Chapter 59 I will always be there

 Chapter 59 I will always be there

By Jiulu Feixiang,

Translated, Edited and Arranged by Angel Chua 10/11/2024

The hug was too real, the heartbeat was too crazy, Shen Li was shocked back to her senses by her own heartbeat. She pushed Xingzhi away with force, but almost tripped over the fishing net behind her. Xingzhi reached out and grabbed her, sighing: "You are so reckless. If you fall into the water, who can you rely on to save you?"

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soon as he said this, Xingzhi was stunned. He turned his head and coughed twice unnaturally. But Shen Li seemed not to hear him.

She just lowered her head and looked at the treasures in the boat and said: "I'm welcome. Choose for yourself." Xingzhi looked at Shen Li's profile with some surprise, and then softened his eyes: "Well, if you like them, I'll give them all to you and won't take them back."

Shen Li paused while rummaging for the clam shell. Although she had not been in the heaven for a long time, she knew that Xingzhi was a person who never accepted gifts. Picking up one or two of the things sent by the Dragon King was just a token of her appreciation to give the Dragon King face, but if she accepted them all, the meaning would be quite different.

Shen Li did not respond to him, but just buried her head in searching for a while. Among the boat full of jewels, there was only a white round stone that looked like jade but not jade and looked a little more rustic. Shen Li picked it up and said, "After looking around, this stone suits my taste. I'll take it. The rest is up to you." Xingzhi nodded and said, "I'll exchange the beads for a few fish first, and then we'll go home for dinner."

The two had just climbed onto the wooden pier. Xingzhi was looking for someone to exchange the beads for fish, but just as he said a few words to an honest fisherman, a sarcastic voice came from the side: "This young man is fishing for clam shells again." He walked up and glared at the honest fisherman fiercely. The fisherman was about to hand the fish in his hand to Xingzhi, but the fisherman shrank his hand after being glared at by him. The man pushed the fisherman and said disdainfully, "Go away, you blind man is blocking my way."

The fisherman hurriedly took the fish, apologized to Xingzhi, and left quickly.

Xingzhi's eyes slowly fell on the man. He smiled calmly, and then he pulled up his belt and said, "You may not know me. I am Wang Bao, the eldest son of the village chief Wang's family. I see that the young man exchanges clam shells for fish every day. I think you don't like clam shells. It happens that I have a lot of fish. You can exchange them with me. These clam shells, ah, and those on your boat, give them to me."

"No." Xingzhi said lightly, "I want to throw them away."

What he said was indeed the truth, but Wang Bao heard another meaning. He raised his voice slightly: "Bold! I am the eldest son of the village chief! Why do you throw away those treasures and refuse to give them to me! Do you have a problem with me? If you have a problem with me, you have a problem with the village chief! Be careful, I will make you pay for it!"

Shen Li narrowed her eyes slightly behind Xingzhi. She couldn't stand the guy who bullied others by taking advantage of his power. Just when she was about to scold him, Xingzhi pulled her hand and pulled Shen Li away as if he didn't see the arrogant man in front of him. Wang Bao was furious, and he jumped in front of Xingzhi: "Stop! Didn't you hear me talking to you!"

As soon as he finished speaking, his eyes happened to fall on Shen Li behind Xingzhi. Shen Li was wearing the white cotton and linen clothes that Xingzhi brought her today. Because of her injuries, her fierce aura was much less, and her face was haggard, which made her look a little weak. The man's eyes immediately lit up, and he looked Shen Li up and down: "You, a thing without manners, have asked for a good wife."

Shen Li sneered. If she hadn't been injured, this rude guy would have been stepped on by her. "You have a good eye." Xingzhi's voice was light, a little colder than usual. Shen Li noticed it. In her opinion, Xingzhi was a god who never showed his true emotions. Even if he occasionally showed them, he would selectively let people know his emotions. But at this moment, Shen Li was keenly aware that Xingzhi's emotions were not the result of his rational choice.

"You should be thankful that you have such a pair of eyes." Before he finished speaking, Xingzhi punched Wang Bao in the face and knocked him unconscious on the ground. He didn't even struggle and fainted with his eyes closed.

His face was swollen where Xingzhi had hit him. Xingzhi didn't even blink, but stepped on his face and walked over without changing his expression. Shen Li stared at Xingzhi blankly.

He stared in astonishment until Xingzhi led Shen Li back to the yard with an expressionless face. He finally said, "My face was also swollen from being beaten. Why do you keep looking at me like this?" Shen Li blinked and said in a daze, "No, I just... didn't expect you to use such a direct method." Xingzhi... shouldn't he be the kind of person who does dirty tricks behind people's backs...

Xingzhi paused, with a few complex emotions in his eyes. He endured it for a while and turned to look at Shen Li: "He flirted with you." Shen Li was slightly stunned and said in a daze, "Uh... kind of..." "If it were you, how would you deal with it?" "Knock him unconscious..."

"In that case, I just chose the way you would choose." He turned his head and cleared a cough. As if he felt aggrieved that his kindness was not appreciated, he muttered softly, "I thought you would be happier this way." Shen Li was slightly dazed looking at his back.

When she realized what he meant, Shen Li's cheeks suddenly flushed... Was he... trying to please her... "Happy." She said, "Actually, I am happy."

She silently lowered her eyelids and looked at the ground, softening her usually firm and cold eyes. The emotions in her heart were like waves, rising and falling one after another, wetting all the emotions, but Shen Li also knew that perhaps only by wearing this coat could Xingzhi treat her so well. He wanted her to be unscrupulous, and why not let him be free for a while...

At night, Shen Li was still awake, and her ears suddenly moved. Her hearing has become much sharper in the past few days, and she can hear the sound more accurately than before. She heard someone enter the yard.

There were about four people, but the frivolous footsteps made it clear that the newcomers had not even practiced martial arts. Shen Li lay on the bed and continued to sleep. How could the courtyard of Xingzhi be unguarded at night...

Sure enough, before the four people entered the main hall, they heard two muffled groans, as if two of them had fallen down.

The other two panicked, their breath was disordered, and they ran away separately. One of them rushed into Xingzhi's room. Shen Li could only sigh, and the other rushed towards her.

The door was opened, and Shen Li didn't even open her eyes. She just smelled the smell on his body and guessed that this person was Wang Bao, who was bullying others today. He was panting, as if he was scared, but after panting for a while, he seemed to see Shen Li on the bed, and slowly approached. When he walked to the bed, Shen Li heard him swallow his saliva with a "gulp". Shen Li felt sick in her heart and opened her eyes. Her eyes were as cold as ice, reflecting the moonlight coming in from the window, and she was murderous.

Wang Bao was so frightened by her eyes that he stepped back. When he came to his senses, he immediately said, "My beauty, don't scream, my beauty, don't scream!" Seeing that Shen Li really didn't speak, he felt relieved and asked, "Are you sleeping in separate rooms?"

He pretended to understand, "I, I am the eldest son of the village chief. I am many times better than your husband who can only fisher. Why don't you follow me today, my beauty?"

"How can you be compared with him?" Shen Li sat up and spoke in a soft voice, "The difference is more than heaven and earth." Wang Bao was stunned and stared at Shen Li blankly, listening to her cold voice: "I have lived for a thousand years, but this is the first time I have been teased like this.

This experience is rare, but it's a pity that you are too ugly, so I don't even want to pity you." "What thousand years?" Wang Bao was stunned.

Shen Li was too lazy to say anything more. She stood up and slapped Wang Bao. She was not fully recovered from her injuries, so she was reluctant to use her strength.

But Wang Bao could not bear it. He was still swollen from the punch from Xingzhi in the morning. Shen Li hit him symmetrically. Wang Bao wailed and stepped back.

Shen Li would never let her go so easily. She reached out and grabbed him, but accidentally grabbed his belt. Wang Bao was pulled around twice.

The belt was handed to Shen Li. His pants fell down and his legs were exposed. Shen Li didn't want to do this, but she heard Wang Bao exclaimed: "Why is the beauty so impatient!"

Shen Li's mouth twitched, and she suddenly felt a black screen in front of her eyes, and a slightly cold palm covered her eyes.

The man behind her sighed: "Dirty thing, don't look." Shen Li relaxed her strength and let herself lean on the man behind her.

When he put down his hand, the door of the house was wide open, telling the panic of the departure. Shen Li looked back at Xingzhi: "I can handle this situation, and I don't need others to intervene." Xingzhi smiled: "I know, but you can choose not to handle it for the time being."

Because he will help her. Shen Li lowered her head and said nothing.

In fact... her body has already made that choice. The next day, Xingzhi got up early as usual to go fishing. Shen Li slept in the quilt until she woke up naturally, but the moment she opened her eyes, she realized that something was wrong.

She couldn't see anything, hear any sound, or touch anything. There was no sense of smell at the tip of her nose. She wanted to open her mouth to speak, but her throat was very tight.

She knew that she must be unable to speak now. She couldn't even verify whether her sense of taste still existed. She seemed to have fallen into a void space with nothing in it. Maybe she was killed now... She didn't know. Shen Li controlled her emotions and let herself float in the darkness.

She was not panicked, she just thought that it would be fine after this day, but she didn't know how long this day was, what time it was now, whether Xingzhi had come back, and how he would react to seeing her like this.

She seemed to be the only one in the world, wandering in the void, as if she could never get out. She began to feel afraid. What if she couldn't get better? What if she was like this from now on? She still had a lot of things to do, a lot of things to say, and so much reluctance...

How could she spend the rest of her life here? Shen Li wanted to escape from this place. She made herself run non-stop, but in the endless darkness, she didn't know if she was running at all. She couldn't see the direction, the road, or even herself, and didn't know whether she was alive or dead...

Time seemed to pass very fast and very slowly. She didn't know how long she had been in the darkness. Suddenly, she could hear some sounds softly in her ears. Someone was calling her: "Shen Li, don't be afraid, I'm here, don't be afraid."

The man suppressed his emotions so hard, but Shen Li heard the heartache in his words, so much heartache, it seemed to drown her. The tip of her nose smelled the smell of the outside world, the smell of the sea on his body, and a very light fragrance, which was the unique smell of Xingzhi, the smell of God, so reassuring...

Her limbs gradually regained feeling, and she knew that she was held in an embrace, so tight, as if protecting her, and as if relying on her. She raised her arms with all her strength, hugged him back, and stroked his back. "Have you always been there?"

She heard her voice was extremely hoarse, and she seemed so tired that she couldn't say the next sentence.

The hug was tighter, making Shen Li feel that her bones were being strangled and painful, but it was this pain that made her heart strangely rise with a very warm feeling: "I'm always here."

He swore in her ear, "I will always be there." Shen Li smiled: "Then next time, I won't be so scared." Xingzhi's throat choked, and he couldn't say anything else for a while.

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