Before I Grow Old + Yokogawa Three Moves (continued) Epilogue

Shi Jiamu quickly adapted to his new identity.

Chen Lian accompanied him for half a month, taking care of everything for him, in a sense, she regarded Shi Jiamu as her continuation in this world. He is her "descendant", and his blood runs through his body.

On the last night before the breakup, she changed her normal behavior and told him what she should have as a vampire like a verbose little wife.

"Don't hurt humans, don't get the attention of vampire hunters, you can't protect yourself right now."

"Don't clash with other vampires, keep your distance, live in isolation, you don't need companions until you evolve to the rank of servant."

"Try to resist the urge to suck blood, if you have a special need, you can go to Vivian, I told her that she will say hello to the special criminal department."

……

Shi Jiamu listened patiently to her every word, not saying a word from beginning to end.

"What else do you want to say to me?" Chen Lian noticed that his attitude was a little strange.

Shi Jiamu raised his wrist and looked at his watch, "It's almost 12 o'clock in the middle of the night, and you should be the closest to a human, right?" ”

"yes, what's wrong?"

Shi Jiamu stretched out his arms and slammed her into his arms.

Chen Lian didn't struggle, meekly lay in his arms, and whispered: "Don't, don't be like this, you're too hard, I can't breathe......"

"I'm sorry I didn't ask for your opinion and made the decision on my own." Shi Jiamu's lips pressed against her ear.

"What decision?"

He bared his sharp fangs and bit the side of Chen Lian's neck decisively, blood gushing into his mouth like a spring.

"You...... You ......" Her body trembled violently, like a candle flame in the wind.

The pleasure of sucking blood was surging, but Shi Jiamu's mind was clearer than ever.

“…… I interrupted the ritual of 'First Embrace' and saved Lilian from Kitavia, and as a result, she became an incomplete vampire. …… Lilian's body repeats a cyclical transformation, from a human to a vampire, and back to a human. ”

“…… Lilian is 27 years old, and of course, she looks younger and doesn't age, which is a vampire's advantage. …… If I hadn't interrupted the ritual of the 'First Embrace', maybe Lilian would have been able to escape the curse of the Prodi family and live forever as a different person from humans. But now, it's too late - incompleteness simply means that the Grim Reaper slows down, the disease stops temporarily when her body is a vampire, and when her body is human, the blood slowly turns into a viscous liquid. ”

Vivian's voice faded away, and Chen Lian's voice sounded in his heart: "If, I just said if, there is a person with whom I am willing to spend my life, and that person is you!" ”

He picked up Chen Lian, carefully laid her flat on the bed, bit her wrist hard, covered the wound between her cold lips, and fed back his own blood.

- I muster all the courage to keep you, and if there is no if, then create if.

- I turn you into a complete vampire, and you will be freed from the curse of the Prodi family and have a long life.

- The cycle of transformation remains, from the descendant to the master, and from the master to the descendant.

Our destinies are so tightly intertwined that no one can separate us, no matter time or death.

(ENDS)

The origin of the story is the sentence, "If, I just say if, there is a person with whom I am willing to spend my life, and that person is you." The person who said this was a calm and calm woman, her nickname on QQ was a riverside walk, she smiled and rejected the man in front of her, turned around and disappeared into the vast sea of people.

If life is a river, some people fight the wind and waves, some people go with the flow, some people surface, some people rot at the bottom of the river, she hopes to be an outsider, a bystander, walking by the river, refusing to be immersed in the river of life. Although you will miss a lot of things, and even be isolated and ostracized, you can at least retain a little bit of sobriety and self.

So she will gently emphasize, if, only if.

A soul mate is hard to come by. It is probably very difficult to spend a long life with a person without regrets or complaints. Most of the time, we are pressured to choose the other half of our marriage in a hurry. This pressure comes from hormones, from parents, from society and customs, and we don't know what we really need. What's more, everyone is a porcupine covered in thorns.

Life is not as good as it is described in the novel, and in order to maintain a marriage, even the prince and princess in the fairy tale who "lived happily ever after" had to tolerate each other and had to make do with it. Eventually, we will tear off our disguised masks, be exhausted, and show our less perfect side to each other, like a wisp of green silk that once wrapped around our fingers and ended up clogging the sewer.

Therefore, she chose to take a walk by the river, calmly face life and the eyes of others, do not expect, do not feel sorry for herself, look down on gains and losses, warm herself by her own heat, and spend the time before she gets old.

These initial ideas are a seed. A little bit of adding characters, a little bit of detail, just like covering the soil, watering a little, the seeds take root and sprout, branches and leaves, and the story deviates from the original trajectory and becomes what it is now. Fortunately, the phrase "if, I just said if" has been preserved intact.

Life is a long wait, before I grow old.