Ning Chen

He, "I don't cry."

"Xie Ning, I'm so sleepy. I'll sleep for a while, just for a short while. Remember, you must wake me up." After saying this, Gu Chuchen lay in Xie Ning's arms and closed his eyes.

"...Ah Chen." Xie Ning's heart ached like it had been torn into countless pieces, and he carefully wiped the mottled blood on Gu Chuchen's face one by one.

"Duo Duo." Ah Yan's voice suddenly came from above Pingcheng.

Ulanduo looked at the sky and shouted everywhere, "Ah Yin, where are you?!"

A familiar voice continued to come from the sky, "Duoduo, I am by your side, I will protect you in every gust of wind and every shower of rain in the future."

Ulan Duo cried loudly, "Yan, come back! I don't want you to become wind or rain, come back!!"

The voice said again: "Duoduo, I really want to leave this time. If there is an afterlife, I will meet you again and be your Yin."

The voice continued, getting weaker and weaker, "Brother Chuchen, thank you, Xie Ning, you have to take good care of him.

Xie Ning didn't raise his head, and said softly, "I will."

"Goodbye..." The sky over Pingcheng instantly returned to calm, and there was nothing lingering anymore.

"No! Don't!! Don't go!!!" Wu Landuo chased a drifting cloud and ran farther and farther.

"Ulan Duo." Xie Ning looked up at Ulan Duo.

After a long time, Gu Chuchen in his arms suddenly moved, "Xie Ning."

Xie Ning squeezed out a nice smile and said, "Ah Chen, you're awake."

The person in his arms didn't speak, Xie Ning's heart sank, he felt that Gu Chuchen's body was getting colder and colder, as if he had fallen into an ice cellar, "... why is your body so cold."

"..." Gu Chuchen didn't answer, shook his head and smiled, and asked, "Xie Ning, are the azaleas in Lanhuaao blooming?"

Xie Ning was taken aback for a while before replying: "...Yes, it's open."

Gu Chuchen lay in Xie Ning's arms, and said softly, "Xie Ning, I want to see the azaleas."

Xie Ning nodded and said, "Okay, but before that, I have to change into clean clothes for you."

Xie Ning found an inn in Pingcheng, and gave Gu Chuchen a bath carefully. This time, Gu Chuchen didn't resist at all, or he didn't have the strength to resist at all.

Afterwards, Xie Ning took Gu Chuchen to the Rhododendron Sea beyond Lanhuaao, "Here we are, Achen."

Gu Chuchen took a deep breath, smiling all over his face, "It smells so good!"

"..." Xie Ning didn't speak.

Gu Chuchen turned to look at Xie Ning, and asked, "Xie Ning, why don't you speak?"

"..." After a long while, Xie Ning replied, "Mmm, it's very fragrant."

Gu Chuchen tilted his head and leaned on Xie Ning's shoulder, and said coquettishly, "Well... I still want to watch the lantern festival."

Xie Ning reached out and tapped the tip of Gu Chuchen's nose lightly, and said softly, "Okay, let's go now."

Now is not the season for the lantern festival, but Xie Ning managed all the shops in the small town at the foot of the mountain, and only held an unprecedented but untimely lantern festival for Gu Chuchen alone.

The noise is endless, as if a lantern festival is really being held here.

"Guess the lantern riddles, guess the lantern riddles, and the winner will win a prize."

"Lantern, beautiful lantern."

On the street, the crowd was packed with crowds. A little boy in the corner accidentally bumped into Gu Chuchen. When Gu Chuchen was hit by him, he felt his feet unsteady and almost fell. When he finally stood still, After being stunned for a moment, he suddenly laughed, "It's so lively."

Xie Ning took Gu Chuchen's hand, his tone was as gentle as water, "Well, it's really lively."

Xie Ning looked at Gu Chuchen who was smiling, and asked, "Ah Chen, are you going to guess the lantern riddles?"

Gu Chuchen nodded and said, "Yes."

When guessing the lantern riddles, Gu Chuchen didn't say a word the whole time, but Xie Ning guessed one weird riddle after another, just like Gu Lichen back then, came out on top and won a Jade Rabbit lantern.

Gu Chuchen touched the lantern in his hand, and said with a smile, "It's the Jade Rabbit Lantern."

"Well, I'll see you off." Xie Ning stared at Gu Chuchen obsessively, unwilling to look away for a moment.

Suddenly, there was a deafening roar in the town, and after a while, Gu Chuchen said, "Are there fireworks?"

Xie Ning tightened Gu Chuchen's hand, and said, "...well, the fireworks are set off."

Gu Chuchen smiled nicely at Xie Ning, under the fireworks, it seemed as if it would disappear at any moment, "Is it beautiful?"

Xie Ning nodded and said, "Beautiful, so beautiful that I can't take my eyes off."

Although Gu Chuchen couldn't see it, he could feel Xie Ning's burning gaze, his face blushed, and he lowered his head, "...You, you are clearly looking at me."

Xie Ning tightened his hands and put his mouth next to Gu Chuchen's ear, "Ah Chen, are you..."

Gu Chuchen covered his stomach, frowned, and rushed, "Suddenly feel very hungry."

Xie Ning's eyelids twitched, and he asked, "What do you want to eat?"

"Steamed cheese!" Gu Chuchen almost didn't think about it.

Xie Ning said softly, "Okay."

Gu Chuchen looked at Xie Ning, smiled at Yanyan, "I want you to cook it for me."

"Okay." It seemed that no matter what Gu Chuchen said at this moment, Xie Ning would agree unconditionally.

Xie Ning booked a restaurant, and was busy in the back kitchen for a long time. Gu Chuchen sat quietly beside him and waited, "Xie Ning, are you alright?"

Xie Ning smiled and said, "It will be ready soon, little glutton."

"This handsome guest officer, your Xie's steamed cheese." Xie Ning brought a bowl of steaming hot cheese to Gu Chuchen.

Without even thinking about it, Gu Chuchen scooped up a spoonful and took a big bite, "...it's delicious."

"..." Xie Ning was taken aback, and tears welled up in his eyes.

Seeing that there was no sound for a long time, Gu Chuchen called out, "Xie Ning?"

Xie Ning took a deep breath and asked, "Ah Chen, what else do you want to do?"

Gu Chuchen put down the porcelain spoon, and said softly, "Xie Ning, let's live in seclusion and stop worrying about world affairs, just the two of us."

"Okay." Now, apart from being with Gu Chuchen, Xie Ning no longer wants to care about anything.

Lanhuaao, the two were huddling on a small bamboo bed, talking and laughing, Xie Ning told an extremely clichéd joke, Gu Chuchen giggled for a long time.

Gu Chuchen compared his waist and said with a smile: "Do you still remember, you were only this big at that time, small and very cute."

Xie Ning also smiled and asked, "Really?"

Gu Chuchen nodded slowly, and said, "Yes."

After a while, Gu Chuchen closed his eyes weakly, "Xiao Zai Zai, I seem to be really sleepy."

Xie Ning patted Gu Chuchen's back, like coaxing a child to sleep, "If you're sleepy, go to sleep."

Gu Chuchen closed his eyes and smiled, "Well, remember to wake me up tomorrow."

"Well, I will, go to sleep." Xie Ning tucked the corner of the quilt for Gu Chuchen.

Gu Chuchen murmured, "Xiao Zai Zai."

Xie Ning replied, "I'm here."

Gu Chuchen called again, "Zhanning."

Xie Ning replied, "I'm here."

Again, "Xie Ning..."

"……I am here."

"..."

"..."

After that, Gu Chuchen stopped whispering, and Xie Ning stayed by Gu Chuchen's side all night, not daring to close his eyes for a moment.

"Ah Chen, get up." Xie Ning gently pushed Gu Chuchen.

"Wake up, slob." Xie Ning lifted the quilt pretending to be angry, "Gu Chuchen, wake up..."

The body touched by his hands was already stiff and cold, like a piece of iron that fell into a icy lake. Xie Ning pulled the corners of his mouth and seemed to be smiling wryly, but the tears had already rushed out like a flood that burst a bank, "...Liar, liar, Gu Chuchen, you lied to me, you swore, you swore that you would never leave me again, you swore..."

The people on the ground would never respond again, Xie Ning still said to himself, "Gu Chuchen, do you really think I'm a fool, didn't you notice? You can’t even hear me when I don’t use my inner strength. In fact, you have already lost your five senses and your six senses, right? In fact, you have long planned to sacrifice one person to save thousands of people, right? With such a heart for the common people and helping the world, why is he so cruel to me..."

Xie Ning is not stupid, Gu Chuchen's various actions have already foreshadowed this kind of ending. The night he was awake, he didn't just stay by Gu Chuchen's side. Xie Ning spent a night, a whole night, Exhausting his whole body's cultivation, he couldn't save Gu Chuchen, because Gu Chuchen's body had already been torn apart from the inside, and even his soul was full of cracks. Xie Ning's repair speed couldn't match the speed of collapse.

Xie Ning is a demon, not a god, let alone God, he can't turn his hand into clouds and his hands into rain, and he can't just let one person live if he wants to.

That night, Xie Ning lost his world, and it was also this night that the young man's gray hair turned gray every inch of his head.

From spring to autumn, from cold to summer, for countless days and nights, Xie Ning stayed at Lanhuaao without leaving for half a step. This time was actually much longer than the last time.

"Master, it's snowing!" In the midst of the cold winter, a little boy carved in pink and jade was holding a ball of snow in his hand.

A fairy with white hair and childlike face stood outside the bamboo building with his hands behind his back, watching quietly, "Be careful, don't fall."

The little boy ran over, "Master, I'm not a three-year-old anymore, I won't fall down."

As soon as the words fell to the ground, the little boy fell straight into the thick snow, his face turned pale, the immortal smiled suddenly, and asked, "Who said just now that he wouldn't fall?"

"Hey..." The little boy laughed so childishly.

years passed