Chapter 189: A Narrow Road Encounter
More and more people are walking through the canyons and wilderness to the white ice field.
Just like the legend of the Holy Son who opened the sky with a hairpin, the dividing line between the ice field and the field is so striking and distinct, black and white collide in the line of sight, the endless snow color has an unparalleled visual impact, and the footprints on the snow surface are so inconspicuous, but dazzling.
More and more footprints are being stepped on in the snow.
The flag was inserted into the thick snow, trembling in the oncoming cold wind, and the world seemed to have gone through a fault, and the grassland was still steaming, and in the blink of an eye, it had turned into frost.
People have stepped through the snow with a sense of awe for the unknown.
I don't know how long it took, the black land behind them was no longer visible, and this snowfield was not really dead and silent, they also saw some creatures in the snow and ice during the long trek, including pupae with snow shells, centipedes walking through the ice and snow, and some fish with simple limbs, they burrowed in the snow as if they were shuttling in the sea.
In the distance, the far-reaching roar of the giant beast was heard.
Xingyuan's originally scattered team also began to tighten, and they formed a triangle, like a handleless flying knife hidden weapon, advancing forward, and the sound of stepping on the snow sounded neatly.
Soon after, they encountered their first raid.
It was a snow-tiger with silver-gray spots, the snow tiger had a pair of extremely long fangs, its soft flesh pads stepped on the snow, and it moved forward slowly, and when it swooped down, it was like a siege boulder that smashed into the city, and the entire Xingyuan team was a little broken.
The giant tiger of the snowy field wreaked havoc in the ice field, it was not like the ugly-looking monsters of the canyons of the past, it was muscular, with the beauty of strength, and its muscles rose and fell like a tide.
Fortunately, Xingyuanzhong was a first-class master after all, and after a short period of panic, they formed a solid lineup, swords came out together, some formed a formation, and some stabbed at the rushing tiger, the sound of thumping and banging came and went, and the body of the giant tiger was much stronger than they imagined, if it was fought alone, I am afraid that no one here could kill it.
Finally, the giant tiger was outnumbered and fled, and the people in the abyss did not dare to advance. Soon after, they saw even larger creatures.
It was a herd of snow elephants, with very long hair and tusks, which resembled large, curved scythes of white bone, and their bodies were bulky like towering hills, and even the thick ice was rumbling and vibrating.
"What the hell is this place?"
The appearance of the huge elephant herd subverted their imagination, they had never seen such a creature, it was unbelievably huge, even if it appeared in the abyss, the largest spirit, was only half the size, they walked over the edge, like messengers guarding this place, making all the people in all ways stop and dare not move.
No one dared to make a move.
The elephant's skin was so rough and thick that they didn't even need to try, they knew they couldn't get into it with a knife or gun.
"Let's go back first. The first person to plant the flag in the snowfield proposed, "First tell the people of the royal city everything that happened here." ”
"No, these monsters don't seem to attack people, we can try to get around it. ”
"It's still too dangerous......"
"In this way, let's go in batches, those who are willing to go, follow my team, and those who don't want to go with him. ”
The men quickly split into two columns, with only one boy kneeling in the center.
"What about you?" someone asked.
The young man held his head and said bitterly, "I won't go...... Hell ahead, it must be hell, these things are the pillars of the gods in front of the gates of hell. ”
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A large red lantern lit up in the imperial city.
On the empty street, a shadow dressed in white suddenly appeared.
Ning Chang walked slowly through the long street, the red light of the lantern spread on his body, intertwined with light and dark with his footsteps.
The streets are sparsely populated.
Ning Chang walked into the palace unimpeded.
Perhaps because of the pre-arrangement of the Si Ming, the door of the palace today is wide open, and there is not even a guard.
Ning Chang walked through the long, silent stone path under the palace gate and walked towards the deepest part of the palace.
The deepest part of the palace, as Si Ming said, has a huge diagram of the eight trigrams of yin and yang, each of the sixty-four hexagrams has a point, heaven and earth, wind and thunder, water and volcanoes, the whole picture is based on the four images of the eight trigrams, and it has evolved over and over again, forming this close and mysterious mural, and the central point of the eight trigram array is also an equally complex star map.
Ning Changjiu's gaze swept over the scroll, took out the prismatic white jade feldspar, and filled in a vacant one.
The array map is meteorological complete.
The scroll of the stars was like a lit eye, staring at Ning Changchang.
Then, an illusory door opened.
Ning Chang did not hesitate and stepped directly into the palace gate.
Rumble!
Heaven and earth are turning.
Ning Chang stepped to the ground, he raised his head, looked around, and found himself in a completely dark world.
The darkness lasted for a short time.
Crystal lights are like sparks rising in the night, and they emerge one after another, illuminating the entire hall.
It is a crystal clear hall.
The floor tiles seem to be paved with glazed bricks and tiles, almost completely transparent, and there are traces of flowing water flowing underneath, stepping on it, it is like walking in the void, and the upper floor of the main hall is a secluded dome, the center of the dome, there is a blue-white, ethereal huge lotus, the light on the lotus flower falls like a feather, with Ning Chang's footsteps, those lights also fall on his shoulders one by one.
He walked along a long, narrow path, the water could be clearly seen when the sides were illuminated by the light, and there were no candles in the pool, but candles were reflected under the water.
It's like they're burning in water.
Ning Chang walked forward along the main hall.
At the end of the main hall is a huge sundial.
The sundial had gone through a long time, and it was broken, and in this glittering and gloomy palace it looked more like a dignified italics in handsome cursive script, which looked out of place.
There was a faint glow on the sundial.
In the center of it, the long dial hand is intact, it is inserted in the stone dial, and on the long dial needle, there is also a woman with silver hair hanging down, she sits on her side, wearing a long black dress, snow feet are bare, in front of the jade soft arch, the toes are like small pearls strung together.
Her legs swayed softly, like touching the surface of the water, and her gaze fell on the broken sundial, and the graceful silhouette was reflected on it.
The sundial was half shattered, and now it looked like a crooked waning moon, and she was a fairy sitting in the moon palace.
The woman stretched her body lazily, and then her arms supported the slender sundial needle, turned her head slightly, and looked at Ning Changjiu.
She's the Commander.
Ning Changjiu also looked at her calmly.
"You don't seem surprised at all?" said Si Ming with a smile.
Ning didn't speak for a long time.
Si Ming sneered: "Also, a human spirit like you, how can I deceive you?"
Ning Chang said: "Why are you pretending to be a maid?"
Si Ming said: "That night on the street, I subdued you, and it took three tricks, which was a bit embarrassing after all, so I had to make an excuse and call myself a maid to save a little face." ”
Ning Chang snorted and didn't say anything.
Si Ming looked at him, smiled at Moon Shadow, and said, "I'm very happy that you can come today." Huh? Did you bring something?"
Ning Chang asked, "What is it?"
Si Ming covered his lips and smiled: "I thought I was a wanderer, I didn't want to be so honest, my sister was happy today, but I didn't mind playing with you, but it's a pity that you really don't have the guts." ”
Ning Chang turned a deaf ear.
Si Ming said, "You come closer, let me see your face." ”
Ning stopped on the glazed road on the water for a long time, refusing to move in an inch, just staring at Si Ming silently, and said, "What are you looking for me to do?"
Si Ming said: "The reason why I saw you is very simple, because you are not a spirit, but a person, the first person to come out of the abyss of time in more than seven hundred years, so I would like to know what secret you have that allows you to ignore the erosion of the law of time." Shiyuan is a place that even I can't trespass. ”
Ning didn't answer for a long time, but just put his hands behind his back and looked at her quietly.
Si Ming said: "Although I still don't know what the secret of your escape from Shi Yuan is, I have found something more interesting in you. ”
Ning Changjiu asked, "What?"
The corners of Si Ming's lips hooked and said, "Jin Wu." ”
"Huh?"
"Don't you know what that is?" asked the priest rhetorically.
Seeing that Ning didn't answer for a long time, she said softly: "That is one of the initial divine objects built in this world, although I don't know which of the ten sons it corresponds to, and it may even be the essence of that Xi and the god lord...... So, what kind of identity are you who can possess such a divine creature that was born when the heavens and the earth were opened?"
Ning Chang said: "I don't know. ”
Si Ming laughed, laughing wildly, and she said, "So you really forgot everything...... When you died, I was still a little in the Star Spirit Temple
Adjutant, I never thought that we would see each other now, come with me, I am willing to take you to our kingdom of God, and make you the true lord of the kingdom above all else. ”
Ning Changchang was a little wooden and said, "Don't go." ”
Si Mingdai's eyebrows frowned slightly, and on her cold and peerless cheeks, the smile was like a snow lotus.
"Look at this sundial, it goes from the hour to the time of unitary...... All the hours of the day were broken. Si Ming said: "There is no sun in my world, and I have been waiting for your arrival for more than 700 years. You are my sun. ”
Ning Chang said, "You want to kill me?"
Si Ming looked at him quietly and said, "You will not die, you will become a true god, and I will always accompany you when the time comes, and I will live forever in the hall of the Kingdom of God." ”
Ning Chang said: "You lied to me." ”
Si Ming touched the ground barefoot, his body fell lightly from the sundial, and when his toes touched the ground, there was a sound like a clear spring.
She said: "I know, in fact, you have seen the night, before the kingdom of God collapsed, we were one of the people in the kingdom of God, he is the king, I am the priest, now the lord of the country is dead, we are still breathing, waiting for only an opportunity, the moment you step into the city gate, you can't leave." ”
Ning stood quietly for a long time.
Si Ming walked slowly towards him.
The hall was full of murderous intent.
More than 700 years ago, when the kingdom of God had not collapsed, she and the Heavenly Monarch were both in the kingdom of God, and they were in the three realms of legends, second only to the existence of the lord of the country.
And now that the world is withering, everything is gone, she has fallen to this, limited by the laws here, and even Ziting can't even enter it.
What torture it is.
She had been waiting here for the Celestial Monarch to die and devour him, or for the Abyss to bring miracles.
Now she's almost there.
Everything she had done before was to trick Ning Changjiu into this Star Spirit Palace.
The weasel sends an invitation to the chicken, and the chicken will definitely not believe it, but after a few months of soft grinding and hard foaming, the chicken may feel that it can't beat the weasel anyway, since it is willing to show favor to itself, so why not simply accept the other party's wooing?
What's more, it's such a peerless beauty who shines out of the dust?
And the Star Spirit Hall is a cage where everything is ready and trapped for a long time.
Today, she can get everything that Ning Chang has, take the golden crow, soak it in the liquid of time, dissolve it into true sunlight, and then complete the broken corona in this kingdom of God, and fly back to the kingdom above.
Seven hundred years of waiting......
She raised her hand, and all the light in the darkness came to her, and everything seemed lonely.
It's just that Ning Changjiu has obviously become a trapped beast in a cage at this moment, why does he still not react at all.
Si Ming only thought that he was pretending to be calm, smiled lightly, and said, "Actually, I still want to know, do you think I won't touch you when you come here, or are you really attached to my face?"
Ning Changjiu, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly spoke, he seemed to have lost his spirituality, and his voice was so mechanical: "I don't want to be your day, I want to be your day......"
His last word froze.
Si Ming's originally cold face had been replaced by demonic horror and anger.
Rumble!
In the surrounding points of light, Ning Chang's voice suddenly exploded to smithereens.
On the ground, a picture scroll burned quietly, and on the picture scroll, a young man in white was painted.
It's actually a painter.
"Fake?"
Si Ming stared at the scroll deadly, her eyes were like torches, her long silver-white hair danced wildly, and the thick silver threads on her dark robe shone densely.
She walked to the scroll, picked up the black sword pressed on the scroll, and said coldly:
"You think you can escape?"
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An hour ago.
"Boss, then I'm going to take a shower and change clothes. ”
When the night fell, Shao Xiaoli turned around and went back to the room, she didn't understand why the boss suddenly called her to take a bath, in short, with the experience taught by her mother in her memory, she urged to take a bath at night, she must have wanted to do something bad.
She dug through the cupboard her mother's old clothes, which were well preserved, unwrinkled, and as bright as new.
Hot water was poured into the wooden barrel in the bathroom, and white mist was raised.
Shao Xiaoli slowly took off his clothes, untied his extremely tight chest wraps, lifted his toes, and slowly flowed into the steaming pool water.
It had been a long time since she had taken such a relaxing shower.
The snow-white water vapor fluttered on her face, slightly drunk and red, and her hair was also covered with water droplets, a wet patch.
The girl leaned against the wall of the barrel, her whole body almost sank into the water, she looked at her undulating figure through the water, and suddenly remembered that she was seventeen years old this year...... This is already the age to talk about marriage.
Shao Xiaoli soaked most of his body in the bucket, his long hair was all submerged, and the algae spread out.
After a while, Ning Changjiu's urging voice sounded outside the door.
Shao Xiaoli reluctantly pulled herself out of the warm water, dried herself, took off her breasts, hesitated for a while, and then gently put it aside, and then she put on her mother's beautiful clothes, came to the mirror alone, and began to draw her eyebrows and makeup.
Ning Chang stood outside the door, waiting for her patiently.
Shao Xiaoli rolled out of the curtain.
She wore an elegant shirt, covered with a red placket, and an elegant red dress underneath, embroidered shoes peeking out from under the skirt, revealing a small tip embroidered with pear blossoms, and her long hair was not adorned with anything, but was tied with a red rope at the end, and the ends of her hair hung down gently along with the red rope of fine hair.
Ning looked at her for a long time, and was also stunned, there was a feeling that the emperor was looking for the world and collecting beautiful women, but he never thought that the little girl who got along with him day and night in the courtyard was actually a fish that slipped through the net.
"You're beautiful today. "I'd rather praise for a long time.
After a few months, this is the first time Shao Xiaoli has dressed herself carefully, and she vaguely feels that something big is going to happen tonight, so she wants to show her best side.
Shao Xiaoli said: "Boss, where are we going?"
Ning Chang said: "Get out of the city." ”
"Out of the city?" Shao Xiaoli was slightly stunned and said, "Didn't I accompany you to see that big sister Si Ming?"
Ning Chang said: "I will always see it in the future, don't rush for a while." ”
"Oh......" Shao Xiaoli thought that the boss had his own reasons, so he asked, "Do you need to bring any bags?"
Ning Chang said: "You go and call that red-headed chicken, you don't need anything else." ”
Shao Xiaoli brought Blood Feather Jun with him, and then instructed it: "We're going out of the city, you must not drag the boss down." ”
Blood Feather Jun rolled his eyes and said, "I don't need you little girl to worry about yet." ”
Before leaving, Shao Xiaoli glanced at his waist with sharp eyes, and asked, "Boss, where is your black sword?"
Ning Chang said: "This broken sword is relatively easy to use. ”
Shao Xiaoli asked, "Are we going to kill someone?"
Ning Chang sighed and said, "I hope it's just that I'm wrong." ”
The door of the courtyard was closed.
The Blood Feather Monarch soared into the night sky, following them from afar, while they donned their black cloaks and silently left the Broken City.
"Boss, where are we going?" asked Shao Xiaoli.
Ning Chang said: "Go to a place where others can't find us." ”
Shao Xiaoli asked, "...... Is this to seclusion?"
Ning Chang said: "The temporary evasion is just to come back, just like a god." ”
Shao Xiaoli listened, only to feel that the boss's words were becoming more and more bluffing.
They walked out of the city gate and walked towards the endless road, Shao Xiaoli felt that this scene was very handsome, like a fairy couple riding a horse and a long whip walking alone in the world, everyone could see their lonely but not lonely backs.
"Boss. Shao Xiaoli suddenly spoke: "My disease, did you cure it?"
Ning Chang did not answer.
Shao Xiaoli said: "When I was a child, my body was always chilling, it is said that this is the curse of Broken Boundary City, according to legend, every few years, Broken Boundary City will drop a spell, and choose the most beautiful girl to bear the sins of this city. ”
Ning Chang said: "Innocent people don't need to bear this. ”
Shao Xiaoli said: "Thank you, boss...... But I don't like to wear ...... at night. ”
"I didn't see anything. Ning Changjiu said casually.
Shao Xiaoli raised his head a little, and suddenly said, "Actually, the boss is not a god, right?"
Ning Chang was slightly stunned, unable to understand how she could have thought of this with her wisdom.
Shao Xiaoli said: "Boss, in fact, you are a real god, right?"
"......" Ning Chang sighed and said helplessly: "I'm just an ordinary cultivator. ”
Shao Xiaoli didn't believe it at all, and said: "Actually, there is another legend in our book, which is older than Broken Boundary City. It is said that two or three thousand years ago, there was a real warrior in our clan, that warrior shot the demon with a bow and arrow, and created a unique method of spiritual power cultivation, but later, that warrior was also killed by a more powerful demon, but before he died, he said that in our clan, there will be a warrior every hundred years!"
Shao Xiaoli said
, the words became more and more passionate: "I think his prophecy is true, because every hundred years, there will really be warriors in the clan, and every time our clan is on the verge of extinction, we can survive as a Jedi, so no matter how difficult it is, we have survived to this day." It's been another hundred years now, boss, if the prophecy is true, if there is still a hero born in this generation, I think that person must be you. ”
Ning Chang looked at her, and suddenly felt a little strange, and he smiled slightly.
Shao Xiaoli also smiled faintly, with a noble eyebrow with elegant makeup.
She looked at Ning Changchang's young face, had a whim, and asked, "Boss, you should have lived for a long time, right?"
Ning Changjiu said truthfully: "Sixteen years old." ”
Shao Xiaoli only thought he was pretending to be tender, and said with a smile: "Then I'm still three years old this year." ”
Ning Chang smiled.
Shao Xiaoli has a lot of questions today: "Why does the boss always like to wear white clothes." ”
Ning Changjiu gave her an unexpected answer: "Because it's easy to draw." ”
But no matter how simple it was, the painting he used to deceive Si Ming took him two months on and off.
Along the way, the two chatted sentence by sentence.
"Boss, what is your ideal wife?"
"Boss, do you like that sister named Si Ming?"
"Boss, if one day, we leave here, where are we going?"
"Boss, what's that end of the icefield?"
The previous question Ning Chang was reluctant to answer, and the last question, Ning Chang knew it, but he didn't want to answer it.
One night, he had set foot in an ice field and walked over it.
Ning Changchang asked, "What do you think it should be like there?"
Shao Xiaoli replied: "I think there should be a way to the outside world, as long as you cross that ice field, many secrets of Broken Boundary City should be answered." ”
Ning Chang sighed absently.
He said, "Let me tell you a story." ”
Shao Xiaoli came to his senses and nodded immediately.
Ning Chang said: "In this world, there is a high wall, the people on the left side of the wall live a purgatory-like life every day, they are plagued by hunger and pestilence, day and night, there is a legend in them, that is, as long as you climb over this wall, you can go to heaven, but the wall is too high and too high, most of the people who climb the wall die, only the white bones left under the wall are piled high and high. ”
There was a pause in his words.
Shao Xiaoli thought, isn't this the hundred-year history of Broken Boundary City?
She looked at her resolutely and said: "Then use the white bones to pile up, keep piling, one day, our bones can be piled up high, cushioned under our feet, let us turn over." ”
Ning Changjiu shook his head with a wry smile and said, "Do you know what is the saddest thing?"
"What?"
"The people on the left side of the wall will never know, on the right side of the wall, the bones are higher than the left...... "Ning Chang sighed: "This world is not bipolar, it is not that there will be heaven if there is hell, it is more likely that there will be hell on both sides...... That's the most desperate thing. ”
It was the first thought that flashed through his mind when he crossed the ice field and saw the scene there.
It won't be long before someone in the abyss wades through the ice field, sees the bone-covered scene, and then falls into deep despair.
Shao Xiaoli was also silent.
After a long time, she spoke, "Then how can we get out?"
Ning Changchang shook his head and said, "I don't know either." ”
The night fell silent.
After climbing over a high mountain, and then a high mountain, and walking through countless canyons and rivers, there is still no end in sight.
At some point, the snow came flooding.
Ning Chang led her to the entrance of the snow gorge.
He knew that the inside and outside of Broken City were always in the game.
It was a game between a fallen Heavenly Monarch and a priest in a certain kingdom of God in the past, and this game of chess had lasted for more than 700 years, and many of the records of battles outside the city that he had seen in ancient books in the past may have been left by them.
They will devour each other.
And Ning Chang needs to choose a side.
He finally decided to choose the night removal.
And in his divine consciousness, the spiritual light of the painter was erased, which further proved his judgment.
He had never trusted Si Ming.
"Let's go. Ning Chang led Shao Xiaoli to the snow valley.
But he still underestimated Si Ming.
The road into the snow valley is a long, deep gorge, which seems to have been split by a knife, and the two walls are smooth as jade, but very narrow.
Ning Chang walked into that line of snow gorge.
The cold temperature in the snow valley is blowing in the face.
He stopped.
At the other end of the snow gorge, there was a shadow.
The dancing black dress resembles a hunting flag in a blizzard.
That's the command.
"You're going to be here. Si Ming turned against the light, and the smile on his face was hidden in the dark.
Face the music.
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"Why are you lying to me?" Si Ming asked preemptively.
A beautiful woman is really unreasonable.
Ning thought silently for a long time, and pulled out the pitifully broken Minglan.
Si Ming looked at his broken sword, and said, "It's broken like this, and it's still there, could it be that this is the sword that your wife gave you?"
Ning Chang thought that it was impossible for Lu to hear it, so he said directly: "Yes." ”
Si Ming smiled: "Is your wife as beautiful as me?"
Ning Chang said: "You once said that how can the fireflies compete with the bright moon, the fireflies you linger here like this, you should have not seen the moon for seven hundred years, right?"
Si Ming was not annoyed, but laughed and said, "Are you really not afraid that I will kill you?"
Ning Chang said: "If you want to kill me, you won't talk nonsense with me for so long." ”
Si Ming asked, "Have you thought of a way to break my time cage?"
Ning Chang bowed his head and said, "I thought of it." ”
Si Ming looked at his eyes, for a long time, she smiled faintly, and said: "You guessed really well, the time cage is like a game of chess, only the two sides are playing, and it can't affect the people next to you, so you spent three months training this little girl, just hoping to borrow her hand to relieve you, right?"
Ning Chang said: "Not exactly. ”
Shao Xiaoli listened, not feeling that he was being used by the boss at all, but was surprised to think that he was so useful.
Si Ming smiled, "Originally, I did want to kill you, but now I have changed my mind. Come back to the city with me, I am willing to marry you, from now on we will double cultivate together, and join the heavens together, just like the gods in ancient times, when the heavens and the earth were more turbid than now, they could chisel the chaos and open the heavens with a painting, why can't we?"
Ning Chang said: "Why should I believe you?"
Si Ming smiled: "Because the night is not a good choice, you see, now that I have arrived at the Snow Gorge, he still does not dare to come to see me, he has relied on deceiving those ignorant cultivators all these years, in exchange for some time authority, but it is so patchwork, I don't know how many years it will take to piece together the authority completely, he can't save you at all." ”
Ning Chang asked, "Then what is your means of piecing together authority?"
Si Ming didn't answer directly, but said, "You are from Shi Yuan, you should have seen that painting, right?"
"Headless God?" Ning Chang asked.
Si Ming smiled and nodded: "Shi Yuan is his head." ”
Ning Chang frowned, thinking of the beehive that extended in all directions and the gray-white thick slurry inside, and a chill ran in his heart.
Ning Chang asked, "He is the lord of the kingdom of God?"
Si Ming nodded, "Yes." ”
Ning Changjiu frowned: "One of the Twelve Lords?"
"Yes. ”
"How is this possible?" Ning Chang was shocked.
"yes. Si Ming smiled indifferently: "Even after so many years, I still can't accept his death." ”
"Which lord of the country is he, and who killed him?" Ning Changchang asked.
Si Ming shook his head and said, "This is a secret, I'll tell you after we become a married couple." ”
Ning Chang shook his head and said, "How can I trust you?"
Si Ming put his hands behind his back, crossed his swan-like neck, and pulled his silky silver hair.
Then she pulled her hand down, the silk black belt stretched her spine and the plump of her lower body to a very strong tension, her fingers reached to the back of her waist, gently picked up the silk that tied her slender waist, and said: "At this moment, the time has passed, the heavens and the earth are beautiful, we can imitate what the emperor and the holy son did back then, what does the prince think?"
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And at this moment, the royal city is empty.
Su Yanshu sat on the windowsill, looking at the deep night, the most respected man in the entire royal city and the most powerful swordsman in the younger generation loved her deeply, but she never really smiled, and her face was always stained with a faint sadness.
"Ghosts never grow old with people, don't you understand?" Su Yanshu sighed softly.
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