He remained in a comatose state until early the next morning.
An Qian woke up slowly when she heard the sound of the door being pushed open.
As soon as she opened her eyes, she saw Asius who opened the door and came in. She was stunned for a moment, with uncontrollable doubts and surprise in her eyes: "Asius? Why...are you here? Where is this?"
Asius paused after hearing this, turned his head and looked at Anxi, doubts flashed in his eyes, but he didn't ask any more questions, and replied again according to his previous answer: "This is the Nas Water Pond, where the elves live. "
"Where do elves live?" Anxi looked surprised and looked around, "How did we come to your hometown? Aren't we on the way to defeat the Demon King...?"
"The Demon King is dead." Asius responded coldly, but his eyes never left the person in front of him who was tied up by him.
"died?"
Anxi repeated Asius's words and turned to look out the window.
The moment he saw the scenery outside the window, he suddenly froze and stared blankly for a moment. Then he covered his forehead in pain and screamed.
The pain in his voice didn't sound like he was faking it.
Asius immediately put down what he was holding, moved to Anxi, leaned over and held her shoulders and asked: "What's wrong?"
Anxi covered her head and did not respond. After a while, she said feebly: "I don't know... my memory seems... to be a little biased..."
Asius stared at Anxi in silence for a while, and then suddenly said: "Then what period is your memory in now?"
"I remember that I should still be traveling, but I didn't expect to wake up and find that I was in the place where your elves live. By the way, why are we here?"
Anxi looked up at Asius, with unconcealed doubts in her eyes.
"We have an engagement and the wedding will be held in two days."
Asius lied without blushing or heartbeat.
"engagement?"
Hearing this word, Anxi blushed, lowered her head shyly, and stammered: "I, I thought you didn't like me very much... I didn't expect you were already engaged..."
Asius didn't answer. He stared at Anxi's white lips and the cold sweat on her forehead, which proved that the pain Anxi just felt was real.
Maybe she wasn't lying, she really had memory confusion for unknown reasons.
It's not impossible, they haven't seen each other for two years, and two years is enough time for too many things to happen that he doesn't know about.
Asius stretched out his hand and lightly touched Anxi's cheek with his fingertips.
He hadn't seen Anxi look at him like this for a long time.
He used to hate her looking at him with such eyes, which made him feel impure desires and unauthorized fantasies about him.
Gazes filled with restless lust are what the elves who love tranquility hate the most.
But after he was completely away from such eyes, he thought about it again and again uncontrollably.
Maybe it was in the dead of night, or in the early morning when the daylight first appeared, or maybe it was just in a very ordinary conversation with others.
He began to remember.
Remembering what her eyes had truly brought him.
It is care that never crosses the line, understanding that consumes all your heart, and love that is raw and touching.
He thought he was wrong, he thought she approached him with purpose and greed, but the fact was that he first used malicious means to speculate on her.
But it was too late. When she met her again, her admiration for him had long since disappeared from her eyes. She was even as wary as facing a stranger, and she drew her sword towards him.
In the eyes of other races, the elves have no desires and hope, and take emotions very lightly.
But this is not the case, and even the elves themselves do not know it. No race is more paranoid than the elves.
If their suppressed feelings are released, it will be an endless abyss, and no matter how much they try to fill it, it still won't be enough.
However, when Asius realized her feelings, she had already put them behind her.
Regret and unwillingness are intertwined in the constant memories, and love becomes distorted.
The only choice he could make was to bind her to him, hoping and longing for her eyes to return to him again.
But he knew clearly that when he did this, their relationship would never recover and would only break down even more.
But now, there may be a new turning point.
Memory confusion.
As long as he finds a way to make Anxi's memory stay before everything happened, then she will treat him the same as before...
"Asius, are you... okay?"
Seeing that Asius didn't speak for a long time, just lowering his head and not knowing what he was thinking, Anxi, who was waiting aside, wanted to reach out and tug on the corner of his clothes to bring him back to his senses.
But when she moved her arm, there was a crisp sound.
Anxi turned her head and looked at her wrist, and couldn't help being surprised: "Why are there handcuffs on my wrist?"
Her cry of surprise called Asius's attention back.
Asius's eyes first fell on the handcuffs reflecting the silver light, and then he looked back at Anxi's face that was holding back her panic and confusion.
After thinking for a few seconds, Asius stepped forward, took out the key he carried with him, inserted it into the keyhole, turned it, and unlocked the handcuffs.
The handcuffs fell with a click.
Anxi tried to twist her stiff wrist and asked, "Why do I have this thing on my hand?"
"You ate poisonous mushrooms on the way here and had hallucinations. In order to prevent you from running around, I locked you here." Asius' lie came true.
Anxi nodded in approval, and then there was no movement, and the two of them looked at each other in silence.
Finally, Anxi asked again: "Since we are getting married and I will live here in the future, can you... show me around?"
Anxi asked cautiously, which was the way she often behaved in front of Asius back then.
"Okay." Asius agreed, but then changed the subject, "I will take you out when the sun sets. Now I still have some things to finish."
"Yeah." Anxi didn't bother and sat on the bed honestly.
Asius raised his hand and gently touched Anxi's face.
Anxi looked shy. She waved towards Asius and watched him leave.
But when Asius' figure completely disappeared from the door, Anxi's originally shy and coy appearance suddenly disappeared.
