After the cool night breeze and the cold lake water swept away the heat in their bodies, Cheng Zhiyu and Fan Jiaying happily returned to the shallows, dried the water on their feet with paper towels, and put on their shoes and socks.

Although the heat in his body subsided, the drunkenness came up, and the two sat side by side on the shallows facing the lake. Fan Jiaying rested her head on Cheng Zhiyu's shoulder, and a trace of confusion appeared in her eyes.

Cheng Zhiyu looked at her crimson pretty face, his heart itched, and he couldn't help but kiss her on the forehead.

The smile on Fan Jiaying's face became even stronger, and she said lazily: "I think it's so beautiful when I look at Lianhu Lake during the day, but when I look at it at night, it's even more beautiful." ”

"yes." Cheng Zhiyu tilted his head sideways and put his face on her hair, "But no matter how beautiful this lake is, it still can't compare to you." In my heart, you are the most beautiful in the world. ”

"It's going to be a joke." Fan Jiaying gently pinched his waist.

Cheng Zhiyu took advantage of the situation and hugged her shoulders and let her head rest in his arms. "That's what I mean. And I'm not just sweet talking, you've seen my ability to do everything for you. ”

Fan Jiaying is beautiful, which naturally determines that in her past youth, she will always be surrounded by a large number of suitors. However, in addition to the first love when she first fell in love in high school, the only one who can really move her is Cheng Zhiyu, who is now by her side. In the three years of college, she rejected countless suitors, but she surrendered under the bombardment of Cheng Zhiyu, not only because of his handsome appearance, but also because of everything he did to pursue him, which really made her feel superior sincerity and strong love in her heart.

After looking at the guest rooms of the Lianhu Hotel, how could Fan Jiaying not guess Cheng Zhiyu's careful thoughts? However, she was ready to hand over everything to the man next to her, including her body, and had the determination to work hard for each other with him after graduation. She leaned on Cheng Zhiyu's arms, her ears heard his accelerating heartbeat, and she smelled the smell of his body in her nose, and she was a little confused.

"Yingying." Cheng Zhiyu called softly.

"Huh?"

"Didn't you ask me why this lake had such a name before you came to the lake?"

"Hmm!"

"I asked someone nearby during the day, do you want to listen now?"

"Of course."

"Then I'm going to get started." Cheng Zhiyu cleared his throat and tried his best to sound soft, "It is said that it was a long time ago, and the locals can't tell how many years ago, when the lake did not have a name, there was a small village by the lake at that time. At that time, it was isolated from the rest of the world, and the people of the village lived and worked happily by fishing in the lake and farming in the terraced fields on the shore. One day, a young man and a woman stumbled into this small village by the lake. The villagers were curious and asked where they were from. The man and woman replied truthfully that they were from Yingtian......"

"Yingtian? That should be a matter of the Ming Dynasty. Fan Jiaying interrupted him and said, "Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty's capital Nanjing, and renamed it Yingtian. ”

"Really?"

"It's been learned in these history textbooks."

"It's amazing, I've forgotten it all." Cheng Zhiyu pretended to be surprised and praised.

Fan Jiaying smiled slightly smugly and urged him to continue.

"Good. The villagers asked them again why they had come here. The young man said that he was a poor boy, and the girl who came with him was the daughter of a great official, and that the two were not in the right household, but they fell in love with each other. The woman's family must have disagreed, so the two of them eloped together. When the girl's father heard the news, he was furious and sent many members of his family to hunt them down. In order to avoid pursuit, the two traveled all the way south, and accidentally came to this small village hidden in the mountains on the shore of an unnamed lake, hoping that the villagers could take them in.

The people in the village were simple and kind, and they were all touched by the couple's experience and agreed to let them live in the village. The villagers helped them build a small hut, gave them some things for daily life, and held a wedding ceremony for them. Since then, the newlyweds have become the new residents of the village, the young man follows the village fishermen to the lake to fish, and the girl and the village women learn to raise female reds, and live a simple but sweet and happy life.

But the good times didn't last long, and the family members of the woman's family also happened to find this lake, found this small village, and found two people. The family insisted on escorting the young couple to heaven and taking them to the woman's father to be punished. Naturally, the two of them would rather die than obey, and the villagers also united to help them drive away the families. When the family members returned, they reported the truth to the woman's father, and the official was naturally furious, and used his personal power to mobilize a group of officers and soldiers, and personally led the troops to surround the small village. He also said that if the two did not return with him, he would order the small village to be razed to the ground.

The pair of bitter mandarin ducks knew that they were cornered, and they didn't want to go back with the big official, because going back would mean parting with life and death, and they didn't want to involve these kind villagers. So they took advantage of the unpreparedness to run to the small cliff by the lake, faced the rippling blue waters of the lake, made a vow to continue the fate of this life in the next life, hugged both jumped into the lake, and died of martyrdom. The woman's father, who was so remorseful when he heard the news, hurriedly asked someone to go down to the lake to salvage the body, but he didn't find it for seven days and seven nights, and finally had to give up. The official was so disheartened that he did not embarrass the villagers, and after erecting a mound for his daughter and her husband, whom she had made a private life for, he led his troops and left here.

Strange to say, the day after the official left, the bodies of the young couple who committed suicide by throwing themselves into the lake were washed up on the shore of the lake by the waves, and their clothes and appearance were intact, and there were no signs of decay or gnawing by fish and shrimp. The villagers speculated that perhaps a fairy residing in the lake was moved by the love of the pair and specially guarded their remains. After that, the villagers buried the pair of bitter mandarin ducks in the clothed mound, and they would come to worship every year on the day they committed suicide by throwing themselves into the lake. In order to commemorate them, the villagers originally planned to name this nameless lake 'Love Lake', but considering that their ending was very sad, they took the homonym of the word love and finally decided to call it 'Love Lake'. With the passage of time and the passage of time, the graves of the pair of bitter mandarin ducks have been deserted and can no longer be found, but their stories have been passed down with the name of the lake to this day. ”

After listening to this story quietly, Fan Jiaying sighed lightly and said: "Although this story sounds so old-fashioned, I still think it is so romantic and touching." Zhiyu, you said that if we came to the point where we had to jump into the lake to die like the pair of hard-working mandarin ducks in the story, would you jump with me? ”

Cheng Zhiyu was stunned for a moment and scratched her nose: "What stupid thing to say?" As long as we are together, working together, and never giving up, what difficulties can't be overcome? Don't say any stupid words about martyrdom, as long as people live, there is hope, we still have a lot of things to do together, many places to go together, we will get married and have children in the future, form a happy family, and then watch the children grow up together, and grow old together. ”

"Suppose, suppose one day I accidentally fall into the water, I can't swim and I'm drowning, and you can't swim, will you also jump into the water and die with me?"

Cheng Zhiyu heard that she was obviously getting into the tip of the horns, and if she didn't answer the answer she was satisfied with, she estimated that she would be out of action tonight. His eyes rolled around, nodded and said, "Of course it will, because I love you, I don't dare to imagine living in a world without you." If you're drowning, I'll jump into the water and die with you!" As long as I'm with you, what's the point of dying? ”

As soon as the words fell, tears of emotion flashed in Fan Jiaying's drunken eyes, and in the next second, her seductive red lips took the initiative to kiss Cheng Zhiyu's mouth. Cheng Zhiyu hugged her tightly in his arms and responded to her kiss vigorously.

A minute later, the two separated. Cheng Zhiyu felt that his lower body was firm and hot, so he said, "It's not too early, let's go back to the hotel, right?" "His heart was already hungry and thirsty, and he couldn't wait.

Fan Jiaying replied with a red face, got up and tidied up her messy hair and clothes.

Cheng Zhiyu looked at the moon in the sky as if it was covered with a veil, and tried to calm his body. He went to the lake and picked up a handful of cool lake water and splashed it on his face, and the restlessness in his heart calmed down a lot, and the small tent on his trousers was gone. However, when he turned around, he found that there was no one behind him, and Fan Jiaying, who was still standing there sorting out her clothes just now, disappeared quietly.

Let's go? This was the first reaction in Cheng Zhiyu's head. But he knew that Fan Jiaying was not the kind of girl who would walk away without even saying hello, and there were only footprints on the shallows when the two of them walked in together and the marks of sitting together, and there were no footprints to be seen.

I guess I was secretly hiding, right? No matter how well-behaved a girl is, she occasionally has a playful mind. Cheng Zhiyu thought about it, and shouted in his mouth: "Yingying, where are you?" Come out, don't hide, it's time for us to go back! Then he whispered his girlfriend's name as he wandered around the shallows, searching for her behind the reef, in the bushes, and in other places where he could hide.

But after looking around, I didn't see a figure, Cheng Zhiyu secretly wondered: I went to simply wash my face, and with Yingying's feet, plus the road was dark, I shouldn't be able to go too far.

"Where the hell have you gone?" Cheng Zhiyu scratched his chin and was about to take out his mobile phone to make a call.

Just as he was about to put his hand in his pocket, he suddenly noticed a lapping sound from the lake not far away. He looked through the hazy moonlight to see a drowning man struggling in the water, his black hair snaking and spreading like aquatic weeds on the water.

"Yingying?" Cheng Zhiyu recognized the face of the person struggling in the water and exclaimed. In addition to being shocked, he also wondered: Why did she fall into the lake after such a short period of effort, and she was still a lot away from the lakeside? Moreover, Yingying should be able to swim, right?

Recalling the question she asked after listening to the story she told about the origin of the name of Lianhu, Cheng Zhiyu understood that this might be a test she gave herself, and her hanging heart suddenly let go.

He shouted at the lake: "Yingying! Is that you? Don't be afraid, I'll save you now! As he spoke, he took off his shoes and socks and coat again, and walked in the direction of Fan Jiaying, who was struggling on the surface of the lake.

However, after a few steps, he stopped, and a sense of horror permeated his body.

From the water beside Fan Jiaying, who was constantly struggling, a terrifying figure quietly emerged: the wet long black hair covered her face, and she couldn't stop dripping water, the soaked red dress looked particularly dazzling in the dark, but her slender figure revealed a ghost aura from the inside out, and the aquatic plants attached to her hair and skirt added to the smell of decay and death. And the fog that has shrouded the surface of the lake at some point makes the surrounding atmosphere even more oppressive and treacherous.

Ghost? What the hell -

Cheng Zhiyu's heart was instantly filled with fear, and his feet trembled when he was immersed in the icy lake water. There was only one thought on his mind now: get out of here......