Journey to the Rose

Bingcheng gave Ruan Xi a sense of familiarity.

I don't know if it was because he realized the fact that "I'm married" or because of the rare leisure time, he almost let go of all his fatigue and wanted to relax in this safe city-state.

But he was thinking, they are running for their lives, is it really good to take time to soak in the hot spring?

After conveying this worry to Li Shen, Li Shen knew that there was no secret now, so he patted Ruan Xi on the shoulder very firmly, and said that the group of people who arrested you and Song Shumian last time, remember?Now there is a small group of people left, secretly lurking around the hot spring pool, ready to protect us at any time.

Ruan Xi has one head and two big ones.

Because when he was in Huocheng, he didn't feel that anyone was secretly protecting him. So the Northern Alliance army has such a strong professional ability?

Combined with the assault guns that were kicked in the trunk of the car last time, Ruan Xi realized later that it was the equipment of the Northern Alliance, which shows that Lu Zhenghe's identity is definitely not just a member of the guard.In his memory, the Wei family is of great significance to Zenith City, and the next successor should be the leader of the Northern Alliance.

Judging from his words and deeds, it was obvious that Lu Zhenghe was indeed a high-ranking military officer.

He even said it was the guards... a lie without blinking an eye.

Find a chance to torture him later.

Ruan Xi asked, "What about the other fighters?"

"Back to the north by other means of transportation," Li Shen said, "We can't have no one in the army, and the personnel are already tense right now."

Ruan Xi: "Didn't you say it's unsafe to take a helicopter? Now there are dangers everywhere, the airspace is closed, it's easy..."

Hearing Ruan Xi's worry, Li Shen shook his head and sighed with emotion: "Hey."

Ruan Xi frowned: "Why are you sighing?"

He took a breath, raised his deep eyebrows slightly, and said, "A pilot will not refuse to complete a flight mission because of the possibility of a crash, and a soldier will not refuse to perform his duties because of the possibility of death."

It is not easy for anyone to get to this point, Ruan Xi is more cautious about unfamiliar people and things.

He pointed to his face, which was not fully covered, and was vaguely worried: "Uncle Liu...do you recognize who I am?"

"Probably not, this place looks like a country isolated from the world." Li Shen turned his head and patted him on the shoulder, "Don't worry, after a short rest, we still need to get on the road as soon as possible."

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Liubo's hot spring pool is very large, hidden behind a large glacier.

The surrounding of the entire pool looks like a layer of permafrost, but it does have geothermal heat. Ruan Xi speculates that it is because the ice city is adjacent to the fire city, and the volcano on the border of the fire city has left magma in the ground, so a large amount of it is released. thermal energy.

After changing their clothes, they were ready to enter the hot spring pool.

Snowflakes were still falling in the sky, and it was the first time that Ruan Xi experienced the feeling of the fusion of water and fire, which made Ruan Xi feel novel.

Because he had seen illustrations of this kind of hot spring in the library of Ablaze City, but he had never been able to personally experience it.Due to his special status, the Ruan family basically vetoed his proposal to go out of the city, let alone come to such a far place to soak in some hot springs.

If possible, Ruan Xi hopes that her childhood can be repeated, that she can play all the things she has never played before, and pick up those lost fun.

Due to the cold weather and low temperature, a thin layer of fog floated on the water early.

Because Ruan Xi is the "big brother's target", Wen Kai, Li Shen, and Gu Zirong reached a tacit agreement on where to put their eyes and where to put their eyes, and all three of them walked in the front wearing bath towels.

Ruan Xi also came out wrapped in a bath towel. The wind blew on her skin, and the cold air penetrated into her bones. The weather was really too cold.

Li Shen was still very surprised by Ruan Xi's body that was vaguely exposed in the air.

Although Ruan Xi's robustness can be seen from the lines of his arms, he did not expect that the body covered by the clothes also has such a beautiful line, which is a relatively strong type.He suddenly felt that the outside world's evaluation of Ruan Xi was too thin to use "beautiful".

Lu Zhenghe walked to the other side to get into the water, and Ruan Xi followed behind on his slippers.

"Ruan Xi."

"what happened?"

"You have a good figure," Li Shen bumped into Ruan Xi with his arm, and asked in a low voice, "Have you practiced?"

"I've practiced, after all, I have to practice swords, and I'm not strong enough to be bullied." Ruan Xi squatted by the hot spring pool, scooped up some hot water with the palm of her hand and patted it on her arm.

With a long sigh, Li Shen looked at Lu Zhenghe's exposed upper body again, envious of that kind of thick and strong, and said in a sour tone: "You are giving in both nature and nurture... I always lose my abdominal muscles when I practice The shape doesn't look good."

"Why do you look so good-looking? You don't have omega to watch you. Usually there are alphas in the team, no one has nothing to do to stare at you." Wen Kai taunted quietly from the side.

Li Shen threatened him: "You will die if you don't speak!"

Wen Kai said seriously: "Calm down!"

After finishing speaking, he also tested the water temperature with his hands, supported the ground with both hands, and slid down the edge of the hot spring pool.

On the other side, with his back facing them, Lu Zhenghe stepped into the bottom of the pool from the very edge.

His broad, bare back was looming in the white mist of heat.

The snow fell all over the sky, part of it melted before reaching the surface of the pool, and the other part fell on Lu Zhenghe's shoulders, like the white fox shawls that would be found in the north.

He raised one arm from the water, brushed away the falling snow on his shoulder with his slender fingers, tilted his body slightly, and swayed his other hand stiffly on the water surface for a long time, the water rippled and rippled.

Then he waved to Ruan Xi: "Come here."

Perhaps because he has been in a high position in the military camp for a long time, Lu Zhenghe seems to be very good at talking to him in this orderly tone.Ruan Xi expressed strong dissatisfaction with this, so she couldn't choose to go.

Ruan Xi turned her back, removed the bath towel covering her body, and put it on a blue-gray rock on the shore.

After completing a series of actions, the too cold air made him shiver all over.

So he quickly drilled back into the hot spring pool, and let out a long gasp/breath: "Ha..."

"Wow, I haven't been this relaxed in a long time..."

Song Shumian also exhaled, his eyes sparkling, "Ever since I left my hometown and embarked on this endless road, I feel my nerves are tense every day. The feeling of racing against death is too exciting, I don't even Take the time to think about the result.”

"While considering these things, if you live a good life, the result is not important anymore."

Looking at the falling snow, Ruan Xi felt that the previous obsessions had disappeared on the water in various forms, just like the snow.

Perhaps, I should reset my mentality.

The past is indelible, but the future is more important.Trying to put the past down for a while may not necessarily be a bad choice.

"Brother Ruan Xi," Song Shumian called back to his childhood address, "If we can survive, I mean if, what is the thing you want to do the most?"

"You mean if there is a day when you go to the snow mountain?"

"Correct!"

"The land is so narrow and long, that day is so far away. I never thought about it."

"Now think about it?"

The sky sprinkles silver and white all over the world, and the snow seems to stick to the eyelashes at any time.

Ruan was looking forward to this scene, and suddenly remembered the rose petals on the ground at the bachelor party on the eve of the wedding, the breath on Lu Zhenghe's body, and the empty back garden on the night they met.

After thinking about it for a while, Ruan Xi said, "I would like to organize the wedding."

"Wedding? Are you and Lu Zhenghe really married? Then you..." Song Shumian covered his mouth in a panic, stared at the sparkling eyes, and spoke cautiously, "It's not good for you to do this, although your The fiancé is not missing, but after all, you are a marriage gifted by God..."

Ruan Xi heard a black thread.

He thought about it, and decided to be straightforward: "I forgot to tell you, Lu Zhenghe is my former fiancé."

"what?"

"That is to say... Wei Zheng is him, and he is Wei Zheng."

"The person who is going to marry you is Lu Zhenghe? How could it be such a coincidence?"

"Ah."

The sweat steamed from the heat mixed with the snow melted from the snowflakes, and slid down the corners of his eyes together.Ruan Xi sighed, wiped the water drops with the back of her hand, picked up the hot spring water and poured it on her arm, and said lightly, "I didn't expect such a coincidence."

"Then why is he hiding it from you?"

"His reasons are many, and I still need to slowly understand."

"So complicated?" Song Shumian touched his chin and whispered, "Then is he pretending to have amnesia?"

"It's not like, it should be that I really don't remember." Ruan Xi said, grinding the small fangs in his mouth, "If he dares to pretend not to know me after disappearing for no reason for four years, then I will only Can screw his head off and make amends."

Song Shumian shuddered.

Sure enough, Ruan Xi was still as ruthless as ever.

When they were young, about five or six years old, the two of them caught some annoying poisonous insects in the manor, and they didn't dare to touch them. Ruan Xi was lucky, she put on gloves and held a broom to run after the insects, causing chaos in Ruan's house , ran and shouted, oh, master, you can't do this!This is detrimental to the appearance, it is not good to spread the word!And what if it bites you!

Ruan Xi didn't listen to this, and beat the bug to death on the marble steps with a "click", then got up by herself, threw the broom aside, fell down and knocked blood on her knee, and said to the cleaner at home: Clean up.

Thinking of this, Song Shu shrugged his shoulders, "Then... are you trying to cultivate your relationship again?"

"Not necessarily." Ruan Xi's eyes dimmed a bit.

Having said that, Ruan Xi couldn't help but not to see what Lu Zhenghe was doing——

The other party stood in the water in the distance and looked at him.

The bottom of the pool over there seemed to be deeper, and the water covered his broad and beautiful shoulder blades.

Ruan Xi pretended not to look at him, and also controlled her eyes to look over there like a pervert, but she was still uncomfortable by Lu Zhenghe's eyes.Ruan Xi's ears turned red, and then his cheeks turned red again, and after a while, his entire face was flushed.

What a shame.

But the hot spring water must be too hot.

"Ruan Xi, can you come over?" Lu Zhenghe asked as if begging.

Ruan Xi really couldn't stand his weakness.

After walking a few steps in the water, Ruan Xi felt the warm resistance slipping away from the soles of his feet. He turned around and greeted Song Shumian and the others: "Play slowly, I'll go to his side first."

It doesn't matter if you don't say hello, after he said hello, he saw the gossiping eyes of the remaining four people, with a strange smile on their lips, as if "We don't mind if we make out in public" in capitals.

Ruan Xi: ...

After leaving the crowded area, Ruan Xi became less nervous.He swam to the vicinity of Lu Zheng River very naturally.

Being in the water very close to Lu Zheng River, Ruan Xi suddenly realized that this was a rare time for them to spend alone and intimately together in such a long time, with such a completely different identity - they are now a spouse.

After four years of dangling, he didn't understand, why it seemed like he had never been in love, and he started directly from marriage?

Seeing him in a daze, Lu Zhenghe turned to look at him.

Lu Zhenghe asked in a low voice: "What are you thinking?"

"Think about a lot of things, a lot of things from the past." Ruan Xi stared at the fog in front of her, which rose from the water.

"Your story?" Lu Zhenghe raised his brows slightly, as if interested.

Hearing the other party's curious tone, Ruan Xi thought that Lu Zhenghe probably wanted to know about his former self, but Ruan Xi didn't want to talk about it.

The bad factor in his character came up, and he wanted to stimulate Lu Zhenghe's curiosity in a vengeful way.

And, what to say, how to say?

Said that you are not actually the successor that the Wei family has been cultivating many years ago, you are just a cover that came out halfway?In fact, you grew up in a seaside city thousands of miles away, and you were already with me when you were studying?

I don't!

Ruan Xi narrowed his eyes, calmly said: "Yes."

He raised his hand, picked up the moderately hot hot spring water in his palm, and then sprinkled it, causing ripples in circles.Lu Zhenghe watched him playing in the water expressionlessly, but his eyes were soft, which was different from when we first met.

"Little Lord!"

Anyway, his identity has been exposed, Li Shen's yelling became so unscrupulous, he shook the wrung towel, his image has nothing to do with his force value, "Liu Bo said that hot springs should not be soaked for too long, and we can almost Wake up! You will faint after soaking for a long time!"

After finishing speaking, he pretended to faint very vividly, and almost slipped his foot on the bottom of the pool. Wen Kai stood by with his arms folded and watched coldly, not even wanting to help him.

Lu Zhenghe also raised his arms from the water and made a gesture of response, indicating that he had heard it.

Calculating the time, Lu Zhenghe estimated that he had soaked for half an hour.

He asked Ruan Xi: "Are you feeling unwell?"

"No. I won't take a bath, so get up quickly," Ruan Xi shook her head and stepped on the smooth rocks under the water, "Wait for me, I'll get my towel."

He turned around, turned his back to Lu Zhenghe, and prepared to go ashore from the nearest pool.

Stepping on the first underwater stone ladder, the water surface of the hot spring that covered Ruan Xi's back dropped down to her neck.

His back muscles are thin, firm and beautiful, and the smooth lines store the strength just right, with almost no excess.Because he had to use force, he bowed his upper body slightly, and the transparent water flowed down slowly from his broad shoulder blades.

The ruby ​​red marks on Ruan Xi's back took away all the surrounding light.

Wherever he looked, there were sporadic and intermittent ambiguous auras, and Lu Zhenghe's eyes went back and forth, flowing back and forth.

The snow did not stop.

In Lu Zhenghe's line of sight, those snow and hot spring pools are the background boards, and all the focus of his eyes are concentrated on the rose-shaped imprint.

He thought of the city of curse, those prophets, and the phrase "the other party has a flower-shaped birthmark in the center of his back".

Now he can be sure of Ruan Xi's identity.

Although Lu Zhenghe has never loved anyone according to this requirement, he still remembers that the prophet said that he and his omega had known each other when they were minors, and it definitely shouldn't be now.

The subconscious is quietly telling Lu Zhenghe himself - you have missed something extremely important.

"Ruan Xi." Lu Zhenghe stopped him.

Ready to go ashore, Ruan Xi was covered with dampness, and the remaining heat from her body turned into wisps of white mist, scattered in the air.

He was suddenly stopped, he didn't have time to wipe off the snowflakes that fell on his eyelashes, he just opened his eyes wide, "What's wrong?"

"You have a birthmark on your back, you know that?"

"I know, I heard my biological mother say it when I was young... I didn't pay much attention to it when I grew up."

Lu Zhenghe nodded, the surface of the hot spring was cloudy and smoky, and his dark eyes were covered with mist, "Its shape is very special."

"What shape is it now?" Ruan Xi couldn't help but touch it with her hands behind her back.

"It's a rose." Lu Zhenghe replied.

"A very clear rose?" Ruan Xi repeated, thinking of the smell that lingers in her nostrils every time, it is Lu Zhenghe's unique smell.

Lu Zhenghe: "Yes."

Ruan Xi couldn't keep up with Lu Zhenghe's rhythm, and tilted her head slightly: "What's wrong, it doesn't look good? Do you think it's tattoo?"

Shaking his head, Lu Zhenghe took a step forward, the sound of water flowing.

He was half/bare from the upper body, lowered his body weight slightly, soaked everything from his shoulders into the water, stretched the arc of his arms, and swam towards Ruan Xi.After swimming to Ruan Xi's side, Lu Zhenghe stood up straight, the water flowed down from his shoulders, and rushed to the surface of the water, the splash made a sound of "哗啦——".

Lu Zhenghe was so close that Ruan Xi could even feel the heat emanating from his body.

The hot air turns into white mist, turning the nearby water surface and people into a fairyland on earth.

Heartbeat and breathing quickened together, Ruan Xi's whole movement of getting ready to go ashore became stiff, and some didn't know how to move.Lu Zhenghe panted lightly, he was so close to himself, and behaved so intimately, as if everything happened very naturally.

Lu Zhenghe stretched out his hand, bent his arm, and his muscles protruded into a strong outline.With warmth, his fingers suddenly touched Ruan Xi's bare/exposed back.

In the next second, the fingertips touched Ruan Xi's cervical vertebrae, where there was a slightly raised bone wrapped in white skin.

Because Ruan Xi bowed his head forward, it protruded more obviously, forming the line that the back should have along a beautiful spine, and the end of the line did not enter the water until it reached the waist of the trousers.

Too sensitive / sensitive body can not help shaking.

Ruan Xi snorted, her ears itched, and her back muscles tensed.

He felt Lu Zhenghe's fingertips slide down the spine...

All the way, all the way to the center of the birthmark on the back.

"The prophet in Curse City predicted for me that there would be such a rose-shaped birthmark on the back of my omega."

Lu Zhenghe spoke very slowly, his voice was hoarse and soft, his lips and teeth collided, like two pieces of silk rubbing together to imitate the rubbing of lovers' ears, "I often wonder, did we meet or reunite that night in ablaze city? "

Snowflakes fell on the eyelashes.

Ruan Xi was stunned, sweat fell down his chin into the hot spring pool, these two words were like hundreds of ropes pulling his heart.

Glacier·39's first night of cohabitation.