Chapter 1: The life of an older master
Dugu Dynasty, Green God Plain, War King's Mansion
The Night Whispering Pavilion was brightly lit, and at 6 p.m., a man dressed in a night suit pulled up his hood to hide his bright red hair for the final outfit.
"Ninth Master, I heard that the foot monster doctor appeared in Yanxian Terrace, I'm going to tie him up?" A young man entered the study of the king of war as he spoke, and when he saw the head of the king of war, he exclaimed, "Ninth master, youβ"
"The strange doctor has a rule that patients must see him in person." The War King once again confirmed that the bracers on both sides were indeed on the wrists, and moved past the young man: "I'm leaving, you stay in the Night Whispering Pavilion." β
"Ninth Master, but your leg will attack at 8 o'clock at night!"
The young man looked anxious to follow, and was immediately glared at by the bewitching purple eyes of the war king, and he closed his shoulders and retreated: "That... Then you should be careful. β
Sometimes I really want to send someone to take care of the ninth master, and scold him loudly not to be so willful!
In the season of phoenix blossoms, the sky is clear and cloudless, the salaried students graduate and leave school, and the bell rings to remind the parting moment, every young soul is both looking forward to and afraid of being hurt to choose a different way of life, stepping into the society to wash a childish and innocent.
Campus graduates are all dressed in bachelor's uniforms, master's uniforms in every corner of the campus poetry and picturesque to take pictures, the atrium square has a few people left, the center of the square towering circular stone platform in the center of a giant tree stands tall, branches and leaves shrouded in the shade of the range, far beyond the area of the circular stone platform.
The summer breeze blew elegantly like a gentleman's polite bow, and the petals and green leaves on the tree were invited, but I saw a woman, slowly walking to the stone platform, beige sunshade cap, yellow printed short sleeves, blue denim backpack, black and gray jeans, Martin boots, full of student dress, but there is no simple, refreshing, innocent, and edifying in the eyes of ordinary students who are not deeply involved in the world, replaced by sharp but lazy eyes.
With a long breath, she sat on the stone platform, threw the graduation certificate that she had managed to get through casually, and raised her head and shouted, "Damn the ice!" Finally got my master's degree! β
The woman is simply enjoying the summer breeze that is sticky, but at this moment she feels extremely comfortable. She couldn't stay too long, and her grandmother was still waiting for her in the hospital.
Just as she was thinking, a man walked leisurely in her direction.
"Alas! That man is so handsome! A female student A who seems to be in love for the first time said.
"Wow! Is it a star? Freshman female student B deeply agreed, "It's a male model, right?!" β
It didn't seem unusual for a man to walk through the crowd without paying attention, and to be the talk of the town. He stepped up the stone steps, sat down next to the woman, and handed over the slender paper bag: "Congratulations, 38-year-old student girl master." β
When the woman saw the visitor, she looked a little surprised: "Mercury in the Immortal Hall? She took the paper bag and made sure it was inside.
It turned out to be her favorite churros, also known as Spanish fritters.
She took a bite unceremoniously, and said in a lazy tone: "Great professor, why do you have time to come to our school?" β
"Congratulations to my childhood sweetheart, Miss Tennoji Sundial Che, for successfully graduating!" The man squinted and smiled, with a little light makeup on his face, and this smile was a national and captivating smile.
Sundial glanced at him, chewed a churros in his mouth, and said slowly, "Your appearance is simply a female public enemy." In broad daylight, the bold demon still hasn't reported his name? β
The childhood sweetheart next to her, who is also the youngest professor in the physics department of a well-known university in history, Mr. Xiantang Mercury, looks more beautiful than a woman. If it is a species with complex genes and continuous evolution of human beings, Xiantang Mercury can definitely be said to be the slam king of the gene lotto, with appearance, figure, IQ, personality, and physique all the best choices.
She has persuaded him more than once to donate sperm and contribute a little good-looking and high-IQ human beings to society. And he is also the only close friend who has been by her side since she fell ill.
"You~" Mercury approached her face and almost kissed her: "How about just complimenting me on my good looks?" β
Sundial Che rolled his eyes, neither flashing nor retreating, as if this kind of development had become commonplace. He said angrily: "Xiantang Mercury, you have inhaled my air." β
Mercury quickly left the range of her breath and grabbed her with a big hand: "Alas, the Ghost King, is it happy that you have finally graduated?" Finally, I will no longer be blocked by pedantic personnel appointment qualifications, and I can apply to go abroad as a regional manager in the future. β
"Uh-huh, I finally don't have to be a slave to the professor anymore." Sundial Che took another bite of the churros and pointed at Mercury: "How's the wedding going?" β
Mercury let go of his grip on her and shrugged, "For the last detail, Kane wants to take full responsibility." β
"Yes." Sundial Chepi smiled and said, "You're the kind of backbone boy who will put your ex-boyfriends together at the table." I am afraid that the world will not be chaotic. β
Thinking of his fiancΓ©, Mercury smiled wickedly and did not deny it: "So, he'll just handle this part." In bed, of courseβ" Mercury smiled inexplicably at the thought of his lovely, manipulative fiancΓ©.
Sundial Che flicked his fingers twice in front of him, and it sounded: "I don't want to hear it~ Thank you!" β
Mercury looked at Bingyan like her, chewing snacks like a squirrel, and he reached out for her to brush away the hair that fell in front of her eyes: "You also say that I am a demon, your baby face has not changed since the age of 18, do you have any self-awareness?" β
Sundial pursed his lips and said indifferently: "It's just that it hasn't reached the critical point yet, and one day I will age overnight." β
"By the way, there's something ......" Mercury took out a small square box from his pocket and handed it to Sundial's nose, "Oh, here you are." β
This small black suede box is born with an advanced filter effect, and no matter what items are inside, it will give people the illusion of nobility and expensiveness.
Those who don't know think he's going to propose to her. There were already people around who stopped and looked in the direction of the two of them.
"What is this?" Sundial tossed the last churros into his mouth, crumpled off the wrapper, took it from Mercury, and opened the small box.
Mercury smiled in a beautiful arc: "Graduation gift." β
Mercury pulled her left hand and put it on for her, saying, "I remember your watch is used to wearing your left hand, right?" β
"Hmm." Sundial replied softly, and the emotional cognitive impairment made her look like a robot most of the time, immune to negative emotions, and greatly reduced her sensitivity to positive emotions, like a puppet. However, she could feel the slight rise in her heart at the moment, and only when she was with the closest and trusted people could she barely feel the mood swings.
"This is a solar watch, which can run all the time after 10 minutes of sunshine a day, which is most suitable for lazy people like you." Mercury took her hand, showed her the finished show, and asked with a smile, "Do you like it?" β
Her deep, dark eyes stared at the well-sized surface on her wrist, and it was hard for her to judge whether she liked it or not, and everything was neutral to her. But she remembered her hobbies before she got sick, so she smiled and said, "Yes! β
The passers-by who stopped to watch the interaction between the two realized that it was a misunderstanding and returned to their original tracks.
Mercury petted her head dotingly, then inhaled the cool breeze under the tree, and said with some concern: "I don't have much time left for you after I get married, can I introduce you to someone?" β
"No, you don't." Sundial glanced at him and snorted coldly: "It's all like you, I'd rather go into the coffin alone." β
The conversation between the two came to this topic, and the little emotion that was left of Sundial Che was instantly washed away.
"Orβ" Mercury smiled wickedly and leaned closer to her, "You want to choose me?" We can hide it from Kane...... What do you think? β
Sundial didn't bother to pay attention to him, and directly changed the topic: "Since you're here, take me to the hospital by the way." My grandmother had just finished the surgery yesterday, but she insisted that I come to the graduation ceremony. I had to take care of her. β
Even though Sundial knew she was worried about her grandmother, she was still insensitive, with only the slightest commotion. After spending a long time with this strange disease, Sundial Che gradually grasped the relative table of his emotions and the emotional ups and downs of normal people.
This little commotion was intense to her.
After speaking, he patted his ass and walked down the circular stone staircase with his graduation certificate.
Mercury looked at Sundial's back and said, "You candle that doesn't light up." Also I call the predator Tennoji sundial! β
"Stop talking nonsense! Come on! Sundial shouted at the bottom of the stairs.
Mercury got up lazily: "Coming~It's coming~"
As the two walked out of the schoolyard, Sundial locked on to a black SUV in the roadside parking compartment, and when Mercury pressed the unlock button, she opened the door and sat inside, fastening her seatbelt.
Mercury sat in the driver's seat from the other side, started the engine and drove away from the campus.
Mercury's gaze focused on traffic occasionally drifted to Sundial, and his tone was not like a joke, but very serious: "Aren't you going to tell me what happened on your 30th birthday?" β
After the accident that day, Sundial Che has changed since then, taciturn, distant, cold and numb, no longer joking with him, no longer the gentle-tempered Miss OK, he can't even remember the last time he saw her laugh from the bottom of his heart. And she didn't say anything about that day.
Sundial glanced at Mercury's face, which was more beautiful than a woman, and said softly: "Car accident, what else can it be?" Don't keep asking, don't get tired. β
How could she have forgotten the scene of the day of the car accident, and the nightmare that followed, and just didn't want to recall it.
"Doctors all say that everything is normal with a brain diagnosis, and that the mood disorder may be a psychogenic problem." Mercury glanced at her and smiled wryly, "Is that them?" I saw the two of them drive the same car to the hospital to see you that day. β
Sundial Che leaned his elbow against the car door, put his hand on his chin, and sighed, "It's all over, don't mention it again." β
Suffering from this strange disease actually has an advantage for Sundial Che, that is, in the face of no matter how painful the experience is, her heart is still numb.
Mercury hit the direction lights.
After that car accident, Sundial Che's heart was like closing several jack doors, without enthusiasm and vitality, only full of mechanical sense, and in the vernacular, it is misanthropy.
Mercury spun the wheel and got out of the straight line, and he let out a long breath and said in a rather reluctant tone: "After that day, you completely refused to perceive any outside sounds, and almost closed yourself off. β
Sundial Che retorted expressionlessly: "It's too serious to say that the closure is too serious." After that, I still had a wonderful life, through fire training, I was a firefighter for 3 years, and I felt tired, so I went back to my own career as an engineer, and I was also a small supervisor. When Sundial Che said this, he couldn't help but say angrily: "If it weren't for the personnel appointment norms, I would have been promoted by now." β
Suffering from mood disorders, Sundial Che has only one emotion that is particularly normal, and that is anger. So her life is either as insensitive as a robot, or like an angry volcano. There are only 0 and 100, all on and all off, and there is no intermediate value.
"Let's not talk about your history of abuse in the fire brigade." Mercury reached out and scratched her head dotingly: "Find a companion!" Otherwise, how can I get married with confidence? β
Sundial Che slapped his hand and said indifferently: "People come alone and go alone, is there a difference?" β
Every time Mercury sees such a lifeless, machine-like childhood sweetheart, he feels a smoldering fire in his heart: "Your brain is sick, and you have been sick for a long time." See a doctor for me. β
"Maybe someday." Sundial's tone was like telling someone else's story, and it didn't matter to him.
The car drove into the underground parking lot, and Mercury parked the car in three or two clicks, and after he neatly unbuckled his seat belt, he came over to unbuckle the seat belt for Sundial. Then, Mercury cupped her little face, and there was only distress in his eyes, the sundial in front of him had really lost a lot of brilliance and vitality compared to before.
Sundial's face was squeezed by him, and his mouth pouted: "What are you doing?" β
Mercury frowned and carefully scanned her, and said, "I'll see... Delicate melon seed face, thick eyebrows and apricot eyes, eyes are deep pure black, small and tall nose, full and ruddy lips, smart and lovely personality, a little evil but still very kind. β
"Thank you, big brother, don't love me so much, your love can only be borne by Kane." Sundial Che patted Mercury's hand away and said lightly: "Don't say I'm kind, kind people usually die early." Bad luck. β
Mercury stared at Sundial eagerly, and suddenly he looked like he was about to cry: "Oh my God, what are you going to do when I get married?" We adopt you? β
Sundial Che smiled and opened the door and got out of the car: "Nerves." β