After appeasing Zhao Yi's dissatisfaction, Gao Ran chatted with him very calmly for a while......

Only then did I learn that it turned out that Zhao Yi had just come back an hour ago!

It's just that as soon as he came back, he went to look for her.

But I didn't think about it, no one found it, but learned from her personal maid Qiao'er that she had secretly descended the mountain by herself! Moreover, she had not come back for more than ten days!

What surprised him even more was that on the evening of the day she left the academy, someone from the "Heavenly Pavilion" came to report her safety......

Zhao Yi couldn't have imagined that this little girl, who was only five years old, would have something to do with Qiu Yueze, the pavilion master of the No. 1 assassination organization in the rivers and lakes, Tiange? !

Just as he was thinking about whether he wanted to go to the Heavenly Pavilion to secretly inquire about Gao Ran's whereabouts, he didn't think that she would come back by herself!

Moreover, he also brought back a master who had been hiding in the shadows......

Presumably, it should be the secret guard sent by Qiu Yueze to protect her, right?!

Although Zhao Yi doesn't know what's going on between Gao Ran and Qiu Yueze?!

But, he believes, his vision will never be wrong!

This Gao Ran is by no means simple!

Therefore, when he saw her come back safely, he already knew that she should not have suffered any grievances.

On the contrary, she should have gained a lot of benefits from Qiu Yueze......

Before his eyes had time to look for it, Zhao Yi's unusually sensitive sense of smell had already smelled a strange fragrance from a distance.

My instinct told him that it must be edible!

And, it must be delicious!

"Haha, now, the old man has a mouthful!"

While thinking about it so excitedly, he deliberately kept a straight face, planning to give him, a little apprentice who likes mavericks as much as he did, a ruthless dismount, so that she could remember that her behavior of going down the mountain without permission for many days was indeed a bit too much!

So, before Gao Ran noticed his existence, he quickly leaped behind her and picked her up like a puppy......

I thought you had been back for many days, and you had been waiting for me for many days, and this was finally popular...... Unexpectedly, it turns out that you only arrived an hour earlier than me......! You're too much, aren't you?! Hmph! You wait! 'Gentleman' will take revenge, it's not too late for ten years! When my wings harden, I have to avenge today's humiliation! When the time comes, if I don't tease you fiercely, I won't call you 'Gao Ran'! No, I'll just take your surname, and change my surname to 'Zhao' in the future!"

Although, at this moment, Gao Ran's heart is turning over the river and the sea, but on his face, he is still calm and waveless, only a faint smile without temperature on the corner of his mouth.

He also said to Zhao Yi sweetly "begging for mercy" against his will, "Master, don't be angry, the apprentice knows that he is wrong! The apprentice will never run away for so long in the future......"

"Well, it's good to know what you're wrong!"

Zhao Yi naturally knew that it was absolutely impossible to let Gao Ran never go down the mountain privately in the future!

If you can't get it, it will make her anxious, maybe, she doesn't even want him, the master who has just recognized him for a long time......

Zhao Yi believes that Gao Ran will definitely do such a thing!

She won't be reluctant to do it just because he is a "medical saint"!

However, he only fell in love with her temperament that he liked her so much!

I can only say that everything is in a dilemma......

Since, what he likes, is her maverick like his, then he can only willingly accept the fact that Gao Ran, whose temperament is so similar to his, will never be able to be his obedient obedient obedient son in peace!

"Alright, don't delay the hour! go and clean up, and in an hour, you can go down the mountain with me!"

No longer continuing to dwell on Gao Ran's "mistakes", Zhao Yi calmly shifted the topic to the business he wanted to do when he came back this time!

"Go down the mountain?!Master, you just came back, why are you going down the mountain again?!And, this time, you still have to take me with you?!"

Rao is Gao Ran, who has always been extremely adaptable, at this moment, he can't even guess what kind of medicine is sold in this Zhao Yi's gourd? !

"Of course, I'm going to take you down the mountain with me!, otherwise, how can I teach you the real skills?!"

As soon as she heard Zhao Yi say that she wanted to teach her "real" skills, the doubts that suddenly arose in Gao Ran's heart just now all dissipated in an instant!

Instead, there is only a lot of excitement!

"Oh! That's it! I'll clean it up right away! Master, you wait for me!"

Gao Ran quickly reacted to what he should do next.

She was afraid that Zhao Yi would wait for a long time, so she hurriedly explained to him "wait for me", and then quickly ran towards her dormitory room.

As he ran, he admired in his heart, "The 'Medical Sage' deserves to be the 'Medical Sage', and even teaching skills is so focused on practical teaching! Hehe, it seems that I am with the right master!"

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"Miss?!Woo-you're back!Miss, you can't leave me behind!Woo-you're going to leave me again, I'...... I'll just ...... I'm going up the knife mountain and going down to the sea of fire, I have to find the young lady!"

Qiao'er, who was cleaning the room in the room, and she didn't know how many times she had cleaned it, immediately cried when she saw that Gao Ran was really back, not her hallucination!

While crying, she also complained to Gao Ran about her "abandonment" of herself......

"Phew-it's okay, you didn't say you wanted to kill yourself......"

When she heard Qiao'er say that she was something, Gao Ran was really afraid that she would not be able to think about it for a while, so she said that she was going to "commit suicide" or "to die to make her will" or something like that!

Fortunately, she didn't think so, let alone say so......

"Okay, okay, I'm not all back?!I'll promise you! I'll take you with me wherever I go in the future!"

"Really?!Miss, you can't lie to me!"

"Cut! When did I lie to you?! Since I said 'promise you', then I will definitely do it!"

"Well, I believe Miss!"

After having Gao Ran's personal promise, Qiao'er immediately burst into tears and laughed, and laughed stupidly - her face was written all over her face that she was the "happiest" person in the world at this moment!

"This girl is really easy to satisfy......"

Gao Ran shook his head helplessly.

Such a simple-minded girl is really not suitable to be her right-hand man.

Anyway, she's not the only simple person around. There is no difference between having one more of her and one less of her......"

When thinking like this, Gao Ran inadvertently remembered another simple-minded person she knew-Dong Tianyi.

Come to think of it, I haven't looked for him since the last time I secretly opened a small stove in the kitchen with him.

And he has always abided by the "agreement" between her and him, and never took the initiative to come to her......

Although Gao Ran looks very casual and even quite easy-going on the surface, in her bones, she is a very lonely person who likes to be alone.

Therefore, at the very beginning when she decided to try to have a relationship with Dong Tianyi, she had already told him very clearly that she was a person who "prefers to be alone than two people......

Therefore, she made such a request to Dong Tianyi very bluntly at that time: In the future, she could only take the initiative to find him, but he could not take the initiative to find her.

If he is really anxious to see her, he can write a note first and ask Qiao'er to pass it on to her.

Then, according to the specific situation at that time, she decided when she would go to him......

She told Dong Tianyi unabashedly and bluntly, "I am very tolerant of my friends, but I have high standards and requirements for my lover! I like a man who is independent and has his own life." The man I hate the most is the man who 'bothers me when he has nothing to do, as if his life and his world just revolve around me'! I hope you don't become the kind of man I hate!"

The implication of her words is obvious!

That is, since Dong Tianyi himself hopes to develop a relationship with her as a "lover", then he must accept that her requirements for a "lover" are much higher than that of a "friend".

She wanted him to put himself in the first place in their new relationship.

She wanted him to know clearly that for her, "lover" and "friend" were two completely different roles.

In Gao Ran's view, "friends" are the regional scope of their own world that everyone is willing to be touched by each other in a certain period and a certain stage of life, but everyone is willing to be touched by each other.

For Gao Ran, as a "friend", the reason why she can be very tolerant of "friends" is only because, even if "friends" can accompany her, it is only for a short period of time.

She will not, and will not, spend most of her life with "friends"!

In her opinion, friends and each other are actually just one of each other's many "friends".

Each other's existence will only occupy a small part of each other's time and energy for each other.

And it is precisely because of the time and energy required in "friendship", in fact, when it is scattered to each "friend", it is actually very little, so she will be more tolerant of "friends".

In Gao Ran's view, another way of saying "tolerance" is actually -- "My tolerance for you is inversely proportional to what I ask of you, and what I demand from you is directly proportional to my dependence on you!"

Therefore, the more dependent Gao Ran is on something, whether it is spiritual or material life, then the higher her requirements for that kind of thing will be.

And the more demanding she is, the less tolerant she will be of that kind of thing.

Even, not only is it not "tolerant", but in fact it is a kind of "demanding" - for example, she has always been more "harsh" than "tolerant" of herself.

It can be said that in Gao Ran's world, what she asks for the most, and at the same time, what she relies on the most - is herself.

In her concept, "friends", "relatives", "lovers", those are all "others"!

It's all people who may leave her for various reasons.

Therefore, as long as she lives, the one who can really accompany her for the rest of her life, who can really become her soul mate and the real "lifelong partner", will only be herself - also, can only be herself!

And when such thoughts gradually formed an unbreakable and stable value in Gao Ran's subconscious, she began to have a subtle feeling that came and went from time to time - she felt that when she enjoyed her life more and more, her spirit seemed to become more and more inclined to a state of "androgynous......

It was as if her soul had been "divided" into two halves, which were not absolute—half like a "woman" and half like a "man".

However, whether it is a "woman" or a "man", their characteristics are only a part of the so-called "women" and "men" that she knows - incomplete.

For such a self, she gave herself an evaluation, "My soul is suitable for men and women." To be exact, it doesn't matter what 'gender' it is. It's just a very 'neutral' state of being......"

Gao Ran found that when she was in different situations and came into contact with different people, her soul would automatically adjust her state accordingly......

Sometimes, she will be like a "tomboy", in addition to her appearance, the aura she exudes, her rational thinking, is not inferior to the men around her.

But sometimes, she is like a simple and harmless "girl", whoever gets close to her will only feel her fresh and natural temperament, and even have a false impression of her actual age......

In her previous life, Gao Ran, who was twenty-nine, was not often mistaken by strangers who met her for the first time that she was a little girl who was only eighteen or nine years old!

Although, the "childlike" gene she inherited from her mother will indeed make her look much younger than her real age......

However, Gao Ran feels that a large part of the reason why they think like that has something to do with her mentality!

Isn't there a saying, "Born from the heart"?!

In her opinion, what the "heart" is like, what people look like, will be what it is.

Age, on the other hand, is just a number.

In Gao Ran's standards, the only criterion for judging whether she has grown is not time, but whether her mind has grown?!

Time, in her conception, is simply something that exists as naturally as air.

Although, it was only when time was passing that she had the so-called "alive" feeling......

She knew that she was like all other creatures in the plane that lived like her—they all lived in "time."

But, so what?!

Sometimes, she is only truly living when she naturally forgets that she is breathing air, as she naturally forgets that she is actually living in a time that is constantly passing......

Time, for her, is such a existence - it exists all the time, but it is also, often she will naturally forget its existence, its passing......

For her, whether it is a "relative", "friend", or "lover", in essence, in her world, she can only be a person who ranks after herself - just because they are not people who can accompany her for the rest of her life.

In Gao Ran's view, even if two people live together as "husband and wife", there is no guarantee that the two can die on the same day, the same month, and the same year.

And, the two can be like "themselves and themselves", no matter whether they are rich or poor, sick or healthy, they will always be with each other and never leave each other......

In this way, it is strange to compare "oneself with oneself" and "oneself with others......

Gao Ran often thinks about it, and she feels more and more that it seems that her own soul is assigned to her by God!

She felt that the relationship between her and her soul was as if God had made her soul sign a lifelong "contract" with her that could never be changed since she was born - she and her soul were such a pair that could only be bound to each other, influenced each other for a lifetime, and had to live and die together, such a relationship of highly loyal mutual "contractors".

Therefore, Gao Ran has always stubbornly believed that since she was born, even if she was not really aware of it when she was young, in fact, there should have been two different but interrelated and mutually influencing consciousnesses in her body!

One is the "rational" consciousness that originates from "nature" and belongs to the "soul";

The other is the so-called "perceptual" consciousness that she has gradually derived from the "body perception" aspect due to the needs of various survival instincts of the body since she was born.

One person, one soul, but two consciousnesses......

Gao Ran believes that the particularity of such a "contractual" relationship is by no means comparable to any form of contractual relationship concluded between her and other individuals!

It is precisely because of this that Gao Ran has always separated "himself" from "others".

As for "others", Gao Ran divides the "areas" according to their proximity to her.

Those who can "confide in heart", Gao Ran will divide them into "areas" that are tied to her "self-interest".

Thus, for her, defending their interests is tantamount to defending her own self-interest.

If, however, one of them, as they change from each other, their values become distant from hers, or even become strangers, then he will be cut off from the "area" in which her "self-interest" is stored—tearing off a part of her own "flesh and blood" that has long been closely linked and inseparable from him......

Then, he will become "someone else" in her eyes forever.

And those so-called "others" will be simply excluded from her "self-interest" by her!

Then, her attitude towards them was, "Who you are and what kind of joys, sorrows, and sorrows you have have nothing to do with me! As long as you don't provoke my bottom line, I will give you the most basic respect." But, that's all. You live yours, I live mine. You will not leave any 'traces' in my life, in my life. Because, I won't waste any of my time and energy for people, things, and things that don't matter. ”

Even if it's a former friend who has known each other for a long time......

Once Gao Ran was divided into the side of "others", then, at the moment she made the decision, her attitude towards him would quickly become extremely indifferent - even if at that moment, under her indifferent appearance, her heart was actually dripping blood with pain......

She is such a person, cruel to others, and even cruel to herself.

In her eyes, in addition to her feelings for herself, other feelings, whether they are family, friendship, or love, are like "flowing water" to her......

As long as people are alive, since those feelings have a day to "come," there will naturally be a day to "go" -- "flowing water"; if they are not allowed to flow, go with the flow, and respect each other's true wishes, then they will surely become a pool of "stagnant water" because they lose their freedom and their own vitality.

In Gao Ran's view, feelings actually have their own life......

Despite Gao Ran's qiē idea, Dong Tianyi still doesn't understand it at all!

But, he could feel it......

He could feel that Gao Ran's requirements for him, as well as her "bottom line" that she clearly told him, were all revealing to him an important message that she wanted to convey to him!

She wanted to tell him that the image she showed to her "friend" and her tolerance for her "friend" should never be expected to be treated by her as if she were her "friend" and "tolerant" as she had always been when he became her "lover" and his relationship became more intimate than that of "friend".

More often than ever he would see, it would be her harsh demands on her "lover" - just as she demanded so much of herself, and she would demand that her "lover" be no worse than her in every way!

Although, since that night, Dong Tianyi has not seen Gao Ran again, and her more real side, he does not have many opportunities to see and understand more......

However, he remembered her strict reminder to him at that time!

He knew that that should be the bottom line that Gao Ran couldn't tolerate him touching the most, so she would directly say it very bluntly and clearly at the beginning, so that he could directly understand what the "bottom line" was that he must not touch!

Now that he knows in his heart, Dong Tianyi will not be stupid and willful.

For him, how much he cares about Gao Ran, how much he respects her.

Since Gao Ran didn't want him to disturb her casually, he should respect her wishes.

Moreover, it is not difficult for a person like him to endure not to meet each other, who can practice the piano quietly for ten years, because no matter what kind of patience it is, it is "patience".

"Speaking of which, I haven't seen him in a long time...... Perhaps, he also found out about my descent from the mountain......"

Inadvertently thought of Dong Tianyi, and then thought of how long it had been since she came down the mountain, but after a while, she had to leave again......

Moreover, I don't know when I will come back again......

Thinking about it like this, Gao Ran felt that with the current relationship between the two of them, she had the "obligation" to go to Dong Tian alone.

"Alas! That's why it's said that 'socializing' is much more troublesome than simply 'just being friends'! If it were just 'friends,' I wouldn't have to make a special trip! 'Friends' would make an appointment to get together when they remembered it, and they would live their own lives without thinking about it. This kind of freedom and freedom is the most charming thing about 'friends'! Alas, it's a pity ......"

Although he agreed to officially start dating Dong Tianyi, Gao Ran at this time still hoped to be just a simple "friend" with him.

She still felt that the two of them were more suitable to be friends—more suitable to get along with each other like "friends" as she understood them......