The old woman didn't understand the young man's certainty.
What if Fei... didn't come back?
No, no.
The old woman hurriedly shook her head.
Why was she saying such unlucky things?
What if the bad things came true instead of the good ones...
At the thought, the old woman immediately spat twice.
What she'd just thought didn't count.
Fei would definitely come back.
Fei would definitely come back soon.
The old woman repeated those two sentences over and over.
As if trying to engrave them deep in her mind.
To cover up that unlucky thought.
The old woman made herself stop imagining things.
She focused on waiting for Fei to return.
She hadn't said goodbye to it yet...
Not even goodbye...
Would they really never see each other again?
"She's back."
Xiao Xiao smiled at the old woman.
Wh—
The old woman had never reacted so quickly.
A flash of inspiration struck her, and she blurted out, "Fei!?"
Her voice even cracked.
Xiao Xiao shifted slightly to one side.
He didn't need to tell the old woman the answer.
She could see it with her own eyes.
The anxiety on the old woman's face came to a halt.
She saw it.
That unmistakable figure...
"...Fei..."
The old woman's mouth opened and closed several times before she finally spoke the name she'd repeated silently countless times.
Her voice was hoarse.
And very quiet.
The old woman touched her throat.
"Fei!"
This time, she raised her voice.
She called out the other's name loudly.
The name she was said to have given it.
Zhujian nodded to Xiao Xiao.
Xiao Xiao smiled and nodded slightly.
He stepped aside.
So Zhujian could reach the old woman more easily.
Zhujian took a few steps forward, then stopped.