Sorry, I am still number one in the world [Comprehensive]

When she was nine or ten years old, Yan Liushuang liked to come to Feixian Island very much during Chinese New Year.

Compared with the island where the Yan family lived in seclusion, Baiyun City at the end of the New Year is always extremely lively. There will be many fleet merchants who are too late to return to the Central Plains to reunite with their families to gather in the city, exchange the goods they got from the sea trip, and then go to sea together. Drink and chat in the restaurants in the city, chatting about all kinds of strange things about the sea.

At that time, the Lord of Baiyun City was still her master.

The master is not in good health, but his temperament is not as cold as her father's.

He likes the ceremonial excitement, especially on New Year's Eve.

After Yan Liushuang became his apprentice in name, every Chinese New Year, after having dinner at home, he would go to the market in Baiyun City with Yan Feng to hang out. When the son's clock rang, he climbed up the tower together with Ye's father and son.

Standing on a high place and looking down at the lights in the city is a very special feeling, and Yan Liushuang likes it very much.

Later, Yanfeng went north to travel in the Central Plains, and when her master passed away, only she and Ye Gucheng were left to climb the tower.

In the first year, Yan Liushuang was worried that he would be hurt by the scene, so she specially bought a lot of miscellaneous snacks and stuffed them into his hands before going upstairs.

Ye Gucheng couldn't beat her, so he could only accept them one by one.

So that night, they almost spent between "this is delicious" and "this is not delicious".

The second year was a bit better, after standing on the tower, he was still in the mood to ask her for advice on his newly practiced sword moves.

Although Yan Liushuang couldn't laugh or cry, she complied.

She remembered that it was an unfinished move, but it was very interesting, especially beautiful when he did it.

Then she asked him, "What's the name of this move?"

Ye Gucheng said that he has not yet chosen a name.

After pausing for a moment, he said again: "Come and get it."

She tilted her head and recalled his actions just now, otherwise she would be called Tianwai Feixian.

"Flying fairy outside the sky?"

"Your sword is originally light and light, and that move just now is even more so." She said, "It's too dusty, isn't it a fairy?"

Looking back now, Yan Liushuang can't quite remember Ye Gucheng's expression at that time.

But the sense of amazement brought to her by that move is still very clear.

The third year is now.

In the past six months, she stayed at home and never came here once.

It rained heavily in the South China Sea last night, she couldn't sleep because of tossing and turning, so she just went to the yard to practice the knife, but when she finished the practice, she bumped into Yanfeng who came back from Feixian Island.

Yan Feng was very angry when he saw her standing in the porch wearing only unlined clothes, "Aren't you afraid of catching a cold?"

She said no, and it wasn't raining, and she wasn't afraid of the cold.

On the other hand, Yan Feng, whose clothes are all wet, is still dripping with water, looking quite embarrassed.

Although he didn't say anything, Yan Liushuang still guessed where he went.

After the siblings chatted for a few words, she couldn't help asking him, "Is Ah Cheng okay?"

Yan Feng was stunned for a moment, and then said directly: "If you really want to know if he is good, you might as well go and see him directly, anyway, I don't think he is very good."

"Although I don't know what you think, Ah Shuang, there is really no such reason in the world." Yan Feng said, "You can dislike him, but you can't force him to dislike you. It's fine to hate him, but you obviously care about him so much."

"...I just don't want him to be sad," she said. "He likes me, and he will be sad sooner or later."

"Then do you think he is not sad now?" Yan Feng didn't understand.

She kept thinking about this sentence in the second half of the night, and then she had to admit that what Yan Feng said made sense.

When she didn't want Ye Gucheng to be sad because she liked her, she had already made him sad.

The same is sad, what is the difference?

It shouldn't be like this, she thought.

But no matter what she thought, she couldn't think of a way to make Ye Gucheng not sad.

She was so annoyed that she didn't taste much of that New Year's Eve meal.

Later, it was Yanfeng who ran over to her again and said that since you miss him so much, you should go and see her.

At that time Gong Jiu was sitting next to her, when she heard what Yan Feng said, she realized it instantly and asked, "Is Master going to Baiyun City?"

Yan Liushuang was taken aback when he heard these words, while Yan Feng smiled.

After laughing, he said: "Look, Ah Shuang, even Xiao Jiu can immediately realize who you are thinking about, so you should go and have a look."

Gong Jiu opened her mouth, as if she wanted to say something more, but before she could speak, she took a deep breath as if she had made some important decision, then stood up with a bang and walked out.

"Okay, I'll go and have a look," she said.

"I'll go too!" Gong Jiu jumped up and wanted to keep up.

"Forget it." Yan Feng grabbed him by the back collar and pulled him back, "Don't make trouble for the children."

Yan Liushuang also turned her head when she heard the movement: "It's getting late, Xiao Jiu, you should go to bed earlier."

Gong Jiu was very unhappy, pouted and turned her head away.

He fully thought that this master who was a bit like his mother and was very kind to him would coax him, but she just patted his head helplessly, and then left.

Seeing her leaving back, Gong Jiu couldn't help snorting.

Yan Feng, who was still pulling him, laughed again when he heard it, he rubbed the boy's head like Yan Liushuang usually did, and then said slowly: "Your master is going to meet an important person, listen Her, go to rest earlier."

Gong Jiu lowered her eyes, and after a while, she suddenly asked: "Will Master marry Baiyun City Lord?"

Yan Feng laughed loudly: "You are so young, but you know a lot."

"Yes?" He still wanted to know the answer.

"It should be." Yan Feng said, "They already have a marriage contract."

……

The wind was strong at night, and it happened to be going against the wind to go to Feixian Island. When Yan Liushuang got on the boat, he looked up at the moon, and guessed that he would not be able to arrive before midnight like in previous years.

So after getting off the boat, she went directly to the City Lord's Mansion.

She didn't expect that the city lord's mansion was so deserted.

Everyone seemed to have gone to bed early, except for the two lanterns at the door, there were no other lights.

But this place is too familiar to her, even if there is no light, she can still recognize where Ye Gucheng lives.

It's past time, she thinks he should be asleep.

So when she reached the gate of his courtyard, she stopped.

It's not too late to say anything tomorrow, not to mention that she came here on impulse, but she still didn't think about what to say when she saw him.

Finally, she skimmed to the top of the tree and looked up at the moon for half the night.

When it was almost dawn, she felt a little sleepy and yawned twice unconsciously.

But counting the time, it was almost time for Ye Gucheng to get up, so she endured sleepiness and looked at the quiet yard.

But what she didn't expect was that there was no movement in that yard, and the real movement came from the other side.

When she heard the familiar footsteps, she turned her head and saw a white figure approaching slowly from the road she had walked on when she found it.

The night was fading little by little, and when the white-clothed, crow-haired boy walked under the tree at the gate of the courtyard, it was just dawn.

Yan Liushuang couldn't see his expression at the moment, but with just one outline, she understood why Yan Feng said he didn't look very good.

Afterwards, he pushed open the courtyard door and strode in. When he reached the porch, he paused.

That pause made her think that he had discovered her. For some reason, she instinctively held back her breath.

But after a while, she knew that he didn't notice her outside, he just bent down and helped the cat food bowl he placed on the porch.

After that, he went into the house and brought the cats out. One person and one cat sat on the steps of the porch, one talking and the other meowing.

Ye Gucheng said, "I don't want to support you anymore."

The cat meowed, as if it understood, and stretched out its paw to scratch him, but unfortunately he was easily restrained.

After restraining him, he was silent for a while, and then said: "I will think of her when I see you."

"Otherwise you can teach me."

……

"I remember you didn't like her very much."

……

"How about you teach me how not to like her, and I will continue to support you?"

The cat may have never heard so many words from its owner at one time. It didn't respond for a while, and finally broke free from his grasp and ran directly out of the yard.

The courtyard door was closed, so it jumped directly onto the fence.

Ye Gucheng didn't intend to chase after him, but he still looked up.

When he saw the hem of the clothes on the tree, he thought he had a hallucination because of the sea breeze blowing all night.

Then he heard her calling him Ah Cheng.

This sound is much clearer than in the dream, and it is definitely not something that hallucinations can have.

He almost froze: "You—when did you come?"

To be honest, it was the first time for Yan Liushuang to see such a look of panic and embarrassment on his face.

In order to avoid further embarrassment for him, she didn't answer the question at all, and directly swooped down from the top of the tree and landed in front of him.

When she was looking at the moon, she thought about many possible opening words, but now that she really saw it, she couldn't use another sentence, all she could do was sigh.

"Silly Ah Cheng..." she said.

"..."

"Don't force yourself if you can't do it." She didn't look at him when she was talking, as if she could speak more smoothly that way, "I thought you were learning knives before, didn't you just insist on not learning?"

The new year's sun slowly rises and sheds morning light.

She smelled the wet breath on his clothes, blinked before continuing: "I know this is different to you, but to me, it's just trying to force you with my ideas, which is actually quite boring .”

"That day my brother asked me what I was thinking, and I said I don't want you to be sad in the future.

"I thought he would ask me why you like me, and he would be sad in the future, but what he asked after hearing this was, don't you feel sad now? I always call him stupid, but in the end he cut me off with one word. Asked.

"Yes, you are already sad. I can't think of a way to make you not sad at all. Let alone the future, at least for now, let's do as you please."

Speaking of this, she has already made preparations to confess to Ye Gucheng that she will leave this world in the future.

But he didn't ask her why in the future as she imagined.

He just hummed, and then said softly, "I have a way."

She opened her eyes wide, trying to say that you didn't understand me.

And he finally turned his head, looked directly at her and said softly, "It's good that you like me a little bit."

……

"Really, a little bit is fine."

When Yan Liushuang heard these two words, she felt that a place in her heart had been stabbed severely.

It wasn't pain, but a very astringent feeling quickly spread to all limbs, making her unable to react.

She didn't know exactly what she was thinking, but before she knew it she had spoken.

She said that you just wanted to learn from your cat why you don't like me.

"Yeah." He nodded and admitted, "But it didn't teach me, you want me to continue to like you."

"I'm not—" I didn't mean that, I just said that you don't have to force yourself.

"A Shuang." He interrupted her, "You came to me to give me a chance to make progress."

"..."

"You still let me do as I please." His eyes darkened when he said this, and his voice became very low when he spoke again, "This will make me want to push forward even more."

"..."

"Like this."

The author has something to say: Shuangshuang: You really push your limits

Ah Cheng: Because I found that you care about me more than I thought