"After Bao Yan died, he somehow came to me," the old peach tree said.
At that time,
Bao Yan guarded under the tree. When the old peach tree asked him why he wasn't reincarnating, he was startled.
"You, you can talk?"
Bao Yan hadn't expected that the peach tree Ah Rui mentioned every day was actually a peach tree spirit.
Then, it must have heard everything and known everything?
Bao Yan looked at the thick trunk of the peach tree, then looked away, and then looked again.
It felt a little magical, and a little world-shattering.
After a while, he replied to the old peach tree, "She went before me. If I go now, I probably won't catch up."
It might as well wait for her here.
Waiting for her reincarnation.
The old peach tree asked him, "She's a monster, aren't you afraid?"
Bao Yan said without thinking, "Why should I be afraid? She doesn't harm me."
Speaking of this, as if recalling something, he frowned and clenched his fists.
Those people harmed Ah Rui.
...
"Huh, this isn't right,"
The figure on the tree suddenly changed its posture, "Didn't you say before that one waited and one hid?"
The old peach tree chuckled, "Yes, when Bao Yan found Ah Rui's reincarnation, he scared the little girl away with a single sentence. She hid from him for a lifetime."
Wasn't it just one waiting and one hiding?
"In the second life, Ah Rui was reincarnated as a male, and he could only guard her dryly."
Third life, fourth life...
"Until this life, he contracted her as a ghost soldier and bound her to his side."
Crunch, crunch, crunch.
The golden figure slowly ate peaches, looking at the sky.
Was his brain not working, or was the old peach tree being too convoluted?
"Then why did you ask if the little girl had waited? Don't you already know?"
"..."
The old peach tree watched the sunset gradually disappear beyond the mountain range, and its branches swayed.
Its ancient voice mingled with the wind.
Didn't he just... want to see if the little girl remembered?
Want to see if Bao Yan told her?
After so many years, Ah Rui was like his own daughter.
"Chii~"
After finishing the last peach, the story was also heard.
The golden figure on the tree stood up and looked at the sky.
"Old man, I should go. I'll come to see you again if I have the chance."
A monster...
...
On the vast lake, the old peach tree once again stood alone in the center.
The birds also left with the sunset.
The branches at the foot of the old peach tree moved, nudging the peach pits that the golden figure had just dropped.
It found a place and buried them.
After some time, they should sprout, right?
One peach pit, two peach pits...
By then, there should be six little saplings.
Just as the old peach tree was counting the peach pits, a small live stream ball flew out from between the leaves.
It flew all the way towards the underworld.
...
...
West Hall.
Jiang Lin retrieved the live stream ball.
After returning from the old peach tree, he handed the materials to Bao Yan and returned to his villa.
Before, when he left the lake with Ah Rui.
He sensed a different aura from the old peach tree, so he left a live stream ball.
He wanted to see what was going on.
If it was something inconvenient to broadcast, the live stream ball would naturally stay away.
... He didn't expect to hear such a story.
...
In the live stream, a group of single dogs and coupled dogs were somewhat unbearable.
"No, I can't let this go! It was so close, so close to them being together!"
"Ahhh, why did Ah Rui have to encounter this!"
"Why didn't Bao Yan inform Ah Rui in advance?"
A viewer immediately replied below, "It's obvious from listening that Bao Yan's situation in the Bao family at that time was not good. The fewer people who knew about the fake death, the better."
Back then, transportation was inconvenient. To convey messages, one needed letters.
It was inevitable that they would be discovered.
"I understand the logic, I'm just upset e=(#＞д＜)ﾉ!"
"Just because she's a monster, they want to kill her? My Great Sage would be the first to disagree!"
If Bao Yan had died directly, or directly broken his promise and not returned, the viewers wouldn't have felt this way.
But!
Bao Yan didn't die, and he was even preparing to return to the village...
It was just a little bit short!
Just a little bit!
When they were so close to a perfect ending, and then suddenly they were given a knife, it was very uncomfortable.
Thinking about Ah Rui and Bao Yan now...
The viewers didn't know whether they were watching a dog food show or being fed a bowl of knives by staying in the live stream.
Heartbreaking.
"Alas, I wonder what kind of Bao Yan the old peach tree was talking about..."
They hadn't seen him yet.
Thinking that Bao Yan had been guarding Ah Rui's reincarnation in the underworld until the end, the viewers took a deep breath.
"Lake Heart Tree, here we come! I must personally see that scenery, see that peach tree promise!"
"Me too! Just made a date with my girlfriend."
...
Looking at the rapidly scrolling bullet comments, Jiang Lin thought for a moment and said,
"Since Bao Yan didn't tell Ah Rui, then don't let it spread from us."
This was said to the viewers.
It was also said to the ghosts in the West Hall who liked to record with reflection stones.
Ah Rui accompanied him to find materials today and didn't go to the human world.
She probably didn't know about this yet.
Viewers: "Okay, streamer!"
"Okay, streamer, waiting for Ah Rui to discover it herself!"
"Okay, streamer, waiting for Bao Yan to tell Ah Rui himself~"
Although they really wanted to see Ah Rui's reaction when she found out.
But since Bao Yan and Ah Rui had finally reached this point, the viewers were also quite curious about how the two ghosts would develop afterward.
Would Bao Yan tell her proactively, or would the status quo be maintained, or... would Ah Rui remember it herself?
The entire Western Underworld,
All the people/ghosts who watched today's underworld live stream were silently eating melon.
— So fragrant!
Especially the ghosts in the underworld, who could daily watch the progress and chuckle...
...
...
"Hiccup!"
In the villa.
Ah Rui, who was tidying up the house with the cleaning ghost, couldn't help but sneeze.
She looked out the window, then at her master who was concentrating on his work.
Who was thinking of her?
Or did she catch a cold when she came back from Grandpa Peach Tree today?
However, since she became a ghost, she had never gotten sick.
Her master had said that unless they encountered something dirty or were affected mentally, ghosts generally wouldn't get sick.
"Forget it~"
Ah Rui shook her head, tidied up the books on the ground, and put them back on the bookshelf.
She also turned on the defensive shield on the bookshelf.
Her master always forgot to turn this on...
Alas~
...
【Mini Theater】
One day,
A tourist accidentally fell from the railing while admiring the lake heart tree.
After being rescued, his phone was missing.
"Probably fell into the water? Forget it, it's good to be alive."
In the center of the lake—
The old peach tree poked the phone screen at its feet. How should this thing be used?
...