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"Wait." Hua Ruge blocked him for a while as she walked forward to look at his face. Her fair fingers brushed against the ice on his face as her gaze constantly changed, but she did not say a single word.
The lid of the coffin was slowly pushed shut. In the instant that it was tightly shut, Hua Ruge could clearly feel his own helplessness and the unprecedented loneliness he had felt since arriving in this world.
She had come here without knowing anyone, but she had never been afraid. She had thought she would never be afraid, but at this moment, she was afraid.
He was afraid that he wouldn't be able to see or hear his voice and that he would never wake up again.
She had chosen the latter between death and bearing the burden. She was mentally prepared to bear everything, but she still couldn't help but feel pain.
"This can't be any better." Yun Jin let out a sigh of relief and said, "Then, we will bring senior brother back to the Sacred Land. After a year, we will rush to the East Sea and harvest the Herba Flavescentis."
Hua Ruge looked at Tuoba Rui who was inside the ice coffin, nodded and said, "I will go too."
Bei Chenyue saw that she had no chance, her beautiful face turned cold as she turned to leave.
Hua Ruge and Young Master Wu Hen also left the residence together. This street had long been sealed off by the soldiers of the Da Yu, so other than the army, there were no other idlers on the street.
Lan Bing'er brought his Guardian Knight and left, the Barbarian Cavalry soldiers went back to garrison outside the city.
Slowly, only the two of them were left on the street. The afterglow of the setting sun caused their shadows to lengthen, and after being silent for a while, Young Master Wu Hen opened his mouth and said, "The Gambling Competition is finished, I will also leave for the shrine tomorrow, let's have a drink together."
Hua Ruge nodded: "Ok."
"Please." The Young Master Wu Hen added.
Hua Ruge laughed, "Alright."
The two of them strolled along the street, chasing after the aroma of wine drifting out from the alleyway. Young Master Wu Hen opened his mouth and said: "He should be glad that you have helped him bear all this."
Hearing that, Hua Ruge was startled, but after that he became enlightened, and the corner of his eyes finally had a smile of relief.
From the moment she left the door, she had been thinking whether she had done the right thing or not, but now she didn't care anymore.
Because if she had truly sacrificed herself to save Tuoba Rui, then Tuoba Rui would definitely be in even more of an agony and would be even more powerless than she was right now.
Compared to such an ending, this was clearly much better. Although she had shouldered a lot of responsibilities, she was not alone.
"I should also be glad to have a friend like you by my side." Hua Ruge heaved a sigh of relief, feeling much better.
Young Master Wu Hen's gentle gaze landed on her face. Seeing that she had a smile on her face, he was slightly relieved, but his smile was slightly bitter: "I don't want to be your friend."
"A good friend for the rest of his life. Come, come, come. Let's drink!" Hua Ruge pulled his sleeves and dragged him into a small tavern.
The place was not very large, only five or six tables, so they chose the one at the back and sat down.
The waiter quickly went up to greet them. Seeing the looks and bearing of the two, he knew that the two of them were not ordinary people.
"What would you like to eat, gentlemen?" He called out to her carefully.
"Bring me any good ones that you can get. Pick the best ones." Hua Ruge said directly. Although she had an extremely beautiful face, her tone and attitude were very casual.
"Alright, I'll be right there." As the waiter said this, he wiped the table, placed the cloth on his shoulder and left.
Young Master Wu Hen did not mean that he was deliberately putting on airs, but he had never come in contact with these before.
"It can't be that you've never been here before, right?" Hua Ruge looked at him and asked.
Young Master Wu Hen answered truthfully, "No."
"Then how boring your life must be." Hua Ruge shook his head sympathetically.
Young Master Wu Hen looked at her with a wistful expression. "So, I like you."
"Don't tease me, be careful not to hit you like a hooligan." Hua Ruge clenched his fists.
"Can't beat me?" The Young Master Wu Hen teased.
Hua Ruge was startled, and said: "I'm not used to you suddenly being on the ground like this."
The warm wine was served, Hua Ruge directly served two bowls, and gave one bowl to Young Master Wu Hen.
Young Master Wu Hen unskillfully picked up the bowl, touched it with her, and drank it all in one gulp.
"I think highly of you." Hua Ruge said, and the two of them toasted each other in the alleyway's tavern.
Hua Ruge's alcohol tolerance had never been good, but Young Master Wu Hen drank bowl after bowl of it. Other than his red face from before, he could not see anything that was out of the ordinary.
Hua Ruge drank a bowl of wine, ate some peanuts as he looked at him and said, "I didn't see that you could drink that much."
"Drink less. Send me back later." The Young Master Wu Hen winked at her.
Hua Ruge felt like he was seeing an illusion. He had said that he would be as floating as a fairy, how could he be even more shameless than she was?
The two of them shouted for the lanterns to be lit. There were fewer and fewer people on the street. The waiter also fell asleep on the counter.
Young Master Wu Hen held a jar of wine and pulled her to tell him her story.
Hua Ruge had not drank much since he had been talking for an entire night, and now that he was feeling tired, he said: "You're drunk, I'll send you back home."
There were already five to six empty wine jars beside him. No matter how good his alcohol tolerance was, he would be drunk by now, not to mention Young Master Wu Hen, who was not in a good condition in the first place.
"I don't want to go back. I want to stay with you." Young Master Wu Hen hugged her arm and lied on top of her. Her posture was like that of a drunkard.
Hua Ruge was helpless, it had always been others who had coaxed her, and it was the first time he met her coaxing a drunkard.
She really didn't know how to do it, so she didn't try to pull him over and instead drank her own wine.
I slept pretty well after I got drunk, so why did I have to go back?
In any case, she had been too suppressed these past few days. Relaxing once was still a relief.
After a while, the two of them started chatting again and finally fell asleep on the floor of the tavern.
The next morning, they woke up on two beds in the same room. When Hua Ruge opened his eyes, he saw Young Master Wu Hen getting up from his bed, and his expression was slightly better than before.
Hua Ruge crawled up, and looked at the not too good room, and asked: "Where are we?"
"I don't know either." Young Master Wu Hen stretched, the smile in his eyes becoming more and more genuine.
Hua Ruge felt that he was familiar and unfamiliar with this kind of person.
No matter how hard you looked at him, he wasn't that old. At twenty years old, he should have been a lively and active young man, yet he had to live a boring life while being dragged down by his body.
He didn't want to, but he couldn't change it.
Although this person looked bright, he must have a lot of hidden troubles in his heart.