Chapter 61 Chang'e
Qing'er was in a good mood all the way back. This time, they didn't take the flying vehicle back, but walked all the way back.
Qing'er walked ahead, humming an unknown song. Li Lianhua looked at Qing'er, who was clearly in a good mood, and the corners of his mouth unconsciously turned up.
"Qing'er," Li Lianhua called softly. Qing'er stopped and turned to look at him with a puzzled expression. "What's wrong?" Li Lianhua stepped forward and stood beside her. "You seem so happy. Did you really enjoy the iron flower display?"
Qing'er's eyes sparkled as she nodded vigorously: "I love it, it's really beautiful."
“Then we’ll go visit again when we have time.” Li Lianhua gazed at Qing’er with a smile. He noticed that Qing’er’s personality had become more cheerful and lively compared to when they first met. (Qing’er: Is it possible that she hasn’t changed, but rather it’s because we weren’t familiar with each other at first?)
"good"
The two continued walking forward, the moonlight shining on them as if they were draped in a layer of silver gauze.
When they returned, everyone else had gone back to their rooms to rest. Yunyin Mountain didn't have many rules; if you didn't want to keep watch, you could go back to rest.
However, Qing'er and Li Lianhua did not plan to rest so early, so they sat in the courtyard drinking tea.
Qing'er looked up at the moon in the sky and thought, "Tsk, there's no Chang'e on it." She thought of the Chang'e from her hometown, who danced there every day, longing for Hou Yi. Didn't she ever get tired of dancing like that?
Li Lianhua stared at Qing'er, lost in thought. In that instant, he felt a great distance between them, as if she might leave at any moment. A sense of panic welled up inside him, and he called out, "Qing'er?"
"Hmm?" Qing'er turned to look at him, noticing the fleeting panic in his eyes, and asked with some confusion, "What's wrong?"
"It's nothing, I was just curious about what you were thinking when I saw you looking so lost in thought," Li Lianhua said softly, suppressing her inner turmoil.
Qing'er smiled and said, "I was thinking about Chang'e. She dances every day, doesn't she get tired of it?" She said it casually. She had never hidden her identity from Li Lianhua, and Li Lianhua probably had a rough idea of it.
Li Lianhua's eyes narrowed as he listened. He had always known that Qing'er had never deliberately hidden anything from him, but this was the first time she had directly spoken about matters related to her identity. Sure enough… Judging from how casually she spoke of Chang'e, she was clearly very familiar with her. So Qing'er truly was a fairy. "Is Qing'er very familiar with Chang'e?"
Qing'er was somewhat surprised that Li Lianhua would ask such a question, but she still replied, "Not very familiar. She lives in her own world all day and rarely leaves the Moon Palace. And I don't really like going to the Moon Palace; it's too desolate there." What she didn't say was that she had gone there a few times out of curiosity before, and the whole Moon Palace felt very oppressive, mainly because of the aura emanating from Chang'e, which was like that of a resentful woman, making her seem mentally unstable. After that, she stopped going.
"Then... how did she become like this?" Li Lianhua asked in confusion.
Qing'er raised an eyebrow and said, "You should have heard the story of Chang'e and Hou Yi, right?"
Li Lianhua had also heard this story, but always thought it was made up. "Is the story true?"
Qing'er replied, "More or less. Anyway, Hou Yi is dead, and Chang'e lives on in our memories."
Li Lianhua asked curiously, "Don't people have souls after they die? And they can be reincarnated, so why doesn't she go and find one?"
Qing'er said calmly, "Oh, that's because the Heavenly Laws don't allow gods to fall in love." But that was all in the past. Now it's allowed. She was also curious whether Chang'e had gone to find Hou Yi's reincarnation. She could ask about it when she got back.
Li Lianhua's heart skipped a beat. Immortals...can't have feelings? Then he... He felt a sharp pain in his heart, and his breathing became somewhat disordered.
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