The Xue family has been doing business for generations, and their family business is large and related to the livelihoods of thousands of people. Xue Xingzhi originally had only this one son, and the original plan was to let Xue Mingyuan inherit the family business, so since childhood, he was much more strict with Xue Mingyuan's schoolwork.

As for Xue Chenjing, they are one, and he follows his brother, so he must not be able to endure hardships.

Xue Chenjing and Xue Mingyuan both knew about their parents' plans. When their parents made plans for their future, they did not deliberately avoid them.

Xue Chenjing was also very satisfied with such an arrangement. He hated those account books and abacus beads the most, so he asked his brother to learn them. What he liked was horse riding, archery, and hunting wild animals in the mountains.

Xue Mingyuan was also willing to indulge him. In order to give Xue Chenjing more time to practice horse riding and archery, he would finish his homework early every day.

Outsiders did not know that there were two souls in this body. In the eyes of those who did not know, the son of the Xue family was really a man of both civil and military talents, and both talent and appearance.

If they had not recovered their memories, if they had not had to fight to the death in the previous lives, they might have been able to live a stable life in this life as their parents expected.

Unfortunately, there is no if.

After Xue Chenjing left home, the Xue couple looked for him for a long time. The two finally accepted the fact that they might never find him again. Xue Xingzhi inherited a child from a side branch and retrained him to take over his family business.

He was in charge of the funeral of the Xue couple, and Xue Chenjing and Xue Mingyuan only assisted.

Although the Xue couple had passed away seven times, they still followed the etiquette of the human world and kept vigil for the body. The soul of a mortal is weak, and after death, the three souls and seven spirits will disperse, and the soul fire will fall into reincarnation.

Perhaps because the parents' obsession was too deep, when Mrs. Wei was in the mourning hall, some of her scattered soul actually returned.

Yu Yi stood outside the mourning hall, looking at the thin soul in the hall with wide eyes. At the same time, Xue Chenjing and Xue Mingyuan also raised their heads suddenly.

When Xue Chenjing saw the remaining soul, he almost didn't think twice, and the spiritual line shot out from his fingertips, forming a soul-gathering formation around his mother.

But it is the law of nature that the soul disappears after death. Even if he tried his best to keep it, Mrs. Wei's soul became fainter and fainter. She didn't even have much sober consciousness, just stretched out her hands helplessly and groped around.

Xue Chenjing knew what she was groping for. He knelt forward, put his face in her palm that was about to dissipate, and whispered: "Mother, I'm back." Xue Mingyuan

has always been humble, and at this time he didn't step forward to compete with Xue Chenjing for anything, leaving this last bit of tender time to his brother.

Wei Tinglan's slender and transparent fingers slowly and delicately slid over Xue Chenjing's eyebrows, eyes and facial features, and the panic and helplessness on her face slowly relaxed. However, her expression was at peace for a short time. She didn't know what she thought of, and she became panic again.

Xue Chenjing turned his head and said to Xue Mingyuan in a vicious voice: "Come here!"

Xue Mingyuan glanced at him, then stepped forward, bowed and kowtowed, and shouted: "Mother, Mingyuan is here too."

Wei Tinglan's soul trembled, she touched their faces with her left and right hands, and touched them carefully. Her wish was fulfilled, and the expression on her face returned to calm, she closed her eyes with a smile, and the residual soul disappeared.

The funeral of the Xue couple was very grand, and the couple was buried together in the Xue family cemetery, which was indeed a Feng Shui treasure land with beautiful mountains and rivers.

After the funeral, their ties with the mortal world were completely ended. Xue Mingyuan did not continue to stay in the mortal world, even if it was just a distraction.

Before leaving, he deliberately went to the largest cake shop in the city and bought every kind of ice cream cake in the shop. He took them to his nose and sniffed them, but he still could not find the sweet and greasy milk fragrance that he smelled that day.

Xue Mingyuan stood on the attic, looking at the prosperous street below. This street is the main street in the city. From the morning when the city gate opens to the night when the city gate closes, this street is always busy and bustling.

The demons have returned to the demon realm, and the world is much less polluted. The immortal monks are facing the torture of the Tao heart, and too many monks have been killed by the thunder, so that the cultivation world has suffered heavy losses. Most immortal sects have chosen to close the mountain gates and let their disciples retreat to cultivate their hearts and minds and reflect on their Tao hearts.

The world is much more peaceful without the involvement of immortals and demons.

From the bustling crowd, Xue Mingyuan recognized the two figures walking out of the city with their backs to him. Yu Yi wore a plain white dress, her long black hair was tied into a bun, with only a gorgeous peacock feather hairpin inserted diagonally.

Xue Chenjing leaned towards her unconsciously, and as he walked, he squeezed her to the side of the road. Yu Yi paused and moved to his right side. After taking two steps, he began to lean towards the right side again.

When they were young, they had a puppy, and it liked to follow them like this. Even if they accidentally stepped on it and hurt it, it would whimper and cry, and would still limp over to people when they took a step. Its heart and eyes could only hold this person.

Xue Mingyuan would never be able to like someone so purely. So, they were destined to miss each other.

On the street, Yu Yi seemed to feel someone's gaze. She turned around and looked over there, only to see a faint and disappearing figure on an attic.

Xue Chenjing followed her gaze and noticed the fluctuation of Xue Mingyuan's divine power for a moment. He retracted his gaze as if nothing had happened and said, "Yi, where do you want to go next? Take out your map and let's take a look?"

"How many times have you looked at it?" Yu Yi turned around and took out the map she often looked at from her storage bag and unfolded it. She was surprised to see many more annotations and marks on it.

Xue Chenjing raised his eyebrows and pointed over. The map flashed with golden light. The lines on the plane suddenly rose and fell. The simple graphics turned into a more detailed and three-dimensional scene, suspended on the paper.

Yu Yi looked at the map in front of him that had been transformed at some unknown time. His sight followed Xue Chenjing's fingertips and fell on a river.

Xue Chenjing said, "If you want to go to Jiangcheng, we can go by water, float through the First Line Canyon, and go downstream. It will only take five days to get there."

As he spoke, a small boat went down the river and passed through the First Line Canyon between two mountains.

"If you want to go to Lingzhou, we can go by land. We can take a short detour to Wanren Peak. There is a sword wall there. Haven't you always wanted to leave a sword aura on that sword wall?"

The sword wall scene shown on the map was reflected in Yu Yi's eyes. She turned her eyes and her gaze turned to his face. Recently, Xue Chenjing said that he couldn't sleep at night, so he went to collect the geographical records, landscape notes and the like that she had collected before. It turned out that he did this.

"What if I want to go?" She asked deliberately.

Xue Chenjing had obviously guessed that she would ask this question. His fingertips crossed the map, and the spiritual line outlined the third path. He also pointed to an inconspicuous town on the road, "I heard that the apricot wine here is delicious."

Yu Yi looked at the town under his fingertips and marked it with an apricot icon. She nodded, "Okay, then let's go and try it."

They did not take the fairy crane, nor did they summon the emperor's carriage, but chose the way ordinary people travel, half by water and half by land.

Xue Chenjing had already prepared the boat, not the kind of luxurious merchant ship, but a brand new and spacious awning boat, with several tables and mats placed in the cabin, and tea and snacks on the table.

Xue Chenjing carved a seal on the boat, so that even without anyone holding it, it could still move forward with the current. The scenery along this waterway is very beautiful, especially at night, when a thin mist rises on the river, and the stars and the moon are faintly reflected in the water. On the wide water surface, there is only a small boat moving slowly forward.

Senior Brother He flew to an unknown place, and he had not returned until midnight. Yu Yi was too lazy to call him, so she just stuck a feather on the boat awning so that he could find the direction to return.

She also had to deal with this guy who was becoming more and more clingy.

The hairpin on Yu Yi's head loosened, and it was about to fall with the bumps. With the last bump, she couldn't hold her hair up, and fell onto the mat with a thud. Her bun was completely scattered, and her dark hair fell down, covering her smooth back.

"Ayi, ayi, ayi..." Xue Chenjing sat in the cabin, leaning in front of her, his warm tears wetting her front.

Yu Yi breathed softly, held his face, and kissed him on the corner of his eyes. Somehow this action stimulated him again. Yu Yi noticed the changes in her body and raised her eyes in surprise.

She immediately wanted to get up and step back, but was pressed back by the pseudo-foot around her waist.

Yu Yi heard the swaying of the boat and the splashing of water. Her rapid breathing was suppressed by the sound of water. After a long while, she softly scolded: "Xue Chenjing, are you a monster?"

"Yes, I am a monster, Ah Yi's monster, the master's monster." Xue Chenjing hugged her tightly, not wanting to be separated from her for almost a moment. He even hoped that they could drift on this river forever. There was only this river, this boat, and only the two of them, entangled until death. "What can I do? Master, I am such a greedy monster."

Yu Yi blinked away the tears in her eyes. She felt that his emotions were not right. She reluctantly pulled out some reason to sober herself up from the vortex stirred up by Xue Chenjing, and asked: "Ah Qiu, you What's wrong?"

Xue Chenjing paused, leaned over and kissed the corner of her lips, "Nothing, Ayi, do you like me? Even if I'm a monster, do you still like me? Just say you like me, okay?"

Yu Yi bit the tip of his tongue, "Do you think if I didn't like you, I would allow you to do this?"

Xue Chenjing smiled with satisfaction, "I like you too, very much."

He put his love into action and became more entangled with her. After a night of boating, when Yu Yi closed her eyes, the morning light had penetrated the thin river mist and sprinkled on her thin eyelids. @無限好文，盡在晉江文学城

Xue Chenjing raised his hand to block the glare for her and whispered, "Ayi, I want to accompany you to visit all the places you marked." Yu

Yi hummed in a half-awake state, and could no longer hear what he said. She was really tired.

Xue Chenjing said he would accompany her to play, and he really made plans and arrangements. He read through all the geographical records and miscellaneous notes on customs and humanities that Yu Yi had collected before, and marked them in detail on the map.

They went to Wanren Peak, and Yu Yi was meditating in front of the mountain wall engraved with countless sword marks of sword cultivators. While communicating with the remaining sword spirit on the wall, Xue Chenjing sat under a tree in the distance, twisting the branches in his hands and staring at her without blinking.

"She is working so hard to study the sword spirit and cultivate so hard. She wants to stay here for a long time. She has never mentioned that she wants to go back. Maybe she doesn't want to go back anymore."

Xue Chenjing muttered to himself, and he really wanted to convince himself, but he couldn't convince himself. He was caught in such a contradictory mentality. Whether he gave up or stayed, it seemed to dig a hole in his heart.

"Why do you want to follow me? You like Xue Mingyuan so much. Why didn't you follow him when I separated from Xue Mingyuan?" Xue Chenjing had lost his temper when he asked this question.

The system heard his stagnant tone, and somehow, it hoped that he would scold it and threaten it like before. @無限好文，盡在晉江文學城

The system said: "Because Ayi chose you."

Xue Chenjing laughed, and even at this time, he still felt happy to hear such an answer. @無限好文，盡在晉江文學城

"Yeah, why did she choose me?"

How dare she choose him? She knew that he was a despicable and selfish monster, but she still chose him.

If she chose Xue Mingyuan, his brother might have let her go home long ago.