But just after sighing, Tang Yuanyuan suddenly remembered another thing:
"By the way, where will you stay in the world next?"
"your home."
This time, Yi Huai responded without any hesitation, and his tone was taken as a matter of course.
"Huh?" Tang Yuanyuan was stunned as if he had heard a joke.
"Of course. Before you have the ability to maintain the soul contract, if we are separated for too long, it will cause wear and tear on the souls of both parties. You are the one who made the contract, and it is my duty to protect you, and you I have a lot of spiritual power in my body, and staying with you will help me recover my strength... Besides, in your current situation, you are just a huge source of spiritual power exposed under the eyes of countless ghosts and monsters. It is too much to stay alone. It’s dangerous…”
Yi Huai stopped talking and then said:
"If you die too early and are reincarnated again and again, it will be very difficult for your soul and longevity. I don't want to die early with you..."
When Tang Yuanyuan heard the last sentence, a sly smile appeared on his face, and he said to himself, "Thank you so much for cursing me like that."
At this moment, she deeply realized what it meant to find something to do for yourself.
"I see... I understand." She responded with a sigh, feeling that she really had to think twice before taking action against her impulsive behavior, while punching and kicking him in her heart, saying to her heart Sure enough, he still got on the pirate ship.
Yi Huai looked at her sighing look and raised the corners of his lips with a smile: "What, regret it? Regret saving me?"
As he spoke, he stretched out his hand and looked down at the golden ball of light floating in his palm. It was Tang Yuanyuan's spiritual soul knot. After a moment, he stopped and the ball disappeared from his hand.
"I have warned you not to save me."
He turned around and walked to the side railing of the rooftop, leaned on the side railing and looked at the tall buildings in the city in the distance, and said softly: "I'm not worthy."
"It's obviously me who got you involved in these things. You could have gotten away. You had no reason to save me, and you didn't need to swim in this muddy water."
"There are so many reasons to be entangled at the critical moment." Tang Yuanyuan scratched his hair, walked next to him, and leaned against the side railing. "You can think that I am acting on a whim. I just think that you will be locked up there again." It's not worth spending hundreds of years... Even if you give me a chance to choose again, I will still save you, so I won't regret it."
She turned her head and smiled at him: "And don't look down on yourself so much. Why are you not worthy? Everyone is qualified to realize their wishes, and you are the same."
"So of course you deserve it."
Yi Huai's eyes looking at her smiling face suddenly shrank slightly because of these words. For no reason, his heart beat faster because of Tang Yuanyuan's words. After a moment, he came back to his senses, laughed helplessly, and whispered softly:
"You are so stupid...Tang Yuanyuan."
Tang Yuanyuan pretended not to hear his whisper and was too lazy to argue with him. She was about to change the topic to taking him home to consider the three-part agreement, but before she could speak, she was suddenly interrupted by another voice. Thoughts.
"Tang Yuanyuan!"
Familiar people's calls and footsteps approached at the same time. Before Tang Yuanyuan could turn around, the person grabbed his arm, and then rang out some anxious words:
"Where have you been?"
Only then did she have time to turn around and meet the person's eyes.
The visitor was her childhood sweetheart, Gu Yuan. At this moment, his dark brown eyes revealed complex emotions that were rarely seen in normal times, full of worry and anxiety.
"I..." She brewed her emotions for a moment, but didn't know how to explain it. Tell him about her trip to the underworld?
Gu Yuan didn't believe in demons and ghosts. In the past, he was Tang Yuanyuan's only friend. Although he would listen to whatever she said, in the past, he almost always dismissed Tang Yuanyuan's words as fantasy or stories. It seemed useless to think about it, so she smiled:
"I didn't go anywhere..."
When she said this, she felt that she had not disappeared for a long time. Judging from the position of the sun, it might only have been a few hours.
But Gu Yuan frowned and whispered: "You have been missing for three days."
Seeing that she didn't want to answer in detail, he didn't ask any more questions. He just let go of her hand and breathed a sigh of relief: "As long as you're okay."
"Three days?" Tang Yuanyuan repeated to himself in surprise. He couldn't help but glance at Yi Huai who was standing behind him, but the latter ignored her gaze and said nothing as if nothing happened.
But it seems reasonable that the flow of time between the underworld and the human world is different... She said this in her mind, and her eyes fell on Huiyuan again, who said angrily and funnyly:
"Don't tell me you don't know what you've done in the past three days."
"No, no, no...it's a matter of my family. My grandfather temporarily took me to deal with some family matters..."
She laughed dryly and made a random excuse, but Gu Yuan was doubtful about this. He grabbed her arm and looked at her for a while, as if he wanted to say something.
But in the end, he didn't speak to expose her lie. He just sighed in his heart, thinking that maybe one day she would tell her.
But since Tang Yuanyuan doesn't want to speak now, he won't ask further questions.
So he let go of her hand and shook his head slightly, and then looked at her from top to bottom. After confirming that she was indeed unscathed, a big stone finally fell to the ground in his heart.
But there was a silence between the two of them. It seemed that neither of them knew how to speak. Tang Yuanyuan seemed to be unwilling to explain or talk about anything else, so Gu Yuan stayed where he was. After standing for a while, he turned around and faced the stairs where he came from, seeming slightly disappointed and planning to leave.
After all, Tang Yuanyuan has been found, and she doesn't seem to want to talk to him at the moment, so it is naturally the best choice to leave and let her stay here alone for a while.
Tang Yuanyuan looked at Gu Yuan's walking back and felt confused. She knew that the other person was worried about her, and she also knew that she couldn't deceive him with the excuses she made up, but she was also a little surprised that he didn't expose her.
"By the way, how did you know I was on the rooftop?"
She finally called out to Gu Yuan who was about to leave, wanting to change the subject to ease the embarrassment. Unexpectedly, the next second she heard an answer that left her speechless.
"Because you like to come here, and the last trace of you before disappearing was in school, so I come up every day to take a look. I know your habits."
Tang Yuanyuan was in a daze and didn't know how to answer his words.
Because in her memory, Gu Yuan always sat alone in the classroom and seldom moved around. She always saw him like that, so she would not call him out during breaks.
But I didn't expect that he knew everything. Even so, he knew her movements on campus, where she would go and what she liked to do. Even when he went to the school store, he would bring her favorite snacks.
When she thought about her childhood sweetheart who cared so much for her, but she quietly disappeared for a few days and made him worried, she would inevitably feel a little unreasonable and uneasy.
And the more she tried to change the subject or defend herself, the more serious this feeling became.
So she looked at Gu Yuan who was already some distance away from her and opened her mouth again, but in the end she had nothing to say.
And because he couldn't get a response from Tang Yuanyuan, Gu Yuan stopped briefly and looked at her for a while before continuing to walk back. Only when he stopped in front of the stairs of the rooftop again did he turn around and face Tang Yuan. Yuan said:
"If you don't want to go back to the classroom now, you can stay here for a while. I will pick you up later."
"Teacher, don't worry. I made up a reason for you to take three days off, so you can go home and rest later, but wait for me. I'll go tell the teacher and I'll take you back later. "
After Gu Yuan finished speaking, he saw Tang Yuanyuan nodded slightly, and then took a step and disappeared into the stairwell.
Tang Yuanyuan, who had been arranged clearly for no reason, stood on the spot, looking at the direction in which Gu Yuan's back disappeared. While he couldn't help but say that his childhood sweetheart seemed to be able to take care of others as always, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
"Speaking of which, he asked for leave...is that so accurate?"
Tang Yuanyuan would think of what Gu Yuan told him, and felt that he might not be the right person to suddenly appear in school, but did he really have to wait for him on the rooftop? Although there are few people here, it's not impossible to encounter people, and it seems that it will be the school's afternoon meal soon... At that time, some young campus lovers actually like to go to places like the rooftop where there are few people.
Tang Yuanyuan was thinking about whether there was a better place to hide in the school, or whether he could sneak out of the campus and find a milk tea shop to wait for him outside the school, when he suddenly heard another cold voice in his ears.
"It's not accurate to ask for leave, it's just right."
Yi Huai, who had been standing silently before, suddenly said that, and then Tang Yuanyuan remembered that there was someone behind him.
When Gu Yuan was there just now, he stood there without saying a word, as if he was a transparent person, which made Tang Yuanyuan almost forget that this person existed.
But maybe Yi Huai is indeed a transparent person to Gu Yuan? After all, it seems that he belongs to the type of ghost that ordinary humans cannot directly see unless he appears voluntarily...
She complained in her heart and then turned around, only to find that Yi Huai was not leaning on the railing like before, but standing right in front of her.
She squinted her eyes and realized that Yi Huai was so much taller than her when he was standing close to him. Her height only reached about the latter's chest, and she could only see his white shirt when she looked straight up. So she had to raise her head and ask:
"What do you mean?"
"In about three days, he will also ask for leave and look for you, right?"
Yi Huai leaned down to her ear and whispered:
"I remember he was your childhood sweetheart, right? It seems like he really likes you."
