Chapter 10 We can finally grow old together 1
Wen Jinliang took me on a trip to Japan, and he said that this season is the best time to see cherry blossoms. I followed him to visit all the cherry blossom streets in Japan, as if I wanted to see all the beautiful scenery in my lifetime.
The night before the end of the holiday, we went to a famous temple. There was a very magical wishing tree in the temple. We took free wishing sticks from the monks in the temple, and then turned our backs to each other and wrote down our good wishes. After writing, I held my and Wen Jinliang's wishing sticks and climbed up the wishing tree neatly.
Because the monks in the temple said that the higher the wishing sticks are hung, the more effective they are, so I climbed to the top of the tree in one breath and tied mine and Wen Jinliang's wishing sticks on it.
"I have hung the wishing sign to the highest place. Our wish will definitely come true." After climbing down the tree, I said to Wen Jinliang with a smile.
Wen Jinliang looked up at the wishing sign hanging high on the tree, then turned his gaze to me and asked with a smile: "Xiao Qi, what wish did you write on the sign?"
"I wrote your name, hoping that you will have a worry-free life." I didn't intend to hide what I wished for, so I answered with a smile, and then I asked Wen Jinliang, "What did you write?"
"I also wrote your name, and I hope you will have a worry-free life." Wen Jinliang held my hand tightly, and the smile in his eyes kept hitting my heart.
I looked at Wen Jinliang and said with a bright smile: "Let's go and take a walk down the street. I just saw a lot of interesting things!"
"good."
We walked around until midnight before returning to the hotel. After returning to the hotel, I was so tired that I fell on him. In a daze, it seemed that someone picked me up and I smelled the familiar warm breath.
I don't know how long I slept, but I felt a dull headache. I opened my eyes and saw an endless flower garden. I sat up suddenly, my brain was a little overwhelmed by the scene in front of me.
"Xiao Qi, are you awake?" A familiar and gentle voice came from beside me.
I turned my head and saw Xingguang whom I hadn't seen for a long time. He seemed to be thinner, and his face had an unconcealable haggard look.
"Xingguang, you..."
"You can't go back to Wen Jinliang now." Xingguang interrupted the bunch of questions I wanted to ask and said to me expressionlessly.
"Why?" I asked, grabbing Starlight's arm.
Xingguang didn't answer me, he just looked at me silently.
I rubbed my temple and asked him, "Were you the one who took me away from Wen Jinliang?"
Xingguang looked at me and opened his mouth, but in the end, nothing came out.
I stood up from the soft grass, looked at Xingguang, and said, "Xingguang, I don't need to ask you why you did this, but please send me back. Wen Jinliang will be worried about me."
Seeing me stand up, Xingguang also stood up. He was silent for a while before nodding at me: "Okay."
Xingguang must have taken great pains to take me away from Wen Jinliang, but now he lets me go so easily, which makes me really confused about his thoughts. However, as long as he can send me back to Wen Jinliang now, I will ask about other things slowly when I have the chance.
After the starlight took me out of the flower garden, it sent me to a carriage. I sat in the dark carriage and could only hear the gurgling sound of the wheels outside. After a long time, the carriage stopped.
Xingguang opened the door and helped me out of the car. Facing the light outside the car again, I squinted my eyes a little uncomfortably.
"Go back." Xingguang said to me, "I will come to save you next time." After that, he and the carriage disappeared in front of me.
Next time? What does Xingguang mean by this? He is indeed not an ordinary human. He disappeared just like that. Is it magic? It's amazing!
A quick thought flashed through my mind. The most important thing right now was Wen Jinliang. I walked straight to the small apartment where I used to live, but the was empty.
My door was opened for some reason. I walked in curiously and found that the room seemed to have been searched by someone, and it was a carpet search. All the items in the room were swept to the floor, and even my closet was in a mess.
Just when I was puzzled, I suddenly heard familiar footsteps outside the door. I turned around and saw Wen Jinliang standing at the door, looking at me coldly.
"Wen Jinliang!" I looked at Wen Jinliang in front of me with surprise, and was about to explain to him why I disappeared for several hours.
Wen Jinliang suddenly said, "You shouldn't have come back." After that, he slowly walked into my room and came to me. He held a bottle of potion in his hand, which was the "Ying" that Jinuo gave me.
The joyful expression on my face froze in an instant, and I seemed to understand something.
Wen Jinliang raised the bottle in his hand, looked at me and asked, "Xiao Qi, this thing is yours, right?"
"It's mine." I answered truthfully. There was no point in denying it now. Wen Jinliang must have known something.
"Did you mix this stuff into my daily diet before?" Wen Jinliang asked again. There was no anger in his expression, but there was no smile either.
"Yes..." I continued to answer truthfully, and my heart couldn't help but tighten.
Hearing my answer, Wen Jinliang smashed the medicine bottle in his hand. He grabbed my arm, with deep despair in his eyes, and said, "Xiao Qi, do you really want to kill me?"
"No! Wen Jinliang, I don't want to kill you!" When I heard Wen Jinliang say this, I felt cold all over.
"No?" Wen Jinliang let go of my arm, pointed at the potion on the ground and sneered, "If not, do you need to mix this chronic poison into my diet?"
"This is not poison!" I was so scared that I immediately said to Wen Jinliang, "This is a magic potion, which is specially used to get the witch's heart in your body. It can't harm your body at all!"
"Magic potion?" Wen Jinliang laughed when he heard me say that, but there was no smile in his eyes. "Xiao Qi, do you think I'm a three-year-old kid? Magic? There is no such thing as magic in this world!"
"Wen Jinliang, please believe me. I don't want to poison you. You are my lover! How could I kill my lover..." I grabbed Wen Jinliang's arm, and could hardly hold back the tears that were about to fall from my eyes.
Seeing that I was about to cry, Wen Jinliang finally couldn't bear it and adjusted his cold attitude. He looked at me, as if holding on to the last glimmer of hope, and asked, "Okay, I'll believe you this time. Then Xiaoqi, tell me the truth, do you have another master behind you?"
I trembled and bit my lips tightly: "Yes..."
When Wen Jinliang heard me say this, the hope in his eyes was completely shattered. His eyes were so cold, and he said, "You have been lying to me since you met me! You know that I hate being lied to the most!" At the end of his words, an unquenchable anger ignited in his eyes.
I was so scared that I couldn't control myself. I could only hold Wen Jinliang's arm tightly and said, "Wen Jinliang, I admit that I did hide some things from you, but I really didn't mean to lie to you. The master sent me to your side to protect you, not to kill you. I have always stayed by your side with the intention of protecting you! Although the master's ultimate goal was indeed to make me kill you, she changed her mind later and gave up her hatred for you..."
"Hehe, you finally admitted that you came to me because of someone else. And the master behind you really wants my life, so you just loyally carry out her orders!" Wen Jinliang looked at me with a sneer and forcefully shook off my hand that was tightly holding him.
"I admit that I came to you because of the master, but I didn't want to kill you, no! Even if she wanted me to kill you, I wouldn't! Wen Jinliang, please believe me, please believe me!" I finally broke down and cried, the second time I burst into tears in front of him.
Wen Jinliang didn't want to look at me anymore, and didn't want to listen to me, so he quickly left the room. Then He walked in with a cold face: "Do you want to come with me, or do you want me to knock you out and take you away?"
I looked at He in horror and instinctively took a few steps back, and the tears on my face stopped abruptly.
"It seems like you want me to knock you out, okay." He said this, and came to my side with a flash step. I could have resisted his attack, but at that moment I gave up and watched him raise his hand, and then I fell into a deep coma.
I didn't sleep for long after falling into a coma. When I woke up, I found myself locked in a strange room.
I moved my body and found it was very weak, so Wen Jinliang and the others gave me some muscle softening powder.
I huddled in a corner, thinking, and I really didn't understand why things had turned out like this in just a few hours. Wen Jinliang knew that I was sent by someone else, and he also knew that the master wanted to kill him. But his disappointment in me was not just because I had lied to him, it seemed that my existence was only to kill him, so he was particularly desperate and angry. But I didn't have such thoughts at all. What went wrong that made Wen Jinliang have such a misunderstanding?
Suddenly, I heard the door open, and I thought it was He and his friends. But it turned out to be Xiao Wu, whom I hadn't seen for a long time. I was a little stunned.
"Those bastards really locked you up!" Xiao Wu quickly came to my side. She noticed that something was wrong with me and said, "I have a universal antidote here. Take it." After that, she took out a red pill and fed it to me.
After I took the pills, I felt my body gradually regain strength. I looked at Xiao Wu and was about to ask her how she knew I was here, but she patted my forehead hard: "Stupid Xiao Qi! You were deceived by that woman and Jinuo!"
I stared at Xiao Wu in a daze and took a deep breath in disbelief: "They have no intention of giving up on killing Wen Jinliang, and they have no intention of letting me go?"
"What else? How do you think Wen Jinliang suddenly knew your true identity?" Xiao Wu looked at me with disappointment.
My eyebrows jumped, and I said in disbelief, "Did the master reveal this information?"
"Not only that, she also exaggerated the facts. It would be fine if the information was given by someone else, but it had to be her! She has a lot of our information in her hands, so Wen Jinliang believed the information she gave so much and didn't even want to listen to your explanation." Xiao Wu was so angry that he almost wanted to tear his master and his gang apart immediately.
But I finally understood. No wonder Wen Jinliang was so angry. No wonder he didn't even give me a chance to explain after asking me those questions. Who made me admit everything so stupidly?
"But I just left Wen Jinliang for a few hours, how could it be..." I really couldn't understand how the master and the others took advantage of these few hours to make Wen Jinliang believe all this.
"What do you mean a few hours! You disappeared for almost a week!" Xiaowu hit my forehead hard.
"A week?" I looked at Xiaowu in surprise.
"Anyway, let's leave here first, and we'll talk about the details as we go." Xiao Wu said as he led me out of the room. After I left the room, I realized that this was a secret passage under the villa. Wen Jinliang actually locked me up here...
When we were escaping, Xiaowu and I exchanged some information with each other. It turned out that she went to look for Xingguang after she woke up, but before she found Xingguang, she heard the news that I was missing in Japan.
Wen Jinliang was looking for me like crazy at that time, but on the third day, he suddenly stopped looking for me. Xiaowu felt strange and secretly came to the villa to investigate. It turned out that Wen Jinliang learned from a mysterious person that I was a killer sent by someone else. Of course, his first reaction was not to believe it, but then the other party gave me detailed . Then Wen Jinliang went to investigate the identity of the master and found that the master was the one who had assassinated him countless times before. Then, things got out of control. No wonder he couldn't believe that I was not here to kill him.
Xiao Wu later investigated the mysterious man and found out that it was Jinuo. She realized that everything was a play arranged by Jinuo and the master, and Xiao Wu felt that their purpose was not as simple as breaking up Wen Jinliang and me.
Xiaowu and I made a quick decision to find Wen Jinliang to tell him the truth. Xiaowu told me that the potion Jinuo gave me was actually replaced by them halfway through, and she stole it back for me to prove my innocence. As long as I take this bottle of potion to find Wen Jinliang, everything can be explained clearly.
However, on our way to find Wen Jinliang, Jinuo found us first. We all knew that he was here with ill intentions, so we took a fighting stance.
"Xiaowu, Xiaoqi, the two of you stop struggling in vain and just come back with me." Kino looked at us with a sneer. In his opinion, any resistance from us would be extremely stupid.
Xiao Wu met Jinuo's cold gaze. She smiled confidently and indifferently: "Jinuo, whether our struggle is in vain or not, you won't know until you try it."
After Xiaowu finished speaking, we stopped talking to Jino and went straight over to greet him.
Xiaowu and I attacked him from both sides, and our moves were tricky, but Jinuo flashed and caught our moves steadily. Seeing this, Xiaowu winked at me, and I immediately understood and changed my moves.
After more than a dozen moves, Xiaowu and I were both seriously injured. Jinuo looked at us steadily, looking relaxed.
Xiaowu exhaled, wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth, and said to me: "Xiaoqi, when I say go, you must leave immediately. I will hold Jinuo back for you!"
I immediately shook my head: "It's too difficult for you to deal with Jino alone!"
"Just go if I tell you to. Why are you nagging me? Don't forget that you still have Wen Jinliang as your lover! No matter what, you can't die here!" Xiao Wu shouted angrily.
I forced back the tears in my eyes: "I understand!" I couldn't let Xiaowu down. I had to see Wen Jinliang alive and explain everything to him.
In this way, we launched an attack on Jinuo again. Xiaowu's moves were obviously more ruthless than before, and every move was aimed at the vital points. Under her strong attack, Jinuo finally showed a trace of embarrassment, and Xiaowu took the opportunity to shout: "Go!"
After I heard Xiaowu's cry, I ran towards the school desperately. I silently prayed in my heart that she could escape from Jinuo, or at least not be in danger of her life.
By the time I arrived at school with injuries all over my body, I was too tired to speak. I endured the pain in my body and found Wen Jinliang in the library. He was talking to a strange girl, with a gentle smile on his face that I was familiar with.
He spoke to the girl in an intimate manner, as if he was very familiar with her.
Seeing this scene, my heart felt like it was being cut by a knife. But I still endured the severe pain in my heart, walked towards Wen Jinliang, and called softly: "Wen Jinliang..."
Wen Jinliang heard my voice and immediately turned around to look at me. When he saw the scars all over my body, there was a moment of pity in his eyes, but it quickly turned cold.
"Ka-ka--" I coughed because of the pain in my chest. After finally recovering, I put the potion Xiaowu gave me on the table in front of Wen Jinliang: "Wen Jinliang, this is the 'Ying' that I put in your food every day. It's really not poison! If you don't believe me, you can take it to the hospital for testing! I really don't mean to harm you..."
Wen Jinliang didn't even look at the potion on the table, and didn't seem to hear what I said. He turned back and continued to talk intimately with the girl next to him, completely ignoring me.
Seeing that Wen Jinliang ignored me, I anxiously grabbed his arm: "Wen Jinliang, don't ignore me! I can explain things clearly. Many things are really not what you see. I have been deceived just like you. My master lied to me that she would let you go, but she didn't. She sold my information to you and lied to you that I was here to kill you. But I really don't want to kill you. Since I came to you, I have always treated you as an object of protection as important as my life..." At the end, the tears that I had held back for a long time fell again.
Wen Jinliang shook off my hand, his face was cold and icy: "In order to regain my trust, you even slandered the master behind you. You must have put a lot of thought into these words, and with the tears on your face, it really makes people feel pity." As he said, he swept the "Ying" off the table, "But Xiaoqi, do you think I will still believe you?"
As the bottle fell to the ground, the blood on my face disappeared in an instant. Wen Jinliang's actions and words made me tremble no longer, and I was almost unconscious due to the pain in my heart.
Is this person really the Wen Jinliang who used to treat me so gently? Why did he say such cruel words? I could hardly control the tears that were streaming down my face.
"Brother Jinliang, who is she?" The strange girl who had been listening to our conversation asked Wen Jinliang with an innocent smile.
Wen Jinliang lowered his head and looked at the book in his hand, and said indifferently: "An insignificant person."
The girl said "oh" softly and said nothing more.
Am I an insignificant person? I couldn't help laughing when I heard Wen Jinliang's words. His indifference finally shattered the last bit of hope in my heart. The pain in my body and the pain in my heart mixed together, almost driving me crazy. I couldn't stand the pain any longer, and a mouthful of blood spurted out of my mouth.
"Brother Jinliang, this sister is vomiting blood!" The girl looked at me in panic.
When Wen Jinliang heard the girl's words, he instantly looked up at me, but then quickly lowered his head and just said coldly: "Don't bother with her."
But I didn't want to face such a cruel Wen Jinliang anymore, so I turned around and ran quickly to the door. As I ran, I felt my body go limp and I fell to the ground, unconscious again.
I heard a moving song faintly in my ears, and I slowly opened my eyes, only to find that the voice was very familiar.
I sat up suddenly and found that all the wounds on my body had been treated. The beautiful singing continued. I looked up and saw Xingguang standing in the flying flowers not far away, singing loudly. At this moment, he looked so happy and peaceful.
"Are you awake?" Xingguang stopped singing. He walked through the flowers and came to sit beside me. He stroked my pale cheek with his cold hands. His voice was as gentle as before. "It's okay now. Xiaoqi, don't be afraid."
There was once someone who comforted me so gently, but in a flash that gentle person disappeared and never came back.
I cried out "Wow" and threw myself into Xingguang's arms. I could no longer hold back the grievance and pain in my heart, and I just cried loudly in his arms.
At this moment, I just want to have a good cry and cry out all the sadness in my heart...
Xingguang patted my back gently, and he comforted me without saying a word. Perhaps at this moment he also felt that silent comfort could better heal the grief in my heart...
After crying, my painful mood finally eased a little. I reached out my hand to wipe the tears from my face, and asked Xingguang in a hoarse voice: "Xingguang, who are you? You were the one who saved me from my master before, right?" I must have been taken away by Jinuo and his friends during the week I disappeared, but was later rescued by Xingguang.
It was not until this moment that I understood why Xiaowu was so obsessed with Xingguang. She chased Xingguang because she had long discovered that he had an unclear relationship with his master. Maybe I had noticed this a long time ago, but I just didn't want to think so. But now I have to figure it all out!
Starlight smiled at me: "Your master was once my master."
I gasped: "You are the second servant to serve the master together with Jinuo!" Combined with what Merry had told me about his past life, I already knew the true identity of Xingguang. No wonder he also has such powerful magic.
"Yes." There was deep loneliness and sadness in Xingguang's smile, and he did not deny what I said.
"Xingguang, can you tell me the whole story of you and the master? I want to know everything about her past and present life! What does the master want to do?" I grabbed Xingguang's arm. At this moment, I just wanted to figure out everything.
Xingguang looked at me in silence for a while, and finally nodded and said, "Okay, I'll tell you everything."
From Xingguang's gentle narration, I finally understood the grievances and entanglements between Meili and Wen Jinliang in their past and present lives.
