Chapter 143 "Since that's the case, why don't you just make a wish so I can stay here forever?"
When the loquat woke up from her dream again.
His face was already soaked.
He looked at the figure sitting by the bed, and after a moment's hesitation, he called out that name.
"orchid……"
The young man turned his head, revealing a distinct red mole under his eye.
Even though it's the same shell, you can still feel the difference.
Despite the vast differences between Li Nian and Lan Yunzhi, Lan's changes are actually not significant, but her eyes don't lie.
Young Master Lan's gaze was always gentle yet distant, as if he always harbored secret thoughts.
Lan's eyes were equally gentle, but they lacked some of the melancholy and instead held a fox-like cunning and ill intent.
Upon hearing her name, Lan seemed to pause for a moment, then winked playfully.
"Not bad. You recognized me right away, which is rare for me..."
As Pipa reached out and forcefully wrapped her arms around the young man's neck, her words abruptly stopped.
Lan was clearly caught off guard by the sudden hug.
After a pause, he turned around and gently stroked Pipa's head and shoulders.
Then I heard the other person complain in a low voice: "Is it fun to say those kinds of things? Is it fun to hide and not show your face? Do you feel particularly accomplished watching me run around in my dreams looking for you like an idiot?"
"So...okay?" Lan said half-jokingly, trying to lighten the mood.
As soon as he said it, he felt a sudden tightening of force on his neck, almost choking him to death.
Lan originally wanted to remind him that this was the body of the most respected Young Master Lan, so he shouldn't be accidentally damaged.
The next moment, the boy's muffled murmur, tinged with nasal tone, was heard: "I really thought I would never see you again..."
—Okay, fine.
Lan immediately took back what she was about to say.
So what if it's broken? He originally had a share of the right to use this body.
Thinking this, Lan's expression softened as she looked at the boy, then she gently stroked his head and whispered, "We agreed, I'll grant you three wishes. This is the second one."
"The second one?" Pipa released the young man, looking at him with some confusion.
Lan smiled and nodded: "Yes, your first wish is to attend that wedding. As for the second..."
At this point, Lan paused as if on purpose, a meaningful smile appearing on her lips.
Seeing this, Pipa paused for a moment, then reached out and tugged at the corner of the other person's mouth, forcibly suppressing the smile on their lips.
"Could you please stop making such inappropriate expressions using Young Master Lan's face?"
After a pause, the boy seemed to suddenly remember something and awkwardly shifted his gaze to the side: "I didn't even ask. I just blurted out that my second wish was to see you, without even worrying about being presumptuous."
“But I saw it.” Lan’s tone was light, yet there was a strange seriousness in it. “I saw it clearly with both of my eyes. And you said it yourself—you were running around looking for me in your dreams like a fool.”
The young man repeated exactly what the loquat had said earlier.
He had a confident and well-reasoned demeanor.
The loquat fell silent.
Seeing this, Lan curled the corners of her mouth again and said calmly, "It's alright, just consider it my presumption if you need to."
Pipa was speechless: "...Do you think I'll be happy just because you said that?"
Lan remained in an unwavering good mood, slightly tilting her head to examine the boy's face from below.
I thought you were already happy to see me.
"..."
Before Pipa could retort, he quickly added with a smile, "After all, I'm here to fulfill your third wish."
What does it mean to be sleepy and find a pillow?
I've finally experienced the benefits of loquat.
He had been planning how to find an opportunity to ask Lan Yunzhi to take him behind the wall to see what was going on.
This was obtained without any effort at all.
Pipa didn't know how long Lan could stay in front of her.
But when the words of his wish were on the tip of his tongue, the boy suddenly hesitated.
"orchid."
"Um."
"Can you tell me your name?"
Upon hearing this, Lan was stunned for a moment, then smiled again: "This wouldn't be your last wish, would it?"
“I’m not joking,” Pipa said seriously. “Even now, you still won’t tell me your name?”
Seeing the serious expression on the boy's face, Lan also slightly suppressed her smile.
"Is a name really that important?"
The young man murmured softly, his eyes flashing with emotions that Pipa could not yet decipher: "Even if a rose changes its name, it will still be fragrant."
"What?"
Pipa listened to Lan's somewhat abrupt words with a blank expression, feeling puzzled.
"It's nothing," Lan smiled slightly. "I'm just using a poet's words to express some small sentiments."
Even though that wasn't the case, Pipa had a vague feeling that this face originally belonged to the other person.
However, he clearly remembered seeing the young man's true face, his ordinary face hidden beneath a black veil... though he could no longer recall it now.
Do you believe that other worlds exist outside of this one?
Lan then posed a slightly odd question.
Pipa blinked, his mind flashing between the void of darkness and the world of flesh and blood beyond it. Then he nodded: "I think there should be."
Upon hearing this, Lan smiled even more beautifully. For a moment, Pipa felt as if Lan's gaze was looking through her to someone else.
—A person who does not exist in this world.
Upon realizing this, Pipa felt a sudden emptiness in her heart.
“In those worlds, I had many names,” Lan said slowly, then turned her gaze back to the boy before her with certainty, and said with a slight smile, “But now, my name is indeed Lan. It’s the name you gave me, and I like it very much.”
He reached out, his fair fingertips tracing the boy's outline in the air.
It was like the first time, the two of them facing each other across a small table.
With a light tap of the man's fingertips, the wisps of smoke drew a beautiful metaphorical character in the air.
"Because you are a loquat, I am an orchid."
Lan's voice came again, so matter-of-factly, as if he were born to exist for the boy.
Pipa felt a slight tremor in her heart.
She couldn't help but ask the question: "Where will Lan go after her third wish comes true?"
Will it...disappear?
"Are you worried that I will disappear?" Lan almost immediately saw through what the boy was thinking.
Pipa, whose secret had been exposed, showed no shyness or embarrassment. Instead, she stared straight at the other person, her eyes unblinking.
"So, will it?" he asked.
Lan met the boy's gaze without flinching and asked softly, "If I said yes, would you feel sad?"
He paused, then added, "Just like when we learned that Lan Yunzhi and that young master had disappeared."
Pipa didn't understand why Lan wanted to involve the other two people.
But he still nodded honestly and said, "Yes."
Lan looked visibly surprised, probably not expecting Pipa to answer so decisively.
After a moment of silence, he smiled and said, "In that case, why don't you just make a wish so that I can stay here forever?"
"..."
Then, without waiting for the boy's reply, he waved his hand to himself.
"Just kidding, you don't actually take it seriously," Lan Ruo said nonchalantly. "Besides, if I stay, your Young Master Lan will be in trouble."
After saying that, he muttered something under his breath.
I didn't quite hear what Pipa said, but it seemed like... there weren't enough to go around.
—Not enough to go around?
—What are you dividing it into?
Pipa guessed that this was the time he was awake in this body.
Originally, this was Lan Yunzhi's body, but later, Li Nian somehow moved in. If we add another Lan, wouldn't there not be enough to go around?
Pipa thought to herself that it was impossible for her to make such a wish.
Even if he wanted Lan to stay, he couldn't let that harm Young Master Lan.
In any case, Young Master Lan had no reason to make such a great sacrifice for his own sake, but if it were...
A thought suddenly struck the boy, and he almost blurted out, "What if it were my body?"
"ha?"
Upon hearing this, Lan rarely showed such undisguised surprise.
Pipa had also sorted out his thoughts. He placed his hand on his heart and spoke sincerely.
"Although I can't make decisions about other people's bodies without permission, it's fine if it's my own. If Lan doesn't mind, I can share this body with her."
Lan remained silent, watching the boy's inactive expression and eyes, and finally just smiled helplessly.
He even shrugged, feigning nonchalance, saying, "Unfortunately, what I just mentioned is beyond my capabilities."
The small flame that had risen in my heart was extinguished in an instant.
Pipa felt her shoulders slump uncontrollably.
He discovered that he had expected to be even more disappointed.
At this moment, Lan gently placed her hand on Pipa's shoulder and comforted her half-jokingly, "At least now you can try to think of a new wish. Isn't that right?"
--Yes.
Pipa thought that he would inevitably have to go behind that wall in the end.
"Will you leave after I've fulfilled my last wish?" Pipa asked.
"Probably," Lan replied casually, as if answering a question about what to eat for dinner.
So Pipa asked, "Is there anything you'd like to eat, Lan?"
Lan was taken aback at first, then seemed to realize the boy's intention. She lowered her eyes and thought for a moment before reciting the names of many dishes.
Pipa couldn't help but be a little surprised when she heard this.
Because what Lan mentioned happened to be the dishes that loquat liked.
He looked at the other person with some suspicion, and the latter nodded frankly: "They are indeed all things you like, but they just happen to be things I like too."
But the problem is—
"How does Lan know what I like to eat?" Pipa was puzzled.
"Who knows? Maybe it's a telepathic connection." Lan said casually, half-jokingly. "Or maybe it's something we remembered when we met in another world, who knows?"
"Is that so?"
Pipa suddenly became curious. If it was really as Lan said, then...
What kind of person would Lan meet in the other world?
What kind of relationship did Lan have with him in that world?
It gradually got dark.
When the world is shrouded in darkness, it looks no different.
Perhaps because he had taken a nap in the afternoon, Pipa wasn't very sleepy, and of course, he didn't want to sleep either.
Lan across from them had changed her clothes, and her hair, now loose, looked even closer to her appearance in the dream.
The candlelight illuminated the face of Young Master Lan, and the eyes of Lan.
Looking into those eyes, Pipa suddenly felt an impulse and reached out to cover the lower half of the young man's face.
Sure enough, this led to—
"It looks even more like it now..." the boy murmured unconsciously.
Lan laughed and gently removed the hand that was blocking her vision with the loquat: "What do you mean by similar or not? It is, the real deal."
"What can we exchange it for?" Pipa found the question somewhat amusing.
"Well..."
The young man pondered for a moment, seemingly also at a loss, and then shrugged: "Then I won't change it."
"Then wouldn't that be a waste of your time?" Pipa retorted.
"Yeah, it's a total loss." Lan Hun shrugged nonchalantly, with an almost gloating smile. "Who told you to be so unlucky? You just happened to run into a fake one."
"That makes it sound like it's my fault," Pipa muttered softly.
"In any case, it's not like there's absolutely nothing wrong with it."
Lan spoke in a low voice, almost as if she were talking to herself, but Pipa still heard her.
Then I heard the other person say, "If you don't have an obsession with the real, why would you be so bothered by the fake?"
"That's fallacy," Pipa pointed out.
Lan didn't refute, but instead smiled and agreed: "If you say it's fallacy, then it's fallacy."
The candle flame flickered, and the burning wick emitted a faint crackling sound.
This made the interior especially quiet.
"I wish it would never get light," Pipa suddenly said.
Kolan said, "The sun will always rise."
Yes, the sun will always rise.
—The night always seems to rush by when you don't want it to light up too quickly.
Pipa asked, "Lan, is there anything you want to tell me?"
But what I was really thinking was that this might truly be the last time.
Lan thought for a moment and said, "It seems that young Master Shen is getting married."
Pipa had told Lan about her life at Huayue Tower before, so it's not surprising that Lan knew about Chen Yun.
He was simply puzzled as to why the other party had suddenly brought this up.
"Do you want to participate?" That was the only thing Pipa could think of. "If you want to go, it's not impossible..."
It's not impossible to postpone the whole thing a little longer.
One day, two days... it's really not a big deal, right?
"Anyway, the wedding is just around the corner," Pipa recalled the date on the wedding invitation.
It is said that one feels timid when nearing home.
It's probably similar to how the loquat feels right now... even though she had already made up her mind.
But as the time drew near, he began to crave this moment of peace, wanting to prolong the time as much as possible and extend the night indefinitely.
—To be in a similar setting.
The same two people, sitting opposite each other in the dim candlelight, waiting for daylight to arrive.
The initial and final companionship seem so similar, yet they are completely different...
Because, without realizing it, Pipa's state of mind had already changed.
"orchid."
"Um."
"Could you tell me another story?"
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