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“She carefully maintains everything here, making the flowers and plants flourish, because one day you will come back and be with her forever. She has been waiting for you.” Xiaoyue said softly, her voice slightly choked with emotion.

Tears streamed down my face as I blamed myself, saying, "I shouldn't have gotten sick back then, I shouldn't have completely forgotten her. For over ten years, I haven't thought of this place, or of Nanling."

Xiaoyue shook her head, then suddenly shuddered and fell silent.

"Nanling, come out and let me see you!" I pleaded desperately in front of that blade of grass.

“She doesn’t want to come out and meet you,” Xiaoyue suddenly said. “Seven years ago, do you remember? Once you were playing in the river and saw a flower seed, so you picked it up and planted it under that camphor tree. That was her.”

I listened to someone speaking, I couldn't tell if it was Nanling or Xiaoyue. "She originally lived in the immortal realm of famous mountains and rivers, but every five hundred years she would face a calamity and turn into a seed. When you were five years old, you found her by the river and planted her under a camphor tree, which allowed her to survive the calamity and avoid being doomed. Later, when her spirit grew up, she appeared in your dream and guided you to transplant her into your courtyard."

"To repay you, I fell in love with you, took care of you, and helped you. Although you were just a child then, I vowed to wait for you to grow up, marry you, and then find a beautiful place to stay with you for the rest of my life." This was no longer Xiaoyue's voice. Behind Xiaoyue, there was a green shadow. I saw Nanling. She finally couldn't help but come out to see me.

Immediately, I rushed over, grabbed her cool hands, and choked out, "I'm sorry, Sister Nanling—no, you haven't grown up at all, I should call you little sister now."

"Still as mischievous as when she was little," she managed a weak smile on her tear-streaked face, then, unable to contain her longing, she threw herself into my arms.

At that moment, I held her petite and soft body in my arms, smelling her mature girlish fragrance mixed with the natural scent of lavender. I glanced at Xiaoyue uneasily, and she nodded reassuringly, smiled peacefully, and then quietly left the hall and went outside.

"Actually, I know it's impossible. You're human, and I'm a ghost. Humans and ghosts are different, and we can't be together. But I'll still wait for you until you really come back, and bring back a great beauty..."

"I'm sorry, Nanling, but I..."

She pressed her small hand to my lips and whispered, "I know you didn't mean it. If I had known that was why you didn't come back, I would have tried everything to go into the city to find you and restore your past memories. But it's all too late now."

Ten years have passed, and we are separated by life and death. I try not to think of you, but I cannot forget you.

"Do you remember before? Every time you got a scrape, I would hold you in my arms, apply antiseptic, comfort you, and tell you stories..."

"Ten years have passed. I have been able to detach myself from my body and become an elf. Just as I was about to transform into a human to find you, you really came back. However, you have someone else in your heart and it is impossible for you to love me again. My only way out is to find a secluded fairyland and continue my cultivation alone."

As Nan Ling spoke, tears fell one by one from the blade of grass, landing on the blue bricks on the ground. The sound of each drop was heartbreaking, and the silent weeping was even more sorrowful.

As she said, when the memories return, I will still like Nanling, because those were the truest and purest emotions of my childhood, but my heart belongs only to Xiaoyue, and I love Xiaoyue. This is something that nothing can change.

---janeadam

Reply [26]: I don’t know how much time has passed, but Nanling and I are standing together in the courtyard, letting the moonlight shine on us. A kind of joy and a kind of sorrow, like the autumn wind blowing by, like the wisps of white clouds in the sky, I don’t know where they came from or where they are going.

When the tears on the leaves had all dried, the grass suddenly pulled itself out of the flowerpot and dissolved into Nanling's body.

Immediately afterwards, Nanling broke free from my embrace and flew upwards into the sky. Under the moonlight, her green dress fluttered, her long sleeves dancing, classical and composed. The final song and dance leaped through the air:

The fragrance of lotus fades, and autumn's chill settles on the jade mat. I lightly loosen my silk robe and board the orchid boat alone.

Who sends a letter from the clouds? When the wild geese return, the moon will be full over the western tower.

Flowers drift and fall, water flows on; one longing, two places of sorrow.

This feeling is impossible to dispel; it just moves from my brow to my heart.

After the song ended, a dazzling array of lights appeared, and amidst a sea of colorful fireflies, Nanling suddenly vanished, along with the spiritual power of love that had always connected with my heart, which finally broke off.

"Flowers are not flowers, mist is not mist, coming tonight, leaving tomorrow, coming like a spring dream, how long does it last? Leaving like the morning glow, nowhere to be found." The thought that I would never see her again filled my heart with pain, and tears streamed down my face.

I don't know how much time had passed when the door was gently pushed open. I turned around and saw Xiaoyue and my parents.

Dad exclaimed dramatically, "Wow, my son has been separated from some celestial being again, and he's so heartbroken. If outsiders see this, please don't say it's my son, he's so useless."

My mom was the one who cared about me the most. She said, "What happened? Xiaoyue wouldn't let us in for so long. I was so worried. But your dad thinks Xiaoyue will be fine."

I looked at Xiaoyue gratefully, took her hand, and didn't know what to say.

Xiaoyue chuckled, a rare occurrence, and said with a hint of bitterness, "Uncle and Aunt, it's nothing serious. Your precious son almost fell in love with a blade of grass."

For the next four or five days, I stayed with my family and Xiaoyue. We stayed at the old house for two days before Xiaoyue said goodbye, saying that she had something to take care of at home.

My dad and I know she is the leader of a sect. Although the Linshui Sect doesn't have many members, the various factions that have branched out from it are quite complex, and there are too many things that require her to handle. Besides, her younger brother Xiaofeng is still in Yong'an Town, and she can't rest easy about him.

Only the mother was a little sullen. After spending only a few days with Xiaoyue, she had completely fallen in love with her future daughter-in-law. Moreover, she said, "I've already talked to all the gossipy aunts in the city. I want them to see Xiaoyue's beauty and talent. They used to always brag about how great their daughters-in-law were, but Xiaoyue can easily outshine them with just a little finger."

Then, with a stern face, she stared at me and said, "Ah Xin, you can't let Xiaoyue down in the slightest. If Xiaoyue is even a little unhappy, I won't let you off the hook!"

Good heavens, who is her real child?! I groaned inwardly and nodded hastily in agreement.

On the way to say goodbye, I blurted out everything about Nanling to her without being asked, because I was afraid she would misunderstand. Actually, I was wrong. After listening, she smiled mysteriously and didn't say anything more. But when she got into the car, she held my hand reluctantly and said with tears in her eyes:

"The people who love you and the people you love will always be by your side, no matter when or where, no matter what time or space. A single meeting of the golden phoenix and jade dew surpasses countless encounters in the mortal world."

For the next few days, we were busy entertaining all our relatives and friends at the old residence, and we didn't return to the city until Saturday.

Many years later, I learned that on the very night after we returned to the city, a green shadow fell into the courtyard of our old home. Amidst a bright green glow, the delicate and radiant grass grew back in its original flowerpot, graceful and charming.

Xiaoyue suddenly appeared, and said with a mischievous smile, "I knew you would come back. You won't easily abandon Jianxin, and you won't abandon the memories of the happy life you shared with him."

“It’s you! I’m sorry, I’ve thought about it for a long time and I think I should come back. Anyway, anywhere is a place for cultivation. If I go elsewhere, my heart will be even less at peace, and I will never reach the state of perfection,” Qiucao Ye Jing Nanling said nervously.

"I now understand that love is actually part of my spiritual journey in this world. However, I will never see Kenshin again. Because the Kenshin in my heart was only eight or nine years old. When he was praised by his teacher, or when he hurt his leg, or when he was bullied by his friends, he would cry and come to me to confide in me, asking me to help heal his physical and emotional wounds."

“I understand, you don’t need to apologize,” Xiaofeng walked over, took her hand, and smiled gently. “Put yourself in my shoes. If I were you, I would do the same. Rather than being bound by something for a lifetime, it’s better to be together nearby. That’s love. Don’t worry, I won’t tell Jianxin, but in the future, I will bring him back from time to time so you can see him.”

---janeadam

Reply [27]: Chapter Thirteen Falling from the Building

The day after I returned to the city from my hometown of Kuokou Town, I had to say goodbye to my parents again.

At the train station, my mother hugged me and said, "Child, you've always been like your father, never knowing how to take care of yourself. How can I be at ease? Hurry up and marry Xiaoyue. She's so outstanding, I'm really worried!"

My dad had complete confidence in me, saying, "Yanmei, don't worry. Xiaoyue is completely devoted to Axin. Besides, who else would dare to want her?"

Actually, on the night Xiaoyue left, I told my father about the important part of how I received Xiaoqingzi's spiritual transmission and how I worked with Xiaoyue to eliminate the evil spirit Tianyizi in Gantian Village. You can imagine how shocked he was at that time.