"Ruan Ruan."
Yu Huan suddenly appeared behind Ruan Qiuping, his smile warm and gentle.
Ruan Qiuping turned to look at him, somewhat surprised: "So quick, have you finished all your work matters?"
"All done," Yu Huan said softly, "What is Ruan Ruan looking at here?"
"Looking at the sea," Ruan Qiuping frowned, "There are too many people here, it's easy to bump into someone when moving around."
Ironically, Ruan Qiuping still had the constitution that couldn't touch people.
Yu Huan reached out and pulled Ruan Qiuping up, speaking softly: "I'll take you to a place with fewer people."
Ruan Qiuping hesitated for a moment, looking down at Jing Yang beside him.
Jing Yang smiled at them and said: "You two go ahead, I still need to wait here for Chen Hai."
Yu Huan handed Jing Yang a black card: "If you get tired of staying outside later, you can go rest at the hotel. I've already arranged everything. Take this card to the front desk, and someone will attend to you."
"That's great," Jing Yang accepted the card, smiling with curved eyes, "Thank you, Ruan classmate's boyfriend."
Ruan Qiuping's ears instantly turned red, and he exclaimed: "Jing Yang, what are you saying?"
Jing Yang blinked, asking in confusion: "Did I say something wrong? If not boyfriend, then what? Ah... right, perhaps husband?"
Ruan Qiuping was momentarily stunned.
Hearing Yu Huan's low chuckle beside him, he suddenly realized what this word truly meant, and his face immediately turned completely red.
"...Jing Yang!!!"
Ruan Qiuping, red-faced and gritting his teeth, called out his name, immediately bending down to scoop up some sand and throw it at Jing Yang!
Honestly, if he could touch others, he would have loved to push Jing Yang's head into the sand.
How could such a good person have such a loose mouth?!!!
"Ruan Qiuping, you got sand in my clothes!" Jing Yang shouted laughingly, also scooping up sand to throw at Ruan Qiuping.
Back and forth, the two started playing, throwing sand at each other.
"Ruan Qiuping!"
A sudden angry shout startled Ruan Qiuping, causing his hand to shake and the handful of sand to scatter directly from Jing Yang's forehead down.
The next second, a ball of condensed seawater violently flew towards Ruan Qiuping!
Seeing this, Yu Huan quickly threw aside his cane and wrapped his arm around Ruan Qiuping's waist to dodge to the side. However, due to his unsteady steps, he ended up falling down while hugging Ruan Qiuping. Ruan Qiuping, protected in Yu Huan's arms, was unharmed, but Yu Huan's elbow was bruised badly by a nearby rock.
Seeing Yu Huan injured, Ruan Qiuping's eyes immediately reddened. He quickly stood up and angrily looked towards the newcomer.
The one attacking them was the equally furious Chen Hai, who shouted: "Ruan Qiuping, you dare to bully Jing Yang while I'm not around?! I'll beat you to death!"
Saying this, he used his magic to form another water ball and attacked Ruan Qiuping.
Ruan Qiuping, also blinded by anger, dodged the water ball and immediately used magic to gather sand from beside him, forming it into a ball and throwing it directly at Chen Hai!
Jing Yang hurriedly tried to explain: "Ruan Qiuping, Chen Hai! Chen Hai! Stop quickly! You've misunderstood, you've really misunderstood, Ruan Qiuping wasn't bullying me, stop quickly! Ruan Qiuping, you stop too, people are watching!!!"
But both had already seen red and no one was listening to him.
Ruan Qiuping's magic power might not have been a match for Chen Hai's originally, but ever since he inadvertently absorbed most of a Golden Essence Soul Pill, his magical power had increased significantly. Moreover, after descending to the mortal realm, everyone's magic power had been reduced to one-tenth, so the two, though both weak, could fight evenly, unable to determine a winner.
In an instant, water balls, sand balls, fire balls, and stone balls were flying everywhere. Although their destructive power was no different from elementary school children throwing sandbags, the tourists on the beach had never seen immortals fighting before. They were all frightened, screaming and fleeing in all directions.
Some fearless internet celebrities, while trembling in fear, opened their phones to livestream.
The scene instantly became chaotic.
Yu Huan stood to the side frowning, while Jing Yang was anxious like an ant on a hot pan.
"Stop!"
With a shout, Qi Yue appeared out of thin air. He waved his right hand forcefully, and Ruan Qiuping and Chen Hai were simultaneously pushed back several steps, their magic power completely sealed, not even one-tenth remaining.
"Fighting in the mortal realm, you've really outdone yourselves!" Qi Yue spoke coldly.
"Ruan Qiuping bullied Jing Yang first!" Chen Hai shouted.
"No, Chen Hai, you've misunderstood, Ruan Qiuping and I were just playing around..."
"Jing Yang, stop siding with Ruan Qiu..."
"All of you, shut up." Qi Yue swept his gaze over the surrounding humans, "Do you see what you've done?"
The surrounding humans had already been frightened into fleeing frantically, and a few of the more timid ones had even fainted from fear.
Only then did Chen Hai and Ruan Qiuping realize the severity of the situation.
Qi Yue frowned slightly. He had initially wanted to directly erase the memories of everyone present. Although there were many people here and erasing memories was complex, it was already the simplest method available.
But the difficulty lay in the fact that two internet celebrities had just been livestreaming, and the video of Chen Hai and Ruan Qiuping fighting had already spread. The number of people watching the livestream was in the thousands, if not tens of thousands.
Qi Yue had no choice but to take out the hourglass lent to him by the God of Time from his pocket, using magic to make the hourglass flow backwards.
Instantly, the clouds in the mortal realm flowed backwards, people's tears began to flow back, those who were running began to move backwards... all the humans in the mortal realm returned to ten minutes ago, except for Yu Huan.
Qi Yue frowned slightly.
Could it be that because this Yu Huan had been in contact with immortals for a long time, he had become immune to this time-space magic that only worked on humans?
Qi Yue looked at Ruan Qiuping and said expressionlessly, "This mortal's memories cannot be kept."
Ruan Qiuping quickly stood in front of Yu Huan, saying anxiously, "No!"
"Why not? I think this mortal probably knows your identity too, right?"
"So what if he does? He won't tell anyone!" Ruan Qiuping said.
"This is against the rules."
Ruan Qiuping looked at Qi Yue and said, "But what you did back then, using my luck, was also against the rules."
Ruan Qiuping was implicitly referring to when they had used his bad luck to alter Yu Huan's fate.
"Besides, the Recorder of Fate doesn't have any objections to me interacting with him, what right do you have to erase his memories?"
"Are you saying that if I get permission from the Recorder of Fate, I can erase his memories?"
Ruan Qiuping was extremely nervous inside, but he still said loudly, "That's right!"
Just as Qi Yue was about to say something more, the bracelet on his hand suddenly flashed with a red light.
"Senior Qi Yue, does this mean that something has happened with the other classmates?" Jing Yang cautiously spoke up.
Qi Yue looked down at the bracelet, his expression not looking good, but the red light on his hand was flashing more and more urgently. Qi Yue had no choice but to look at them and say, "Don't have any wishful thinking. I will report all of your disciplinary violations today, one by one."
With that, he turned and left.
Ruan Qiuping breathed a sigh of relief.
"Jing Yang, Jing Yang! Did Ruan Qiuping really bully you just now?!" As soon as Qi Yue left, Chen Hai noisily asked.
"Really, he didn't. You misunderstood. We were just playing..." Jing Yang sighed, patting the sand off Chen Hai's head while apologizing to Ruan Qiuping, "I'm sorry, Ruan Qiuping. Chen Hai was a bit excessive."
"Why are you apologizing to him?!" Chen Hai shouted, "Look what he's done to me."
Due to the recent battle, both Chen Hai and Ruan Qiuping looked very disheveled, but because Ruan Qiuping had fired a few fireballs, Chen Hai looked even more of a mess. Not only were his clothes charred black, but they also had several large holes, and even his face was somewhat blackened from the smoke.
However, Ruan Qiuping wasn't much better off. He was soaking wet, with sand sticking all over him, both wet and heavy.
"Are you alright? How's the wound from earlier?" Ruan Qiuping went to check Yu Huan's injured arm.
"It's nothing serious," Yu Huan pulled his arm away and took Ruan Qiuping's hand, "Let's go. We'll go to the hotel to clean up first. You'll catch a cold like this."
Chen Hai looked at their joined hands with a strange expression. He looked at Jing Yang and asked bluntly in front of Ruan Qiuping, "Are these two gay?"
Jing Yang was stunned for a moment, unsure how to respond.
"...That's so disgusting." Chen Hai turned his head away, his eyes full of disdain.
Ruan Qiuping frowned, about to scold Chen Hai, when he suddenly noticed that Jing Yang had abruptly withdrawn his hand from Chen Hai's hair. His whole body trembled slightly, and his eyes instantly filled with tears, as if he might cry at any moment.
The words Ruan Qiuping had prepared to scold Chen Hai suddenly caught in his throat. He asked, "Jing Yang, do you want to come to the hotel with us? You've got some sand on you too, you can wash up properly."
Jing Yang nodded and said hoarsely, "...Okay."
With that, he followed Ruan Qiuping towards the hotel.
Chen Hai trailed behind Jing Yang, grumbling, "Jing Yang! I don't want to go with them, let's go somewhere else! We haven't spent our 100 yuan yet!"
But to Chen Hai's confusion, Jing Yang, who usually had a good temper and always granted his requests, didn't respond to him at all.
When Chen Hai followed them to the hotel entrance, he was suddenly stopped by security.
The security guard, seeing his tattered clothes and soot-covered face, thought he was some kind of vagrant: "Sir, I'm sorry, but only VIP members can enter our hotel."
Chen Hai pointed at Yu Huan ahead of him: "Then how did they get in?"
"That's our boss."
"I'm with them! Jing Yang, Jing Yang! They won't let me in!"
Jing Yang kept his head down, as if he hadn't heard anything.
The security guard hesitated for a moment, then ran up to Yu Huan. Before he could say anything, Ruan Qiuping spoke coldly, "We don't know him, and that person is mentally unstable. Be careful."
The security guard glanced at Yu Huan, who nodded slightly, confirming Ruan Qiuping's statement.
The security guard immediately stood up straight and said solemnly, "Don't worry, Mr. Yu. We will definitely protect the image of the entire hotel and the safety of our guests. We won't let that lunatic in!"
With that, he ran back to the entrance and, along with several other security guards, escorted Chen Hai out.
Chen Hai had never suffered such humiliation before. He immediately took out the 100 yuan from his pocket: "I have money! I want to become a VIP too!!!"
Security guard: "I'm sorry, your money isn't enough, and your bill... is damaged."
Chen Hai looked down and realized that his money had just been hit by the fireball earlier, and only a small portion remained.
Chen Hai grew angrier and angrier. He wanted to press the invisibility button to sneak in invisible, but when Qi Yue had sealed his magic earlier, he had also sealed his invisibility function.
Now he was truly helpless, with no one to turn to.
He didn't understand why Jing Yang suddenly ignored him, nor did he know what he would eat next, having no money, no magic, and unable to turn invisible. He could only stand in front of the hotel, glaring viciously at Ruan Qiuping's back.
Jing Yang was mentally exhausted. After entering the room Yu Huan had arranged for him, he didn't come out again.
"I hope Jing Yang is alright," Ruan Qiuping said worriedly.
"He should be fine," Yu Huan said. "Ruan Ruan, why don't you go take a shower first?"
Ruan Qiuping nodded and opened the door to another room with Yu Huan.
As Ruan Qiuping was about to enter the bathroom, he suddenly heard Yu Huan ask softly from behind, "...Ruan Ruan, will my memories of you be erased?"
Ruan Qiuping paused, stepped out of the bathroom, and looked into Yu Huan's eyes, saying, "No, they won't. I won't let that happen."
"Then what if... what if I forget about Ruan Ruan?"
"Then I'll make you remember," Ruan Qiuping said seriously. "Don't forget, I'm a deity. I have plenty of ways to restore memories."
Yu Huan seemed to smile faintly.
But Ruan Qiuping still felt that something was off about Yu Huan's mood. Thinking Yu Huan was worried about the memory issue, he reached out and held Yu Huan's hands, solemnly repeating, "Don't worry, I absolutely won't let you forget me! Really!"
"Mm... I believe you, Ruan Ruan."
Ruan Qiuping lowered his head and said quietly, "But your expression doesn't look like you believe me at all..."
"It's not that. I'm thinking about something else."
"What is it?"
Yu Huan hesitated for a moment, but finally asked.
"...Ruan Ruan, where did you get that Lucky God ceramic shard you gave me before? Didn't you say you weren't familiar with the Lucky God and had never met him?"
"Actually, that shard was something the Lucky God didn't want anymore and was going to throw away. I got it by chance. But it's not dirty! Even though... even though I took it from the trash, I cleaned it with a dust-removal spell as soon as I got it, so it's not dirty at all!"
"Then, besides me, does anyone else call you Ruan Ruan?"
"Besides you, who else would call me that?" Ruan Qiuping was puzzled. "Why do you have so many strange questions today?"
"It's nothing," Yu Huan smiled, feeling he might be overthinking things. "Ruan Ruan, go take your shower."
After Ruan Qiuping entered the bathroom, Yu Huan went out to the balcony alone.
He took out the Supreme Good Fortune Talisman again, staring at the words "To Ruan Ruan" written on it.
Yu Huan believed every word Ruan Qiuping said.
He believed that Ruan Qiuping had never met this Lucky God.
He also believed that this Lucky God only had a one-sided crush on Ruan Qiuping.
But he just couldn't control the jealousy in his heart.
His Ruan Ruan, who belonged to him alone, was secretly called Ruan Ruan by another deity.
And this deity was the Lucky God, who could suppress Ruan Ruan's bad luck and might even bring him good fortune.
This person was a deity who could accompany Ruan Ruan for thousands of years, tens of thousands of years...
As Yu Huan thought about this, he felt his breathing become rapid. He crumpled the talisman in his hand, trying to convince himself to calm down.
It's okay, it's okay.
Ruan Ruan hasn't even spoken to this person. The only one Ruan Ruan cares about now is him, Yu Huan.
This Lucky God only has a crush on Ruan Ruan.
— A humble, timid, cowardly crush that he can't even express.
Just then, he suddenly heard footsteps behind him.
Yu Huan put the talisman back in his pocket and turned around.
It was Qi Yue from earlier.
Recognizing the newcomer, Yu Huan took a cautious step back: "What are you here for?"
"To erase your memories," Qi Yue said. "It's for the best for everyone."
As soon as he finished speaking, Qi Yue suddenly reached out, and a beam of white light shot straight towards Yu Huan's forehead—
Yu Huan's pupils contracted sharply, but as a mere mortal, he had no way to dodge. Just as he thought he couldn't escape this fate, the Supreme Good Fortune Talisman in his chest suddenly flew out, hovering in mid-air, and actually deflected the white light back!
Qi Yue: "The Supreme Good Fortune Talisman? How do you have this?"
Yu Huan reached out and put the talisman floating in the air back into his pocket, then looked up coldly at Qi Yue: "Immortal, you said in front of Ruan Qiuping that you would consult the Recorder of Fate before deciding whether to erase my memories. How come you're now sneaking here to attack me? Are immortals so despicable?"
Qi Yue's eyes fixed on the talisman, and he repeated his question: "Why do you have this talisman?"
Yu Huan said, "What's it to you?"
"Because mortals shouldn't possess things belonging to the Lucky God."
...Lucky God, again the Lucky God.
It seemed every deity in the world knew the Lucky God.
A sourness spread from his chest, almost overwhelming him.
Yu Huan looked up at Qi Yue and asked, "...Do you know the Lucky God?"
"Yes."
"Then... does the Lucky God know Ruan Qiuping too?"
Qi Yue was about to say something, but suddenly closed his mouth. He looked at Yu Huan's expression, and a malicious idea suddenly sprouted. He glanced at Yu Huan and said slowly, "Not just know him. You and Ruan Qiuping are so close, hasn't he told you that he and the Lucky God are betrothed?"
Yu Huan's head snapped up.
Seeing Yu Huan's shocked expression, a part of Qi Yue's heart secretly rejoiced. He laughed scornfully and said.
"To be honest though, it doesn't really matter that you know about their engagement. After all, they won't be married for another three months. By then, you'll already be nothing but a pile of bones."