Because of the rain, the balcony windows had been shut tight, but at some point the wind had blown them open. Beside the balcony railing stood a young man.
His eyes held a smile, his face was exquisite, and his slightly wavy black hair fell loose to his waist. The golden laurel crown on his head was his only adornment.
"Long time no see, Yanyan."
Wen Yanyu's eyes widened, and he blurted out, "Siye?!"
Wen Yanyu's eyes lit up. With a fierce bunny charge, he threw himself into Siye's arms. "How did you get into this world? I thought we'd never see each other again!"
Having raised all sorts of little ones for thousands of years and possessed immense strength, Siye deftly caught Wen Yanyu as he lunged over. He rubbed the boy's head and smiled. "I had Luomiao open a... tiny gap in the passage to this world."
"And then I came in..."
Siye's voice paused briefly, and for an instant, his expression turned particularly peculiar.
Wen Yanyu nodded vigorously, finding nothing strange about it.
Throughout his reincarnations, this older brother had helped him a great deal. Several times, when he had nearly perished along with those bodies after their storylines ended, Siye had intervened just in time to fish him and Bad Dog out of those worlds.
Later, after he had discovered by chance that most of the villains were actually incarnations of the same person, that man had caught him across worlds and locked him up for half a year.
Then, too, Siye and Bad Dog had split up, each tearing into that sealed world from one side, cutting the time needed in half. Otherwise, he feared he would never have held on.
Siye had a certain parental gentleness that held a downright lethal appeal for a