After being reborn, the villain comes with a spoiler tag.

"Try it, even my senior brother said it's delicious."

Upon hearing this, Su Yixuan immediately came to her senses.

She glanced at Long Yucheng, then at Huo Yu who was standing quietly not far away, and finally focused her gaze back on the bamboo tube in her hand. Her eyes darted back and forth between the three objects several times before she finally used a bamboo skewer to pick up a piece of rice cake and stuff it into her mouth.

"I hate scallions..."

Su Yixuan's voice was muffled, as if she were talking to herself.

"what?"

Long Yucheng was a little stunned, clearly not expecting Su Yixuan to suddenly say something like that, but he quickly replied:

"Should I go buy another one without scallions?"

Su Yixuan shook her head and ate another rice cake:

"I haven't eaten for so long that I don't seem to hate scallions as much as I used to."

Upon hearing this, Long Yucheng couldn't help but smile:

"I knew it! If even my senior brother says it's delicious, it can't be bad!"

Su Yixuan laughed along. Since obtaining the strategy system, this was the first time she had experienced this sense of frustration with a target, but at the same time, it felt like she had let go of something and felt unprecedentedly relaxed.

"Tomorrow is the Thousand Candles Ceremony."

Su Yixuan suddenly said.

"Yes, my senior brother and I are both planning to go and take a look."

Long Yucheng answered casually, then his expression changed slightly, as if he had thought of something. His gaze toward Su Yixuan was both wary and sympathetic.

Su Yixuan knew what he was thinking at a glance, and said with a smile:

"I have patrol duties tomorrow, so I won't be coming. Have fun."

Long Yucheng nodded with some suspicion.

Su Yixuan put the last piece of rice cake into her mouth, drank some hot soup, and felt warm all over from the inside out. She then prepared to continue her final tour guide duties.

Just then, a slightly hesitant voice sounded behind them:

"Two dogs?"

The sound reached her ears clearly, but Su Yixuan didn't pay much attention to it, assuming it was just a passerby calling for her companion.

But the speaker's next action took her by surprise.

The man rushed straight up to her, his face full of surprise, but his tone was firm:

"Are you Li Ergou?"

"?"

Who? Li Ergou? Who is Li Ergou?

Su Yixuan looked at the person who spoke with a face full of doubt.

The man was dressed as a cook, and seemed to be quite young, probably no more than thirty years old. He was short and stocky, with a very strong build, clearly someone who had done manual labor for many years.

Just as she was about to ask if she had mistaken someone for someone else, Long Yucheng, who was beside her, looked at the person in front of him and slowly widened his eyes:

"You are... Erniu!"

……

After a brief conversation, Long Yucheng and Wang Erniu confirmed each other's identities.

When they met an old friend in a foreign land, they held hands and looked at each other with tears in their eyes, as if they had endless things to say and old stories to tell right there in the street.

"Hey, it's been almost ten years! Look at you, you're doing pretty well! Er Gou, tell me, where have you been all these years?"

Being called by that name in front of acquaintances made Long Yucheng slightly embarrassed, but he was still overjoyed to see an old friend again. He cleared his throat and gently corrected him:

"It's a long story, but I'll tell you the short story when I have time. The most important thing is that I'm no longer called Li Ergou. I have a new name: Long Yucheng."

Wang Erniu praised sincerely:

"Wow, that's a really nice name. It sounds cultured. Did you come up with it yourself?"

"..."

Long Yucheng was speechless for a moment, unsure how to explain the origin of the name. He could only nod awkwardly, a polite smile on his face.

At that moment, a soft "pfft" sound seemed to come from the side, and Long Yucheng's expression instantly became even more stiff, his smile freezing.

[Target number one, Long Yucheng's, favorability has decreased by one; current favorability is seventeen.]

Upon hearing the system notification, Su Yixuan could no longer laugh.

[How can the main character be so petty! I haven't received any professional training, what's wrong with laughing!]

However, back to the name, it wasn't changed because Long Yucheng read too many novels about Long Aotian in his previous life.

Long Yucheng, who transmigrated into the body of an abandoned baby, was taken in by an old hunter. The old hunter's wife had died early, and he had no children of his own, so he treated Long Yucheng as his own son. However, the old hunter had limited education and firmly believed in the saying that a humble name would make a child easier to raise, so he named him "Er Gou" (Second Dog).

Long Yucheng spent more than ten years in the village with this overly simple name.

Until the old hunter passed away, he left the village and went to a place where no one knew him, and he couldn't wait to change his name back to Long Yucheng.

Long Yucheng was his name in his previous life. Long's father had boasted to the two brothers more than once that part of the reason he was able to win over their mother was because his surname was too cool and exuded domineering aura.

After giving birth to two sons, Daenerys Targaryen naturally wouldn't waste the opportunity to name her two little dragons. With a wave of her hand, she named her eldest son Long Yucheng and her younger son Long Zhaoyang.

During their school years, the Long brothers benefited greatly from their prominent names on the attendance roster, receiving far more attendance calls from each teacher than the class average.

Thinking of his parents from his previous life and his younger brother who was still in school, Long Yucheng couldn't help but feel a little down.

The only consolation is that he died in a traffic accident on his way to work on his first day of internship, which should leave his family with a considerable amount of compensation.

However, in front of his childhood playmate in this life, Long Yucheng quickly adjusted his emotions and changed the subject:

"Anyway, I'm no longer called Li Ergou. But Erniu, what are you doing here? This place is quite far from the village, isn't it?"

Wang Erniu was completely oblivious to the subtle change in Long Yucheng's emotions, and answered with a simple, honest smile:

"You don't know this, do you? Ever since you said that 'things change' thing and left the village that day, a lot of young people in the village have been inspired by you and want to go out and make their way in the world. But most of them got a beating from their parents and then behaved themselves. Only I actually left the village..."

Wang Erniu recounted his experiences after leaving the village, while Long Yucheng listened attentively, nodding frequently and occasionally offering a few words of encouragement.

Su Yixuan's mind wandered after listening for a short while.

Only Huo Yu's gaze remained fixed on Long Yucheng's face, who was nodding and smiling from time to time.

Perhaps it was because the two had spent a lot of time together, or perhaps it was because Long Yucheng was straightforward and his emotions were easily seen, but when the topic turned to names, the sadness in his eyes did not escape Huo Yu's notice.

Huo Yu thought carefully about the people with the surname Long he knew. After much thought, he could only recall one person, Long Yucheng, from his previous life. Unpleasant memories flooded his mind, so he simply stopped thinking about it.

As for such a trivial matter as changing his name, Huo Yu, who had chosen both his surname and given name himself, naturally did not feel there was anything wrong with it.

Wang Erniu had work to do and couldn't chat for long, so he made an appointment with Long Yucheng to meet at the Thousand Candles Ceremony the next day, waved goodbye, and hurriedly walked into the small door of the kitchen of a restaurant next door.

Looking at the backs of his childhood friends who used to chase chickens and dogs in the village, now unrecognizable, Long Yucheng couldn't help but feel a pang of emotion.

However, after only a short while, Long Yucheng's attention was quickly diverted to other new and unfamiliar things.