The villa was still the same, but I swept it with my Heavenly Eye and found that it had gained quite a bit of human presence. Someone must have visited in recent days—perhaps Zhao Qian herself.
Seeing me hesitate, she stepped in front of me and stared at me from head to toe. "What? We're both people about to ascend, and you're still shy? Come on..."
I trembled, then let her pull me inside.
The interior had been restored to how it looked when we had first arrived. The tiles had been scrubbed clean, spotless, stirring up many memories in me. Ma tou gu ji.
"Brother Tian, do you still remember the days when we lived here together?" Zhao Qian picked up the television remote and waved it, as if reminding me how we had made it this far back then.
"Of course I remember." I smiled as I watched her switch on the big television. After calming down a little, I realized that coming back was only about reminiscing. Zhao Qian probably had no other intentions.
"It's a pity that, as time passed, we gradually drifted apart. Now only the two of us are left here. Xiaoxue and Sister Shanshan have both gone to the Upper Realm... Brother Tian, do you think it might be heaven's will, in the darkness beyond our sight, that left the two of us here?" Zhao Qian said with a smile, then placed her hands on my shoulders.
My heart suddenly began to pound. Could Zhao Qian be planning to do something to me today? Sister Wife was unusually silent today. Normally, at this kind of physical contact, cold winds would already be howling, wouldn't they?
When she saw me staring at her wide-eyed, Zhao Qian looked rather embarrassed. I didn't know whether it