Senior, don't be afraid, I'll protect you.

That single "No" really stumped Luo Ye.

Upon closer inspection, among all these people studying archaeology, there was only one girl.

Are there really so few girls in this major?

Actually not.

It's not that this major doesn't attract girls.

Rather, they are simply disliked.

Putting aside the difficulty of finding employment, the things they learn are not easy to learn, and the learning time is relatively long.

Even with an undergraduate degree, it's impossible to get involved in archaeological tasks that involve cultural relics.

Even among doctoral students, quite a few are unemployed after graduation.

It's worth noting that Jiangnan University's archaeology program admits twenty students each year, eighteen of whom are admitted through job transfer.

"A love story."

Recalling the murals I had just seen in the underground palace, and Professor Li Chang'an's explanation of the murals.

Luo Ye improvised and began to tell a story about the world of cultivation.

The story begins with a young man arriving at a cultivation sect and encountering a stunningly beautiful and aloof fairy senior sister.

The young man had little talent for cultivating immortality, but he was a master alchemist.

……

Finally, in order to deal with the great demon of the cultivation world, the four young masters of the cultivation world (the four of them in 515) engaged in a final battle with the final BOSS and successfully destroyed the demon.

However, the fairy senior sister was seriously injured in the previous battle and was about to perish.

At the critical moment, the young man used his own life essence to refine the only pill in his life that could repair all injuries, thus saving his fairy senior sister's life.

Everyone thought he was dead, but no one knew that his soul had also taken up residence in this elixir and entered the body of the fairy senior sister.

After the fairy senior sister ascended to the immortal realm and became a true immortal, she discovered that she actually had fragments of the young man's soul within her.

She resurrected the young man, and the two lived a shameless life in the immortal realm, even having two more children...

……

Luo Ye stopped the story here.

Everyone was so moved they were crying their eyes out, except for the fairy-like senior who looked at him with a meaningful expression.

"I'm so touched, so incredibly touched."

Professor Li Chang'an cried his heart out, clearly showing he hadn't experienced the baptism of melodramatic and tragic Chinese novels.

Luo Ye felt that the story he told wasn't too tragic, since the ending was happy.

As long as he imagines himself and the fairy-like senior's faces, he gets more and more excited and happy as he talks.

If it weren't for the murderous glare from the senior student at the end, he could have continued speaking.

This story is simply a reskinned version of "Youth Continues".

Luo Ye named it "The Cultivation Continues".

After I finished telling the story, it was already past three in the afternoon.

Li Chang'an checked the time; it was time to go back.

The group returned to the car and prepared to leave Ruxi Village.

Although the archaeological excavation was unsuccessful, the roast chicken was indeed delicious.

Su Aru waved to the car and said goodbye to everyone.

The repeated visits from outsiders left a deep impression on her.

She likes people from outside, but not people from here.

Therefore, she was determined to leave this place and see the outside world.

To become someone like Sister Tang, Sister Su, and Sister Yang.

No matter how difficult the road ahead, she is determined to fight for herself, change her future, and live a better life.

……

Upon returning to the entrance of Jiangcheng University, Su Baizhou went to the bookstore.

Seeing her wearing sunglasses, Qin Yuwen, who was eating braised chicken rice noodles at the bar, exclaimed in surprise, "Zhouzhou, didn't you go to do archaeology? How come you're back so soon?"

"Yes, I'm back," Su Baizhou said calmly.

Qin Yuwen: ……

Aren't you just talking nonsense?

"Senior, what's for dinner?"

Luo Ye, who followed closely behind, asked.

"Let's buy a chicken and stew it."

It seems that Su Baizhou didn't have enough roast chicken at noon, so she decided to cook a chicken stew with mushrooms herself.

So Luo Ye went out to buy chicken.

Su Baizhou sat by the window, looking out and recalling the story Luo Ye had told in Ruxi Village.

That story, or rather, the thing the junior student actually wanted to do.

Having two children...

Thinking of this, Su Baizhou's face flushed slightly, and she let out a soft hum to herself.

She heard that childbirth is very painful, and she was already very conflicted about having just one child, but her junior from elementary school actually wanted her to have two.

That's going too far. She won't have any children, which will infuriate him.

However, they haven't even taken the first step of having children yet. The younger brother is only a sophomore in college, and she is only a senior. Isn't it a bit too early to talk about having children now?

"Zhouzhou, do you still remember our roommate?"

"Who?"

"Zhu Lu".

"remember."

In their dormitory, Zhu Lu and Su Baizhou didn't get along well, but that was a thing of the past.

By the end of her junior year, she had already let go of the past.

"I heard that she got pregnant not long after she went out for her internship."

Upon hearing this, Su Baizhou's expression clearly turned somewhat surprised.

“I talked to her and she said she’s already getting engaged. Isn’t that amazing? She used to be so jealous of you and always trying to outdo you, but after only a few months in the workforce, she’s like a completely different person.”

Hearing Qin Yuwen's sigh, Su Baizhou didn't know what to say.

Zhu Lu did not study hard during her university years. You should know that although Jiangda is a prestigious university, if you are lazy and unproductive during your time at university, you will not be able to escape the fact that you will be unemployed after graduation.

If you don't know anything, your only options when entering society are waiters, salespeople, or other jobs that don't require any skills or qualifications.

A diploma is a stepping stone, that's true.

But once you're inside, if you don't know anything, they'll kick you out.

"And another high school classmate of mine, I heard her child can already walk. Sigh, Zhouzhou, sometimes I wonder, are they too early, or are we too late?"

"These kinds of things shouldn't be compared; it's just that everyone makes different choices."

Su Baizhou said expressionlessly.

Her personality of taking things slowly in relationships means that she will spend a long time with her junior from elementary school, going through many things together before choosing to move on to the next step.

Most importantly, the junior student also has this kind of personality.

They would kiss, hug, and keep each other company like any ordinary couple. Sometimes she would even indulge her junior's little desires and do some intimate things, but not the most intimate things.

But a deeper level of action involves family, responsibility, and a firm commitment to spend one's life with the other.

It's definitely not something you can just give away casually.

It is not the outdated idea of ​​"what era are we living in?"

If even a momentary impulse can control your brain, then how can you guarantee that you can stay with your loved one until the end?

How will we face even more temptations in the future?

Life is but a few decades long.

It's not long, it's not long, it's not short.

Take your time, the scenery will become more beautiful, and you will see more.

The finish line is there; you can reach it even if you take your time.