Today's fourth update: Chapter 1043! 4/4!
Time flowed on like water, never pausing day or night!
No calendar existed in the mountains; when the cold ended, one did not know how many years had passed!
Xu Kun, wholly absorbed in the ocean of books without distraction, had long since lost all sense of time!
After setting down the last book, Xu Kun stroked the long beard hanging to his chest. Crow's feet had appeared at the corners of his eyes, and a few silver strands had emerged amid his full head of black hair!
By the time he had spent at Qufu Academy, Xu Kun had already reached sixty!
Li Yian stood behind him, still as radiant as ever. That was the advantage of being a ghost—she had no worries about aging!
Having accompanied each other for over forty years, their feelings had long surpassed mere physical intimacy. During those long, lonely years, Xu Kun had not dared contact the outside world even once, afraid it would affect his determination to devote himself to learning. Only Li Yian had remained by his side morning and night!
She gave him comfort in every way. Though they were not husband and wife, they were closer than husband and wife, supporting each other all the way to this day!
"You old geezer, why are you getting more and more white hairs..." Li Yian plucked out several more white hairs and muttered.
Xu Kun grabbed her soft hand resting on his shoulder. "I'm old. How could my hair not turn white?"
At the end of the day, he was still just a mortal, with only a mortal's lifespan!
A mortal's lifespan was no more than a hundred years. Xu Kun had already passed the halfway mark!
Yet the traces of time displayed on