"Then let's punish Lanlan... to be happy forever and have no troubles for a lifetime."
I just knew that Bai Qi definitely had no ill intentions. His sincerity towards me was evident to heaven and earth.
I immediately showed a sweet smile. At this moment, I had cast all my unhappiness aside.
"Let's use this camera to record this wonderful moment today," Bai Qi suggested.
"Sure. To be honest, I haven't really taken any photos these days."
Bai Qi took out the Polaroid camera, put one arm around my shoulder. I made a V sign beside my face. The camera shutter clicked, and the photo paper came out, but it was completely black. Nothing was captured.
"Is it broken?" Bai Qi said dejectedly as he waved the photo paper. It was indeed blank.
Seeing that he was a bit unhappy, I quickly took the photo paper and comforted him, telling him not to worry.
I checked my phone. It was already afternoon. I was still thinking about going to see Gu Yuan, so I was getting a bit anxious.
"It doesn't matter. We can do it another time. It's getting late. Let's go back," I said.
Bai Qi pursed his lips and replied, "Okay. Let's have dinner and then go home."
With that, Bai Qi took me to a seafood buffet restaurant. We had a wonderful meal.
I was so full that I didn't even want to move while sitting on the chair.
Bai Qi, however, showed no sign of being full. I couldn't help but sigh that boys were really different. He handed me his cup and said gently, "Lanlan, go and pour me a glass of water, okay?"
I wasn't really eager to do it, but when I saw his big blue eyes, my eyes were filled with affection. I just couldn't resist. One look at him and my heart melted.
I took his cup and turned around to go to the water bar to get the water.
But when I came back, I found that Bai Qi was no longer at the table.
This guy. He had just told me not to go get the water, and now he was gone.
I put the two glasses of water on the table and saw an envelope on it. It was written "For Lanlan".
Did Bai Qi write me a letter?
I curiously opened the envelope. There were a few short sentences on the white paper:
Lanlan, forgive me for leaving without saying goodbye. I know that if I stay any longer, my feelings for you will no longer be just friendship. So... sorry. In the near future, there will be someone you expect to protect you.
After reading the letter, I didn't take it seriously. I always thought Bai Qi was just playing a prank.
He must have gone home. I folded the letter paper and left the restaurant alone. I found a secluded place, took out three incense sticks, and started chanting the incantation for the assistant spirit.
Before long, Ji Xiang appeared in front of me, holding a chicken leg in his hand.
"Little disciple, stop calling. Bai Qi isn't here. What's up? He's having dinner," Ji Xiang said.
It was okay that Ji Xiang came. It was better than not summoning anyone. I said anxiously to Ji Xiang,
"Take me to see Gu Yuan. He's going through a tribulation today."
"He tried to kill you, and you still care about him?" Ji Xiang's mouth was full of chicken, and his words were a bit slurred and hard to understand.
"Hurry up..." I stuffed all the snacks I had bought into his hands.
This stuff really worked. As soon as he got it, he grabbed me and turned into a yellow puff of smoke, disappearing from the bustling pedestrian street.
Ji Xiang was a messenger spirit in my spiritual shrine. He was extremely fast. Before long, we appeared in the deep forest.
I was so familiar with all the layouts here. It was almost the same as it was a thousand years ago.
By now, the sky had darkened. The afterglow of the setting sun was a pale purple, shining on the cave entrance. It looked extremely desolate, as if I could see Gu Yuan's desperate loneliness over the past thousand years.
"Lord San doesn't seem to be here yet," Ji Xiang said while munching on his food.
Just as he finished speaking, Gu Yuan walked out of the cave. The sky that had still been illuminated by the setting sun suddenly changed. Dark clouds gathered quickly, and rolling thunderclouds hung low over the cave entrance.
Gu Yuan staggered, holding a wine bottle in his hand. He looked drunk.
He poured the whole bottle of wine into his stomach and then lay down on a huge rock in the mountains, falling asleep with a snore.
He was just used to this kind of punishment of the heavenly thunder. Otherwise, who else could fall asleep with the sky as their roof and the earth as their bed?
I felt heart - broken looking at his state.
"No. How can I relieve his pain?"
With that, I wanted to pull out the dagger that I had used to draw my heart - tip blood before and stab myself in the chest again.
But I knew I couldn't do this. A thousand years ago, Gu Yuan had made a contract with the Heavenly Emperor.
Ying Gou's soul was suppressed in his body. The six heavenly thunders every month were to suppress Ying Gou. If it weren't for me last time, Ying Gou probably wouldn't have awakened.
Just as I was still hesitating, a bolt of heavenly thunder fell from the sky. The lightning was so powerful that it almost split the mountain in half. It directly struck Gu Yuan's body.
The lightning exploded on his body. Streams of bloody wounds appeared, like blooming blood - red trees, bursting all over his body. Blood oozed out from the charred wounds. It was really terrifying.
This one bolt of thunder was already so powerful, and there were still eight more waiting for him.
I took out the dagger and said to Ji Xiang, "No. After he endures the six heavenly thunders to suppress Ying Gou, let him drink my heart - tip blood."
"Little disciple, are you crazy?" Ji Xiang reached out his hand to grab my dagger.
I raised my arm, and the dagger flew out of my hand. It was caught by a tall figure behind me.
I suddenly turned my head. It wasn't anyone else but Long Lin.
"Who gave you this dagger?" Long Lin's question was like asking something he already knew.
"Didn't you give it to me?" Although I was talking to Long Lin, my eyes were always on Gu Yuan.
"Look again. Is this really the dagger I gave you?" Long Lin asked again.
I rummaged through my waist bag repeatedly. Sure enough, at the very bottom, I found a dagger exactly the same as the one in Long Lin's hand.
Long Lin took the dagger and pointed the tip directly at my heart. I suddenly lowered my head, and the dagger disappeared from Long Lin's hand.
"The dagger I gave you can't hurt you at all. Who on earth gave you this one?"
I lowered my head and thought back, and then I realized the reason.
That day when I went to see Dan Zhu, at the door, Bai Xiangjun said that my dagger had dropped. This dagger must have been given to me by Bai Xiangjun, who was actually Xi Nu.
"It was Bai Xiangjun. It was her. She's Xi Nu, Gu Yuan's mother," I blurted out.
"What on earth does Xi Nu want to do?" I hated her so much.
Long Lin put the dagger in his hand and said to me, "Let's ask her clearly when we see her."
I was about to ask how to save Gu Yuan when another bolt of heavenly thunder fell from the sky. I watched helplessly as Gu Yuan endured the torture of the thunder, but I was powerless.
"Long Lin, do you have any way to help him?" I grabbed his arm and asked.
"Yes. That is to summon the spirit of Nuwa's snake scale. The snake scale can repel evil spirits. Only the snake scale can let Gu Yuan get out of this misery unscathed."
"How can I save him?" Looking at Gu Yuan's painful expression, I would rather endure all the heavenly thunders myself.
"For now, there's no solution."
Watching Gu Yuan endure the nine bolts of heavenly thunder helplessly, I felt so heart - broken. We weren't even a couple anymore, so why did my heart still hurt so much?