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Yi Ren walked back in front of Pei Ruochen and grabbed her sleeves, wiping her clean clothes with her snot and tears.

Pei Ruochen's hand hesitated for a moment, before gently resting on the top of her head.

"No more crying, and we're not going back either. Let's continue cooking." He coaxed Yi Ren softly. That kind of gentle tone almost melted his own heart.

Or, it had long since melted.

Yi Ren sobbed and nodded. She still held onto Pei Ruochen's clothes tightly as she followed him into the house.

The kitchen door clanged shut.

Helan Xue was locked outside.

He stood there dumbstruck for a while. Then, he looked in the direction of the capital with worry. He stayed behind and quietly stood there.

Twilight slowly dimmed, and Helan Xue's figure slowly became a silhouette, turning into a sculpture.

As expected, Pei Ruochen and the others would cook and eat by themselves. They would pretend that Helan Xue did not exist, and when night came, the room would have light like beans, and there would be rustling wind outside. The entire bamboo forest would be like a surging ocean.

The wind was getting stronger and stronger. It whistled across the rooftops as if a storm was about to break.

Leaning on the window, Pei Ruochen pushed the window open half-way, then glanced outside: Helan Xue was still standing at his original spot, like an eternally immutable rock, untouched by the rain or wind.

He raised his head to look at the inky sky and muttered to himself, "Soon, there will be heavy rain."

The rain in the mountains always came particularly fast.

Just as Pei Ruochen finished speaking, a bolt of lightning immediately tore through the sky, the bright red color also scared Yi Ren, she jumped up from the side of the table and went over to the window.

The water poured down Helan Xue's body, drenching him dry in the blink of an eye.

He was still stubbornly standing in the rain, barely moving his feet.

Yi Ren could not see his face clearly.

"Let him in?" Pei Ruochen asked with a light smile.

Yi Ren shook her head, and said hesitantly: "If I let him enter the house, he would definitely let me go back with him. I'm not going back. "

"Why? Even if Helan Xue does make a mistake, it's fine as long as he makes a mistake. Pei Ruochen comforted her: "There's an umbrella behind the door, go let him in."

Yi Ren's head was still shaking like a rattle drum. She stared at Pei Ruochen seriously, at his pale white handsome face that would forever be warm and gentle with laughter, and asked softly: "Do you hate me?"

Unless Pei Ruochen was like his and wanted to send her away.

"Of course not." Pei Ruochen stared blankly at her, and then intimately patted her head and said, "You're just like my little sister."

Yi Ren raised her head and laughed, then looked at the dark figure outside once again. With a ruthless heart, she closed the window, turned around and said coolly: "Sleep!"

Pei Ruochen could only smile bitterly and turned to the other side of the room.

It rained heavily all night, and occasionally there was thunder and lightning.

Yi Ren tossed and turned on the bed.

In the latter half of the night, there was a sudden explosion, as if the entire world was shaking. Yi Ren rolled to her feet and walked towards the door without thinking.

Pei Ruochen was lying down very quietly, quietly listening to the noises outside. When he heard the door close, he smiled lightly and turned his body, facing the wall as he continued to sleep.

Yi Ren did her best to hold up the umbrella, swaying it around like a duckweed in the strong wind and rain.

When she finally reached near Helan Xue, a hand that was drenched in cold water immediately helped her hold onto the umbrella. Helan Xue wiped the rain off his face and asked in surprise: "Yi Ren, you're willing to come with me?"

"No, I'm just giving you an umbrella. I'm not going back." You should hurry up and leave. " As Yi Ren said that, she pushed the oil-paper umbrella into his hands, turned around, and was about to rush back into the rain.

Helan Xue immediately used his left hand to hold her back. After standing in the rain for so long, his hand had already lost all heat.

Yi Ren flinched.

"Your sister Yi Lin is in the capital, and Little White is in the capital. Liu Se and Lord Wu are in the capital as well. Is that not enough to lure you back with me? " Helan Xue looked at Yi Ren's face that was also drenched by the rain and asked anxiously: "Or, all of these people can't even compare to one Pei Ruochen?"

"Yes." As Yi Ren struggled free from his restraints, she answered bluntly, "I just want to accompany Ruochen!"

Helan Xue retracted his gaze.

His originally elegant and beautiful face, which had been washed by the rain, became inexplicably gloomy.

"You're back to life with him?" he asked in a low voice. His hands were like iron pincers, trapping Yi Ren completely still.

"Since when?" Yi Ren asked recklessly.

Helan Xue's pupils became deeper, deeper, deeper, almost to the point of bursting out in flames.

It was rare for Yi Ren to see him with such an expression, she was suddenly a little afraid, and was determined to leave.

Just as he was about to turn around, a mix of rainwater and orchid aura pounced over. Helan Xue moved his hand from her arm to the back of her head, and the umbrella was already thrown to the ground. He wrapped one hand around her waist and the other around her head.

Yi Ren was startled, she still had not figured out the situation. She only felt her entire body being bathed in the torrential rain, but the tip of her mouth was actually filled with the warm and pleasant smell of Helan Xue. His chest was pressed against his chest, and although it was also as cold as ice, her heart was beating through her thin clothes forcefully.

The more Helan Xue kissed, the deeper he went. His wet clothes made him feel burdened, so he took off the clothes that Yi Ren was wearing.

Yi Ren finally regained her senses from her dizziness and confusion. She placed her hand on Helan Xue's chest and pushed hard, wanting to protest a little, but the words that came out from her lips were all swallowed by Helan Xue, causing him to feel even more anger and desire.

He didn't know why he was angry, and although he was clear that Yi Ren's words were most likely not sincere, Helan Xue was still very angry. How could she be so free and easy when she left!

In his fury, he often ignored the feelings in his surroundings. He just wanted to punish this little girl who had started to disobey him. He wanted to bite her mouth, her chin, her neck, her collarbone, her navel … All the way down.

The rainwater flowed through the ditch, filling the entire world.

Yi Ren's face was dirty from the splashing, and was washed clean by the fresh rain water.

His kiss, on the other hand, was even more intense and concentrated than the rain water that was crashing down on his body.

Yi Ren seemed to have been thrown into midair as the entire world became this intense.

She hugged Helan Xue's back a little helplessly, and when she could not hold on any longer, she sobbed softly.

Yi Ren felt extremely wronged.

Lightning streaked across the sky.

Helan Xue's mind blossomed with multicolored light, becoming blank.

He quieted down and quietly embraced the person beneath him. He kissed her lightly on her swollen rain-soaked lips — like a ripe peach, always exuding an attractive luster.

However, the rain that entered his mouth, for some reason, turned salty.

Helan Xue was shocked, he looked straight at Yi Ren's face, and suddenly realised that there were tears welling up in the corners of her eyes.

"Yi Ren..." Helan Xue hurriedly sat up. He carried Yi Ren in her arms and used the clothes that she had taken off to the side to wipe off the traces on her body. "Yi Ren, I'm sorry, don't cry …"

Yi Ren did not cry, she only cried silently.

However, when he cried, he might not be really sad. When he was sad to the extreme, he also fell silent.

Helan Xue suddenly had a never before experienced fear.

Was he really going to lose her this time?

He hurriedly carried Yi Ren into his embrace, her slender fingers constantly wiping away her tears. She kept apologizing and kissing her to no end, but Yi Ren did not react and just sat in his embrace blankly. Her eyes were a little swollen as she looked over his shoulder at the green world behind him.

The rain would stop.

The torrential downpour that had persisted for an entire night finally became sparse, leaving only the rain that had accumulated on the bamboo leaves. Suddenly, it began to slide down and smash one person after another.

The empty mountain after the rain was quiet and moving.

The smell of the tree leaves, the smell of the earth, and the faint, unwashed, erotic smell.

"I'm going back to my room." Yi Ren sat in a daze for a while before suddenly standing up.

Helan Xue was caught off guard and was unable to stop her for a while.

Yi Ren's clothes were a little untidy. Her exposed skin was completely white under the water, shining like porcelain.

Helan Xue also stood up.

"Yi Ren." "You can hit me and scold me and punish me for hating me, but don't leave without saying anything."

"I said I'm going back to my room." Yi Ren replied very naturally. After looking around, she jogged a few steps and picked up the Oil Paper Umbrella that was rolling in the rain all night. She shook off the mud on top and closed the umbrella.

Then, she walked into the house. Her body was still swaying a little, but her steps were surprisingly steady.

Helan Xue was drowsy for a moment, just as he was about to stop her again, no matter whether she was crying or causing trouble, he would bring her back to the capital first, then think of a way to apologize and explain himself.

However, just as he stood still, he heard the crisp sound of weapons clashing deep within the bamboo forest.

Helan Xue did not come alone, he only came alone to see Yi Ren. The rest of the guards were led by Yi Jian and guarded around one Li away from the bamboo forest.

Could it be that some powerful enemy had arrived at this battle sound?

Helan Xue looked at Yi Ren again, and his tiny back was just about to reach the door. He hesitated a little, and then thought to himself, "Let's first resolve this crisis first".

The sky had turned bright.

Pei Ruochen had been faking sleep at first, but then he had unknowingly fallen asleep. After leaving the capital, it was easy for him to fall asleep.

When he woke up, the sunlight shining through the window was exceptionally pleasing to the eye. It was like the scales of a fish or the rippling waves of a water lake.

Pei Ruochen stood up and stretched his muscles a little.

When he thought to open the door again, there would be no one who would shout 'early' in a daze. Pei Ruochen suddenly felt a little lonely, but he felt lucky.

The sound of the door closing last night must have been sent out by Yi Ren.

She should have been taken away by Helan Xue already.

Pei Ruochen smiled as he opened the door. The first thing he saw was an oil-paper umbrella that was dripping water, and then, Yi Ren was staring at him like a pitiful little rabbit.

"Why are you …" He was slightly stunned.

Why haven't you left yet?

Yi Ren had already randomly changed into another set of clothes, only that her hair was messy and dirty, making him look extremely miserable.

"Ruochen." Yi Ren sobbed as she reminded Pei Ruochen while stroking his bag: "It's dawn, you're going to be late for work."

Pei Ruochen was startled, then smiled: "Got it."

He did not ask Yi Ren why she did not follow him, but was happy to know that Yi Ren had stayed behind.