"Long Yuan. Are you and Zhu Qing together?"
Ning Rongrong took courage and looked at the young man in front of him.
The young man was wearing a mysterious robe, and the brim of his hat was set very low, covering most of his face.
The moonlight reflected from the lake surface, casting a blurry shadow on his face, making it difficult to see clearly. But his figure was so familiar, with wide shoulders and narrow waist, and slender legs. He stood there like an unsheathed sword.
She always felt a little familiar, not the kind of familiarity that she had met once or twice, but the kind of familiarity that was engraved in her bones and could be traced with her eyes closed.
"Hmm."
Gu Linyuan nodded.
"Do you like Zhu Qing very much?"
Ning Rongrong bit his lip, a trace of dissatisfaction flashed in his brown eyes.
Zhu Zhuqing is her good sister. But in terms of charm, she doesn't think she is inferior to Zhu Qing. Her figure is not as hot as Zhu Qing, but her appearance, her temperament, and her family background, are there any things that she can't stand out?
Gu Linyuan nodded again.
"Then what do you think of me? In fact, I have always liked you."
Ning Rongrong finally couldn't hold back his words.
She originally wanted to talk to Long Yuan more and express her feelings after getting familiar with him.
However, she didn't have many opportunities to meet Long Yuan, and she couldn't chat with Long Yuan every time she met. She was afraid that it would be even more difficult if she delayed it any longer.
Besides, Long Yuan has a grudge against the Shrek Academy. She is afraid that Long Yuan will hate her because of this.
"Ah? Ning Rongrong? Are you sure?"
"I don't think you can like me."
Gu Linyuan was stunned for a moment.
He looked at Ning Rongrong's eyes filled with expectation and nervousness, and her face that was slightly red due to nervousness, and a complex emotion surged in his heart.
He sighed, with a hint of helplessness and something inexplicable in his tone.
"How come?"
"Actually, I have a crush on you since you defeated Tang San on Soul Fighting Platform."
Ning Rongrong blushed and lowered his head.
Her character is very simple, she is Mu Qiang.
In fact, it's not just women, men also admire Qiang.
Even Zhu Zhuqing, Dugu Yan and Meng Yiran all have a strong-willed mentality to a greater or lesser extent.
Zhu Zhuqing Although it was not because of his strength that he stayed with him at first, the reason why their relationship developed so quickly and smoothly after that was also related to his own strength.
Muqiang is never a derogatory term.
It's just that between him and Ning Rongrong...
"Rongrong. Look up at me first."
Gu Linyuan sighed and raised his hand to lift the brim of his hat.
The moonlight fell on his face without any obstruction, illuminating the angular face particularly clearly.
He has sharp eyebrows and starry eyes, a high bridge of nose, slightly pursed thin lips, and a mandible line as sharp as a knife.
That face Ning Rongrong is so familiar.
She has watched it for more than ten years, from a child to a girl, from innocence to ignorance, from love to boredom, from boredom to abandonment.
She thought she would never think of this face again, that she had completely erased this face from her memory.
Boom.
Ning Rongrong was stunned.
Her brain seemed to have pressed the pause button at this moment, and all her thoughts, all perceptions, and all reactions were frozen in an instant.
She looked at that face and those dark eyes.
She wanted to speak, but her throat seemed to be strangled, and she could only squeeze out a few unsyllable words.
"Gu Linyuan... Why are you here?"
Gu Linyuan looked at the girl in front of him with bright eyes, the moonlight flowing on his face.
"Rongrong, aren't you willing to believe it at this time? Actually... I am Long Yuan."
"Originally, I didn't want to bother you anymore. So in Suotuo City, I changed my name to Long Yuan. But I didn't expect that it would turn out like this." Gu Linyuan showed a hint of apology.
The reason why he went to Suotuo City was purely to find out the background of the protagonist group, and by the way follow them to take away the External Soul Bone that he longed for.
In order not to let Ning Rongrong recognize him, he disguised himself very well.
But he didn't expect that Ning Rongrong would actually fall in love with his incarnation.
This is a farce.
Now, let's stop it.
He also doesn't want Ning Rongrong to fall deeper and deeper into trouble, wasting his youth for someone who doesn't exist at all.
"Gu Linyuan, do you know what you are talking about? How could you be Long Yuan? You..."
Ning Rongrong's face instantly turned pale.
Her body swayed, as if being pushed by an invisible hand, and she staggered back two steps.
Her foot tripped on a stone by the lake, her body lost balance, and she fell heavily to the ground.
She feels no pain.
There was only one thought that kept echoing in her mind - Long Yuan is Gu Linyuan, Gu Linyuan is Long Yuan.
The mysterious strong man who crushed Tang San on Soul Fighting Platform, the man who made both Dugu Yan and Meng Yiran fall in love with him, the man in her dreams who she thought about day and night, and who haunted her dreams, was actually Gu Linyuan who she said personally, "dragons do not live with snakes".
She thought of that night in the back mountain of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
She thought she was a real dragon and he was a snake. She thought she would fly higher and higher and he would lie on the ground forever.
It turns out she is the snake.
Ning Rongrong sat on the ground with his hands behind his back, his fingers deeply embedded in the soil and gravel.
Her eyes were dilated, her pupils were out of focus, and her lips were trembling slightly, like a person who was frozen and speechless on a cold winter night.
"Gu Linyuan...Long Yuan..."
She murmured to herself, her voice soft as if she was talking in her sleep.
She finally understood why Long Yuan looked familiar every time she saw him, why Long Yuan's back made her heart beat faster, and why Long Yuan's voice made her feel inexplicably at ease. It wasn't love at first sight, but the familiarity brought by childhood sweethearts.
Her body remembered him and recognized him earlier than her heart.
But what about her heart?
Her heart kept telling herself that Gu Linyuan was a waste, Gu Linyuan was not worthy of her, and Gu Linyuan had been abandoned by her.
She subconsciously refused to connect Long Yuan and Gu Linyuan because she could not bear the truth.
In fact, when she saw Long Yuan for the first time, she should have recognized his Martial Soul for the first time. But she was not willing to admit it at all. She hoped that Long Yuan and Gu Linyuan were two people. In this way, she had not done anything wrong.
Zhu Zhuqing walked out of the teahouse and stood a few steps behind Ning Rongrong.
Her black eyes looked at Ning Rongrong sitting on the ground.
She opened her mouth, wanting to say something, but found that nothing could come out.
"Zhu Qing. You actually knew it a long time ago, right? Why didn't you tell me? You just want to see my joke, right?" Ning Rongrong held back the tears in his eyes, and when he saw Zhu Zhuqing, his guard instantly broke.
She used to have Zhu Zhuqing as her sister, but she didn't expect that she would...
"I..."
"Rongrong, I'm sorry..."
Zhu Zhuqing wants to explain, but she knows that she is not clean at all.
When Suotuo City, she knew that Long Yuan was Gu Linyuan.
But she was greedy and didn't want to tell Ning Rongrong or let the relationship between Ning Rongrong and Gu Linyuan rekindle. Isn't she a selfish woman?
"You big liar. Zhu Qing, I hate you."
Her voice suddenly rose, sharp and harsh, like a piece of glass being smashed to the ground.
The tears finally burst, pouring out of her eyes, flowing down her cheeks, gathering into crystal drops on her chin, and dripping onto the hem of her aqua blue skirt, creating a small dark stain.