Time rewinds, memories flow.
Under the blue-purple night sky, the sea breeze blows and the moonlight shines brightly.
"So this is how lighthouses work..."
Zhong Yi looked at the top of the lighthouse, at the bright light that pierced the sea mist, and murmured to himself.
In all that followed, the lighthouse remained abandoned, and the bright light stone at the top never lit up again.
At this moment, Gu Yun and Lin Xi were on a date on the bench under the lighthouse.
"Is this why you approached me in the first place?"
"Yes."
"So, what about now?"
"Uh, just a very small part."
"..."
The light in Lin Xi's eyes dimmed again, and she remained silent for a long time.
Gu Yun quickly explained, "That was...that was a very, very long time ago! I didn't understand anything back then...I wouldn't think that way now."
After saying that, he looked at Lin Xi with sincere eyes.
"Zhang Peng and Wang Qiao said that I should be honest with you, and that applies to this matter as well... I'm sorry, I shouldn't have made our first meeting so frivolous..."
When Gu Yun mentioned "the first time," Lin Xi suddenly looked up as if she had been electrocuted, and also looked at Gu Yun.
Her gaze became incredibly deep once again.
A brief silence fell over the air.
"Damn it! Am I late again!?"
Zhong Yi rubbed his forehead and sighed deeply.
He was used to finding clues from snippets of information in stories full of riddles.
In his memory of that time at the restaurant not long ago, Zhang Peng had asked Gu Yun, "Have you told her about that matter?"
Clearly, "that incident" was the reason why Gu Yun initially approached Lin Xi.
But they arrived too late and didn't know the reason why.
Zhong Yi cast a pleading look at Qin Li'en, who shook his head and said, "This is the earliest place in this memory."
Zhong Yi had no choice but to give up.
The brief silence ended.
Lin Xi took out a patched sandbag from her clothes and asked Gu Yun if she could throw it to the lighthouse.
Gu Yun was already used to Lin Xi's inexplicable request. Without thinking, he took the sandbag and threw it forcefully towards the other side of the cliff.
As expected, it failed to be thrown; the small sandbag fell off the cliff and disappeared without a trace.
To everyone's surprise,
The moment Lin Xi saw the sandbag slip from her grasp, she excitedly ran towards the cliff. If Gu Yun hadn't been holding her back, she seemed ready to jump.
Memories end, space freezes.
Before Zhong Yi could speak, the chat in the live stream couldn't hold back any longer.
【Wasn't it she who made Old Master Gu lose it?】
【I'd be upset if I really lost it...】
【This Lin Xi is so strange! It's a miracle that Grandpa Gu can stay with her!】
【I really don't know what Lu Laomo was thinking, designing such a character.】
【Even if it's to highlight my senior sister, isn't this going too far?】
...
“I know you have a lot of questions... but that’s not our concern.”
Qin Li'en glanced at Zhong Yi and spoke first.
"What we should do now is to quickly go to Old Master Gu's childhood memories and plant the seed for him to join the Nine Heavens Sect."
"All right......"
Feeling exposed, Zhong Yi rubbed his nose in frustration and began searching for fragments of memory on the cliff.
This time, the fragments of memory were Lin Xi's baggage for carrying things.
Before leaving, Zhong Yi glanced at the two of them again, and only then did he notice that Lin Xi had waist-length hair.
In the years that followed, Lin Xi always had short hair that just reached her shoulders.
"Wasn't long hair pretty? Why did you cut it short...?"
Zhong Yi shook his head and didn't continue thinking about the question.
After all, there were far too many questions in the entire memory that were more intriguing than Lin Xi cutting her hair short.
...
...
Time flows backward.
"This place is quite novel... a library combined with a teahouse? Hmm, that's certainly practical!"
Zhong Yi looked around.
Gu Yun and Zhang Peng and Wang Qiao chatted idly at the tea table.
Lin Xi was reading alone in the adjacent book collection area.
Gu Yun is troubled by Lin Xi's 【Ice Heart Bloodline】.
From the few words spoken, it can be seen that Lin Xi's taciturnity and strange behavior are all caused by the 【Ice Heart Bloodline】.
As luck would have it, Zhang Peng's wife, Wang Qiao, is also a rare person who possesses the 【Bing Xin bloodline】.
Gu Yun was asking Wang Qiao many questions about the 【Ice Heart Bloodline】.
"Oh...no wonder Wang Qiao spoke up for Lin Xi before, and they were on such good terms. It turns out they were in the same boat?"
Another question in his mind was answered, and Zhong Yi suddenly realized.
Each time you trace back a section, a question will be answered.
At this moment, Zhong Yi was filled with anticipation to return to the place where Gu Yun and Lin Xi first met.
He always felt that by then, all the doubts would be resolved.
Just then, Gu Yun got up and walked to Lin Xi's side. Lin Xi was engrossed in the book in her hands.
What book are you reading?
"The King's New Clothes... I really liked this story when I was a child."
"You still like it now, right?"
"certainly......"
Lin Xi put the books back on the shelf, turned around, and her eyes deepened.
"...But the reason is different now."
Perhaps it was because he remembered that Wang Qiao had just told him to open up to Lin Xi more,
Gu Yun thought for a moment, then smiled and said:
"When I was a child, my favorite story was 'Battle Through the Heavens'."
“I know that your mother gave you a copy of ‘Battle Through the Heavens’ as a wedding gift on our wedding day.”
Lin Xi's gaze flickered slightly as she looked at Gu Yun.
“Yes...” Gu Yun murmured, scratching his head. “What a strange gift. I must have loved reading this book when I was a kid! Hahaha...”
"Then you..." Lin Xi hesitated. "Why did you stop reading it later? You left that copy of 'Battle Through the Heavens' in the storeroom, and when I saw it, it was covered in dust."
“Maybe it’s because...” Gu Yun frowned. “I’m all grown up now, past the age of reading those stories.”
"Really?"
"real."
"..."
Lin Xi didn't say anything. She picked up "The King's New Clothes" and went to the counter to pay.
Gu Yun chased after her and considerately paid the book fee for Lin Xi.
Just then, Lin Xi looked at Gu Yun with a quiet gaze and suddenly spoke:
"Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river... What's the next line?"
Gu Yun was taken aback: "Huh? What is it?"
"nothing."
As if she knew something, Lin Xi lowered her head, hiding all her thoughts in her eyes.
Time rewinds, memories flow.
Under the blue-purple night sky, the sea breeze blows and the moonlight shines brightly.
"So this is how lighthouses work..."
Zhong Yi looked at the top of the lighthouse, at the bright light that pierced the sea mist, and murmured to himself.
In all that followed, the lighthouse remained abandoned, and the bright light stone at the top never lit up again.
At this moment, Gu Yun and Lin Xi were on a date on the bench under the lighthouse.
"Is this why you approached me in the first place?"
"Yes."
"So, what about now?"
"Uh, just a very small part."
"..."
The light in Lin Xi's eyes dimmed again, and she remained silent for a long time.
Gu Yun quickly explained, "That was...that was a very, very long time ago! I didn't understand anything back then...I wouldn't think that way now."
After saying that, he looked at Lin Xi with sincere eyes.
"Zhang Peng and Wang Qiao said that I should be honest with you, and that applies to this matter as well... I'm sorry, I shouldn't have made our first meeting so frivolous..."
When Gu Yun mentioned "the first time," Lin Xi suddenly looked up as if she had been electrocuted, and also looked at Gu Yun.
Her gaze became incredibly deep once again.
A brief silence fell over the air.
"Damn it! Am I late again!?"
Zhong Yi rubbed his forehead and sighed deeply.
He was used to finding clues from snippets of information in stories full of riddles.
In his memory of that time at the restaurant not long ago, Zhang Peng had asked Gu Yun, "Have you told her about that matter?"
Clearly, "that incident" was the reason why Gu Yun initially approached Lin Xi.
But they arrived too late and didn't know the reason why.
Zhong Yi cast a pleading look at Qin Li'en, who shook his head and said, "This is the earliest place in this memory."
Zhong Yi had no choice but to give up.
The brief silence ended.
Lin Xi took out a patched sandbag from her clothes and asked Gu Yun if she could throw it to the lighthouse.
Gu Yun was already used to Lin Xi's inexplicable request. Without thinking, he took the sandbag and threw it forcefully towards the other side of the cliff.
As expected, it failed to be thrown; the small sandbag fell off the cliff and disappeared without a trace.
To everyone's surprise,
The moment Lin Xi saw the sandbag slip from her grasp, she excitedly ran towards the cliff. If Gu Yun hadn't been holding her back, she seemed ready to jump.
Memories end, space freezes.
Before Zhong Yi could speak, the chat in the live stream couldn't hold back any longer.
【Wasn't it she who made Old Master Gu lose it?】
【I'd be upset if I really lost it...】
【This Lin Xi is so strange! It's a miracle that Grandpa Gu can stay with her!】
【I really don't know what Lu Laomo was thinking, designing such a character.】
【Even if it's to highlight my senior sister, isn't this going too far?】
...
“I know you have a lot of questions... but that’s not our concern.”
Qin Li'en glanced at Zhong Yi and spoke first.
"What we should do now is to quickly go to Old Master Gu's childhood memories and plant the seed for him to join the Nine Heavens Sect."
"All right......"
Feeling exposed, Zhong Yi rubbed his nose in frustration and began searching for fragments of memory on the cliff.
This time, the fragments of memory were Lin Xi's baggage for carrying things.
Before leaving, Zhong Yi glanced at the two of them again, and only then did he notice that Lin Xi had waist-length hair.
In the years that followed, Lin Xi always had short hair that just reached her shoulders.
"Wasn't long hair pretty? Why did you cut it short...?"
Zhong Yi shook his head and didn't continue thinking about the question.
After all, there were far too many questions in the entire memory that were more intriguing than Lin Xi cutting her hair short.
...
...
Time flows backward.
"This place is quite novel... a library combined with a teahouse? Hmm, that's certainly practical!"
Zhong Yi looked around.
Gu Yun and Zhang Peng and Wang Qiao chatted idly at the tea table.
Lin Xi was reading alone in the adjacent book collection area.
Gu Yun is troubled by Lin Xi's 【Ice Heart Bloodline】.
From the few words spoken, it can be seen that Lin Xi's taciturnity and strange behavior are all caused by the 【Ice Heart Bloodline】.
As luck would have it, Zhang Peng's wife, Wang Qiao, is also a rare person who possesses the 【Bing Xin bloodline】.
Gu Yun was asking Wang Qiao many questions about the 【Ice Heart Bloodline】.
"Oh...no wonder Wang Qiao spoke up for Lin Xi before, and they were on such good terms. It turns out they were in the same boat?"
Another question in his mind was answered, and Zhong Yi suddenly realized.
Each time you trace back a section, a question will be answered.
At this moment, Zhong Yi was filled with anticipation to return to the place where Gu Yun and Lin Xi first met.
He always felt that by then, all the doubts would be resolved.
Just then, Gu Yun got up and walked to Lin Xi's side. Lin Xi was engrossed in the book in her hands.
What book are you reading?
"The King's New Clothes... I really liked this story when I was a child."
"You still like it now, right?"
"certainly......"
Lin Xi put the books back on the shelf, turned around, and her eyes deepened.
"...But the reason is different now."
Perhaps it was because he remembered that Wang Qiao had just told him to open up to Lin Xi more,
Gu Yun thought for a moment, then smiled and said:
"When I was a child, my favorite story was 'Battle Through the Heavens'."
“I know that your mother gave you a copy of ‘Battle Through the Heavens’ as a wedding gift on our wedding day.”
Lin Xi's gaze flickered slightly as she looked at Gu Yun.
“Yes...” Gu Yun murmured, scratching his head. “What a strange gift. I must have loved reading this book when I was a kid! Hahaha...”
"Then you..." Lin Xi hesitated. "Why did you stop reading it later? You left that copy of 'Battle Through the Heavens' in the storeroom, and when I saw it, it was covered in dust."
“Maybe it’s because...” Gu Yun frowned. “I’m all grown up now, past the age of reading those stories.”
"Really?"
"real."
"..."
Lin Xi didn't say anything. She picked up "The King's New Clothes" and went to the counter to pay.
Gu Yun chased after her and considerately paid the book fee for Lin Xi.
Just then, Lin Xi looked at Gu Yun with a quiet gaze and suddenly spoke:
"Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river... What's the next line?"
Gu Yun was taken aback: "Huh? What is it?"
"nothing."
As if she knew something, Lin Xi lowered her head, hiding all her thoughts in her eyes.
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