Water Reflects Peach Blossoms

Chapter 200: Return from the Dream (37)

Cheng Huang, with disheveled hair and half-kneeling on the ground struggling to support his body, did not choose to escape, leaving Nanzhi alone to face the dangerous Li Lun.

In fact, even if he was asked to go back to the Demon Hunting Bureau to ask for help, he would not go back, because the time he spent going back to ask for help would be enough for many things to happen that he would regret.

Anyway, Li Lun just wanted to kill him, there was no need to implicate Nanzhi.

He used up his last bit of strength to attack Li Lun, trying to get rid of Li Lun, blow up the demon pill in his body, and seriously injure Li Lun so that Nanzhi could be safe.

But he didn't expect that Li Lun, who was able to easily break free from Nanzhi's restraints, did not move at all, and directly controlled the vines to tie him up and slammed him against the wall!

Hearing the voice behind her, Nanzhi grabbed Li Lun's hair even tighter, tears streaming down her face, wetting the front of Li Lun's shirt.

His hair was pulled harder, and Li Lun couldn't help but hiss softly. Then he looked at Cheng Huang, who was lying on the ground and fainted in a mess. After finding out that Cheng Huang had lost all his demonic power and could only sleep in the jade pendant to recuperate, he raised his lips in satisfaction.

Although this old guy is a trouble, if he kills him in front of Nanzhi, he will probably become a stranger to Nanzhi in the future, so it is better to be a good boy.

"Let me go." Li Lun whispered, looking at Nanzhi buried in his arms, with a smile in his eyes.

"No!" Nanzhi's voice was muffled, with a hint of crying, but very firm.

Li Lun, whose forearms were still able to move, reached out and gently wrapped his arms around Nanzhi's waist, feeling the rare peace and beauty of this moment.

The moment Nanzhi hugged him, his heart was excited, but also seemed very calm. His heart, which had no home and could only wander back and forth in the world, finally found the eaves where it could shelter from the rain.

Li Lun slowly closed his eyes and quietly felt the beauty of this moment.

But then, he keenly felt the wetness on his chest.

Was it Nanzhi who was silently crying? Was she worried about Cheng Huang? Worried that he would kill him?

Xuxu tightened his grip on Nanzhi's waist, and he struggled to break free from Nanzhi's hand that was restraining him.

Li Lun put his hands around Nanzhi's waist and exerted force. Nanzhi felt dizzy and when she came to her senses, she was lying on Li Lun's broad and thick back.

She subconsciously wrapped her arms around Li Lun's neck for fear of falling.

"What are you doing?" she asked, her voice full of vigilance.

"Didn't you tell me not to kill him?" Li Lun turned around and looked down at Cheng Huang with Nanzhi on his back.

He held Nanzhi on his back with one hand and formed a seal with the other hand. Cheng Huang's body turned into a demonic aura and floated into the jade pendant on Nanzhi's waist.

Then he walked out carrying Nanzhi on his back.

Li Lun walked slowly and gracefully, as if he was taking a leisurely stroll after dinner, walking leisurely along the dark and deserted riverside street.

Noticing Nanzhi trying to get off his back, he raised a smile, but his voice was as low as ever: "If I can't see you, I won't think of killing Cheng Huang. If I see you, that old man's life will be in danger."

Nanzhi's body stiffened, and then she stopped struggling and lay obediently on Li Lun's back.

Li Lun's back was very broad and gave her a sense of security. Nanzhi's cold body was no longer cold, and she walked quietly on his back.

She could touch his hair, the beautiful gold ornaments in between, and the hair hanging down on his clothes, which was longer than Li Lun himself, smooth and soft.

He walked slowly, and the black robe he was wearing gleamed with tiny lights under the moon that was revealed after the clouds drifted away, and it shone brightly with the twinkling cold stars in the sky.

Nanzhi felt that the monster Li Lun was very strange.

He is used to saying harsh words, but his behavior is unusually gentle, paranoid, stubborn, and sometimes he will choose to retreat.

Walking quietly, Li Lun suddenly asked, "Why are my hands and feet usually cold?"

Lying on Li Lun's back, Nanzhi did not answer him.

To her surprise, Li Lun didn't threaten her to answer this time. Instead, he indulged her temper and asked again with unprecedented patience, "Why are your hands and feet cold?"

Nanzhi lowered her eyes and said, "It's an old problem. I get cold when it's cold."

"Have you seen a doctor?" Li Lun asked again.

Nanzhi didn't answer him. With a quick glance, she thought of a good way to tease him out of the question: "You asked me a question, so it's only fair that you answer me a question."

"You really don't intend to suffer any loss at all." Li Lun chuckled, but also said: "What do you want to ask?"

Nanzhi thought for a moment and asked, "Why do you want to go against the Monster Hunting Bureau?"

Li Lun, standing tall and straight, his demeanor unaffected even by carrying someone on his back, replied, "Zhu Yan betrayed me, and the Demon Hunting Division...was implicated by him."

Nanzhi asked again: "Why did Zhao Yuanzhou betray you?"

Li Lun said, "That's the second question."

Nanzhi had no choice but to answer his first question: "When I was seven or eight years old, I saw a doctor. The doctor said that I had weak qi and blood, and that daily warming and nourishing medicine would be enough. But after a year of taking medicine, it didn't help. I saw another doctor and got the same answer. Besides, I didn't have any other symptoms, so I stopped seeing him."

"Hmph, all doctors in the world are quacks." Li Lun was very dissatisfied with the medical skills of the doctor who treated Nanzhi.

Nanzhi tightened her grip around Li Lun's neck, and only loosened it after hearing his muffled groan: "It's not the doctor's fault, it's my physical condition."

Li Lun was unhappy, but didn't say much.

Nanzhi: "It's my turn to ask."

Li Lun answered directly: "Zhu Yan and I had a disagreement over some things, and he helped outsiders seal me in the place where I was born."

Nanzhi said with a guilty conscience: "I don't want to ask this anymore."

Nanzhi could clearly feel Li Lun's steady pace pause for a moment, and then he smiled and said, "Sometimes I really don't know whether you are afraid of me or not."

Nanzhi couldn't tell what he was thinking: "Do you want me to be afraid of you, or do you not want me to be afraid of you?"

Although he knew the answer in his heart, Li Lun did not reveal his inner emotions and only said: "It depends on you."

"I'm afraid of you." Nanzhi said, without noticing the loneliness that flashed across Li Lun's face.

After a pause, she continued, "Sometimes I'm not afraid of you."

"When are you not afraid of me?" Li Lun asked.

Nanzhi thought for a moment and said, "I'm not afraid of you when I'm so angry with you that I hit you."

Hearing this answer, Li Lun couldn't help but curl up the corners of his lips.

Shen Nanzhi is still not afraid of him.

Nanzhi said, "I just answered two of your questions at once, and you still owe me one."

Li Lun was in a good mood and asked cheerfully, "What do you want to know?"

"What is your purpose?" Nanzhi asked directly.

Li Lun: “…”

The only trace of sweetness in his heart instantly turned into bitterness, and Li Lun continued to move forward carrying Nanzhi on his back.

Sitting at the place where he was born, Li Lun, whose hands and feet were locked with chains engraved with Bai Ze's divine power, opened his closed eyes and looked at the empty place where he was born alone. The loneliness that surged around him could not be suppressed no matter how hard he tried.

"I want... freedom." At the place where he was born, Li Lun sat on the stone and recalled the past with a lonely look in his eyes.