Shi Yao'er laughed so hard she bent over, her body shaking with laughter, which annoyed Tang Tianlei: "This girl is so rude. She asks such random questions, and then laughs on her own after everyone has answered. It's outrageous!"

Tang Tianlei didn't react in the end because Shi Yao'er's laughter and appearance seemed to give him a different feeling, a feeling he had never had before. He couldn't explain why, but he felt that Jin Yang'er in front of him was unique and unusually cute, so he also started to laugh like an idiot.

Shi Yao'er barely managed to suppress her laughter, wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes, and asked in a slightly trembling voice, "You just said your name is Tang Sanshi? How old are you?"

"Uh, I'm eighteen this year."

"You're older than me, so I have to call you Brother Sanshi. I have to go now. Let's meet here at this time tomorrow." Shi Yao'er turned and left, calling back as she ran away, "Don't forget to hang the red string bell for me tomorrow, Brother Sanshi!"

"Hey! You..." Tang Tianlei reached out to try to stop her, but Shi Yao'er ran so fast that she disappeared into the crowd in no time.

"Sigh, what a mess this is." Tang Tianlei complained, looking at the crowd in the distance. "But the way she calls me 'Brother Sanshi' is quite interesting. What's her name again? Jin... Jin Yang'er? I think so."

Just as Tang Tianlei was savoring the brief encounter not long ago and the unexpected appointment for tomorrow, his friends who had traveled with him returned. Seeing him sitting on the stone bench in a daze, they went up to him and teased, "What's wrong, Tianlei? Did the flight just now exhaust your mental energy and make you stupid? Hahahaha."

"Go away, have you hung it up yet?" Tang Tianlei waved his hand and asked.

"Of course, but this price is really expensive! It costs five gold coins just to list it once, that's three months' worth of my allowance!"

"I told you not to practice properly. You just hung up and left. I need to go back and rest."

Shi Yao'er ran all the way home from the maple tree, panting as she picked up the teapot and gulped down the tea. After drinking almost all of it, she put down the teapot and continued to catch her breath. She then lay down on the tea table to rest, but the little deer in her mind never stopped, constantly replaying everything that had just happened.

"Tang Sanshi, how could anyone give him such a strange name? He looks like a blockhead, kind of dull, but he's actually quite interesting~"

The next afternoon, at the same time as yesterday, Tang Tianlei stood dumbfounded under the maple tree, looking at the bustling square. He just wanted to slap himself hard.

"What am I doing? How did I end up here out of nowhere?" But then he thought, "Oh well, I'm already here, I might as well wait."

But as he waited and waited, an hour had passed around the clock tower, and he still hadn't seen the girl named Jin Yang'er from yesterday. Tang Tianlei slapped himself hard: "Sigh, why did I wait so long like an idiot?"

But then I thought, "Oh well, I've already waited, what's another ten minutes? I'll wait another ten minutes, and if they don't come, I'll leave."

Ten minutes passed one after another before Shi Yao'er finally arrived. In fact, Shi Yao'er had arrived not long after Tang Tianlei, but she had been watching from afar, wondering if Tang Sanshi would keep his promise and wait for her. Later, seeing him pacing back and forth under the maple tree and looking around from time to time, Shi Yao'er decided to show herself.

"Sigh, what an idiot." With a sigh, Shi Yao'er patted Tang Tianlei on the shoulder from behind. When he turned around, she feigned weakness and grievance, saying, "Brother Sanshi, Yang'er was late because of family matters. You won't blame Yang'er, will you...?"

Indeed, a woman who knows how to be charming has the best life. Tang Tianlei's anger, which had been building up, vanished instantly. Shi Yao'er had dressed up carefully today, looking even more radiant and beautiful than yesterday. Tang Tianlei's eyes immediately went blank, and he opened his mouth but couldn't utter any harsh words, as if his throat was blocked by those words.

"Brother Sanshi?" Shi Yao'er asked tentatively again.

"Oh, haha, how could that be? Actually, I just arrived not long ago, and I was held up by something." Tang Tianlei came back to his senses and replied awkwardly.

"Sigh, his acting is so bad..." Shi Yao'er thought to herself as she looked at him, but she still pulled Tang Tianlei to sit on the stone bench, took out the red string bell from yesterday from her purse, handed it to Tang Tianlei, and said, "Brother Sanshi, you promised to help Yang'er hang the red string bell yesterday. I thought you were just teasing me, but I didn't expect you to actually come!"

"Of course, we disciples of Qingfeng Academy have always been true to our word." Tang Tianlei patted his chest, as if he were proclaiming a spirit.

"But before I hang it for you, did you make a wish?"

"Make a wish? Oh, I almost forgot. I'll make a wish now." Shi Yao'er was taken aback at first, then seemed to remember something. She quickly took back the red rope bell, and following Tang Tianlei's example from yesterday, knelt down facing the maple tree and began to make a wish devoutly.

The girl's devout appearance was like a branding iron, burning deeply into Tang Tianlei's heart, leaving a deep imprint. He didn't know how to describe that scene. A gentle breeze blew by, and the girl's petite body seemed to have gained a touch of divinity. The fragrance that wafted towards him was hard to tell whether it came from the girl or from heaven. He only felt that it seemed that the person in front of him was destined to be there.

A short while later, Shi Yao'er stood up from the ground, walked up to Tang Tianlei, and smiled broadly: "Look, I've made a wish, can you help me hang it up?"

Tang Tianlei looked at the red string bell in the girl's hand. The red color seemed to be telling him that he had come into this world for this wish. He took the bell, nodded to Shi Yao'er, and solemnly said, "Okay, I'll hang it up for you."

When he reached the maple tree, he remembered that he couldn't just hang it anywhere, so he turned around and asked, "Where should I hang it, Jin... uh, Yang'er?"

"Hmm... I'll just hang it next to your bell." Shi Yao'er looked up and thought for a while, then quickly came up with an answer.

"Ah, okay." Tang Tianlei was stunned for a moment, but still agreed. Then he repeated the steps from yesterday and successfully hung Shi Yao'er's red rope bell next to his own bell.

Back on the ground, he was panting heavily, just like yesterday, feeling completely drained. He slumped onto a stone bench, and Shi Yao'er, understanding his situation, went over to ask with concern, "Are you alright?"

Tang Tianlei waved his hand weakly. He really didn't have the strength to speak. After two consecutive days of performing such high-precision flights, and with his mental energy not yet fully replenished after yesterday's rest, he really felt that even speaking was difficult today.

Seeing that Tang Tianlei's weakness didn't seem to be feigned, Shi Yao'er abandoned her joking thoughts, took out a handkerchief from her purse, and carefully wiped the fine sweat from his forehead, a sign that his mental energy was about to be exhausted. For a moment, Shi Yao'er felt a little ashamed of her actions, but a strange flutter of emotion welled up from the bottom of her heart.

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