Side Story 7

A few years—how long is that? For a god with an infinite lifespan, it’s but a fleeting moment.

Yet, in these few years, Luo Wei has undergone a drastic transformation. As time passed, he watched with his own eyes as Wei’er changed from a naive and easily understood little girl into a sophisticated and enigmatic woman.

He had originally thought that time would dilute all his longing, but unexpectedly, on the day they reunited, his feelings were even stronger than before. If it weren’t for these few years, Yin Ze would not have known that time merely froze the water of longing, temporarily numbing himself. Once he met the old acquaintance again, it would melt into his bones.

“They say that those who care too much tend to be confused,” it’s truly a wise saying. Ever since she returned to Tian Shi City, he couldn’t tell if she still liked him. In his seven thousand years of life, no period had been more chaotic than this one. Despite this, he would still deceive himself, telling himself that everything was under control. Until she provoked him repeatedly, and their relationship was about to be clearly defined. Finally, she broke through his ice wall with her head and kissed him recklessly.

“The last time I did that, it wasn’t because I was dizzy, but because I really couldn’t hold back anymore. Master, I’m unfilial. From now on, please take good care of yourself. I won’t be back...”

The words that had been hidden in his heart for many years finally came out of his mouth.

After all, if something he was destined to lose would make him yearn for it, he would rather choose not to have it in the first place. But this time, he decided to change his approach. No matter what the outcome, even if it was only a short hundred years of joy, he wanted Luo Wei. He even had a bit of wishful thinking: perhaps he would get tired of her before the hundred years were up. After all, none of the women he had been with in the past, no matter how beautiful or passionate, could maintain his interest for a long time.

As it turned out, he had overestimated himself.

No matter how many times they embraced, kissed, touched, or intertwined their necks, this “newness” did not disappear. He had many things to do, but he went back to Su Zhao with her. Was it because she was too beautiful? After all, the adult Luo Wei was indeed more charming than any of the blooming flowers in Su Zhao. It must be because of that. She would eventually lose her beauty, and then things would definitely be better. While thinking this, he discovered that his interactions with her were completely different from those with other women. They had so many things in common that even without touching each other’s fingers, they could chat from morning to night. To him, she was indeed too simple, but she was so eager to learn and clever that whenever she didn’t understand something, he would explain it once, and she would be able to grasp the concept.

As time went by, the desire to spend the rest of his life with her also grew into branches, spreading deep into his heart, firmly rooted. When he realized that this thought was wrong, it was already too late to pull it out. However, these thoughts were hidden in the most secret corner of his heart. After they got together, he became much kinder to her, but she couldn’t see anything from his surface.

They became very intimate, and she began to act recklessly, and she loved to complain to him even more. She was so bold that it was time to teach her a lesson. He ignored her for two days. On the third night, she couldn’t bear it anymore and came to look at him resentfully, and she said some meaningless things. Honestly, if he told these women’s babbling to the old man, Yuan Shi Tianzun, he wouldn’t be able to explain it clearly. However, after she made a fuss, Yin Ze understood her meaning. She just thought he was too cold. They looked at each other for a moment, and finally she surrendered, resting her head on his chest, looking pitifully.

“Yin Ze, you don’t love me at all.” She hugged his arm, her lower lip covering her upper lip, and she kept trembling. What had he done to make her feel so wronged?

“Why?”

“I don’t know, you just don’t love me. You’re as cold as ice, and you only know how to read books from the moment you wake up in the morning, you never hug me.”

He remembered that one morning, he had just woken up and as usual, he took out his book to read. She had been sleeping soundly, but suddenly she woke up, tossing and turning in bed, hugging his arm, saying that when he got up, he should hug her. Afterwards, he did as she said, put one arm around her, and held the book with the other. She rested her chin on his chest, her long hair wrapped around his arm like silk, and she went back to sleep unhappily.

So, that’s what she was talking about. He thought about it and decided to skip this topic, pointing to her chin: “Wei’er, you have a pimple.”

She covered the pimple with her hand and blinked, smiling, “Do you know? Every pimple of mine is caused by your anger... oh, no, if that were true, my face would be covered in pimples.”

He just shook his head with a helpless look. She really loved and hated him, and after a long time, she could only say, “You don’t understand anything, you’re a pig.”

His gaze returned to the book, and he calmly said, “Then eat me.”

“The point is the sentence before that!” She snatched the book from him and made a gesture as if she were going to tear it up, “We’ve been cold to each other for so many days, and you can still read so calmly, you should be looking at me!”

This girl was really persistent. Yin Ze sighed lightly, “Wei’er, the love you understand is different from the love I understand.”

“You mean at night...” Luo Wei raised her eyebrows and smiled mischievously, “Haha.”

Yin Ze looked at her for a long time without speaking, and then tapped her forehead: “You have impure thoughts.”

“It’s clearly you who have impure thoughts, seducing me every day, just like the other night...” When she said this, her face turned red, “Anyway, it’s, it’s you who have impure thoughts... You pretend to be as sacred as a statue in front of others, but in reality, you just... you just don’t love me.”

“I’ve already said, I’m much older than you, and my way of loving is different from yours.”

“Then how do you love? Don’t just say it’s in your heart, I don’t believe it.”

She folded her arms across her chest, tapping her arms with four fingers alternately, and the jade ring on her finger also swayed. Her lips were slightly pouted, and she looked like a madam forcing a good person to do something bad. But after not tapping for long, her arms slowly loosened, and she thought of something, flipped the book over and looked at it. It said “Thousand Mountains Medical Zongjian.” She was stunned: “So, you’ve been reading medical books recently, is it because...” Was he studying how to prolong his life?

“I can’t be sure if it will work, after all, human life has a lifespan.”

“Yin Ze...” Her eyes turned red, she threw herself into his arms, and hugged him, trembling, “Yin Ze...”

After they got together, the girl’s emotions fluctuated too much for him to handle. As they talked, her tears began to flow uncontrollably. He could only sigh softly and gently stroke her hair.

As Goumang had said, he was inherently selfish and had no attachments. He would rather let everyone in the world perish than sacrifice himself to save the world. But at this moment, he hoped that the weak life in his arms could live on, not just for these short three hundred years. He hoped that her soul could enter reincarnation and have countless lives.