Demon King's Repayment - chapter 61

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“Xiao Yu, I am a mage, who could communicate with yin and yang (souls of the deceased). At the same time, I am also a friend of your parents. Your father asked me… to see you.” Yuan Xiang glanced at Han Rui and spoke.

The boy’s hand holding the dishes stopped for a moment. He was stunned, bit his lip and turned his face away, “You are lying to me.”

Han Rui raised his head and looked at the child standing in front of him, “Yu’er, she is not lying to you. I missed you very much. I promised to buy you a lantern on the Lantern Festival  that day, but broke my promise. I really feel ashamed.”

Yuan Xiang: “I am not lying to you. Your father missed you very much. He promised to buy you a lantern for the Lantern Festival that day, but he couldn’t. He had always felt guilty.”

The young boy’s eyes turned red.

“Really, really? You saw my father…Is there anything he has left for me?” He lowered his head, his thin shoulders trembled with sadness like a real nine-year-old child, “Does my father think that I am very useless? I didn’t guard Tongjitang and even hid in the mountain as I didn’t want to see those wicked people again. Father must be very disappointed in me.”

His tears fell on the porcelain man on the table. Obviously it was a motionless ceramic doll with a stiff face and frozen brows. But for some reason, Han Yuzhi could always feel the thin eyes staring at him all the time with kindness.

It was the woman who was talking, but he heard his father’s voice in a daze.

“I and your mother had never blamed Yu’er. You can live such a life, which is the greatest pride of us parents. As long as it is your own choice, as long as you can live happily by yourself, I will feel relieved from the heart.”

Under Yuan Xiang’s sight, Han Rui’s figure emerged from the small porcelain figure, with a faint golden light and stretched out his arms to hug the crying child whose head was bowed.

…

At night, Yuan Xiang returned to the room he had cleaned up for her.

Han Rui stood in front of her, straightened his sleeves and bowed to her.

“Doctor Han, are you leaving now? You…can you rest assured?” 

Even knowing that this would happen sooner or later, Yuan Xiang’s heart was still panicked.

“As a parent, there is never a time one can rest assured. Now, it is gratifying to see that Yu’er can be so independent and strong. That lady, that lady, is as kind and generous as you said.” He lightly sighed, “And I can’t do anything anymore. I should go where I should have gone. Liniang is still waiting for me over there.”

“Doctor Han,” Yuan Xiang couldn’t help but ask, “You have saved countless lives in your life, but in the end you met a wolf-like villain. Do you think it’s worth it?”

Han Rui lowered his eyes and smiled, “My joy is being worthy to look up to the sky, not having inherent shortcomings, it is enough. Besides, if it was not, I am afraid that I will not get your help.”

Yuan Xiang actually couldn’t understand the “sage” ethics and morality of the era, which was too pedantic and outdated for her. But someone like Han Rui who could stick to kindness and open-mindedness all his life still was admirable.

She only liked to live her own life. She, who didn’t like to be nosy, also hoped that she could do more for this gentleman.

“Is there anything else I can do for you?”

“If you can, there is a small matter…” Han Rui said his last request in a soft voice.

“This is just a small matter, so feel free to leave it to me.”

The heavy snow had stopped. Yuan Xiang opened the window to welcome the cold night, the vast sky and the shining galaxy.

Han Rui was no longer in the house.

Back in the spiritual world with abundant  Qi, Wu Yuan went out to play. Yuan Xiang sat alone in front of the window, looking at the starry sky and snow scene outside the house. She missed the white furry wolf.

The wooden house did not have a fire bed and the window was opened. The cold air rolled in from the window along with the starlight.

Yuan Xian thought of the warmth and comfort of being buried in the big furry tail in the tree hole in the same forest.

“I wonder what Xiao Nan is doing now?” She thought.

Nan He squatted on the mat at the edge of the kang, looking at the starry sky outside the window.

The natural ability of the Sirius tribe was to absorb the power of the stars. After the snow, the starry sky was exceptionally bright. It was most suitable for quiet visualization, communication between the world and the stars. But for some reason, he was always a little irritable and he couldn’t calm down.

He pulled out the triangular rune under his body again and carefully stared at the red rune on it for a long while. On that day, he had taken out that talisman repeatedly. He wanted to inject a little Qi into it, but he didn’t..

If he wasted the precious talisman that could only be used three times to do such a boring thing, wouldn’t he be laughed at? Nan He stretched out his little white paw and fiddled with it.

The red rune on the talisman lit up, frightening him to jump back.