Beneath the peach tree, the scenery was picturesque.
The drizzle cleared, and rays of sunlight pierced through the dark clouds, making the earth gleam brilliantly.
The brightest glow framed the beauty before him. In Liu Di's eyes, everything—the peach blossoms, the hillocks, even the woman in the white dress—seemed gilded in gold.
Liu Di's vision gradually blurred.
A little girl in a goose-yellow raincoat gazed at him with a beaming smile.
It was as though he had crossed through time and space, and countless thoughts surged through his mind.
As a child, he would suddenly be struck by severe headaches. Sometimes, he would pass out completely. He had heard others say that he had not simply slept without waking, but had instead seemed to awaken another personality—violent and furious.
Word spread from mouth to mouth that the child had madness.
Everyone despised him. Everyone stayed away from him.
Liu Di had only felt that this must be what adults called loneliness.
Until one day, much like today.
The rain stopped, and the dark clouds dispersed. The little girl, still wearing her raincoat, appeared.
She said, "I'm willing to be your friend, because a raincoat can block out every virus."
From then on.
Liu Di found his only childhood friend, another freak in everyone else's eyes.
One suffered bouts of madness, while the other wore a raincoat every day despite there never being any rain.
They kept each other company for four years.
Unfortunately, they eventually became separated.
Now.
Eighteen years had passed, and she had undergone a complete transformation.
She was so exceptionally graceful that she could not be profaned.
Liu Di blinked lightly, and the scene before him became that of the beauty smiling faintly.
She said, "My name is Gu Fan. Fan as in ordinary."
Liu Di was