“No.” Ji Yan turned around and left. She said lightly, “You’re wearing red underwear today.”
…
In an instant, the wind stopped blowing, the street lamps stopped flashing, and everything was silent…
He stiffly lowered his head, and a long cut appeared on his thigh pants, revealing something inside. The part below the tear was the color of his skin, and the upper part was an unknown red color. The red and white were red, and the surrounding was black, which was very conspicuous.
Shang Jin crossed his legs and a gust of cold wind entered through the gap. A strange red color appeared on his face.
“Cough, cough, cough!” Shang Jinshen walked to Ji Yan’s side and coughed awkwardly. Ji Yan glanced at him and continued to walk on her own path. “Well… you know my natal year.”
“Yes.” Ji Yan lowered her head and replied in a muffled voice.
“So… you shouldn’t look at me like that.”
“Yes.”
“Ji Yan… you’re not thinking about anything, are you?”
“Yes.”
“I’m not a pervert!”
“Uh-huh!”
Ji Yan finally couldn’t help but burst into laughter. Tears welled up in the corners of her eyes. She held her waist and laughed. “Shang Jinshen, of course I know. You’re so stupid!”
“Ji Yan! You’re really tired of living!”
Shang Jinshen’s roar resounded through the entire sports ground. Ji Yan only felt a shock in her eardrums. Realizing that someone had gone mad, she quickly turned around and hugged him. She put her chin on his shoulder and smiled happily. Her eyebrows were dancing so brightly that they almost reached the sky.
She laughed so hard that even Shang Jinshen could feel the vibration on his shoulder. He wanted to catch her and teach her a good lesson several times, but when he raised his hand halfway, he was defeated and put it down. He could only show his dissatisfaction with her with a gloomy face.
After laughing for a long time and getting tired of laughing, Ji Yan turned to look at Shang Jinshen’s livid face and comforted him. “Don’t be angry. I’ll take you to watch the beautiful night.”
Ignoring the gloomy face of the people behind him, Ji Yan took him all the way to the school’s rooftop.
Sitting cross-legged on the floor, Ji Yan rested her chin on her hands and tilted her head to look at Shang Jinshen. “Come on, sit down. We have to stay here for a long time. It’s so tiring to sit here.”
The floor of the rooftop was made of cement, and it was usually cold. At night, it even seeped into the skin.
Looking around, Shang Jinshen went to a corner and took out a long wooden board to put it under her butt. Then he sat down next to her.
“The night sky is everywhere. Did you spend so much effort to come here just to climb the wall?”
After a long time, he spent a lot of time. He opened the phone screen and found that it was already 7:45 p. m.
Ji Yan smiled faintly and said to herself, “The night sky here is different. This school is located in the downtown area, and there is a place with an inch of land and gold in the urban area. There is no extra land to build a school, so I don’t know who decided to build this school on the mountain.”
With this, she asked, “Do you still remember the stairs when we came up?”
Before he could answer, Ji Yan continued, her voice warm and gentle. “The reason why there are so many steps is that this school is built halfway up the mountain, and behind the school is a famous scenic spot-Phoenix Mountain. So, you should smell it carefully. The air here is better than below, and it is closer to the sky.”
After hearing her words, Shang Jinshen understood that she had brought him here to build this place against a mountain. The air was cool and refreshing.
He took a deep breath. Indeed, the air was getting better.
“Look, the night sky here is beautiful, isn’t it?”
She raised her slender fingers and happily shared the beautiful scenery in front of her with him.
Shang Jinshen shifted his gaze from her to the sky.
The moon was not a typical golden color, but a light yellow color. There was also a halo around the moon. From that circle, the night sky gradually dimmed and it was blue all the time.
There were a lot of stars, very small but very bright. Shang Jinshen couldn’t tell which constellation or star it was. He only felt that each star was well-studded. It didn’t feel faint, nor did it feel dense.
It was as if a perfect canvas had come alive.
Shang Jinshen stretched out his long arms and pulled her into his embrace. He leaned her against his chest and said, “It’s beautiful, but you can’t ignore me just because you’re looking at it. There are thousands of beautiful things in the world. Even if they don’t exist today, they’ll appear tomorrow. But there’s only one man in the world in front of you. If you lose me, you’ll never find him again.”
Ji Yan was stunned for a moment, and then she smiled. The originally brewed emotion blamed him in a few words. “I know, so I will accompany you to enjoy the scenery, and I will not accompany the sun to watch the sun rise and set.”
There were some things that could only be done once in a while. It was interesting and would be a burden if there were too many of them.
Some things must be kept at all times, which was a demand. The less, the more incomplete it would be.
“Well, it’s good that you know.”
Ji Yan seemed to want to say something, but after thinking about it for a long time, she gritted her teeth and said, “Do you know that there is a legend about the stars?”
“Well, go ahead.” Shang Jinshen rubbed her hair with his cheek. He was not interested in the legend at all, but simply dealt with it.
“Legend… it’s like this.” Ji Yan’s eyes were empty, and a lot of things poured into her mind.
It was said that every star was protecting a human, and since he was born, he had become his protector. The stars in the sky were bright and dark, which were different from human life force. The strong light of life force was shining, and vice versa. When a person died, the star would integrate into the moon and no longer appear alone.
For thousands of years, people had been looking for their guardian star, because there were people who said that they found their own star. Every day, they used their own blood to nourish it, and then that person would live for a hundred years, becoming as brilliant as the sun and moon.
However, this method was punished by the Goddess of the Moon. Because of the light of the stars, the moon became dimmer and dimmer. Therefore, the Goddess of the Moon called back all the guardians and sent 72 stars to form the 12 Constellations. After each person died, they would turn into a ray of light, which was their souls. The 12 Constellations would send them into the moon.
Therefore, some people said that the dead people lived in the moon palace. In there, their souls would be nourished into human figures. Every 15th day, they could come out to visit their relatives. Therefore, the moon on 15th day was bright and round.
After that, the two of them were silent for a long time. Shang Jinshen broke the silence with a smile. “Then what do you want to say?”
Ji Yan’s eyes were a little red. She knew that his hands were stained with a lot of blood. Could he really sleep well when he had a dream at midnight? No, if he could, he would not go back to sleep in the countless nights and would not sleep alone.
Therefore, she wanted him to let go of those heavy burdens, let him really live a life without worries, and truly enjoy the beauty of life, not for her, nor for the group, but for himself.