Immortality: Starting with a grave, I'm invincible when burying corpses.

After many years, Su Yun was much more reserved when she saw Mu An again. She was not as casual as she used to be. She no longer swore or talked about gossip.

Mu An still remembers that Su Yun, in his pawnshop back then, talked a lot of gossip about the Five Elements True Lord in front of him.

Bai Mengran of the Bai family, Shen Yunwei of Lingbei, Wan Shu of Datongdao, the Empress of Dongqi, Ao Yun of Linjiang...

According to Su Yun back then, Mu An was a lecherous fiend who had affairs with almost every female cultivator with some reputation in the Nine Realms.

At his most upset, Mu An even had the thought of slapping Su Yun to death.

At that time, Su Yun had no other skills, but when she talked about gossip, she was incredibly vivid, as if she had seen it with her own eyes.

Time has passed, and things have changed.

The girl who used to chatter incessantly in front of Mu An has shed all her naivety, and now she is only composed and dignified.

"My Lord, before Yunzhi died, he always wished to properly express his gratitude to you for taking care of him... but his body simply couldn't withstand a long journey, and he didn't want you to see him in such a pitiful state..."

Amidst the swirling petals, Su Yun bent down and solemnly handed the letter she had been hiding in her bosom to Mu An.

"This is a letter that Yunzhi asked me to pass on to you. I hope you can take some time out of your busy schedule to read it."

The envelope was full of creases, and from the smudged marks, it was easy to see the complex thoughts the sender had been harboring during that time.

Taking the envelope that had been wet and dried repeatedly, Mu An did not open it on the spot, but instead looked at the cautious Su Yun in front of her.

"If you have nowhere else to go, then stay in Qing'an Prefecture."

"Stay in Qing'an Prefecture?" Su Yun suddenly looked up, staring blankly at Mu An.

Under Su Yun's bewildered gaze, Mu An handed her a token from the Mu family.

"Take this token to the palace and have Mu Yong arrange a place for you to stay. The Fire Feather Sect disciples who follow you can also settle in Qing'an Prefecture."

After a few moments of silence, the voice rang out again.

"You can stay as long as you want, but this time, please don't spread any more gossip."

……

That day and night.

The bright moonlight shone through the window and onto the table.

Mu An put down the letter in her hand at the table bathed in warm yellow light.

Not far away, Mu Ling'er put down the book in her hand and went straight to sit down next to Mu An.

"Will there be even the slightest regret?"

Tonight, Mu Ling'er's voice was not clear and melodious; instead, it carried a hint of melancholy, even though she didn't actually know Jiang Yunzhi, only that he was a name.

She leaned over the table, glancing at Mu An's eyes out of the corner of her eye, as if trying to discern Mu An's emotions.

Despite looking and looking, Mu Ling'er still couldn't figure it out.

She has never been able to understand Mu An's emotions since she was a child; she couldn't understand them when he was young, and she couldn't understand them at all later on.

But Mu Ling'er did not look away. Instead, she rested her head on her arm and stared at Mu An's face.

After about seven or eight breaths, Mu An gently patted her back.

"Maybe yes, maybe no, I can't say for sure."

Mu Ling'er rubbed against her shoulder and nodded.

"That means it's there, that's good."

Mu An neither refuted nor supported it, but simply looked out the window at the vast starry sky in the night.

Unbeknownst to him, the little figure on the table leaned closer to Mu An and rested against him.

One second, two seconds...

About seven or eight minutes later, a somewhat hoarse voice finally came from Mu Ling'er's mouth.

"Da'an, how much of your humanity do you think you have left?"

"Twenty percent."

The hand resting on her knee trembled slightly, and the little figure leaning against Mu An moved, wrapping its arms around her knee.

"Could there be more in the future?"

"I don't know."

Her voice became a little hoarse, and along with the hoarseness came a hint of reproach.

"They don't even know how to lie to me. What's wrong with saying something nice? I've always been easy to fool."

Amid Mu Ling'er's reproachful voice, Mu An shook his head, and with his free hand, he found a comb from somewhere and began to comb Mu Ling'er's hair.

The jade comb gently brushed through her hair, and the little figure on the bench pouted and whispered.

"Make it look nicer on me, you always make it look terrible."

"Hmm." Mu An simply responded softly to Mu Ling'er's complaint, his hands moving without stopping, and soon he had styled Mu Ling'er's hair into the style he remembered.

Perhaps because she really didn't trust Mu An's skills, after Mu An finished combing her hair, Mu Ling'er took out a small mirror from her sleeve and looked at herself in the mirror again and again.

While taking the photo, she also fiddled with her hair. After a while, she nodded in satisfaction.

"This time you did a good job combing my hair. I've decided that from now on, Da'an will be in charge of combing my hair."

The same combing method as usual, but today it received completely different feedback.

The cunning and willful words were not rejected as usual. After combing Mu Ling'er's hair, Mu An took out a plate of desserts from somewhere and stuffed a piece of osmanthus cake into Mu Ling'er's mouth.

As the food was being fed, Mu An responded naturally.

"Okay, I'll comb your hair every day from now on."

The room suddenly fell silent. The person in the chair had his back to Mu An and didn't move for a long time.

But her slightly trembling body and barely perceptible sobs still betrayed her thoughts.

"Are you very sad?"

"I didn't cry."

Mu Ling'er's answer was irrelevant, and Mu An simply assumed that he was deaf and blind, unable to see or hear what she was looking like at that moment.

"Um."

In the silence, a voice choked with sobs rang out in the room.

"Da'an, I miss my two grandmothers."

……

As the night deepened, the stars grew brighter.

Mu Ling'er lay down at some point, her head resting on Mu An's lap, looking out the window at the starry night sky.

After lying down for a while, Mu Ling'er suddenly raised her right hand high and looked at the glittering Milky Way through the gaps between her fingers.

Under the intoxicating starlight, she whispered.

"I really want to see the star shower again."

When the sound rang out, Mu An was momentarily stunned, while Mu Ling'er, who was engrossed in the starry sky, did not notice this subtle change.

She heard only a gentle and familiar voice echoing in her ears, as warm and reassuring as it had been in every day before.

"We will see, together."

With her head tilted back, she strained slightly and met Mu An's eyes.

Seeing Mu An looking at her, Mu Ling'er laughed out loud.

"Now you know how to coax me."

After shaking her head, Mu Ling'er slowly sat up, walked out of the room, and went into the courtyard.

In the desolate night, Mu Ling'er opened her arms, letting the cool night breeze caress her body.

A long, light blue dress fluttered in the wind, and petals on the ground were swept up by the evening breeze, dancing around the person under the tree.

After dancing for a while, the girl under the tree turned her head and smiled at Mu An.

"Come with me to explore Qing'an Prefecture tomorrow."

"it is good."