Tl: Tojo
Editor: NaoNazo
Chapter 65
“Little friend, what are you doing here?” The little girl heard the voice, abruptly turned around, and when she clearly saw the person who spoke, she stood there dumbfounded for a long time without recovering.
Finally, she blushed, her face turning red, and her eyes shining with a frightening brightness. Excitedly, she asked, “Are you a fairy?”
Otherwise, how could someone look so good? Among all the people she had ever seen, this person was by far the most attractive!
She didn’t say the second half of the sentence out loud, but she definitely thought so. The look in the little girl’s eyes became very passionate, and her face, flushed with excitement, became adorable.
The person in the red attire heard these innocent words and visibly paused. Then, a smile appeared at the corner of their eyes. They deliberately prolonged their response, “Hmm,” with a playful and romantically innocent tone, making a funny face. “Guess?”
The little girl blinked her eyes earnestly and spoke her firm answer with sincerity, “You must be a fairy.”
With that, the little girl walked toward the person, showing no shyness at all. She stared with her big, watery eyes, bouncing along the way. The ponytail on her head trembled up and down. Combined with her small arms and legs, she looked inexplicably adorable.
Seeing this, Su Jingyan also crouched down, locking eyes with the little girl. He placed his hands on his knees and softly asked, “What are you doing here alone? Where are your parents?”
When the little girl heard the word “parents” from the fairy, she belatedly became aware, and her eyes reddened. She seemed a bit flustered and helpless, “I, I don’t know. They were here just now, and I went to catch butterflies, and then they were gone.”
Su Jingyan nodded thoughtfully, seeming to understand something in his heart.
So, it was a lost little girl.
No wonder Su Jingyan would take an interest in a stranger, especially in these remote wilds where it’s rare to see more than a few people in a month, let alone a little girl who looked no taller than his knee.
Before Su Jingyan could come up with a reason or decide whether to help the child find her family, he heard the sound of footsteps crushing dry leaves behind him.
“Yanyan,” the man softly called.
Upon hearing the voice, Su Jingyan knew who it was. He turned around excitedly and responded, “Yichen.”
Lu Yichen approached and glanced at the little girl as if she were invisible, showing no emotional fluctuations in his eyes. He didn’t even inquire where this little girl had come from. From the moment he appeared, his gaze had been firmly fixed on Su Jingyan.
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This time, his gaze finally shifted from his own child to this little stranger with an unclear origin.
Seeing the man staring at the little girl, Su Jingyan stood up, gently separated the girl’s hand, hopped to Lu Yichen’s side, and looped his arm through his. Standing on tiptoe, he whispered into the man’s ear, “This is a little girl who just got lost from her parents. Let’s help her find them.”
Lu Yichen, always responsive to Su Jingyan’s requests, with an attitude of pampering him to the extreme, naturally couldn’t refuse his child’s plea over such a small matter. He nodded.
Observing the man’s response, Su Jingyan rubbed his head against the man’s shoulder.
After being released by the fairy, the little girl stood still, looking completely lost, and observed the interactions between the two with great awkwardness.
Being young, she naturally wouldn’t understand matters of romance and love. She also wouldn’t see anything wrong with people, and there wouldn’t be any peculiar glances in her eyes.
In her young mind, the man who appeared later seemed quite frightening. However, the fairy in her eyes took the initiative to hold the man’s hand, even acting very affectionate. This immediately gave her a somewhat unsettling feeling.
The little girl blinked her bright eyes.
With Lu Yichen’s agreement, Su Jingyan was very excited. He had just let go of the man’s hand, intending to run back to the little girl, but he was caught by the man’s wrist.
Su Jingyan turned around, his eyes still bright like a doe, and asked, “What’s wrong?”
Lu Yichen squinted his eyes, appearing calm and composed, but the seriousness in his eyes was undeniable, carrying a hint of shadow. “Don’t let her touch you.”
Su Jingyan knew well about the man’s domineering nature. He turned around and intertwined his fingers with the man’s, pressing their palms tightly together. His eyes remained as pure as ever. “I’m just holding your hand.”
Su Jingyan’s tone was as if he were coaxing a slightly disobedient child.
The man instantly lost his temper again, and the corners of his mouth uncontrollably lifted.
His Yanyan always had a way of doing things that brought him a sense of joy, even in the most subtle ways.
The two of them, unrestrained, walked hand in hand towards the little girl.
Su Jingyan smiled, “Little friend, let’s go. I’ll take you to find your parents.”
The little girl’s eyes, which had dimmed for a moment, lit up again upon hearing this. She happily rushed towards Su Jingyan, but before she could actually touch the fairy, she felt as if she had hit an invisible barrier and was bounced back, not with much force, but enough to make her sit on the ground.
She blinked, sitting on the ground looking bewildered.
Since Su Jingyan had promised the man not to touch the little girl, he dared not casually help her up. Instead, he spoke gently, “Does it hurt? You can walk beside us, and I’ll take you to find your parents.”
The little girl rubbed her butt, stood up, glanced at the man who was not easy to mess with, pouted her mouth, and followed the two of them.
The color of the sky slowly faded, and within an hour, it might be completely dark.
“Niu’er! Niu’er!” Someone was shouting loudly in the deep forest, their voice filled with urgency, anxiety, and even a hint of hoarseness, indicating they might have been shouting for quite some time.
The voice carried a somewhat teary tone.
The young girl vaguely heard the distant shouts and immediately jumped up. She ran towards the direction of the sound, her ponytail bouncing up and down as she went. While running, she responded, “I’m here! I’m here!”
The person calling stopped abruptly, clearly having heard the girl’s reply, and rushed out in a state of great urgency.
As soon as the woman saw the unharmed and lively girl, her eyes turned red. The worries in her heart instantly turned into accusations. Angrily and with frustration, she said, “Look at you! I told you not to follow us, but you insisted on coming out. You almost got lost! If it gets dark and there are wolves on the mountain, they might snatch you away. In this chaotic world, we finally managed to escape, and you’re so reckless!”
The woman spoke a lot, but the girl, being young, couldn’t fully understand. Although the woman’s words were all accusatory, the girl still grasped her mother’s concern and eagerly shared her own experiences. Excitedly, she said, “Mom, I was brought back by a fairy! I just saw a fairy!”
The woman, infuriated, became even more exasperated upon hearing the girl’s amusing words. “A fairy? Where are there fairies? Are there really fairies in this world? You must be dreaming.”
The girl immediately grabbed the woman’s hand, wanting to pull her mother to look behind. However, when she turned around, she realized that the fairy who should have been there in the first place was nowhere to be seen. She immediately froze.
Seeing her daughter’s reaction, the woman softened, “Forget it, forget it. You, little troublemaker, if you dare wander off again, I’ll leave you in a cave and won’t let you come out.”
The cave was where the three of them currently take refuge. With the ongoing war outside, injuries and casualties abounded, forcing them to escape to this place.
The girl immediately fell silent, afraid to speak.
The woman rubbed her daughter’s head, glanced at her man, and said to the girl, “Let’s go back. Aren’t you hungry these days? We’ve found a lot of wild vegetables. I promise your little belly will be full.”
At the mention of food, the girl immediately perked up, forgetting about the fairy incident. Her eyes gleamed with excitement as she enthusiastically replied, “Okay!”
Su Jingyan wrapped his arms around the man’s neck, pressed her chest against his back, and rested her head on his shoulder.
“Yichen, I’m hungry too,” Su Jingyan’s voice was soft and tender, sounding as if he were coaxing someone.
Lu Yichen firmly carried him on his back and, upon hearing the child’s voice, replied, “What do you want to eat?”
When it came to food, Lu Yichen really took care of Su Jingyan. Even in the deep mountains and wild forests where there was nothing, he could occasionally conjure up sweet treats like candied hawthorns or some pastry delicacies. Basically, if Su Jingyan wanted something, he could make it happen.
Su Jingyan laid on the man’s back, seriously contemplating for a while, “I want spare rib rice cakes, vegetarian dumplings, and mung bean pastries.”
Lu Yichen responded with a simple “Hmm” to agree.
Su Jingyan knew that the man could accomplish anything. He rubbed his chin against his shoulder, like a little cat whose chin was being scratched by its owner, looking completely content.
Su Jingyan continued to chatter endlessly about the new and interesting things he encountered while playing outside today. The man listened quietly, occasionally responding. Su Jingyan could seemingly talk endlessly about a topic with no end in sight.
Even though he had lived here for so long, the scenery was identical, and it was quite dull. However, Su Jingyan, with his personality of being able to watch ants move for an entire day, never felt bored.
As he spoke, Su Jingyan began to feel a bit tired. He let out a small yawn and then laid on the man’s back, falling asleep.
Listening to the small breaths on his back, the man couldn’t help but let out a gentle laugh.
He discovered that his beloved’s body seemed different from ordinary people, out of sync with the world. Once deceased, the soul couldn’t form a ghostly entity, truly dispersing into nothingness.
However, he was unwilling to accept this fate, so he used his own spiritual power to protect them, essentially sharing their lives.
At worst, it would be the two of them completely dissolving into the world together.
The man glanced at his beloved again.
He could easily and effortlessly transport them back to the place they lived in an instant, but he chose not to.
Why?
There might be only one reason—he enjoyed the feeling of carrying his own child on his back.
Watching the surrounding scenery, chatting casually, everything was so simple and beautiful.
Home at last.
My precious.
this arc was so gooodd, honestly love them sm! 🥺❤️