I just wanted to cultivate immortality, but I was forced to open a harem

"No, there is still hope."

"It's too late, Mom has completely forgotten me!" Mai cried out in a crying voice, and this time she finally stopped calling her mother "agent".

"Don't despair, I'm here. Have you forgotten my abilities? I'm a cultivator." Lin Hezhen gently stroked the girl's back to comfort her.

"If everything is fine, I'll go back first." Sakurajima's mother turned and left.

"Chief!" Lin Hezhen shouted softly, and waved his right hand. A golden light flew out from his sleeve and stuck to the back of Sakurajima's mother. It turned out to be a paper talisman.

She suddenly stopped and turned around in surprise and suspicion, her eyes focused on Sakurajima Mai who was leaning in Lin Hezhen's arms.

"Mai?" she asked softly.

"...Mom?" Sakurajima Mai raised her head, two lines of tears on her cheeks, and looked at her mother in disbelief.

He had acted as if he couldn't see, hear, or remember anything just now, but now he was staring at her with wide eyes, his gaze shifting back and forth between her and Lin Hezhen.

Sure enough, it was the young man next to her who did something. Once again, he saved her from the abyss of despair... Sakurajima Mai looked up at Lin Hezhen and burst into laughter.

"What is the relationship between you and my daughter?" Sakurajima's mother asked loudly.

Lin Hezhen answered honestly: "I was just dating her and accompanied her to meet you."

"What?" Sakurajima's mother looked extremely shocked and was so surprised that she couldn't speak for a long time.

"Don't you consider the occasion when you're joking?" Sakurajima Mai pushed Lin Hezhen away with a frown, wiped her tears, and returned to her usual steady and mature demeanor, "Go, wait over there, I'll come find you after I'm done."

"How could I be joking? I'm just telling the truth." Lin Hezhen protested aggrievedly.

"You two are dating, aren't you?" Sakurajima's mother yelled madly.

Chapter 47: Liancang Night (Part )

Wow - Wow -

The waves hit the beach one after another, and the white waves are like fleeting bubbles, blooming briefly and then disappearing into the air with a "pop".

The crimson sunset falls on the sea, and large white clouds float in the azure sky. They appear as bright red as fire under the reflection of the sunset. Looking closely, the clouds floating in the air look like a beautiful dream like a veil.

Lin Hezhen stood alone on the beach and looked into the distance.

The sea breeze blew gently, and the waves reflected the crimson glow, like a handful of red agate, shining brightly. In the distance, the fishing boats were gently swaying on the sea and returning.

Seven or eight meters away from him, Mai Sakurajima and her mother stood face to face and talked in low voices. Sometimes they spoke softly, sometimes they were emotional, and sometimes they were silent...

After an unknown amount of time, Mai Sakurajima finally came to his side and said with a look of relief, "It's over. Let's go."

"Okay." Lin Hezhen nodded, followed her pace and walked towards the stairs leading to the road.

"Stop!" Sakurajima's mother stood in front of them.

"Mai, are you really going to leave me?" There was an obvious tremor in her voice. She no longer had the aura of a strong woman. She was just an ordinary, sad mother.

"Mom, I've made it very clear. If I stay with you, I won't grow at all. I will only become a soulless puppet and will never be able to become an independent person." Sakurajima Mai sighed.

She knew very well that the mother and daughter had been dependent on each other for more than ten years, and coupled with her mother's strong personality, if the two continued to stay together, their conflicts would only increase, and sooner or later they would go their separate ways.

It is better to suffer a short pain than a long one, and it is better to do it now than to wait for a better day. Let's talk it out here and now. Let's sever the agency contract between the two. Without the friction at work, the relationship between mother and daughter may turn around.

"Is this really your own thought? Or has someone brainwashed you and tricked you into saying this?" Sakurajima's mother glared at Lin Hezhen fiercely.

Lin Hezhen was caught in the crossfire. She spread her hands and said innocently, "This is none of my business. I just accompanied her here to see you, that's all. What she said or did has nothing to do with me."

Sakurajima's mother didn't believe his words at all. She said with disgust, "Humph, men! Mai, you are still young. You don't know how scumbags those men are. There are too many who use your feelings to cheat you of money and sex. Some of them will even ruin your life..."

Mai listened to her talk getting more and more outrageous, and interrupted her with a frown: "It is my personal wish to end the agency contract with you. It has nothing to do with Kazuma. He just accompanied me to see you. When I was in pain and despair, it was Kazuma who reached out to me and saved me. I won't allow you to slander him!"

"Mai..." Sakurajima's mother looked at her daughter's angry expression and never expected that she would defend the boy so much.

As far as I can remember, except for that swimsuit incident, Mai has never shown such an expression. She looked so strange, so strange that she was almost unrecognizable.

Yes, any mother who has been angry with her child for three years, and who doesn’t see or talk to each other, would feel unfamiliar with the changes in her child, right?

No one is willing to bow their heads, no one is willing to admit their mistakes, and everyone is waiting for the other party to apologize and compromise. It is expected that the situation will end up like this.

Mother Sakurajima is a strong and persistent woman, and it is because of this that she was able to transform from a single mother abandoned by her husband into a successful star agent.

Her daughter also inherited this trait.

"Mom, thank you for raising and protecting me all these years. I want to walk the rest of the way on my own. Please let me go!" Mai bowed deeply to her mother.

Sakurajima's mother covered her mouth and tears welled up in her eyes.

"Let's go." Sakurajima Mai lowered her eyes and took Lin Hezhen's hand.

The soft and cold little hand was trembling slightly, reflecting her restless heart. In view of this, Lin Hezhen did not shake her off.

The two of them held hands, walked shoulder to shoulder, and walked silently, passing Sakurajima's mother, and walked firmly towards the front, towards the future, towards the unknown tomorrow.

"Mai, you've grown up now, you have to work hard on your own!" Sakurajima's mother's crying voice came from behind.

Mai Sakurajima didn't look back. She bit her lips to hold back her tears and waved her right hand to greet her mother.

……

"Okay, it's been so long, you haven't finished crying yet?" Lin Kazuma looked helplessly at Sakurajima Mai who was leaning on his shoulder.

Since she parted with her mother, she finally couldn't hold it in anymore and kept sobbing on Lin Hezhen, wetting a part of his clothes.

Sakurajima Mai raised her head and said stubbornly: "I, I didn't cry, it was just the wind that blew sand into my eyes."

"Just leave it at that and wipe your face." Lin Hezhen took out a tissue and handed it to her.

"So, what should we do now? It's almost dark." Lin Hezhen asked while Miss Mai was wiping her tears.

It was already past 6 o'clock in the afternoon, the sun had already fallen below the sea level, the sky was filled with red clouds, and the clouds were like burning flames.

"I'm hungry and want to eat." Sakurajima Mai leaned on him and said weakly.

"Okay, let's find a restaurant to eat."

"I want to go here." Mai took out her cell phone to show Lin Hezhen the location. That was the restaurant that appeared in the movie "Our Little Sister", famous for its charming sea view.

"Okay, okay, you have the final say today." Lin Kazuma got on the motorcycle and drove towards the destination with Sakurajima Mai.

The restaurant is smaller than expected, but it is exquisite and elegant, with a whole wall of floor-to-ceiling windows facing the sea.

They sat by the window and ordered Japanese-style Western food such as sardine bread, curry wild vegetable noodles, and anchovy toast. While eating, they admired the sunset, watched the teenagers surfing on the sea, and watched the couples walking on the shore.

They sit in front of the window and look at the sea, becoming a part of the scenery and decorating other people's dreams.

"Kazuma, I'm afraid that now no one in the world can see me or remember me except you, right?" Mai Sakurajima said softly, holding her chin with her hands while facing the sea.

"Even my mother has forgotten me. If Kazuma hadn't awakened her memory, I'm afraid I wouldn't even have the chance to be honest with my mother today."

"It's really strange. I've fallen into such a miserable state that everyone has forgotten me. Why can I still laugh?"

“Rowing a boat in the crowd, fainting in the soft clouds, talking about insignificant things, even such an ordinary life still feels very beautiful. Kazuma, thank you for giving me the courage to continue living.”

"You're welcome. I just did a small job."

Finally, when they finished their meal and walked out of the restaurant, it was completely dark. Miss Mai still had no intention of going back, and Lin Hezhen did not mention going back either.

Today, he is just Miss Mai's dating tool.

The two of them strolled silently on Liancang Street. Suddenly, all the street lights on both sides lit up. The artificial neon lights replaced the sunlight, bringing light to this coastal town.

"It always feels weird," Mai whispered, "This is the first time I've been on an unknown street like this."

She walked on the deserted street with her hands behind her back, and her profile looked somewhat happy.

"When you were an actor, didn't you often go to many places for location shooting?"

"That was just being taken away, it's completely different from now." Sakurajima Mai sighed.

"After all, I was on the set during filming, and I was in the hotel during non-filming time. It was a strange place I had never been to before, but the people living there knew me, so I didn't want to go out." She made an expression as if "the past was too painful to recall."

"Now you can wander around as much as you want. No one can see you except me."

"Yeah, I don't know whether this is a good thing or a bad thing."

"That should be considered a good thing. The beautiful senior girl who is only visible to me, this kind of light novel development actually happened in real life, it's exciting just to think about it."

"Are you sure this is a light novel and not some kind of pornographic game plot?"

"Of course, there are other developments, such as picking up a homeless bunny girl after school. It's similar to the story of the girl waiting for the gods, which seems to be good. Since no one can see Mai, she can only be picked up by me. It feels like she was appointed by someone."

"What are you thinking about?" Mai poked his waist with her elbow and laughed, "But, the girl waiting for the gods, it is indeed a bit similar to my situation."

Around eight o'clock in the evening, the shops in the small town closed one after another and a drizzle was falling from the sky.

Miss Mai said regretfully: "It's going to end so soon. There are still many places we haven't visited, such as Gokurakuji Temple, Meigetsu-in Temple, Enoshima Island, Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Shrine, Yukinoshita Avenue, Yuigahama Beach..."

"If you want to go, there's plenty of time later."

"If I want to go in the future, will you accompany me?" Sakurajima Mai stared at Lin Hezhen with her dark eyes, as if she wanted to see into his heart.

"No problem." That was the only natural answer he got.

A drizzle of rain fell in Liancang City, which was full of Song Dynasty style. The sea breeze blew the wind chimes under the eaves, making tinkling sounds, and it seemed as if I had returned to the ancient capital of Bianliang a thousand years ago.

Chapter 48: Night in Liancang (Part )

"Please give me a standard room." Lin Hezhen said to the staff while standing in front of the counter.

It was already late at night, and it was drizzling outside. The coolness of the night seeped into her skin through her wet, thin spring shirt, causing Mai Sakurajima to shiver.

She moved a little closer to Lin Hezhen, using the warmth emanating from his body to keep away the spring chill, and immediately felt a lot more at ease.

Under normal circumstances, the hotel staff would be very surprised to see the once popular actor getting so close to a young man.

However, no one can see her now. In the eyes of others, Lin Hezhen is just a young man who comes to stay in the hotel alone.

"Sir, I'm very sorry, we don't have any standard rooms available tonight. Can I have a king-size room? The price is the same as a standard room, and it also has a sea view."

Lin Hezhen was a little hesitant when he heard this. A double bed room meant that he would have to sleep in the same bed with Sakurajima Mai, which was really awkward and inconvenient for both of them.

If he wanted to book two rooms, he didn't have enough money on him, and Sakurajima Mai's bank card was frozen as her presence further weakened.

He wanted to leave here and find another hotel.

But Sakurajima Mai said, "Let's get a king-size bed room. It's raining outside, and we don't know how long it will take to find another hotel."

She stared at the floor-to-ceiling window of the hotel and spoke casually. Her fair and delicate face was expressionless under her bangs which were slightly wet by the rain. Only the ears that were exposed outside the ends of her hair were stained with a little pink, revealing her true emotions.

"Okay, then we need a king-size bed room," Lin Hezhen said to the staff.

Holding the room card, the two took the elevator.

The elevator door closed, and the enclosed space seemed like a small world isolated from the outside world. The only sound that could be heard was the breathing of the two people.

"Hey, Kazuma, can you see me now?" Sakurajima Mai asked softly. Her slender figure was reflected in the floor-to-ceiling mirror on the wall of the elevator, making her look pitiful.

"visible."

"Can you hear me?"

"I heard it clearly."

"Still remember me?"

"Mai Sakurajima, a third-year senior in school, a popular actress who was once active on the screen, and my date today."

Sakurajima Mai's face suddenly turned red, she stamped her feet and said, "The last sentence is unnecessary!"

"Mai, don't stomp your feet in the elevator. Be careful of the elevator falling."

"Aren't you here? A person with super powers who claims to be a cultivator."

"Let me be clear in advance. I can't fly yet. Don't expect me to fly you out of the falling elevator like Superman."

"Does that mean you'll be able to fly in the future?"

"That's not necessarily true."

"Really? I don't believe it." Despite having witnessed Lin Hezhen's various magical skills, Sakurajima Mai still remained skeptical about the fact that "he can fly."

"Then when I can fly in the future, I will take you on a day trip to the sky." Lin Hezhen said with a smile.

"It's definitely a one-way trip, you guy!" Mai hit him angrily.

The elevator stopped and the door opened.

Lin Hezhen walked out first and opened the room with the room card.