Four Lifetimes Dream

"Host, someone is coming!"

Li Sheng naturally also felt the human breath, so she quickly put on the mask.

"Master, are you okay?"

Li Sheng had just put on the mask when an anxious voice came into her ears.

Then she saw a hurried figure rushing towards her, and before she could react, her whole body was tightly embraced by a pair of hands.

"..." What's going on? Has this little guy gone crazy while practicing martial arts? !

"Aci, why are you here?" After a while, Li Sheng poked Luo Ci Yan's back with his finger and asked.

"Master must be starving. A Ci brought a lot of delicious food. Master, please eat quickly!" Luo Ci Yan seemed to remember something. He immediately let go of Li Sheng and opened the food box.

"Does my brother know that you are here?" According to Yan Xuyan's temper, if Luo Ci Yan secretly came here to see her without his knowledge, the consequences would be unbearable even for ten Luo Ci Yans.

"Don't worry, the Great Elder pleaded for Master, and A Ci came here at the behest of the Great Lord!" Luo Ci Yan explained to Li Sheng while taking out the food from the box.

"That's good..." According to Yan Xuyan's personality, it would probably take another day or two before he would allow people to deliver food. But if someone pleaded for him, then it would be understandable that Luo Ci Yan came today.

However, Yan Xuyan's temper was even more violent than hers, and it was impossible for him to give in just because of a few words from the Great Elder. So why...

"Why do you look so ugly?" Li Sheng looked at Luo Ci Yan's pale face and her heart skipped a beat.

"...It's okay. It may be because Aci has been practicing too hard these days and has caused him to lack energy. Master, don't worry!" Luo Ci Yan forced a smile and replied.

"Really? Then you should eat more and replenish your body!" Li Sheng grabbed a piece of cake and stuffed it into Luo Ci Yan's mouth with doubt.

"..." Luo Ci Yan did not refuse, but just quietly ate the pastry in his hand.

"Master, I'm sorry!" After a long time, Luo Ci Yan suddenly knelt in front of Li Sheng.

He bought the candied haws just to make his master happy, but he didn't expect that his master would be punished because of him.

"This is my own choice and has nothing to do with you!" Li Sheng said as he helped the man up.

"Master..." Luo Ci Yan wanted to say something, but Li Sheng spoke first.

"Sit down, I'll tell you a story!" After saying that, Li Sheng sat down on the stone.

Her eyes looked forward, without any emotion in them.

Luo Ci Yan felt that Li Sheng at this moment was less cold and aloof than before, and more desolate.

"You must be wondering why my brother, who always loved me, became a different person after seeing Tanghulu! It's my fault, and he has the right to be angry. I owe him, and I can't pay it back with a year's punishment!" Her eyes were empty, without a trace of light.

"When I was five years old, I was active and playful by nature. I couldn't sit still all day long, and I kept shouting for delicious food and fun things. One day, I asked for candied haws. At that time, Lingyue Peak was facing many difficulties. My father and others didn't have the free time to buy me. Later, my mother couldn't stand my tossing, so she took me to the market in person. But on the way back, she met the enemy. In order to protect me, my mother died... and the weapon that killed her was the bamboo stick that I had eaten half of the candied haws. A bamboo stick pierced my mother's heart. Since then, my brother's temperament has changed drastically. He hated candied haws and the person who killed my mother. He began to practice martial arts day and night in order to find that person and avenge my mother! Although he didn't say anything over the years, I know that he must have been very hard. So, I have been learning to grow up and try not to cause trouble for him. A year ago, when my father passed the position of the Lord to me, I realized that my ability was not enough to take on this important task!"

Li Sheng seemed to be telling the original owner's story, but also seemed to be narrating his own experience.

At this moment, she no longer had the usual aura that kept people at a distance, nor did she have the cold and aloofness of the master of a peak. She was just like an ordinary little girl. She opened her own wounds with her own hands and recalled the pain of the past!

Although Yan Xuyan had never hated her, blamed her, or said a bad word about her because of their mother's affairs over the years, she knew that he had put all the responsibility on himself. He had always regretted why he couldn't accompany his mother and why he couldn't be by her side to protect her!

It is precisely because he blamed everything on himself that he has been living in self-blame and regret all these years.

She knew that this one-year punishment was the biggest concession Yan Xuyan had made, so she couldn't blame anyone but her. She owed him something that she could never make up for!

"Master has done a great job!" Luo Ci Yan patted her shoulder and comforted her.

He now finally understood why his master was so unfathomable at the age of only ten!

It turned out that she had forced herself from a child into an adult, but behind her tough appearance, she was covered with scars!

Li Sheng put away her sad look and returned to her original appearance. Yes! She had done well enough, but... the original owner hadn't done it very well!

The original owner is dead, so everything she has to bear from now on will have to be paid back by her, Li Sheng!

the other side:

"Xu'er, what happened back then was not your fault. What's already happened can never be undone. There's no point blaming yourself. And Sheng'er, she was so young back then, just at the age of playing around, you can't blame her for this!" Ling Zhu saw that Yan Xuyan hadn't said much in the past few days, so he tried to comfort him.

He knew that what happened back then was a big blow to Yan Xuyan, but he had watched both him and Sheng'er grow up, and no matter which of them got into trouble, it was not the result he wanted to see!

"Grandpa Ling, I have never blamed Sheng'er. I was just angry about why she ran away secretly again. I am afraid that what happened in the past will happen again! Sheng'er is my only relative in this world. I can't lose this last relative again!"

He didn't blame anyone for what happened back then, he only blamed himself for not being able to protect his mother!

This punishment was only to make her remember it. If punishing her could make her make fewer mistakes and face less danger in the future, then he would be willing to do it even if she would hate him and no longer recognize him as her brother.

"Sheng'er will understand!" Ling Zhu comforted.

Sheng'er is different now. She has her own ideas and abilities. He believes that she will understand everything she should understand!