Chapter 130

From a young age, although Su Heng had won a few prizes in shrimp chips when she was little, when a big pie fell from the sky and hit her on the head, she didn’t feel dizzy. She only felt that he must have some ulterior motive.

Su Heng had been beautiful since she was young, and her parents were afraid that she would be deceived by some bad hoodlum. On one hand, they advised her to study hard at a young age, and on the other hand, they told her about the tragic reality of various girls being deceived by men with ulterior motives, resulting in big bellies and a bleak life. She did not disappoint her parents’ efforts. Over the years, even though she had some interest in falling in love, she was extremely wary of men.

Moreover, she had been good-looking since she was young. From elementary school, there were little boys who liked her. In middle school, there were well-off boys who pursued her and stuffed pure gold jewelry into her desk drawer.

Even though she had only had a short-lived relationship where she treated her ex-boyfriend like a dog, she had seen many tactics of men.

She sat on the table with her arms crossed and looked the person in front of her up and down for a good while.

“I’m still young, and I’m the only one in my family. Moreover, my health is not good. I don’t have any deep hatred with you, so you should find someone else.”

“My health is not good. If I’m exposed to a little cold wind, I get a headache. I can’t stand your harm. I’m afraid I won’t last a few times before I die.”

Her mind was filled with all sorts of messy things. She didn’t believe that she could have such good luck. She hadn’t seen much, but she had heard a lot. She felt that if she was lucky enough to have a big pie fall from the sky, those who embraced it basically all died without a proper burial in the end.

Su Heng felt her heart still beating violently, but she breathed slowly to calm her heartbeat.

“I can’t afford you,” she said half-jokingly. “You’re not human, right? There’s a difference between humans and ghosts. I haven’t lived long enough, and my parents only have me. If something happens to me, who will take care of them in their old age and send them off in the end? You’re already dead anyway, and you’ve been dead for so many years. Just let go of this poor and innocent child.”

As she spoke, her entire demeanor suddenly became pitiful.

Su Heng was also somewhat reluctant. Her relatives did business at home, and when she was on vacation at home, they occasionally took her out to eat and see the world. After eating many meals, she found that men who were a little older were basically all greasy. Nine out of ten of their seduction tactics were the same. In their twenties, their faces were already shining with a layer of grease. What they said and did was simply like coming out of an oil barrel.

Compared to those men, the one in front of her was like a fresh lotus, clean and transparent. It made her a little eager to move, but when she thought of the possible consequences of picking it, she immediately shrank back.

“I’m not a ghost!” Xiao Wu immediately clarified when he heard her words.

He looked at Su Heng’s surprised face. “I’m not a ghost.”

Su Heng glanced outside. The scorching summer sun was high in the sky, so strong that even the drawn curtains couldn’t block it. It was full of yang energy, and it was unlikely that many ghosts could withstand it.

She became interested and circled around Xiao Wu. “Then what are you?”

“I…” Xiao Wu had just started to speak when he saw the expression on her face and suddenly stopped. His clear eyes were filled with the pain of being hurt.

Su Heng was choked up. She blinked and approached him cautiously. “Did my words just now make you unhappy?”

As soon as she finished speaking, she was hugged by him. The arms that held her were trembling.

That embrace was very thin, and she could hardly feel any weight.

“I’ve been waiting for this day for a long time. Don’t drive me away again.”

Su Heng opened her mouth. “No, I didn’t know you before.”

“I left before, but I didn’t expect that I would be delayed for a while. I can’t believe I missed so much.”

The flow of time was different between different worlds. He didn’t expect that after he finished his affairs in the divine realm and came back, she would already be this old.

“…” Su Heng listened to his words and became more and more confused, but from his few words, she came up with something that she found absurd and ridiculous.

“You mean you’ve been following me since I was a child?”

Su Heng was stunned. The next moment, she grabbed his sleeve, not knowing what material it was made of. The fabric felt cold and smooth in her palm, and when she looked closely, she could see silver light bursting out from it.

At this moment, Xiao Wu fell silent for a long time, only his hands kept tightening, but he accurately controlled the force so as not to hurt her.

“When I first came to find you, you were only this small. When I came back again, you had already grown up.”

He wanted to stay by her side all the time, at least to protect her until she walked through this journey. Who knew it would turn out like this? Even he couldn’t calculate everything perfectly.

“…Where did my family live before?”

Su Heng asked.

Her family had moved several times, moving three or four times. Moreover, the family was planning to buy a house. When everything was finalized and decorated, they would move again.

Xiao Wu pointed in a direction without any hesitation. “I remember, at that time, your family was not very well-off. There were only two rooms. Outside, there was a corridor that connected everything together.”

He sighed slightly as he spoke. “Outside, there were the stoves of each family for cooking. Before noon, the door couldn’t be opened.”

Su Heng was stunned. Before she was four or five years old, her family lived in a tube-shaped building. Each family didn’t have a kitchen, and they all moved their own coal stoves outside. She only had a vague memory of this, and later, she heard her parents reminisce about the past.

“After that, I don’t know. But I have no intention of harming you.”

He could see her vigilance at a glance. “I want to see you live well and have a fulfilling life.”

“Did we know each other before?” Su Heng asked softly.

“Yes.”

Xiao Wu hesitated for a moment but still told her.

“You like me?”

Su Heng asked, then snickered. “You must like me.”

She had heard and seen many greasy men’s tricks. As long as there was a sign, she could distinguish it. But she felt that his sadness was real.

Su Heng carefully found a reason to believe him. The heart in her chest, which she had forcibly calmed down, popped out again, beating one after another. From the first moment she saw him, she felt that he was different from others.

But she had to be careful.

“Did we know each other in a previous life?”

She continued to ask, her words full of certainty.

If she had this idea before, she would have laughed loudly, but now when she said it, she was surprised by her own certainty.

“The soul is one, not divided into past and present lives. As long as the soul is that soul, no matter what identity you have or what you have become, it is still you.”

“It’s really true!” Su Heng wanted to cover her mouth, but now she was being held by him and couldn’t move her hands and feet.

She turned her head to look at him, her eyes full of curiosity. “So why did you scare me?”

Her words made Xiao Wu stunned for a moment. Su Heng felt the arms that were tightly locked around her loosen a little.

“In the middle of the night, why did you scare me?”

She pointed to the dark circles under her eyes. “Look, look, there are already dark circles!”

This was not because she was scared in the middle of the night and didn’t dare to sleep. She carried a kitchen knife and wandered around the house for two or three days, and the dark circles under her eyes darkened.

“I… I didn’t expect it.” Xiao Wu looked at the two dark circles under her eyes and admitted his mistake cleanly and neatly. “It’s my fault.”

“If you have something to say, say it directly. Why be so mysterious?”

Xiao Wu moved slightly. “I was afraid I would scare you.”

As soon as he said this, he couldn’t help but purse his lips. “When I came back, I saw a young man beside you…”

“You’ve been watching all this time, so why are you asking?” Su Heng asked strangely, as if he was making a fuss.

Xiao Wu frowned. “I… haven’t seen him come over.”

“Of course he hasn’t come over. I’ve kicked him out, so how could you possibly see him come over?”

Her breakup with her ex-boyfriend was when she went back to school to get her report card, confirmed her choice of university, and then went home to avoid people. She told him through a third party. It was only after everyone knew that she had kicked him out that he was the last one to know about the breakup.

Moreover, when she told her classmates, she didn’t meet them face-to-face, but only asked them to help through her phone.

She suddenly remembered something. That ex-boyfriend suddenly became like a weakling, getting sick from time to time, swaying in the wind, and looking like he might fall down at any moment.

“Was it your doing?”

Xiao Wu pursed his lips. “No, I don’t need to use such tactics on an ordinary person. He has his own problems.”

Su Heng said “that’s right” as well. “He’s not enough for you to deal with.”

She pulled away from him a little. She always felt that if he really made a move, it probably wouldn’t be resolved with a few minor illnesses and injuries.

After saying this, she was stunned herself. She just felt that the person in front of her was very powerful, and he wouldn’t make a move against those people, nor would he deign to do so.

Su Heng covered her chest, looking strange.

She glanced at him, a clean person standing in front of her, looking like he was waiting for her to scrutinize and dispose of him.

This was really a pie falling from the sky, hitting her so hard that she saw stars.

Su Heng covered her chest. She instinctively believed him, but she was also a little scared. In these ten years, she had never encountered any good things that came without effort. Now that it had fallen on her head, she really couldn’t take it for a while.

“Go and bask in the sun for a while.”

Su Heng pulled open the curtains in one swift motion. The midsummer sunlight poured in from behind the curtains, bathing Xiao Wu’s entire being in its rays. His long hair and even his fingertips were infused with a radiant glow from the sudden burst of sunlight outside.

The sunlight fell upon him and also settled in the depths of Su Heng’s eyes.

Su Heng let go of the curtains she was holding and embraced Xiao Wu with a thud.

“It’s real.”

She murmured.