Volume 3: A drop in the ocean Chapter 01: A lingering love that seems like a lifetime away
Let's turn the clock back five hundred years.
Present world
"Yinglili! Hey, wake up!" A hurried male voice echoed in her ears. The voice seemed so far away, yet it haunted her. Who was it? Who was calling her?
Ping Lili's lost consciousness was gradually pulled back, the images that were flashing across her mind suddenly stopped, and the appearance of the boy and girl in the dream gradually became blurred until they disappeared.
Pinglili's eyes slowly opened, and without warning she was met with the pair of pupils in her dream that were as deep as a well. His warm and mellow breath was so close to her, so close that it seemed as if the dream was reappearing. She was stunned for a moment, and actually felt as if she was in another world.
Ping Lili stared blankly at the other person's familiar and handsome face, with sharp eyebrows, bright eyes, black hair and thin lips, just like in a dream. The only difference was that there was a strange sense of vicissitudes between the brows of the man in front of her.
She was a little overwhelmed. The long dream before was so real that she suddenly had an illusion that it was just like her past memories , especially the surging emotions for the young man in blue clothes...
"You finally woke up, what happened? Why did you suddenly faint?" The boy spoke anxiously, his voice just as he remembered, occasionally a little hoarse. His slender fingertips gently stroked her forehead, making her feel like she was electrocuted, and she subconsciously dodged.
Ping Lili tried hard to recall what had happened before. After a little thought, she realized that she had had a long dream before. Everything in the dream was not so much Yao Ji's memory of five hundred years ago, but rather a bystander's cold observation of the beautiful past five hundred years ago, from Yao Ji and Mo Yi's acquaintance to their initial love...
But why did this dream suddenly stop at the critical moment? Ping Lili couldn't figure it out. She was full of curiosity about what happened after the Yonghui Contest. Who was the winner of the Yonghui Contest? Why did Yao Ji and Mo Yi, two people who admired each other, turn against each other? Who was the dark green-haired boy Long Yu? And what happened to the black-faced girl from the Kongming tribe?
She suddenly remembered the scene in her dream when Yao Ji used magic to track down the whereabouts of the Ruoye woman in Yonghui City. That's right! It was that feeling, as if she was trying to find something, but it was cut off by someone! It seemed to be within reach, but it stopped abruptly at the critical moment!
What was going on? Could it be that someone wanted to let her know something, but was hiding something? Who could it be?
Countless questions flooded in, making her feel like her head was splitting. She held her head and yelled hysterically, "Oh my God, what is going on? I'm going crazy!"
"Are you okay?" Mo Yi seemed to understand something from Ping Lili's conflicted behavior. From the moment his fingertips touched her, he realized that Ping Lili in front of him seemed a little different from before, but he couldn't tell what the difference was.
"You, did you remember something?"
As if what he said hit the nail on the head, Pinglili looked up suddenly, and met Mo Yi's eyes again. For no reason, the last scenes on the snowy field kept replaying in her mind. The warm embrace of the young man in front of her and the inexplicable burning and depth in his eyes for a moment made Pingli remember it so vividly that Pinglili's face instantly turned red like a cooked shrimp.
As if she felt Mo Yi's persistent inquiring gaze, Ping Lili finally managed to get rid of those inappropriate and shy thoughts in her mind one by one. She was weighing in her heart whether she should confess her true identity to the other party?
Although she had selfishly decided to keep the fact that she was Yao Ji's reincarnation a secret, the situation had changed. After learning about Mo Yi and Yao Ji's past, she began to waver. For a moment, Ping Lili even began to be grateful for her identity, grateful that she had Yao Ji's identity, memories and everything.
Including the opportunity to meet the person in front of me, it’s probably all thanks to Yao Ji.
In the previous dream, Ping Lili felt Yao Ji's smile, Yao Ji's sadness, Yao Ji's shyness, and Yao Ji's reserve. They were all clearer than her own childhood memories. Those past events from five hundred years ago were so familiar and natural when she recalled them in her heart now, just like flipping through old photos and smiling knowingly.
So, after just a moment's hesitation, Ying Lili made a decision. She decided to confess her true identity to Mo Yi.
"There is one thing I must be honest with you..." Ping Lili coughed twice to clear his throat. Although he had made up his mind, he didn't expect that his voice still trembled slightly .
Mo Yi raised his eyebrows and looked at her with his deep dark eyes, motioning her to continue .
Ying Lili took a deep breath and bit her lower lip subconsciously. Then she spoke word by word in a trembling voice: "I am Yao Ji. To be more precise, I am the reincarnation of Yao Ji, the great wizard Sha Mo who cursed the Na Yu tribe five hundred years ago."
Silence, suffocating silence...
Ping Lili felt a little at a loss in this strange silence.
Say something, please say something! Ping Lili looked at Mo Yi, who was silent and motionless, with an unfathomable face, and thought anxiously.
Instead of glaring at him as imagined, nor swinging his knife at him, Mo Yi's reaction at this moment was unexpectedly calm, as if he had just heard an insignificant piece of gossip.
Ping Lili's heart suddenly sank, as if she understood something: "You knew it a long time ago?" She suddenly felt a little angry, and felt that her previous nervousness and caution were like being made a fool of by someone .
Mo Yi did not answer her question. He just glanced at her calmly, then turned and left, leaving behind a sentence that made Yan Lili feel sad and happy at the same time: "To me, you are just Yan Lili, not Yao Ji."
What does this mean? It's just Yinglili, not Yaoji? Does it mean that he doesn't care who I was in my previous life or what I did? Or does it mean that I can never replace Yaoji in his mind?
Ping Lili cursed loudly in frustration, and threw the pillow beside him at the back: "Yao Ji, you have no eyes, what's so good about this psychopath?"
She didn't notice that when she said the name Yao Ji, Mo Yi's footsteps paused slightly.
