The boundless, dense night was gradually torn open, making way for the dawn light.
Thus, the sky was scattered with daylight, replacing the pitch-black night sky with a dawn tinged with gold at the edges, heralding the break of day.
When Xie Tao finally woke up from her sleep, the first thing she saw was a face very close to hers.
Unlike the pallor of their first meeting the night before, his skin was now flawless, his lips the color of rubies.
With his eyes closed, his long, dense eyelashes looked like two small fans, and his eyebrows resembled distant mountains drenched in a misty rain—how magical.
Xie Tao stared at his face for a long moment, her finger cautiously touching his brow bone.
At this moment, she was not in the Great Zhou,
But he had really… come into her world.
Her bed was a single, small one, suitable for her, but somewhat cramped for Wei Yun.
The bed was too small, and his legs too long; lying on his side, his ankles almost hung in the air at the foot of the bed.
Wei Yun was a light sleeper, and the small size of the bed made it hard for him to find comfort. So, when Xie Tao reached out to touch his brow bone, he moved his eyelids and opened his eyes.
For a moment, their eyes met.
Xie Tao blinked and pursed her lips, her voice soft, “Good morning… Wei Yun.”
Upon hearing her voice, a softness seemed to spread across Wei Yun’s eyes, much like the gentle sunlight reflected in a window, melting the ice and snow deep in his pupils.
“Morning.” His voice was hoarse with the distinctiveness of early morning.
His breath was close, making Xie Tao hesitant to look at him. After stuttering for a bit, she finally asked, “Does your wound still hurt?”
As she spoke, Xie Tao reached out to unbutton his collar.
Wei Yun instinctively grabbed her wrist.
It was also at this moment that he seemed to realize that the wound on his shoulder blade didn’t hurt at all anymore.
Wei Yun released Xie Tao’s hand, then sat up, tentatively moving his arm.
Surprisingly, there was no pain at all.
He had paused when he initially intended to unbutton his shirt. Turning his head, he indeed saw Xie Tao staring straight at him with her almond-shaped eyes.
“…Xie Tao.” Wei Yun called her name, his voice carrying a hint of helplessness.
Xie Tao buried her face in the quilt, like a little silkworm, desperately burrowing into it, and then muffledly asked him through the quilt, “Is this okay?”
Wei Yun looked at the “little hill” rising under the quilt, his eyes inevitably crinkling with laughter.
He leisurely unbuttoned his shirt.
When he peeled off the gauze that Xie Tao had used to bandage him the night before and looked back at his shoulder blade, he was astonished to find that the wound, which had been bleeding just last night, had disappeared without a trace.
Apart from the bloodstains still on the gauze, it was as if he had never been injured at all.
It seems Meng Lichun’s medicine really is miraculous.
Just a momentary astonishment, and Wei Yun’s expression returned to normal. He dressed himself, then looked at the bundle still wrapped in a blanket beside him. Unable to resist a slight curl of his lips, he reached out to lift the blanket off her.
Xie Tao, who had been wrapped in the blanket for quite some time, was feeling a bit short of breath, her cheeks now tinged with a hint of crimson. When the blanket was lifted off by him, she blinked in confusion, peering through her disheveled hair to see the blood-stained gauze wrapped around his hand. She quickly sat up, “Why did you remove the gauze?”
She said she was going to get the bottle of medicine that Meng Lichun left here yesterday.
Wei Yun, who understood her intentions, timely stopped her and said, “No need, my wound has already healed.”
Already healed?
Xie Tao turned around and looked at him with her almond eyes.
“Indeed, all healed.” Wei Yun said again.
Xie Tao still seemed somewhat skeptical. She reached out to unbutton his collar, saying, “Let me see…”
Because there were a few unbuttoned buttons on his collar, Xie Tao pushed his collar back, revealing half of Wei Yun’s shoulder.
“…”
Wei Yun’s fingers still held her wrist, but they couldn’t stop her stubborn actions.
So at this moment, he, with his thick black hair scattered, skin as pale as jade, slightly lowered peach blossom eyes, beautiful folds of double eyelids, crimson lips, revealed half of his shoulder.
Xie Tao involuntarily swallowed saliva.
Her eyes blinked repeatedly.
Indeed, the wound on his shoulder blade had already healed completely, without leaving a trace of a scar.
Xie Tao’s fingers, which were gripping his lapel, suddenly loosened.
For some reason, her cheeks began to feel a bit warm.
She scratched the back of her head and after a long pause, she finally said, “It’s, it’s quite magical… It’s really gone.”
“…”
Wei Yun pulled his lapel up, speechless for a moment.
Both of them remained silent for a while, neither speaking.
Later, Xie Tao lifted the quilt, got out of bed, ran to the water dispenser to press the power button, and then took a glass to the small kitchen next door to wash it.
After the water boiled, Xie Tao poured a glass and brought it to Wei Yun.
“Have some water.” She said, looking at him.
Because he was without shoes, Wei Yun was standing barefoot on the cold tile floor at that moment.
He took the glass Xie Tao handed him, brought it to his lips, and took a sip.
Seeing him barefoot, Xie Tao pushed a stool towards him to sit on, then she hurried into the bathroom to wash up, changed her clothes, came out, shouldered her bag, and said, “Wei Yun, I’m going out to buy some things, wait for me, okay!”
After saying that, she ran to the entrance, took the keys hanging on the wooden hook, put on canvas shoes, and left.
Wei Yun watched her figure quickly disappear behind the door. Holding the glass in his hand, he took a moment before he started looking around.
The house was not big, with the bedroom and living room basically merged into one. The kitchen was a very small separate space, and the bathroom was also quite small.
Wei Yun’s gaze fell on the light blue sofa.
He remembered that Xie Tao often sat there, holding up her phone screen, watching TV with him.
Next to the window, there was her desk, covered with many things, including books, storage boxes, and some small objects.
Wei Yun even saw the wool felt cat pendant there.
It was bought together with the giraffe she gave him.
Suddenly, Wei Yun put down the glass, stood up barefoot, and walked to Xie Tao’s desk, stretching his hand to open the dark curtains a bit.
Thus, more light instantly flooded in, brightening the room.
Through the glass window, he looked out, and for the first time, the distant high-rise buildings and the ceaseless flow of cars truly caught his eye.
According to Meng Lichun,
His birth was the moment when the magnetic field belonging to this spacetime in his body was unsealed.
But…
Wei Yun then stretched his hand out, gently touching the small pot of green plant’s tender leaves on the windowsill, his gaze towards the distance became even more profound and distant.
How was he to return?
When Xie Tao opened the door and entered the entrance, she looked up to see Wei Yun standing in front of her desk, as if looking out through the glass window.
Hearing the sound of the door, Wei Yun turned his head and saw Xie Tao with her backpack on and holding a bag of things.
“Wei Yun, come here quickly!”
Xie Tao changed her shoes, placed the breakfast she was holding on the nearby table.
Then she took off the backpack she was carrying, unzipped it, and took out a pair of men’s slippers she bought at the supermarket, placing them beside his feet, “Wear these for now.”
Wei Yun glanced at the slippers.
It seems somewhat difficult to understand this style, but he frowned slightly and still put it on.
“I also bought breakfast.”
Xie Tao said as he walked to the table, took out the packaged porridge and buns, and handed a spoon to Wei Yun.
Wei Yun sat down and took the spoon from Xie Tao’s hand.
Even though he had become familiar with many things of this time and space more than once through the light screen of the copper medallion, and even through various books brought by Xie Tao, seeing is believing after all.
He still couldn’t help but feel novelty.
Just as Xie Tao was about to take a bite of a bun, a pale blue light appeared out of nowhere, followed by a slender and slim figure gradually becoming visible.
It was Meng Lichun.
She was also holding a cup of milk tea, and when she saw Xie Tao about to feed himself a bun, she gave an embarrassed smile, “Having breakfast?”
Then she suddenly met Wei Yun’s indifferent eyes.
“…”
She couldn’t help but touch her own neck, feeling somewhat chilly.
“Lord Wei, you need an identity proof here, otherwise… there will be trouble.”
Meng Lichun said with a forced courage.
Now, the magnetic field of this time and space hidden in Wei Yun’s body has been completely freed from restrictions, meaning, Wei Yun can now freely travel between the two time spaces without any constraints.
But in this modern society where technology is increasingly advanced, he must have a proper identity proof.
The task regarding Wei Yun is still in her hands.
However, if she wants to kill Wei Yun, she must sacrifice Xie Tao’s life… For the bald director of the third space-time, using the life of a mortal girl to eliminate a hidden danger in space-time is a very cost-effective deal.
But Meng Lichun could never bring herself to actually kill Xie Tao.
Without killing Xie Tao, naturally, she couldn’t kill Wei Yun either, so Meng Lichun could only choose to negotiate with Wei Yun.
“Speak, what are your conditions?” Wei Yun saw through her thoughts with just one glance.
Seeing him like this, Meng Lichun no longer beat around the bush and directly said, “As long as you don’t do anything that harms the order of space-time, I can stop carrying out the previous task and can also help you arrange your identity in this space-time.”
After hearing this, Wei Yun’s hand holding the spoon paused, and he looked up at Meng Lichun, “Okay.”
Meng Lichun thought for a moment before saying, “Lord Wei’s promise is worth a thousand gold, I… believe you.”
It seems like now, she had no other choice.
She could only trust him.
Meng Lichun extended her hand, and a faint blue light suddenly appeared.
Xie Tao watched in disbelief as a… identity card?? suddenly appeared in her hand.
And when Meng Lichun handed it to Wei Yun, she saw with her own eyes that the photo on it was indeed Wei Yun’s appearance.
“Is this real?” Xie Tao asked, tilting her head to look at the identity card in Wei Yun’s hand.
Meng Lichun nodded and said, “Don’t worry, it’s definitely real identity information that can be checked.”
Inserting a person’s identity information into the household registration system without disturbing the order of space-time was not a difficult task for Meng Lichun.
But that was all she could do.
“By the way,”
It seemed like Meng Lichun suddenly remembered something, she added, “If Lord Wei wants to go back, he just needs to think about the place he wants to go to.”
As soon as she finished speaking, her gaze fell on Xie Tao’s wrist, which she had just rolled up her sleeves.
On the girl’s slender and fair wrist was a loop of red string, within which fine golden threads could be faintly seen, shimmering with a pale golden luster.
Meng Lichun’s cold and beautiful face suddenly changed its expression.
As if in disbelief, she suddenly looked up at Xie Tao:
“Where did you get this red string from?”
