Dragon Soul
That night, Xiao Qingzhu suddenly seemed to have an urgent matter and after receiving a phone call, he booked the nearest flight back to Yuantian.
Dou Si Lin stood in the airport, staring blankly at the departing flight, feeling empty and a little dazed.
Is this the taste of being apart? Du Sulin stroked her own heart and muttered to herself.
Just a second ago, they were still holding hands, thinking that they would walk hand in hand until their hair turned white. But the next second, Xiao Qingzhu was already sitting on the plane. Now she's probably thousands of meters high in the air.
Without saying a word, he returned to the hotel alone. The room still lingered with Xiao Qingzhu's faint fragrance. Du Siling threw himself onto the bed and let the scent envelop him, curling up into a ball like an infant.
Si Lin, this is the name that only Xiao Qing Zhu would call. When with Xiao Qing Zhu, Du Si Lin was just Du Si Lin, not Tai Guang, nor the heir of the Du family.
Tears fell unknowingly from the corners of her eyes. It was just a temporary separation, Xiao Qingzhu said before parting, and once she settled the matters at hand, she would return. Du Siling comforted herself with these words.
Having lived for over twenty years, she never thought that there would be a time when she would shed tears. All her tears were only because of one person. She finally understood why Feng Qiu and Jing Ji could still be obsessed with each other even after death for over three hundred years.
She thought that even if it took a thousand years, she would be willing to wander the world as a lonely soul, just waiting for the one she loved.
There is still a photo of Xiao Qingzhu in the phone, her smile is always so warm and touching, a pair of bright eyes like a crescent moon hanging in mid-air, with a hint of cleverness.
Du Sulin never thought she was fragile, but at this moment, she believed it. One day without seeing him felt like three autumns apart. Every minute and every second without Xiao Qingzhu, Du Sulin felt unbearably difficult.
In general, everyone can endure hardship, it's just that most people can accept bitter first then sweet later, but sweet first then bitter is always devastating.
Du Sulin understood. She always felt inferior because she only had one soul and one spirit, and retreated from Xiao Qingtu's feelings. Even now that the two people's relationship has taken a step further, she would still have such thoughts. But as soon as she thought of losing Xiao Qingtu, she felt like all her blood was being drained away, powerless, yet painfully heart-wrenching.
I remember someone once told me a sentence: In this world, who can love you more than I do?
One life, one soul is already determined, then use this remaining soul to love you.
In this world, who can love you more than I do, Qing Zhu?
Du Sulin's gaze gradually became firmer, perhaps even Xiao Qingzhu couldn't have imagined that just because of her brief departure, Du Sulin became even stronger and braver.
Even Du Sulin herself didn't know when Xiao Qingzhu walked into her heart and took root, maybe it was because of Xiao Qingzhu's beautiful and bright eyes when she smiled, or maybe it was because she called herself "Sulin", or maybe it was because... many, many maybes.
Thus, Du Sulin wrapped himself in his quilt and fell asleep accompanied by Xiao Qingzhu's breathing.
In the few days when Xiao Qingzhu was not around, Du Sulin walked through the streets and alleys of Shenhe, inquiring about all the somewhat capable demons and ghosts in the entire city. Among them, the one that left the deepest impression on him was a man named Yin Rui.
Yin Rui, the Eagle Demon, is not originally from Shenhe City, but has appeared in recent years. It's said that this demon is handsome but ruthless and cunning, with poisonous methods, and is considered the leader of the demons in Shenhe. The key thing is that, according to those small demons, Pei Hong of the Huangcheng Group is his disciple.
"Pei Hong... Yin Rui..." Du Sulin leaned back in his computer chair, staring out the window in thought. Fortunately, Xiao Qingzhu had left in a hurry that day, otherwise, with Yin Rui's personality, he would have definitely taken action.
She hadn't seen Yin Rui, and Du Sulin couldn't fathom his abilities. But she was always curious - Pei Hong didn't have any innate talent for cultivation, so why did Yin Rui take him on as a disciple? Was it because of his poor eyesight? Or perhaps... Pei Hong had something that Yin Rui wanted or needed.
The phone rang while I was thinking.
"Tai Guang, come out and have dinner with your aunt." Du Kong Yang's voice came from the phone, sounding as lazy as a winter day basking in sunlight.
"Time and place." Du Sulin rubbed his temples and said, it just so happens that this matter can be left to Auntie to take a look.
"The time is now, the place is that restaurant last time," said Du Kongyang. "Taiguang, you seem to have something on your mind?" Du Silin's tone was more helpless than before, and according to Du Kongyang's understanding of Du Silin, something must have happened.
"Some things can't be understood," said Du Sulin, "Let's talk face-to-face."
"Alright, but you'd better hurry up. If you're late, you'll be punished." At this time, Du Kongyang was in the beauty salon enjoying the bliss brought by the facial mask, and his mouth movements were much smaller.
"Got it," Du Sulin said in a low voice.
The times are changing, and Du Kongyang has also changed a lot. He is even more exposed to new things than Du Siling, such as regularly going for beauty treatments and often getting haircuts. They say that men are like withered flowers at 41, and women are old and yellow at 50, but Du Kongyang seems to be blooming like a full-bodied peony flower.
After hanging up the phone, Du Siling only discovered that he had received a text message at some point, and the sender was Xiao Qingzhu: "Sneak out of work for a little while, come check if the fool has eaten on time O(∩_∩)O!"
The message sent at lunchtime was only seen by Du Siling until dinnertime, enough to show how deeply she was thinking in the afternoon.
"It's almost time for me to have dinner with my aunt, you should eat on time too." Du Siling replied and quickly tidied up before rushing out of the door.
"Tai Guang, you're a bit late." At the entrance of the restaurant, Du Kong Yang pointed to a spot slightly further in than where Du Si Lin was standing.
"Hmm." Duslin nodded and responded with a sentence.
"Let's go, you're paying today." Du Kongyang took Du Silin's arm and strode elegantly along the red carpet to the innermost private room.
"What did you say?" Du Kongyang looked at Du Silin with a surprised expression, "You went to Haucheng?"
"Hmm, I couldn't see through that place." Duslin recalled what she had seen at the time and told Du Kongyang about it in detail, of course, without mentioning Xiao Qingzhu, but just saying that she felt something was off when passing by.
"It seems... it's really destined," Du Kongyang muttered to himself.
"What?" Du Sulin stared at Du Kongyang, afraid of missing a single detail.
"That's not a yin energy of a ghost or a demon, but it's also not a righteous energy." Du Kongyang finally changed his expression from earlier and said seriously, "I've been stuck in the Deep River for a long time because when I was divining your fortune, the oracle pointed to this place as the location of your fate. According to my calculations, it's where Huan Cheng is. I suspect that something extraordinary will appear here, and it will have a huge impact on your destiny."
"A mysterious object that will have a profound impact on my fate." Du Sulin furrowed her brow, and suddenly recalled the spiritual attraction from not long ago. Could it be her soul?
"I have no idea what it is, I've been waiting here for a long time. It seems that this strange thing will be revealed within three days." Du Kongyang said.
"Aunt." Du Sulin looked at the woman in front of him, perhaps because she had dressed up carefully, today's Du Kongyang had an extra touch of elegance, but that ethereal quality remained unchanged, if one were to compare her to a celestial being, it would be the Queen Mother.
She raised herself from a young age, teaching herself magic. Weak and often ill in her youth, she stayed by her side every night, although her demands on herself were always strict to the point of being intimidating, that kind of care and love was also enviable. Du Si Lin knew why Du Kong Yang only told her this today, because she didn't want to put herself in harm's way.
"Silly child, don't suddenly look at me like that with tears in your eyes, it's heart-wrenching." Du Kongyang turned his head away, this was the first time she saw Du Silin reveal such deep emotions. "Huh? That's not right." At this moment, Du Kongyang discovered something wasn't quite right.
"What's wrong?" Du Sulin wondered.
"Why did I see the seven emotions and six desires in your eyes?" Du Kongyang said, standing up and walking to Du Silin's front, carefully sizing him up from head to toe. "Did you successfully condense your spirit?" she asked excitedly.
"No," Duslin shook her head. The last time she had condensed her spirit, it had failed and temporarily blinded her, scattering the power she had accumulated over twenty years.
"What's going on?" Du Kongyang thought about it more and felt that it was impossible. She couldn't think of any reason to explain the strange phenomenon of Du Siling. Logically speaking, one soul and one spirit could only preserve life, and the term "seven emotions and six desires" shouldn't appear in Du Siling at all.
"I don't know." Duslin said truthfully, but in her heart, a guess had already formed.
Is it because I fell in love with someone?
She remembered that in an ancient book of the Du family, there was a story about a woman who had her emotional root taken away by force. She thought that from then on, she would never love again. But later, she still fell in love with someone uncontrollably, loving him to the point of being reckless. In the end, a wise and powerful person told her that it was because of love that the emotional root existed. After a new emotional root grew out, the old one would wither away.
But what she lacked was not just a simple root of emotions, but her very soul! Can the soul be regrown? What about the original withered soul, will it also meet its demise? That strong summons seemed to penetrate deep into her spirit, could it be that her own disembodied soul was calling out to her?
"Tai Guang... Tai Guang..." Du Kong Yang's call brought Du Si Lin back to reality.
"Auntie, look at me now, how many souls and spirits do I have?" Du Si Lin said, grabbing Du Kong Yang's hand in a conditioned reflex.
One cannot see one's own soul, just like a person can never see their own back of the head.
"One soul, one spirit." Du Kongyang's eyes had a slight shallow blue color, and after opening his yin-yang eyes, he could easily see Du Silin's soul.
A golden dragon coiled on top of Douglas's spine, with a faint sound of thunderous dragon roar.
"Dragon Soul?" Du Kongyang exclaimed in surprise, covering his own mouth and whispering.
Everyone's so generous with their flowers, hiahia
It turns out that Meng Ma Xiaoling's fifth transformation has come out and I didn't even know about it.
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