Volume 1 Beginning of Summer Chapter 19 Xia Xia
After saying that, Jiang You waved to Tang Butian.
Tang Butian watched him walk out of the venue's door, the sunlight casting a light golden outline on him.
She clenched her fingers and unclenched them again.
After walking out of the exhibition center, Jiang You called a taxi and returned to the insect house.
Enter the yard and step onto the bluestone path.
The green grass had just poked out of the mud, and sunflowers were in full bloom on the flower stand by the door.
Jiang You opened the door.
After walking to the counter, he thought for a moment and went upstairs instead of sitting down. He walked into the guest room and took out a wooden pen holder from the box by the wall. He took the pen holder into the bathroom, poured some water into it, and then walked downstairs with it.
After putting the pen holder on the counter, he opened the drawer, took out a pair of scissors, then walked to the flower stand and cut off five or six sunflowers. He walked back holding the flowers in one hand and turning the scissors in the other.
He put the flower branches into the pen holder and then placed the long table.
He took out his cell phone and swiped the screen. Xia Xia's Weibo homepage was still on the screen. He pressed the home button and was about to turn on the camera when the wind blew and the door of the insect house slammed shut.
Then he heard the door lock.
A white, translucent thread about six or seven centimeters long emerged from the screen of the mobile phone.
One after another.
Floating in mid-air.
The lights suddenly brightened.
The room was filled with white threads intertwined.
One after another, nine white tails, flying outward along the curve of the waist and hips.
Turn around.
Black hair fluttering.
Her face is pretty and her eyes are full of affection.
Nine-tailed Daji.
Jiang You asked tentatively: "Xia Xia?"
"It's me." Xia Xia lowered her eyes.
A black spider with a red line down its back crawled onto the table.
Jiang You said to Xia Xia, "Would you like a cold drink? Baxi or Cornetto?"
Xia Xia opened her red lips slightly and looked at Jiang You in confusion.
"I just saw you in the open space, it was so hot, and you were wearing nine tails. It must be hot, right?"
Xia Xia lowered her head and whispered, "Lovely."
"Wait a minute, I'll get it."
After saying that, Jiang You went upstairs.
The spider crawled in front of Xia Xia.
A spider silk fell on Xia Xia's wrist. She raised her hand and wanted to pull off the silk. At this time, she heard Jiang You's voice, "Don't move, if you don't want to disappear immediately."
The spider silk is tangled into loops.
Jiang You walked down with two ice cream cones.
He handed an ice cream cone to Xia Xia. Xia Xia hesitated for a moment, but still reached out her hand. She grabbed the cone. Her fingers felt the coolness. She widened her eyes in shock, and then she looked at the spider silk on her wrist.
"It helps you maintain a certain level of physicality. Sit down," Jiang You sat down opposite Xia Xia. He took a bite of the ice cream cone. "Why are you following me? Why don't you go find your junior high school girl?"
Xia Xia sat down and said, "At that time, I felt that someone was searching for my name."
"You're dead, and you still care about Weibo."
Red tears flowed from her eyes.
"Have a cold drink."
"Hmm." Xia Xia hummed softly, she tore open the wrapping paper and began . After eating for a while, her movements suddenly stopped and tears flowed down again, "I can eat now, I, I don't feel any pain anymore."
"Is it tasty?"
“Very cold and sweet.”
Jiang You stood up again, walked to the counter, took a box of tissues and put it in front of Xia Xia.
"I made this cosplay costume, tail, and headdress myself. I also designed my own makeup. I took the earliest subway and was one of the first to enter the exhibition center. I attracted everyone's attention. The cameraman chased me. Whenever I made a move, I could hear a lot of shutter sounds. Many people took photos with me and asked for my contact information. After the event ended and the photos were released, my followers suddenly skyrocketed. I received endless private messages, comments, and reposts..."
Xia Xia pulled the corners of her mouth and forced a smile, "Am I too vain?"
Without waiting for Jiang You to answer, she continued, "But, it feels so good to be liked and noticed. I put all my energy into it, and I also learned to give benefits, but, but the popularity has been declining."
"Who gave you the tattoo?"
"What tattoo?"
"A five-pointed star with an eye in the middle."
Xia Xia thought for a moment, "A friend in the group is a cameraman. I was his model and took a photo of him wearing a yukata. He asked me to put on this tattoo sticker. He told me it would bring good luck. That day, my photos really became a hot topic, and then..."
Xia Xia's expression turned horrified. She seemed to remember something. "I, it started from then. I, I..." She covered her face with her hands. "I don't understand why I became like that. I, why would I do that for a set of clothes, for the heat... No, no, that's not me, not me..."
Her body began to become distorted and blurred, as if it would disappear at any time.
"Eat it quickly, it's about to melt."
A drop of ice cream flowed down the shell of the cone onto her hand.
“Hmm…ah…”
Her body became clear again.
This time, she stopped talking and quietly finished the cone in her hand. Then, she put her hands on the table.
She said, "Thank you."
"What else do you want to eat? Esophageal cancer is very painful, right?"
"That's enough."
She calmed down.
"That tattoo, what's wrong with it?"
"I'm just guessing."
"Tell me." Xia Xia's eyes were persistent.
"Gods and demons are all fed with blood. If it fulfills your wish, it will take the price from you, your vitality. This is a famous saying of a real estate speculator."
"Would I have lived long enough to avoid cancer?"
"You don't have a short-lived face."
"I could have graduated successfully, found a stable job, made handicrafts in my spare time, occasionally visited comic conventions, did some cosplay, and even fallen in love, got married, and had children of my own, right?"
"It shouldn't be difficult," Jiang You looked at the sunflower in the pen holder on the table, "You only have a little obsession now."
"Is that so?"
Jiang You reached out his hand and touched the spider's back with his fingers. "It feeds on obsession. In exchange, you can make a request."
"Anything?"
"It's too difficult. If we can't finish it, then we can only fail to finish it," Jiang You took away his fingers from the spider's back, "it won't starve to death anytime soon anyway."
Xia Xia pulled out a tissue and wiped her eyes and hands. "I hope you can save others, at least one, the more the better."
Jiang You stood up, walked to the shelf and pulled out a blank postcard. He walked back to the long table, took out a pen from the box, and placed the postcard and pen in front of Xia Xia.
Xia Xia asked: "What is this?"
“Write down what you want to say to your future self.”
"Can I still receive it?"
"I'll send it to you."
Xia Xia picked up the pen.
She began to write slowly.
White threads floated out from her body, and as the words increased, her body melted into the postcard bit by bit.
disappear.
The spider crawled off the table.
Jiang You picked up the postcard, and the originally blank space turned into a portrait of Nine-tailed Daji.
On the other side, there were a few lines of words written in beautiful handwriting.
I hope that in the future you will live a down-to-earth life and reap solid rewards - Xia Zhiwan.
