Everything in the dream emerged and faded away like a revolving lantern. Finally, Lu Chun learned the snake demon's name - Mo Liu.
Strangely enough, although she was clearly just a bystander, why did she feel the sorrow and pain so vividly?
Lu Chun suddenly woke up from the dream and couldn't come back to her senses for a long time. She absent - mindedly raised her hand to touch her cold cheek and felt a hand full of tears...
Was the woman in the dream her past self?
A sharp pain suddenly shot through Lu Chun's heart. In an instant, she understood everything.
No wonder she had liked snakes since childhood, and Mo Liu's loyalty to her finally made sense... Although the physical body had perished, the habits related to love might still remain in the soul.
However, Lu Chun still had many doubts. Since Mo Liu had come to find her after her reincarnation, why did it only appear until she got married in this life?
With all these doubts piling up in her heart, Lu Chun suddenly got up from the couch and searched around the tea - house, but she never found that familiar figure.
Lu Chun's heart felt empty again. After a long silence, she decided to calm down for a while. After all, she had just ended a failed relationship, and it was high time she cheered up and stopped being troubled by love.
So, on an ordinary afternoon, Lu Chun took a recipe of tea snacks and went to visit the county mistress. The two hit it off immediately, and she successfully got the county mistress's financial support to open a tea - snack shop next to her own tea - house.
When the tea - snack shop first opened, the business was not booming. Only the old customers of the tea - house came to support. But Lu Chun's cooking skills were really good. Just like good wine can't be hidden even in a deep alley, gradually, the business began to pick up!
Lu Chun was busy and happy, and she gradually got out of the shadow brought by Wang Jingxuan. Only occasionally, in the dead of night, she would involuntarily think of that... demon with clear eyes.
Did Mo Liu really leave after being hurt by her almost farewell words that day?
It made sense. Anyone who had persevered for a hundred years would feel tired...
But soon, Lu Chun noticed some clues!
For example, when she was bent over the desk developing a new tea recipe and fell asleep unconsciously, she would always find herself lying safely on the couch the next morning, covered tightly with a brocade quilt, and there was a faint, refreshing smell like that of a bamboo forest after rain lingering on the pillow.
Another example was that those tea ridges in the tea garden that would take her half a day to sort out were always neatly arranged when she went back into the house to get a tool and then came out.
Also, her room was always spotless, and there would often be some small items on her desk - either a rare flower seed she had casually mentioned looking for the other day, or a small piece of jewelry she thought was interesting but didn't buy.
They always appeared silently, as if they were supposed to be there.
Lu Chun silently observed all these and her heart was in a complicated state. She looked at the swaying bamboo shadows outside the window and finally let out a soft sigh.
Mo Liu's way of repaying the kindness was a bit too... clumsy.
She didn't expose it and just waited for Mo Liu to show up on its own.
But unexpectedly, this snake really had patience. It continued to help Lu Chun with things every day but never showed up on its own initiative.
Finally, one day, seeing the rouge and powder that appeared on the table, Lu Chun was both angry and amused. She could only make a clear wish:
"I hope to see Mo Liu."
The room was silent for a moment. You could hear a pin drop.
Frowning, Lu Chun simply spoke more directly, "If you don't come out now, stop being so kind to me. You're making me feel so confused."
Finally, after I don't know how long, a very soft sigh came from the void. It was faint but clearly landed on Lu Chun's heart.
She held her breath and stared straight ahead - a wisp of mist emerged out of thin air, like ink dropping into clear water, slowly spreading out, gradually outlining a slender human - like outline.
The figure changed from virtual to real, from faint to thick, and finally solidified completely.
After being apart for several days, Mo Liu suddenly and truly stood in front of her. Its black hair cascaded like a waterfall, and its clothes fluttered slightly. Those golden vertical pupils were quietly and deeply gazing at her, filled with the lingering affection that she just understood now.
All her forced calmness crumbled at this moment!
Lu Chun looked at it, and the empty place in her heart seemed to be suddenly filled with something. It was warm, with a bit of sourness, but overflowing with indescribable palpitations.
It turned out that she wasn't just getting used to its company.
She was missing it.
This belated realization, accompanied by the great joy of regaining what was lost, instantly engulfed her like a tide!
After Lu Chun regained her past - life memories, the human and the demon had tacitly avoided seeing each other.
While Lu Chun was calming down, Mo Liu was also waiting.
If Lu Chun accepted it, it would accompany her well. If Lu Chun wanted to start a new life, it would no longer bother her and would silently guard her.
Finally, Lu Chun asked the question in her heart:
"You came to find me back then, so why were you late?"
Mo Liu was silent for a long time and finally said with difficulty, "Actually, this year's tribulation... shouldn't have been mine."
It raised its eyes, and complex emotions surged in its golden vertical pupils.
"My real tribulation was nineteen years ago. At that time, I had already found out when and where you were reincarnated. I planned to watch you grow up... But the tribulation suddenly came, and I was seriously injured."
Its voice became even lower, "To heal the injury from the heavenly thunder, I had to return to the Spirit Mountain to cultivate in seclusion. Unexpectedly, time passed quickly in the mountains. When I recovered from my injury and came out, nearly twenty years had passed in the human world..."
Mo Liu stared at Lu Chun, and its eyes were full of pain and regret that could not be dissolved.
"When I came in a hurry to find you, you had... already married someone else."
Fate was so full of coincidences. Although the snake demon was in pain, it didn't disturb Lu Chun rashly. Instead, it observed her from the shadows. If Lu Chun had a happy life in this life, it would not bother her. But it gradually found that Wang Jingxuan was not a good match!
In that case, how could it tolerate Lu Chun spending the rest of her life with such a scumbag?
So, an idea gradually emerged in its mind.
It transformed into its original form, pretended to be injured, and lay on the only way for Lu Chun to go home. Sure enough, Lu Chun picked it up. Feeling Lu Chun's warm embrace, the snake demon actually felt a sense of returning to its roots... Demons had no home. It turned out that the place where Lu Chun was, was its home.
The snake demon was even more determined to stay by Lu Chun's side!
So, one day when Lu Chun was not around, the snake demon heard Wang Jingxuan's approaching footsteps. It transformed into a human form and deliberately exposed itself in front of Wang Jingxuan. Sure enough, seeing that it was physically weak, Wang Jingxuan had evil thoughts and forced it to fulfill his wishes. The snake demon agreed one by one!
Wang Jingxuan was really greedy, but the snake demon was not a kind - hearted one either. It used his greed to lead him into depravity step by step. Until Wang Jingxuan successively put forward many more wishes, the snake demon pretended not to comply. Then Wang Jingxuan started to beat and scold it, and the snake demon gladly accepted it.
What was physical pain?
During the long search for Lu Chun, it had already experienced the saddest thing in the world - the pain of separation.
The snake demon originally didn't want to tell Lu Chun about these things. It was Shen Cuiyu's words before leaving that woke it up.
If it still wanted to be with Lu Chun, it should let her know the truth.