was actually not a simple person?
He suddenly remembered the several times he had met Xiao Kai. Xiao Kai was covered in bruises, which made Yue Yue feel compassion for him and want to adopt him. So... even those scars on his body were deliberately done by Xiao Kai? Just to arouse Su Ming'an's sympathy and adopt him?
But at that time, Xiao Kai was only twelve years old. How could he be so scheming? Why did Su Mingan attract him so much...
Su Mingan stared at Xiaokai, wondering who this person was.
Xiao Kai looked at Su Mingan, his tone suddenly became profound, as if he had finally revealed all his disguises, and he shouted in a low voice:
"……Father."
…
[“You don’t even remember me?” The man stared at Su Ming’an and said after a while: “…You can even forget your own son. You are really not a qualified father.”]
…
Xiao Ying felt pleasure when the tip of the knife cut through her skin.
After the sacrifice to the gods, he became a sinner for all eternity. The holy city did not accept him and he was excluded by every era.
He was like an exiled orphan, living in a remote hut, drinking peach wine and staying drunk for days. Occasionally, when he woke up, he would pick up a knife to cut himself, and when he got drunk, he would fall asleep hugging the black bird sculpture, and he himself didn't know how much time had passed.
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