Confessing to someone who thinks I'm a fat otaku, and then crying when monsters descend?

The moon is bright and the stars are few; the night breeze is gentle.

In the courtyard outside the thatched hut, Mu Qingxuan was resting her head on her arms, leaning on the stone table.

Her black hair fell from her ears onto the table, and she stared blankly into the distance, her beautiful eyes seemingly unfocused.

"What's wrong, Junior Sister? You look so troubled," Bo Yi asked with a smile as he sat down on the other side of the stone table.

"Senior brother, do you know... what love is?"

Why do you ask this?

Mu Qingxuan bit her lip, puzzled, and said, "Senior Sister Jinshu clearly likes you, but she refuses to come down the mountain. Is there something more important than seeing you?"

"......"

"Senior brother, do you like senior sister?"

"Actually, I don't know the answer to that question either."

"You don't even know it yourself!"

Bo Yi smiled bitterly, "Back then, I didn't take her down the mountain and left alone, ostensibly for her own good. But perhaps I was simply unclear about my own feelings and chose to run away. If there were no feelings involved, wouldn't I be letting her down?"

"Sigh, Senior Sister is such a good person. She was willing to give up her status as a disciple of the Tai Xuan Holy Land and go down the mountain with you to live as an ordinary person. How can you not cherish her!"

Mu Qingxuan was disappointed in him.

"Actually... I had a dream recently, a very strange dream."

"What kind of dream?"

"It's absurd, really. It was a dream between a chess fanatic and a little beggar. The chess fanatic saved the little girl, but later, when the girl grew up, she fell in love with him. I don't know why I had this dream; it's completely nonsensical..."

Mu Qingxuan stood there, stunned, and murmured, "This dream... does it mean the little girl has caught the eye of the young prince?"

"How...how did you know?" Bo Yi was utterly astonished.

"Later, that girl left the chess fanatic, and left that city, right?"

"That's true..."

"This dream was told to me by Senior Sister Jinshu."

Mu Qingxuan said earnestly, "In her dream, fifty years later, the girl came back to find the chess fanatic, but unfortunately, the chess fanatic had already died."

"How could she... how could this be? How could there be two identical dreams in the world!"

Bo Yi was completely baffled.

"Senior brother, in your dream, what happened to the chess fanatic after that girl left?"

"After the girl left, he was alone again, eating alone and playing chess alone."

"Does he regret it?"

"I don't know, that was in a dream. I'm not a chess fanatic, how would I know?"

As Bo Yi recalled, he slowly said, "However... later, the chess fanatic met a little boy who was wandering around. The boy had no parents and didn't even have a name, but he had a dream of traveling the world with a sword."

"and then?"

"The chess fanatic often used wood to make chess pieces, so he carved a sword out of wood and gave it to the boy. Later, the boy grew up and decided to leave to roam the world with his sword. When he left that autumn, he gave himself a name."

"What's your name?"

Bo Yi rubbed his temples, seemingly trying to recall.

After a long while, he finally remembered.

The boy spoke slowly, in his own voice:

"The evening rain falls softly, the autumn wind sees me off. From now on, I will be called Mu Qiufeng. Farewell, sir."

"......"

Mu Qingxuan remembered that her father's letter to her said that the sword was a gift from an old gentleman.

A wooden sword led him to become the best in the world.

How is that possible?!

"Junior Sister Qingxuan, what's wrong...?"

"Senior brother, I have a guess. In senior sister's dream, she only said that the girl left, and didn't know what happened to the chess fanatic afterwards."

"In your dream, you only know what happened to the chess fanatic afterward, but you don't know where she went after she left."

"Is it possible that this is what you personally experienced?"

Bo Yi hurriedly shook his head: "Impossible, absolutely impossible. If Master hadn't brought us up the mountain, I wouldn't have known her at all..."

"Senior brother, have you ever heard this saying?"

"Five hundred glances in a past life are exchanged for a mere brush in this life."

"Perhaps everything is a matter of cause and effect, a preordained destiny."

Bo Yi looked up at the bright moon, remained silent for a long time, and then smiled with relief.

"Junior sister, since you've read so many storybooks, do you have the answer to the question you asked me at the beginning?"

"Perhaps it is."

Mu Qingxuan's beautiful eyes curved into a smile: "There are many ways to express love. Some are about working at sunrise and resting at sunset, while others are about simple meals and the mundane details of life. Perhaps there are other ways too..."

"Until the mountains crumble and the rivers run dry."

"Thunder roars in winter, snow falls in summer."

"Only when heaven and earth unite will I part from you."

In that instant, that figure naturally appeared in her mind.

He bravely stood in front of the entrance to the Tai Xuan Hall, shielding himself from all the injustices of the world!

"Junior sister, we have a guest. I'm going inside to play chess with your brother."

Bo Yi smiled and went into the house.

"Mu Yun, let me see if your chess skills have improved!"

"I'm just a beginner; it's your chess skills that are terrible."

"Haha, because I like adversity. Only in adversity can one more easily discover the magic trick to turn the tide!"

Outside the courtyard.

Mu Qingxuan stared at the figure outside the courtyard and immediately froze on the spot.

Before I knew it, my eyes were already glistening.

No words were spoken.

She rushed over without hesitation, crashing heavily into the man's arms and even knocking him back a few steps.

"Old..."

"I never expected that the daughter of Mu Qiufeng, the number one scholar in the world, would be such a crybaby."

"Are you stupid...? This has nothing to do with you, so why did you risk your life to come and help?" Mu Qingxuan punched Chen Nian's chest in annoyance and raised her face to question him.

"Because Mu Yun is my friend, and you are my..."

"What am I to you?"

Mu Qingxuan blinked her eyes, her stubborn yet slightly shy expression was incredibly cute.

"I peeked at you that day, so naturally I have to take responsibility," Chen Nian replied with a smile.

This time!

Xiao Zhu suddenly poked her head out from Chen Nian's collar, ready to call him a scumbag.

In the blink of an eye, Chen Nian grabbed its head and flung it hundreds of meters away, soaring into the sky to stand shoulder to shoulder with the moon.

"You're so annoying!"

Mu Qingxuan rolled her eyes at Chen Nian, but she wasn't angry.

At this moment, she truly experienced what love in the stories was all about, and only wanted to quietly nestle in Chen Nian's arms, not wanting to be disturbed by anyone.

After a long pause, Mu Qingxuan suddenly looked at Chen Nian and asked softly:

"Chen Nian, you said... Li Xiaoyao stormed the Demon-Locking Tower to save Zhao Ling'er because he liked her. Then why did you storm the Tai Xuan Hall to save me?"

Mu Qingxuan did not receive the answer she wanted.

But all she noticed was Chen Nian's face getting closer and closer, so close that she could almost see the lines of his skin and feel his hot breath...

She suddenly remembered that in storybooks, the woman always closes her eyes at this point.

So she hurriedly closed her eyes.

The most beautiful woman on the continent of Kyushu had her first kiss stolen tonight.

Inside the room.

Bo Yi stopped Mu Yun.

"Girls always have to get married eventually. I understand how you feel, so don't go out and ruin other people's good things."

"No, I just want to ask Chen Nian how he performed his divine act in the main hall that day."

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Ps:

Fantasy stories also need elements of love, hate, and chivalry to truly capture their essence.

You definitely won't find this in mindless wish-fulfillment novels, so please take a closer look!