Peony Lantern (9)

  I felt an angel gently patting my back, helping me spit out the water I had drunk one mouthful at a time. He used a technique of pressing certain points, which was quite wonderful, and in no time at all, my stomach was empty.

  "Yingying, hold on a bit, you'll be fine!... You've always been very strong, this is nothing! Yingying, I promised to protect you, from when we were very little, remember..."

  The voice is very warm and makes me feel more confident. Unfortunately, this voice doesn't belong to Nie Qiuyuan.

  I slowly opened my eyes, a light blue shadow was holding me, and a pale face with a worried expression.

  Not Nie Qiuyuan, but Luo Dachun.

  Next to it was a lighter inserted into the wall, and behind the door was a pitch-black tunnel.

  Luo Da Chun saw that I was awake and a delighted expression appeared on his face. I had never seen him with a serious expression before because his usual expression was quite frivolous.

  "Where's my brother......"; I found my own voice hoarse and quite unpleasant to listen to.

  Luo Da Chun's eyes darted around and he suddenly replied loudly: "Nie Qiuyuan won't come! But don't be afraid, he doesn't care about you, I do, I'm here!"

  The sentence sounds quite stimulating, just right for me when I was extremely weak, and I fainted silently.

  When I woke up again, I was already lying on my own bed in Feng County Government.

  The clothes on my body had been changed to clean ones, I guess I slept for a long time, even my hair was dry from sleep. I don't know if it's because I threw up too much water, but I feel very thirsty, so I dizzily got out of bed and opened the door to go into the corridor.

  A gentle breeze blew over, and my mind cleared up a bit. Walking forward for a while, I arrived at the door of someone's house, but suddenly heard the sound of conversation coming from behind the slightly ajar door.

  Normally, the conversations you overhear when you unintentionally walk by are often quite secretive and important, this is an unchanging rule!

  "Autumn is far away, it's really the Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams Array Lock. So, your thoughts, I'm afraid can't escape Ren Pingsheng's notice. That one, isn't an ordinary person."

  This is Lu Da Chun's voice.

  Another person remained silent.

  "Wu Xing formation, I can solve it, but that door should be Ren Pingsheng's special test for you, he knows that no one else can open it except you. If you didn't care about Liuyue's life or death, you wouldn't have given me the solution to the lock specially. So, Liuyue is still in danger."

  It turned out that the loud words spoken by Luo Dachun in the cave were actually meant for Ren Pingsheng, who was somewhere unknown, to make him believe that Nie Qiuyuan had never taken me seriously.

  They were protecting me.

  A warm feeling rose in my heart, dispelling the gloom brought by Autumn's coldness. But then I heard Luo Da Chun continue to say: "Autumn, what are you really thinking in your heart? If it's you, I have nothing to say. Flowing Firefly has been treating you differently since she woke up, and you're also aware of it. But if you have no intention towards her, then I'll protect her from now on."

  My heart hung with his words, yet waited together with him for that person's response. After a moment, Nie Qiuyuan's voice finally sounded: "Dachun, Liuxuan is my sworn sister, I have no special thoughts towards her, nor will I ever."

  I have no special thoughts about her, nor will I!

  For a moment I felt like falling into an ice cave. I forgot to look for water and didn't know how I managed to grope my way back to the room, anyway I got back to the room, crawled onto the bed and lay down, not wanting to move at all.

  This feeling is really bad, disappointed, empty, and also some heartache.

  I fell asleep again in a daze and woke up once more when it was already midnight.

  I feel my lips are very painful, probably cracked open, and my throat is also very painful, with a bloody smell rushing up. I struggled to get up, but suddenly bumped into something soft and fluffy.

  I was about to scream when someone covered my mouth and nose, a beautiful mask gazed at me quietly under the moonlight.

  Isn't this the missing Young Master of the Night? Suddenly appearing at this time is also too frightening!

  My heart has returned to its normal place. He saw me calm down and slowly released his hand.

  "How's it going, is it any better?" The voice tonight was inexplicably gentle, and the curse that rose to my lips was forcibly suppressed.

  "Where did you go?" I asked in a bad mood. Now my anger suddenly shifted to him. That night he was called, but he didn't come. If he had come, accompanied me to investigate the case, would I have fallen into Ren Pingsheng's hands?

  A bowl was thrust into his hands, a bowl of water, neither hot nor cold, just lukewarm.

  The water seemed like a clear sweet spring as I drank it in, moistening my parched body. My heart also gradually calmed down.

  "That night, I had something on and couldn't come. Sorry."

  Yue said softly, "Autumn, my heart is also very guilty because he hit you."

  "It's nothing." I said, "I know he hit me in order to protect me."

  He looked slightly surprised at night.

  "I came to ask you, what exactly happened between you and Ren Pingsheng?" The Night Master hesitated for a moment before asking.

  As for the night, I think there's nothing to hide from it. The night is my only true ally in this world, and its previous performance has fully lived up to my trust. So I told the Young Master of the Night everything about how I met Ren Pingsheng, how I followed him to autopsy, and what happened afterwards, in great detail.

  "Yin Ye Gong Zi listened and fell silent for a while, then suddenly spoke to me: 'Zhen Zhen, sometimes it's better not to be too biased. Do you want to live a good life?'".

  I nodded. All I heard was him continuing to say: "Actually, Da Chun is really not bad. Don't look at how he is now, he's just suppressing his true self for some reason. The real him is an inconceivable existence. I know...

  You are no longer a firefly, but you can use your own eyes to see clearly what is the best choice.

  I stared straight at him with my own eyes.

  He was probably stared at by me until he had goosebumps, suddenly restored to his true nature, and said impatiently: "My point is, let you hurry up and stay away from Nie Qiu, that guy is a dangerous person, and getting involved with him will absolutely not end well. Can't you see clearly after what happened today?

  I came for him. I said it with conviction.

  "But everyone around him will die, don't you understand?" The voice of the night carried a hint of anger, "Didn't your father die?"

  My father? Wasn't he killed by Yuan Kui, the lover of San Niang? What does he have to do with Nie Qiuyuan?

  "What if San Niang is a person from Tian Jing Men?"

  Yao Ye Gong Zi said a sentence that was like a thunderclap on a clear day.

  I was stunned. Well, Ren Ping Sheng is indeed a member of the Tian Jing Gate, and his target is indeed Nie Qiu Yuan. But why does the Tian Jing Gate have to target Autumn so much?

  "Do you know how many identities Nie Qiuyuan has changed? Do you know how many people have died around him? Knowing all this, can you still stay by his side?"

  The author's pen floats by

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