"She appeared on the street corner on that rainy night and rescued me. She took me back to her residence to treat my injuries. She has strong spiritual power and seems to know a lot of things. She found all the serious injuries left in the battle with Heaven. I can deal with it as time goes by, and my injuries gradually begin to heal."
"During the period of treatment and recuperation, I lived with her. At that time, I often felt strange that she seemed to know many of my preferences. We were like people who had known each other for many years."
When he talked about "her", Tang Yuanyuan found that the expression on his face softened involuntarily. The girl's intuition told Tang Yuanyuan that "she" must mean more than a simple lifesaver to Yi Huai. As she had guessed before, Yi Huai cared about that girl very much.
"You really... like her."
Tang Yuanyuan sighed softly, but his tone contained a hint of loss and envy that he was not aware of.
The story Yi Huai told was not touching, but it touched Tang Yuanyuan's heart inexplicably. In a daze, she seemed to be able to see him wandering alone in the rain with wounds all over his body and nowhere to go.
Tang Yuanyuan was a little envious. He envied that he could meet the person who saved him in such a desperate situation. He also envied the person who made him want to find and protect him so much. He couldn't hide it from his heart just by mentioning it. A person who exudes gentleness.
Although she has not experienced the deepest despair and helplessness like Yi Huai, she can somewhat understand the feeling of having no place to belong and no support.
Tang Yuanyuan has yin and yang eyes. This special feature destined her to be unsociable by nature. She has no friends that she can fully rely on and trust because no one can touch the same world as her. When she was young, she still had the protection of her grandmother. , but after her grandmother disappeared, she had to face everything about that different world by herself.
She has felt countless times in the past that she is the one abandoned by the world. Even if she survives the danger, she never knows when she will fall into the darkness again. No one can save her, even No one wants to believe her.
It was precisely because she knew the feeling of suddenly looking back and feeling that she had no home and no support that she envied Yi Huai even more for meeting that girl, and envied that girl for being cared for like this by Yi Huai.
The more she was touched, the more she felt the need to find the girl.
After all, she also said that she was helping him in the hope that he would not give up the opportunity to find the one he loved.
Yi Huai seemed to have heard what she said, so he stopped talking. After a brief silence, he glanced at her, but did not directly answer Tang Yuanyuan's words. He just responded softly: "She is very important to me..."
Then he went on to say:
"Actually, when I was first rescued by her, I told her that I didn't want to live anymore. I said that there was no point even if I continued to live, it would be better to die like this. I tried to stop her and told her not to It was a waste of time on me, but she did not agree to my seeking death."
"At that time, she said that if you can't find the meaning now, you need to live even more, and live until you find the meaning of your life."
"She said that maybe someone is waiting to meet me in the future, and one day I can also encounter my own redemption and meaning."
When he said this, his tone was very soft, as if he was recalling some feeling.
"At that time, I just thought she was comforting me. How could someone like me be waiting to meet me? Although I didn't believe her words, I really felt at peace because of those words and no longer blindly Seeking death. Maybe I am unwilling to do so and want to find some meaning of my existence in this world before disappearing."
"I have lived with her for about half a year. In the past six months, she has helped me understand many things in the world from her perspective. This is also the first time I have discovered that humans are such interesting creatures. Human beings are born with souls, but they can develop themselves There are very few people with spiritual powers, but humans have invented many interesting artifacts suitable for their use."
"She didn't seem to know how to use the things she had at that time. I often asked her if she was from here, why didn't she know how to use things in this world? She would mutter, "That's not true," and then start talking about herself again. With some tinkering, sometimes it seems like you can come up with something very similar to this era..."
His last words caught Tang Yuanyuan's attention, and she felt strange in her heart, but she didn't ask any more about it, and instead focused on other issues.
"What happened next? Why did she leave you?" Tang Yuanyuan asked, but suddenly realized that Yi Huai's face seemed to darken for a moment.
"Back then...there was a mark of fall among the wounds left by the heaven on my body...It was a spiritual punishment method used by the heaven to punish sinners. After that mark was engraved, every six months of the sentence would be extremely painful at first. The fourth sentence will be a complete shock, which means I only have two years left to live that year.”
"Originally, I didn't want to tell her. I just wanted to cherish my time as long as I could live...but for some reason she seemed to be aware of it, and then went to find a solution on her own."
"Later, she learned from Taishang Laojun that spiritual power to pull the soul can break the fallen mark, and then she used two-thirds of her spiritual power to pull the soul for me... her vitality was severely damaged..."
Tang Yuanyuan's heart moved when he heard this, thinking that the girl must also care about him, otherwise she wouldn't do this for him.
"After her vitality was seriously injured, she didn't have time to nurse herself back to health. It was as if there was something urgent... She said she wanted to go back to her original place of residence. I asked her where she was, but she never told me. Later, I accompanied her there. After a trip to the underworld, just like when you entered the Book of Life and Death Detention Center not long ago, she said she was looking for something..."
"But later in the underworld...she was detained by the people in heaven, and I never saw her again. Because of the plea given to me by Taishang Laojun, I was able to be the person who made the vow...to redeem her sins together, and then I was looking for her the whole time I came down, but there was no news or hope until I met you..."
He looked up at Tang Yuanyuan, with a hint of hope in his eyes.
Tang Yuanyuan's heart sank. She wasn't sure whether she could respond to his expectations. She thought to herself, so is finding her the goal and meaning of his life now?
She took a deep breath, suddenly raised her head, looked into Yi Huai's eyes, and said:
"I can't guarantee that our search will be fruitful. I also have a reason to want to find 'her'. No matter what, I will try my best to help you. I believe we will definitely find traces of 'her'."
Yi Huai looked at her pair of clean and beautiful heterochromatic eyes and his heart moved, and he couldn't help but whisper:
"Actually, you don't have to be too stressed... After all, this is mainly my business. Even if I can't find 'her', it won't matter... After all, I actually don't know if she is really still in this world. . Wanting to find her is actually just a thought of mine. I just feel that if I don’t put my obsession on this matter, I will feel that my life is meaningless... I just want to have a chance... Even if Just thank her."
"It's enough to have such thoughts." Tang Yuanyuan chuckled, "It's a good thing to want to do something, and it's common sense to want to repay her. We are now a community of destiny in a sense, and there is no need to worry about everything. Take it upon yourself."
She paused for a while, then suddenly stretched out a hand and placed it on the back of his hand. She held his hand with a slight force on her fingertips.
"Yi Huai." She called his name softly, as if she wanted to use this method to bring some comfort to him who was feeling a little depressed after telling the story.
"Although I can't completely help you and find the meaning of your survival for you, from the moment I reached out to you in the underworld, I have decided to be involved in your future."
"I hope you can trust me... From now on, you can regard me as a place or harbor where you can come back in the world."
"As long as I'm still here, you will always have a home, and you won't have to wander aimlessly like you did so many years ago."
Tang Yuanyuan's words came from the heart, and the past told by Yi Huai moved her. She felt that she and Yi Huai were people who could come into contact with the same world. In this way, they might be able to help each other, stay together and become a family.
She wanted to help him, and that was a commitment she could do now.
Yi Huai's eyes flashed with surprise as he listened to her words, but soon the surprise was replaced by countless complex emotions. He seemed to have forgotten to respond to her words for a moment, and even his breathing became cautious for a moment. The heart was beating wildly.
Tang Yuanyuan failed to understand his overly complicated emotional changes. Seeing that Yi Huai didn't respond for a long time, she turned her head secretly, worried that she had spoken too suddenly. When she thought about it, she felt that her speech was indeed a bit scary. At first glance, the other party may think that she has evil intentions, but she has already said her words, and it seems useless to feel embarrassed at this time.
The air between the two seemed to be silent for a long time. Finally, when Tang Yuanyuan couldn't stand the embarrassment anymore and wanted to quietly take back the hand on Yi Huai's hand, Yi Huai suddenly moved and turned his hand to hold it. Her hand that wanted to take back.
Tang Yuanyuan was slightly startled by this sudden turn of events. She turned around again to peek at Yi Huai's reaction, but she only saw the latter lowering his head slightly and seemed to be looking at her hands. A familiar warmth came from her hands. The heat and the gentle caressing of her fingertips, and then she heard Yi Huai respond with a slight "hmm" in a slightly hoarse voice.
Tang Yuanyuan thought to herself that your reflex arc is too long, and finally breathed a sigh of relief. At least she didn't have to worry about being embarrassed by being rejected.
She looked at Yi Huai, who seemed to be focusing entirely on her hand at the moment, and who was holding her hand tightly, feeling a little helpless. She turned her eyes and thought of another thing, so she asked again cautiously:
"Then...last question...what is her...name?"
"Yuanyuan." Yi Huai still didn't raise his head, just held her hand tightly and responded softly.
"Her name is Yuan Yuan."
