Chapter 14

But Feng Yang was different. Yin Li rubbed his nose awkwardly and proactively gave himself an out. "If you don't want to call me brother, then don't. I heard you got into Yanjing X University too. I'm two years ahead of you, so you can call me Senior instead."

Feng Yang studied Yin Li with curiosity. He had never seen such a talkative and expressive Vengeful Ghost.

"Yin Li," Feng Yang suddenly said.

"Huh?" Yin Li responded instinctively, unsure what Feng Yang wanted to say.

"Not calling you Brother Li doesn't mean I dislike you or look down on you. It's because I like calling you by your name." Feng Yang paused, a gentle smile flowing through his warm eyes as he looked at Yin Li. "Your name sounds nice."

Yin Li's ears heated up, and he reached up to touch his earlobe. "Then... then call me that."

After a pause, Yin Li asked, "Then can I call you Feng Yang too?"

"Sure." Feng Yang glanced at the sky. "You said my parents had already arrived?"

Yin Li nodded. "Uncle and Auntie came with me. They should be at the village chief's house now. My parents and Yin Qing are there too. Want to head back together?"

"No rush." Feng Yang pointed at his backpack. "I want to bury a time capsule. Will you come with me?"

"You like time capsules too?" Yin Li looked at Feng Yang in surprise, his tone full of delight. "I like them too. But someone said I was too childish. He said time capsules were things only girls played with, and that I was wasting my height by liking something like that."

"That just meant he was narrow-minded." Feng Yang could more or less guess who had maliciously mocked Yin Li like that. "Boys playing with time capsules is romantic. Girls all like romantic guys."

Yin Li's smile grew even brighter. Feng Yang noticed that when Yin Li smiled, there was actually a shallow dimple on his right cheek.

"You look pretty handsome when you smile," Feng Yang remarked. The Vengeful Ghost he had spent twenty years with in his previous life had almost never smiled. Before his death, he had suffered an inhuman death by a thousand cuts, leaving barely an intact patch of skin on his body. Even after becoming the Ghost King, the Vengeful Ghost had never spent soul power to alter his appearance. So Feng Yang had never known that the Vengeful Ghost had loved smiling so much when he was alive, or that he even had a dimple.

Of course, Feng Yang himself had been horribly disfigured by burns in his previous life. Neither of them was any better than the other.

"I think you're handsome too." After saying that, Yin Li felt it sounded too perfunctory and immediately added, "I think we really hit it off at first sight."

"Me too." Feng Yang chuckled, leading Yin Li up the mountain to find a secluded spot to bury the time capsule.

Yin Li was a little curious about what Feng Yang had hidden inside his time capsule, but he was too embarrassed to ask. After Feng Yang pulled him over to dig a hole, he took a camera from his backpack and hooked an arm around Yin Li's shoulders to take a photo together.

Feng Yang pulled out a marker and wrote on the back of the photo: "X year, X month, X day, at sunset. Feng Yang and Yin Li's first photo together."

Then he placed the photo in the time capsule and sealed it again.

Feng Yang handed the folding shovel to Yin Li and said with a smile, "Want to bury it?"

Yin Li had still been surprised that Feng Yang was willing to seal their photo inside the time capsule. Hearing that, he immediately took the shovel and diligently filled the hole. He sighed again, "I really think we're incredibly compatible. We're both this handsome, we both like time capsules, and we even buried one together the first time we met. Right, how many years are you planning to wait before coming back?"

Feng Yang merely smiled without answering. In truth, he had never been the one who liked time capsules. Feng Yang looked gentle and mild, but he was cold by nature. He had never cared for any form of commemoration or celebration. It was simply because someone else had liked them. And after spending twenty years by that person's side, he had grown used to it.

"What do you think?" Feng Yang asked instead.

Yin Li thought about it. "Then four years later. You'll graduate from college in four years. When that time comes, you can look back at how your state of mind differed when you first entered college and when you were about to enter society. Wouldn't that be meaningful?"

"Then four years later." Feng Yang smiled. "Come with me."

"Huh?" Yin Li froze again.

Feng Yang said, "After all, half the photo in the time capsule is of you. If we're still in touch by then, it'll be meaningful to come back together."

Hearing that, Yin Li nodded repeatedly. "Then I'll definitely come with you."

Feng Yang listened to Yin Li's unhesitating promise and lowered his head with a smile. He had never expected the living Vengeful Ghost to be like this—so handsome, sunny, sincere, pure, and trusting.

Before meeting Yin Li, Feng Yang had prepared countless explanations and excuses. Yet Yin Li had not even asked a single question. This kind of Vengeful Ghost felt unfamiliar to Feng Yang.

At that moment, Feng Yang realized with absolute clarity that he had truly been reborn.

Reborn twenty years ago, before anything had happened, before even the Vengeful Ghost had died.

Chapter 14

By the time Feng Yang and Yin Li came down Peach Blossom Mountain, it was already getting dark. Peach Blossom Mountain was steep, and its paths were difficult to walk. Yin Li turned on his phone's flashlight and carefully held Feng Yang's arm with his other hand, afraid Feng Yang might slip and fall.

Then he noticed that Feng Yang moved through the pitch-black mountain path with swift, effortless steps, as though he were gliding along in an unrestrained drift.

Yin Li asked in surprise, "You're so good at walking mountain paths. Don't tell me you like hiking too?"

"Looks like our interests really are similar." Feng Yang smiled. In his previous life, he had lived in seclusion with the Vengeful Ghost for over twenty years. Whenever they had nothing to do, they crossed mountains and valleys, traveled through the skies and seas, and visited nearly every famous mountain and river in the country. Back then, the Vengeful Ghost had usually carried him around with Shrink Distance to Inches. But now...

Feng Yang glanced at Yin Li, who was agile but still somewhat clumsy compared to the Vengeful Ghost, and said with a smile, "We should travel together sometime."

"Sure!" Yin Li readily agreed. "Actually, before coming here, I was in Africa watching big cats. Oh, right, do you like lions?"

"I prefer jaguars." Feng Yang looked at Yin Li, who stood a full one meter ninety-two, and could not help rubbing his palm. He really wanted to touch that round, bristling crew cut.