After watching Yu Nian send Shi Tou away, Liu Cui left Wuxiang Village and went to City A alone to live.
She found a part - time job that could support herself and signed up for the adult college entrance examination.
Liu Cui's friends all advised her not to be so hard on herself. Such a heavy workload would take a toll on her body, but Liu Cui didn't think so.
Busyness was like a good medicine to her, enabling her to forget her sorrows for a while.
Liu Cui buried herself in her studies, focusing all her attention on learning and not allowing herself any time to wallow in grief.
Cui Cui's life became more and more regular: going to work, attending supplementary classes, doing homework... But every time she woke up from a dream in the middle of the night, her pillow was wet with tears.
Finally, the college entrance examination was over. Liu Cui achieved a satisfactory result and was admitted to her dream university as she wished.
The day before the freshmen's registration, Liu Cui sat alone on the rooftop and cried all night looking at the strange yet prosperous city below.
Liu Cui was crying for Shi Tou and also for herself.
The most heart - wrenching thing in the world was that two people who loved each other were separated by life and death.
She had realized her dream and was living a normal life, but what about Shi Tou? Where on earth was he now? She didn't have the ability to search the whole world, and even meeting Shi Tou once had become a luxury.
She had been able to hold on until this day completely because she trusted Yu Nian.
Yu Nian had said that she and Shi Tou would be reunited, so she had to live well and wait for Shi Tou to appear.
On the day of the freshmen's registration, the campus was bustling with noise.
Everyone else was accompanied by their parents, but Cui Cui was dragging a huge suitcase alone.
When she passed by the basketball court, she was suddenly bumped into. She lost her balance and was about to fall to the ground with the suitcase.
But the expected pain didn't come. It seemed that she had fallen on a human cushion...
A teasing voice with a smile came from beside her ear: "Aren't you going to get up yet?"
Liu Cui opened her eyes blankly. A familiar face appeared in front of her. This time, he had a physical body, with clear and real outlines.
The only difference was that the scar on Shi Tou's arm was gone. He was wearing a simple white T - shirt and jeans, and there was a badge of the School of Architecture on his chest.
Liu Cui blankly turned over Shi Tou's hand and saw the small bright red mole on his palm.
It was really Shi Tou!!
Tears slid down her cheeks quietly. Liu Cui was crying so hard that she could hardly catch her breath.
"Do you know how long three years is? Why did you come so late..."
Shi Tou felt extremely heart - broken. While wiping Liu Cui's tears, he coaxed her: "It's my fault. Don't cry. People who don't know might think I've bullied you."
After he went to the underworld, he didn't reincarnate immediately. Instead, he did a hundred good deeds and used his merits to exchange for an early meeting with Cui Cui.
Even so, Shi Tou's eyes were red. He reached out and tightly hugged Liu Cui in his arms, never to let go again.
After countless reincarnations, luckily, you're the one at the end.
...........
After separating from Yu Nian, the fox spirit returned to the deep mountains. Her brothers and sisters all thought she was dead. Now seeing her come back intact, they all gathered around and asked her what had happened.
The fox spirit proudly raised her head: "I met a top - level celestial master in the human world. She's not only highly skilled in magic but also very beautiful! We've made an agreement that when I achieve success in my cultivation, I'll go and be her family - protecting spirit!"
Hearing this, the fox spirit's brothers and sisters all wagged their tails and laughed, saying that she was bragging.
"If that celestial master is really as powerful as you said, why would she take a fancy to you?"
The fox spirit didn't care. She was too lazy to argue with these fox cubs who couldn't even transform into human form.
What was that saying? How could sparrows know the ambition of a swan! She was going to become the most powerful little fox spirit and make Yu Nian look at her with new respect!
Even so, cultivation couldn't be completed in a day or two. After only two years, the fox spirit's heart had already flown down the mountain.
Although her cultivation level wasn't very high yet, it was only natural for a spirit to go down the mountain to take a look at her future master's home, right?
So the fox spirit packed her things and secretly went down the mountain.
All the way, she was in high spirits, and her tail was almost sticking up to the sky!
On the first day, the fox spirit threw two little chicks into Qingxin Temple.
On the second day, the fox spirit threw a dead field mouse into Qingxin Temple.
On the third day, the fox spirit shook the water off her fur and happily threw a live fish into the yard...
In the dead of night, Ming Mingzhong knocked on Yu Nian's door with huge dark circles under his eyes.
Feng Chengyuan raised his eyebrows slightly looking at Ming Mingzhong's haggard appearance: "Can't you sleep?"
Ming Mingzhong's slightly swollen eyes were shining with a vigilant light in the dark night. He suddenly took out a basket of dead poultry and said solemnly: "Master, you may not believe it, but it seems that our temple has been targeted by an assassin..."
Yu Nian:?
On the fourth day, the fox spirit couldn't hunt anything else in the city. When passing by a fruit stand, she stole two durians.
This thing was novel. Maybe Yu Nian would like it.
The fox spirit was about to throw the durians into the yard when a cold laugh came from behind.
"What? Throwing things from a high place isn't enough. Now you're starting to throw shot - puts?"
The fox spirit was startled. The next second, she was picked up by the scruff of her neck.
Yu Nian stared at the little red fox for a while, a bit surprised, and reached out to touch its little ear.
"Is it you? Why did you come here?"
The face she had been longing for day and night was now magnified infinitely in front of her. The fox spirit's ears instantly turned red, and the words of longing on her lips changed: "... Didn't I say that you can't touch a fox's ears casually."
Looking at the fox spirit's awkward look and thinking about what the fox spirit had done in the past few days, Yu Nian instantly understood.
When an animal gives its hunting results to others, it is mostly expressing its affection.
"It's really hard for you to catch so many prey in winter."
Yu Nian carried the little fox spirit with one hand and picked up two big durians with the other, then walked slowly into the house.
The fragrance of tea and the warm mist surrounded the fox spirit, dispelling the winter chill.
The fox spirit curled up at Yu Nian's feet and fell asleep. She knew that from then on, she had a home.
Qingxin Temple was her home. In the long years to come, she would no longer be alone.
...........
If you asked the real - person who the most headache - inducing student in the Xuanmen was, he would definitely answer: It's none other than Xuan De!
At least before the age of ten, Xuan De was very playful. Among the talented ones and the hard - working ones, Xuan De definitely belonged to the former.
She was extremely intelligent. She could understand what the teacher taught after listening to it once and could make inferences. She could even master relevant knowledge through self - study.
Then... she would take a large group of junior brothers and sisters boating, fishing, and hunting for wild game. Their life was so carefree.
The teacher intended to punish her, but unfortunately, Xuan De always ranked first in the Xuanmen joint examinations. In the end, scolding often turned into praise.
At the foot of Cuishan Mountain, there was an old woman. Her husband, daughter, and son - in - law had all died early, leaving only her little granddaughter to depend on her.
Xuan De often went down the mountain. After coming and going several times, she got familiar with the old woman.
The old woman felt fond of little Xuan De because she was as cute as a carved jade doll. When making pastries for her little granddaughter, she would always leave a portion for Xuan De.
Until on the day of Xuan De's tenth birthday, she killed the monsters as usual and went down the mountain. When passing by the small courtyard at the foot of the mountain, she didn't see the familiar figure of the old woman. A thick black mist was lingering in the courtyard and didn't disperse for a long time.
She heard from the people at the foot of the mountain that a few days ago, the old woman's granddaughter had accidentally fallen into the river and died. The old woman's last pillar had collapsed, and she had hanged herself in hatred.
After Xuan De knew the truth, she locked herself in the room for three whole days. When she came out, she looked haggard.
She volunteered to go down the mountain to pacify the wronged souls of the old woman and her little granddaughter. From that day on, she became more and more quiet and steady.
Xuan De once showed the wispy mist in her hand to her master, full of confusion: "Why do people have obsessions?"
Xuan De's master just smiled: "The root of everything is love. Humans come into this world with nothing and leave with nothing. Love and attachment may be the last things we can leave for this world."
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The ghost bride had been running away whenever she saw the old beggar these days because every time she saw the old beggar, she couldn't help but associate him with Mr. Feng, which troubled the ghost bride a lot.
The old beggar also seemed to notice the ghost bride's estrangement. He became listless and was no longer as lively as before.
Until one day, Huang Shisiniang rummaged through her pile of treasures and found a youth - restoring mirror. The ghost bride excitedly took out the mirror to play with. By chance, she shone it on the old beggar in the corner, and the whole ghost stood still.
The next second, the ghost bride's scream almost lifted the roof. She tightly hugged the old beggar in the corner, with tears in her eyes: "Mr. Feng, I've been looking for you so hard! We promised to die for love together. Why didn't you come?"
The old beggar didn't remember his name or who he was, but as soon as he saw the ghost bride crying, his heart ached unbearably. In a daze, countless fragments of memories flashed into his mind.
"Ran Ran, actually I took the poison that day, but I didn't know at that time that I was a descendant of the Divine Doctor Valley. The poison had no effect on me at all. I'm sorry... I've let you down."
The old beggar still remembered the powerlessness of watching his beloved die in his arms that day. From that day on, the old beggar had been in a daze, crazy to find the ghost bride's soul, and had been wandering in the human world for a hundred years.
But the ghost bride shook her head. She tightly hugged the old beggar's trembling body, with a sob in her voice: "It doesn't matter. After all the twists and turns, we've finally met again. You're old, and I'm ugly. Let's not despise each other!"
The old beggar was stunned for a long time, then turned around and hugged the ghost bride back.
After all the twists and turns, it's never too late to reclaim the past.