Luo Yingbai crouched down, meeting her eye level, and softly said to Shi Qiunan: “You’re Chen Jingyu’s classmate, right? Don’t be afraid, I’m not a bad person. Everything’s fine now, I want to take you home, okay?”
Shi Qiunan looked at his smile and finally believed him a bit, carefully saying: “I… won’t go back to that village.”
Luo Yingbai paused. The Yu Wang on the ground was already struggling to say: “See? She’s willing, I didn’t force her at all. She came to me herself! We’re just learning from you humans. Why are you only giving me trouble? The people in the village are much worse than us. If you have the ability, go find them!”
Luo Yingbai said: “What exactly happened? Explain clearly.”
Xiao Nan trembled, while Yu Wang just cursed incoherently. Luo Yingbai listened for a while but couldn’t grasp the key point, so he touched his face and said gently: “Your stubborn look is so cute, it makes me want to do something. Come on, cry louder.”
Yu Wang immediately shut his mouth tight.
Luo Yingbai looked at him and smiled, repeating his question: “What exactly happened?”
He said these words, and outside had already begun disturbances. Luo Yingbai heard from far away that Xia Xianning had arrived.
Time went back to a few hours earlier.
After Luo Yingbai climbed out the window, Xia Xianning watched his back disappear into the lush low woods and sighed softly.
Luo Yingbai had returned, and as long as he was safe, even the deepest knots would eventually dissolve. Perhaps because they had shared a bed since childhood, eaten from the same bowl, practiced and sparred together, gotten into trouble and been scolded, Luo Yingbai had always been by Xia Xianning’s side.
Until Luo Yingbai’s absence, he felt as if they had been apart for a lifetime. Although he never said it, Xia Xianning knew that he was always happy when spending time with Luo Yingbai.
Xia Xianning saw that it was getting late and didn’t want to waste time overthinking. He took out a stack of pale yellow paper figures from his wallet. He bit his own finger and evenly smeared blood on the spread-out paper figures. The yellow figures’ chests seemed to have a bright red heart.
“Yin spirits descend, obey my decree, go!”
