Translator: Dj2203
Editor: Dj2203
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Everything happened in the interface, but Su Xi’s breath was choked when she saw the scene under the pear tree.
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The sky had become completely dark, and the surroundings were empty and silent. Occasionally, a few pear blossoms were blown down by the cold wind, like fine snowflakes.
The cub looked very small, with an expressionless face. He sat under a tree with his knees hugged.
It seemed like he had been waiting for a long time. A layer of white covered his shoulders, and the expectation in his eyes had been extinguished in the cold wind.
He was wearing a red and black robe, but there was no blood stain on it. It was just that the color of the robe had become darker and dirtier. There was only a little blood splashed on his white neck and face, and his long black hair was slightly messy. There were still seven arrows left in the quiver on his right hand, and there was a white wolf head on his left, which looked ferocious but also had a kind of beauty of absolute power.
There were some messy traces at the entrance of a nearby cave.
The cold wind blew into his neck, making his clothes flutter, but he seemed not to feel it and still waited there.
How long had he been waiting?
Although Su Xi knew that the cub had asked her to meet him with great anxiety and hope, she could not do it at all, and in the end, this could be the only result…
But when she really saw that the cub had killed the wolf king and rushed to the tree to wait for her, but he watched time pass by little by little, as no one showed up, and the excitement and brightness in his eyes dimmed little by little, and finally when he realized that she would not come at all, his eyes completely turning into a pool of calm water…
…She still felt very uncomfortable watching this scene.
This game obviously went beyond the scope of ordinary games. Although Su Xi was bound to the system, she had previously treated all the characters in the game as stick figures, thinking that they were just protagonists that were programmed to be too intelligent and realistic.
But now, seeing this scene, Su Xi felt that the cub was a real person with flesh and blood from another time and space – and the more she thought about it, the more guilty she felt for not being able to keep the appointment.
He had waited for her in the cold wind for so long that the blood on his face had frozen solid. He was so expectant at first, but the expectation gradually turned into uneasiness, and finally into disappointment.
She shouldn’t have made him wait. If she had known this would happen, she should have left a picture to tell him that she couldn’t come…
Su Xi just didn’t expect that the cub would wait so stubbornly for so long.
Moreover, she didn’t expect that she would feel so bitter after she stood up a game character.
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Su Xi was silent outside the screen, and the cub in the screen was also very silent.
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Originally, there was still about an incense stick of time before you could return to the hunting camp, but because of the assassination of the second prince, the horn was blown in advance at the foot of the mountain.
So the princes moved towards the camp one after another.
This place was remote and close to the Snow Wolf King’s cave. Not many people came here, so it was dead silent.
Su Xi thought that since the cub had waited until now and still hadn’t seen anyone coming, he should give up and walk down the mountain.
The camp at the foot of the mountain was in chaos, and there were loud cries for help, which he heard as well.
But who knew that he still didn’t move and was still waiting.
Until the time of this stick of incense passed by minute by second, and the sky became completely dark, pitch black, and he realized that the man could not come, that the small flame that was left in his eyes finally “popped” out completely, and then he slowly stood up, holding on to the tree.
He stood there for a while, looking at the endless night sky for a while, then he picked up the Snow Wolf King’s head, walked over to untie the horse’s reins, and led the horse down the mountain.
Su Xi watched the tiny figure of the cub walking in the cold night, and her heart as an old mother was almost pierced into a sieve. If she hadn’t been afraid that he would think he had seen a ghost, she would have wanted to pull him back and tell him that she was actually here.
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Lu Huan led the horse and carried the Snow Wolf King down the mountain, with his eyelashes drooping and his lips slightly pursed, with no expression on his face.
That person didn’t come after all.
In the end, the man would not come, which was actually within his expectation. From the beginning, the man avoided him even when sending him something, which showed that he did not want to reveal his identity.
His request to meet him was really forced.
…He just thought that after communicating with him for a while, that person would not be able to bear to see him sad, and there would be a one in ten thousand chance that he would be willing to fulfill his small wish. But today, from daylight to dusk, that person did not show up at all…
It seemed that he overestimated himself.
Although Lu Huan had been eager and hopeful about this date before today, he was not so depressed as if a bucket of cold water had been poured on him now that he had not been able to wait for that person. Although he did feel a little disappointed, he was not too sad.
After all, he had already prepared himself to wait in vain for a day.
What’s more, even though that person didn’t come, it didn’t mean that he would leave him.
As long as that person was still there, it didn’t matter whether he could see him or not…
Thinking of this, Lu Huan concentrated his mind, tried to smooth the corners of his mouth that were drooping due to disappointment, and walked quickly towards the camp at the foot of the mountain.
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At this time, the camp at the foot of the mountain was in chaos. The prince was assassinated during the hunt, which was a very serious matter.
Su Xi then turned the interface over and saw that when they saw the cub carrying the Snow Wolf King, all the princes were shocked.
The cub walked back from the crowd as if no one was around and handed the Snow Wolf King’s head to the guards from Ning Wang’s mansion that he had brought with him, asking them to present it as a trophy. At least half of the people’s eyes were attracted to him…
The Crown Prince also came to congratulate the cub, and Su Xi felt a little better.
The cub was in a low mood just now by the pear tree, but now he seemed to be better. Although he still had no expression on his face, the bitterness between his brows had faded a little.
Only then did Su Xi feel a little relieved.
She was playing games and before she knew it, it was already seven o’clock. Her mother knocked on the door: “Xi Xi, have you finished reviewing? Come and have dinner.”
Su Xi suddenly looked up, checked the time, then looked at the review book on the table. Damn, she almost forgot that she had an exam tomorrow!
Su Xi quickly put down her phone and went out to have a meal.
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After Su Xi left, all the princes in the camp gathered around the injured Second Prince. The Second Prince’s wound was very deep, but for some reason, someone had applied golden medicine on him, so that he had woken up from his coma.
The Crown Prince was sending people to investigate today’s assassination with a serious look on his face, and to find out who had done it. His guards were in a state of confusion.
Next to the bonfire, the Fifth Prince sat beside the Second Prince with concern and said to him, “Second brother, you scared me to death. I’m glad you’re okay. Did you see the faces of those who assassinated you?”
The Third Prince, standing next to the Imperial Physician, was looking at the extra lantern and said in a nonchalant manner, “Second Brother, someone must have saved you. I wonder which mountain hunter or guard’s daughter it was. Perhaps this could become a good story.”
The second prince struggled to sit up with the help of the guards, frowned, and said weakly: “How do you know it was a woman? There are not many women on this mountain. When I woke up, I found myself being dragged from the stream to the vicinity of the camp. Women don’t have that much strength.”
“That’s right.” The third prince suddenly became bored.
“It could also be a servant or follower of a prince’s family. No matter what, I will definitely repay them for saving my second brother.” The Crown Prince solemnly ordered: “Let those princes come and see whose lantern this is.”
The princes came over one by one.
This lantern was extremely ordinary, made of straw with a cheap oil lamp inside. Even the servants in their house would not use it.
However, there was a string of tiny handwriting on the handle of the lantern. The princes looked at it carefully and found that they could not understand it at all.
The shape of this line of tiny characters was crooked like tadpoles, which was very strange. It looked like a foreign language, or like it was casually carved with a bamboo knife and had no meaning at all.
This line of small words was: “made in the game mall”
What was the meaning?
The princes could not figure it out, so they treated it as a meaningless pattern and ignored it.
But when the lantern fell into Lu Huan’s hands, Lu Huan stared at the lantern, and his dark eyelashes trembled nervously.
He looked at the powder on the second prince’s chest in astonishment. After a long pause, his heavy gaze returned to the lantern… His face, which was still stained with some blood, became a little ugly.
This string of meaningless tiny words was also on the rabbit lamp that the man gave him.
He took the rabbit lantern down from the eaves every morning and hung it up again at dusk with a lit candle. Day after day he held the rabbit lantern in his hand and looked at it happily. The long handle of the lantern was almost rubbed off by him. How could he not know?
He just thought it was a pattern on the long handle.
But he didn’t expect that there was also one on this straw lantern.
So, this lantern belonged to that person…
The second prince was also rescued by that person…?
Yes, this powder was very effective, and it was a medicine that only that person could come up with. Saving the second prince without revealing his identity was also what that person would do.
Lu Huan stood there, pursed his lips, said nothing, had a gloomy look on his face, and did not move, just staring at the lantern in his hand.
The last time that person helped Master Ding, it was for his sake, but this time, that person saved the second prince, and it should have nothing to do with himself.
Why did that person want to save the second prince? Did he have any other plan?
This was not something he had to feel sorry for Lu Huan. In fact, he had no right to interfere with what that person did.
It would be ridiculous for him to blame that person for the awkward and unreasonable possessive desire that was bubbling up in his heart, which he dared not admit.
But at this moment, his mind was blank, and thoughts like “It turns out that person is not just kind to him” kept flashing through his mind. He was completely unable to think of anything else, and his fingers holding the lantern seemed to be getting colder.
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He thought the man didn’t come at all.
But it turned out that the man also came here, but he did not keep his appointment. Instead, he went to save the second prince?
Lu Huan’s eyelashes trembled and the blood on his face gradually faded.
The author has something to say:
“made in the game mall” made in the mall.
Su Xi: What the hell… I didn’t know that buying a lantern in this crappy game comes with a label…
The cub: I am really heartbroken. That person must really care about the Second Prince and went through so much trouble to save him.
The second prince: Damn it, I don’t know which bast**d saved me, he’s so heartless and even dragged me on the ground, my butt is almost broken.
The Fifth Prince: It’s a pity that my second brother is not dead.
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