Stars fall and locust trees grow

"I...I..." Although Li Chi was aggressive, every word he said made sense, which made the usually arrogant Shen Jue unable to refute for a moment.

He had to admit that what Li Chi said at this moment was actually right.

Fourteen years ago, Shen Jue set out alone on the road to Xuanzhou in the far north to carry out a high-level sect mission.

After completing the sect's mission with great difficulty, he was passing by Tianqing Mountain on his way back when he accidentally met the young Taoist Qingli who was picking wild vegetables in the wild.

Qingli was only sixteen or seventeen years old at that time. In order to protect his master's Taoist temple, he stayed on the Tianqing Mountain where almost no one had ever set foot, and lived a lonely, hard but self-sufficient life.

It was early spring at that time, and the vegetable seeds had just been sown in the vegetable garden behind Tianqing Temple. Not even a single sprout had grown, so Qingli, who had been eating light porridge for several months, had to go out and dig some wild vegetables to go with it.

When Shen Jue descended from the sky in front of Qingli like a banished immortal, he was putting the picked wild vegetables into the basket and was about to stand up from the ground.

The young man simply tied his hair into a bun with a wooden hairpin, and his dark purple Taoist robe made his skin look as white as snow. His eyes, as bright as the stars in the dark night, were clear and transparent without a trace of impurities. The sunlight fell on him, emitting a soft and kind light, which made people unable to help but indulge in it and couldn't take their eyes away.

When the two men's eyes met, Shen Jue could only hear the heart in his chest beating violently a few times.

It was a fleeting glimpse that stirred the heart; it was the young man's simple yet passionate first heartbeat.

So, with his mind racing, Shen Jue put his hand on his lips and coughed a few times heartbreakingly. The blood on his palm successfully attracted Qingli's attention, so that he was kept in Tianqing Temple as a patient.

The young Taoist priest Qingli, as his name suggests, seems to be pure and indifferent, and keeps a distance from others, but his character is extremely docile. Even though Shen Jue shamelessly lies on the couch every day and waits for food and clothes to be provided for him, he is always smiling.

After lying in bed for five consecutive days, Shen Jue, who had been pretending to be sick, finally felt guilty and his body finally "recovered".

From then on, he followed Qingli to clean the Taoist temple every day, weed and water the vegetable garden, or dig wild vegetables in the nearby woods. His days were busy and fulfilling.

In order to narrow the distance between them and make their relationship appear more intimate, he took the initiative to call Qingli "Ali".

So, Qingli, who had never left the Taoist temple and had never been involved in the secular world, was attracted by a person who suddenly broke into his life and began to experience a relationship that he had never experienced before.

Qingli didn't know how to describe this feeling. Sometimes it was hazy, sometimes it was sour and bitter, and more often, it made people feel at a loss.

Under Shen Jue's increasingly intimate and gentle offensive, Qingli gradually got used to holding hands, hugging and kissing, and finally, under Shen Jue's coaxing, she even gave herself her first time.

However, on the morning of the second day when the two of them spoke frankly to each other and expressed their true feelings, Shen Jue received an emergency recall order from Shen Changlin.

Shen Jue wanted to take this opportunity to bring Qingli to Yanzhou and buy a courtyard for him to live in, but the young man refused.

Although he liked the feeling of having Shen Jue by his side, he also had his own persistence, and the Taoist temple left by his master was the only thing he persisted in.

In fact, before his death, Qingli's master once told him to leave Tianqing Temple and live his own life.

But Qingli didn't want to.

He was abandoned at the gate of Tianqing Temple when he was just born, and was raised by an old Taoist priest. The old Taoist priest was like a master and a father to him, and this Taoist temple was filled with all the memories of the old Taoist priest and his childhood, which was an existence that he could not give up in his life.

So, he won't leave.

Looking at Qingli's determined eyes, Shen Jue finally had to leave reluctantly. He really liked Qingli at that time, but Qingli gave up on him first, which made Shen Jue, a favored child of heaven, feel very frustrated.

The sudden encounter fourteen years later made the resentment and jealousy in Shen Jue's heart burn rapidly in the barren wilderness like sparks blown by a strong wind. The surging heat wave enveloped him completely, almost burning even his sanity to ashes.

Shen Jue was silent for a long time before he murmured and repeated, "But, we have already performed the ceremony..."

"Shen Jue, don't mention the ceremony again. You know very well that you forced me to do the ceremony just now." Li Chi said, "Besides, a ceremony without the presence of the elders of both sides does not count at all."

"Fourteen years ago, you and Qingli both made choices that you thought were best. Qingli chose to stay in the Taoist temple, and you chose to return to the Twenty-Nine Mountains. Neither of you chose each other. Since both of you have chosen to give up, please stop pestering me. From now on, we will keep our distance from each other. This is the best respect for our past relationship."

"Ali..." Shen Jue suddenly lowered his head weakly, "Can we really not go back?!"

"Yeah." Li Chi nodded, rubbing his head against Gu Chuanlin's chest twice, his voice gentle and firm: "I now have someone I love the most. From the moment we first met, there was only me in his eyes and heart. No matter what desperate situation he faced, he never thought of giving up on me. So, for the rest of my life, I will only love him."

After he finished speaking, he felt that Gu Chuanlin's arms, which had been around him, tightened even more, and his breathing became heavier.

Seeing that the conversation was almost over, Hu Di immediately stood up, grabbed Shen Jue by the back of his neck, and dragged the depressed man out of the house, "Alright! Alright! They are in love with each other, so don't be a troublemaker in the middle!"

Shen Jue had already given up hope and allowed the other party to drag him away without any resistance.

When they reached the door, Hu Di suddenly turned around and said, "After a day of hard work, you must be exhausted, so you two should have a good rest tonight. Tomorrow morning we will set off back to Twenty-Nine Peaks and hand this useless guy over to Master to deal with."

After saying that, he considerately closed the shaky door.

After dealing with Shen Jue, Li Chi finally got rid of a worry and gradually relaxed. He climbed out of Gu Chuanlin's arms, turned over and lay on the big red wedding bed, stretching himself out like a "big" character.

He had been wearing the wedding dress all the time. Seeing this, Gu Chuanlin felt very unhappy, so he made a hand seal and turned the thing that made him unhappy into pieces.

Li Chi was startled by his action. Just when he was about to say something, he saw the other party pressing down on him with a cold face.