Reading poems from Teyvat

Although Shen Zhigui felt that it was meaningless to keep talking about the past.

Otherwise, if he was always ready to use these old things to complain about Lei Dianying, Lei Dianying might go all the way to hunt him down.

But now it seems to be the same.

Lei Dianzhen had no way of seeing Shen Zhigui's true thoughts, so he had no choice but to let him go and asked, "Do you really not have any conflicts?"

"If you really want to say it, there are indeed contradictions."

"What contradiction?"

"About you."

"I?"

The lightning was incredibly directed at him.

"She probably wants to monopolize you, but she also feels that my coming has destroyed her position in your heart, so she has always had a subtle hostility towards me," Shen Zhigui simply said, "So for my own safety, I think it's better for me to come to Inazuma less often in the future."

Lei Dianzhen was stunned for a moment: "I never thought she would think so."

"Then what do you think she will think?" Shen Zhigui looked at her strangely and said, "It's better to say that you don't seem to care about her own thoughts recently. You just want to arrange her future path without caring whether she is willing to accept it or not?"

Lei Dianzhen pondered for a moment, nodded, then looked up and smiled at the young man, saying, "But I didn't expect that you, Zhigui, could actually notice such a thing. Does this mean that you are also very concerned about Aying's mental state?"

"It doesn't really matter whether I care or not. The hostility of her level of existence would be easily noticed if it was leaked a little. In this case, it's unrealistic for me to not care, okay?"

Shen Zhigui just sighed and said.

Chapter 57: The book is rushed but the ink is not thick (Part 2)

At this moment, another flash of lightning flashed in the sky. The rumbling thunder caused the air to vibrate continuously. The dark clouds kept pressing down, as if they were going to crush the weight of the entire sky. So Shen Zhigui and Lei Dianzhen looked at each other. They obviously knew that it was Lei Dianzhen who was urging them. So Shen Zhigui waved his hand and was about to leave as agreed, but Lei Dianzhen still held him back and whispered, "I think I understand. In other words, the reason why Ah Ying still has a gap with you is because of me?"

"Actually," Shen Zhigui saw that she was still trying to get him closer to the Thunder God, so he thought about it and finally chose to speak frankly, saying, "Based on her personality, I'm afraid she would have a gap with anyone, let alone someone like me."

"But if this is the case..."

Seeing that Lei Dianzhen was about to repeat the same old tune, saying that he should correct Lei Dianying after she was gone, Shen Zhigui said: "But can't you just try to keep going with her? I never thought that you were so lacking in martial arts that you couldn't even cross the barrier of life and death. Besides, didn't you always say that a moment is eternity? Why force yourself to think about such distant things?

"If she ends up losing you again and sealing herself off in a pure land, it would only prove that you are just a fleeting phantom that she pulled out of her memory, and not a real life that I resurrected. If you yourself do not have absolute confidence in your own existence, then in the final analysis, you are just a fleeting illusion like a dream or lightning. You will not have any ability to rewrite reality, so you have no way to change either her attitude or mine. If that's the case, can you accept it?"

After hearing what he said, Lei Dianzhen was silent for a long time, then he raised his head and looked at the sky where the lightning flashed more and more violently, then he looked at the boy and said, "Maybe I am too eager for success, so I always feel that she might get stuck in a rut again, so I want you to help her when she closes herself off again, instead of trying my best to change her attitude while I can still stay in this world, so that she can learn to embrace a brighter tomorrow."

Shen Zhigui thought that now she could finally stop the inexplicable matchmaking, right?

But at this moment, she suddenly exerted force and pulled Shen Zhigui over, and they looked into each other's eyes at a distance of just a few feet away: "So, if I can really do that, I think I can be a little greedy."

Her voice was like a light feather tickling Shen Zhigui's heart, making him feel a little itchy. At this distance, her breath brushed against the skin on his face and entered his nasal cavity, allowing him to smell a strange fragrance.

Although this seems a bit too perverted, right?

Shen Zhigui could not help but force himself to calm down. He stretched out his hand, trying to push her shoulders away, and said, "What do you mean by greed?"

"Of course, I will no longer limit myself to this country, and no longer regard Aying and Inazuma as my lifelong mission, but embrace a new life, a new journey, and a new partner..."

Her voice became increasingly low as she spoke, and in the increasingly violent thunder outside, Shen Zhigui almost couldn't hear the last few words, but he still caught them keenly, and then asked: "From what you said, have you had a partner before?"

"of course."

"Who?"

"Are you jealous?"

"I'm just curious."

At this time, Shen Zhigui did not continue to push her away, but just spoke in a nonchalant manner.

"But if you don't admit that you are jealous, there is no need for me to tell you His name, right?"

Shen Zhigui thought about it, and since he was really curious, he admitted it decisively. But then, he saw Lei Dianzhen's cheek, which looked like it was dyed with cherry blossoms, coming closer to him, and whispering in his ear, "It's Aying," and then touching his face lightly like a dragonfly touching the water.

Shen Zhigui was silent for a moment:

He felt as if he had been tricked.

He should have thought of this answer a long time ago.

She was just playing with words.

But why did she do this?

Although Shen Zhigui admitted that he had a crush on her, he really didn't realize that Lei Dianzhen had a crush on him. Although in fact, he had always been slow to realize this, but to be honest, he hadn't done anything to impress this person, right? And Lei Dianzhen was not like him, who was obsessed with looks, as long as she was pretty, he would be fine. It would be better to say that he felt that his appearance was just delicate, although at the moment he actually had a little bit of the so-called youthfulness of an underage appearance.

"Then, I wish you good luck in martial arts."

Raiden really let him go and just spoke softly.

"There's nothing good about this, right?"

Shen Zhigui looked up at the sky, and at Meng Xiang Yixin who had been put behind him. He suddenly felt that his future was bleak, and he might even be beaten up by Lei Dianying to vent his anger.

"Then I wish you a successful start?" Lei Dianzhen simply said, "Anyway, if you can defeat A Ying and make her accept you, I don't object, right? You don't really hate her that much, do you? And she and I have long been inseparable. If she can't accept being shared with others, then how about letting her join in?"

“What you said…”

Shen Zhigui was stunned for a moment.

Aren’t the concepts of these gods a little too open?

"But there's nothing worth keeping secret, right? It's just that I just haven't met the right person before."

Lei Dianzhen shook his head, then helped Shen Zhigui straighten his collar and said, "Okay, go quickly, don't keep Aying waiting for too long."

But weren't you the one who had been stopping me before?

Shen Zhigui was so shocked by her remarks which were a bit too shocking that he almost couldn't maintain his "sword heart" which had been as calm as water. But at the moment, he had nothing to say. Anyway, he did have some feelings for Lei Dianzhen, and now that Lei Dianzhen did this, could he still be dissatisfied with something?

So he quickly regrouped, calmed himself, then raised the Huaying Sword, and under the gaze of Lei Dianzhen, flew towards the sky where the lightning was about to overflow like a pool of water.

Chapter 58: The book was rushed to completion but the ink was not thick (End)

Lei Dianying can of course get a glimpse of what they do through the dream that Shen Zhigui hangs behind him.

So, when Shen Zhigui revealed that the subtle distance between him and her was because she didn’t want others to share her sister’s exclusive love, she was actually a little annoyed: Although she really cared whether her sister was a sister who belonged to her alone, she didn’t want to become an obstacle for her sister to embrace a new life, nor did she want her sister to be bound here because of her. She didn’t need to use her sister to get closer to this boy——

But soon, she heard her sister confessing her love to the boy, and she knew that she always occupied the most important place in Ah Zhen's heart. Although she originally wanted to tell her sister not to do so, because she had decided to embrace a new world and a new life, even if there was no trace of her sister in that world and that life, but that was what she wanted, she would do her best to fulfill her wish.

Hasn't it always been like this?

So when she heard her voice so gently telling the boy that she wanted to be more greedy, she felt that she should congratulate her sister and the boy, even though it meant that she would lose her sister, but if her sister could be happy, she had no reason to stop her.

But why would my sister say something like that?

Sharing or something like that, I have never thought about it that way!

Her pupils were filled with lightning of supreme majesty that was about to overflow. She stood quietly under the clouds. Around her, lightning elements were rejoicing and spreading in all directions in obedience to her will. Through these lightning elements, Shen Zhigui could also sense the fierce undercurrent hidden under this calm appearance. If he did not use the means of divine soul transformation, he would definitely not be the opponent of the man in front of him. So Shen Zhigui wanted to explain helplessly: "I have never thought about it that way..."

"Without further ado!"

Lei Dianying was the first to draw out his naginata, and slashed it from a distance, whereupon lightning quickly formed in the void, and in an instant, it was close to the boy. Facing her like this, the boy seemed to have already thought of a way to deal with it, and even made preparations before the lightning took shape, and then continued to approach her, thus suppressing her from continuing to wield the majestic lightning element.

As the two of them were responding to each other's moves, Lei Dianying couldn't help but realize that the tacit understanding between them was too tacit. She could predict Shen Zhigui's movements, and Shen Zhigui could also predict her intentions. As they went back and forth, they gradually put aside their previous thoughts and focused their minds on the competition in front of them. Shen Zhigui gradually adjusted his state to a nearly perfect state at this stage, and Lei Dianying followed his pace, adapted to his state, and adjusted her own state to be similar to his. After that, the exchange of their moves entered into a kind of unspoken tacit understanding, just like the two black and white fish of yin and yang in the Tai Chi diagram. Every move could make the two of them have a new understanding of martial arts. Although it didn't actually promote each other's martial arts system much, because it was just a means of practicing cooperation, but they both felt that such training could go on forever without rest.

But the better the tacit understanding between the two, the more Lei Dianying indulged in it, the more restless she felt. She could never be as focused as the boy opposite her. The two completely different voices in her heart seemed to tear her soul apart, making it impossible for her to devote herself to it. The voice in her heart kept telling her that she should bless this boy and let Ah Zhen start her second life, instead of letting her be constrained by her useless self in Inazuma and tied here. But the other voice kept becoming noisy because of the tacit understanding at the moment:

Why not accept it?

She didn't really care that much.

What's more, Ah Zhen and she are inseparable.

If Ah Zhen himself doesn't mind, why should she hold a grudge against it?

But he said he had never thought about it that way.

What does he mean?

Does it mean that he just wants to get Ah Zhen, and she clearly has such a tacit understanding with him, but in his heart, she is still that lonely and autistic tyrant, a fool who only pursues vanity and eternity, so she has no right to stand with him?

When Lei Dianying thought of this, she immediately increased the strength in her hands, and as a result, the lightning elements that had gathered around her because of her power and will were all poured into the naginata with her subconscious behavior, and then flowed into the body of the unsuspecting boy through the painted shadow sword.

Shen Zhigui obviously did not expect that Lei Dianying would break the tacit understanding between them at this time, and he immediately widened his eyes in disbelief. However, the excessive amount of thunder element had obviously paralyzed half of his body, so he fell down uncontrollably, and he couldn't even hold the Huaying Sword in his hand.

Lei Dianying immediately regretted it when he saw this.

She didn't really want to take Shen Zhigui's life.

So she immediately grabbed the boy and held him in her arms.

However, the young man did not have time to carefully feel the soft jade and warm fragrance in Lei Dianying's arms. He just kept winking at her:

My painted shadow sword!

If it really gets smashed into the sea, do you know how much effort it would take me to salvage it?

You might as well go get it back quickly!

At first, Lei Dianying thought that Shen Zhigui was blaming her and was just feeling embarrassed, but she soon realized Shen Zhigui's intention. After all, weapons are indeed very important things for a warrior, and some people even regard weapons as wives or something. So she also understood what Shen Zhigui meant, but she just stood there and stretched out her hand. The Huaying Sword, which had been infused with a large amount of thunder element, reversed its trajectory and flew into her palm.

Then she looked at Shen Zhigui, who was still unable to move in her arms. Seeing his appearance, she realized that the exercise could not continue. She immediately waved her hand to disperse the inky black clouds in the sky. Then she just sighed, continued to hug the young man, returned to the villa, stood there, and looked into Lei Dianzhen's eyes.

When Lei Dianzhen saw Shen Zhigui in this attitude, he couldn't help laughing, and then naturally reached out to Lei Dianying. Lei Dianying was silent for a moment, and finally handed the boy in his arms to Ah Zhen.

Chapter 59: The Sorrows of the Sea and Sky (Part 1)

At this moment, Yae Shinko, Ying, and Paimon were sitting under the eaves of a restaurant, enjoying their meals while looking up at the sky. Paimon had previously felt that the weather in Inazuma was too unpredictable, and Yae Shinko had only looked at the sky filled with lightning from afar. When the sky returned to its cloudless and clear state, she said to the pair, "You think the weather in Inazuma is unpredictable, probably because Inazuma has a god who is too unpredictable, right?"

"You mean to say that the weather change just now was caused by that general?"

"uh-huh."

Yae Shinto just responded casually.

"Why? Wasn't she very kind when she received us just now?"

"That can only mean that she became irritable and angry again after we left. Isn't that what people think of thunder and lightning? You never know when it will suddenly appear, and you never know when it will suddenly disappear. There is no way to predict its appearance and disappearance, and it is impossible to figure out the pattern and time and place of its appearance."

At this time, Yae Shinko didn't know whether he was talking to himself or explaining to Paimon.

"But didn't you say that you are the general's family member? Even so, can't you understand her temper?"

Paimon asked curiously.

Yae Shinko just put down his chopsticks and stared at the sky in a trance: "But in the final analysis, for gods, their followers are just closer to them than the people under their rule. She can certainly let you get close to her, but when she wants to stay away, she won't have too many concerns, because gods are gods after all, and they are two completely different beings from humans. They can arbitrarily create the reality they want. If they can't make the world respond to their expectations, they will also arbitrarily hide in a world that belongs only to them. Devil followers like us have to work hard and plan for a long time before we can see her again, and we have to spend more effort to impress her, let her face reality again, and respond to the expectations of the world, but some people can do this easily, so sometimes, people always feel that this world is a little too unfair."

Paimon seemed quite uncomfortable with the fact that the chief priest, who had always been unfathomable, was speaking at length about his inner thoughts. He tilted his head to look at his partner, and when the blonde girl heard her say that, she suddenly said, "So you envy him? Envy that he can easily stir up the Thunder God's emotions? Even if it makes her mood swings?"

Yae Shinko immediately turned around to look at the blonde girl in surprise. She didn't expect that this traveler, who seemed to be indifferent to everything like the boy, would be so perceptive. Or maybe, it was because they were so perceptive that they became so absent-minded?

But after all, the Eightfold Son of God is the Eightfold Son of God, and she would not easily reveal her true thoughts to others. She just smiled and said, "If I were to say envy, I do envy him. At least I would never dare to face the might of the thunder like him."

"But he did it. So, being able to easily stir up the emotions of the Thunder God and even enter her heart is the natural reward he deserves, right?"

There was no extra expression on Ying's face. It seemed that she was not commenting on a big shot like Lei Dianying, but was talking about some street gossip. She just said it naturally after putting down her chopsticks.

From this perspective, Yae Shinko did feel that there was a reason why the young man valued this girl.

Although that young man was indeed a free-spirited person to a large extent, just like Lei Dianying.

To this day, she still couldn't figure out the boy's thoughts, and she had no idea about his current actions, so she wanted to learn about his movements during this period through the girl who was said to have been following him all this time. Ying also told her everything she knew, because Ying was not a scheming person, not to mention that there was a simple emergency food next to her, so she quickly learned about the boy's recent actions. When she heard the boy declare that his goal in recent times was to travel all over Teyvat, she was at a loss; when she heard that the scattered soldier wanted to threaten his friends to make him surrender but was killed by him in turn, she thought it was natural; but when she heard that he went to the Fatui and worked tirelessly to help Mondstadt and Liyue expel the Fatui, she suddenly felt a little headache:

Although she could understand Shen Zhigui's desire to make the Fatui pay the price, given the boy's reckless personality, wouldn't it be best for him to face the Winter Queen directly? Why bother with such trivial details as the Fatui's executive officer?

Moreover, there seems to be no need to ask her to bring the Heart of God to Xumi and duel with that doctor.

Although Yae Shenzi also didn't understand why Shen Zhigui had traveled thousands of miles to Inazuma to clean up the sea ghosts.

Because although he finally chose to face Lei Dianzi directly, he obviously did not have such an intention before, and it can be seen that he did not want to be involved in such trouble. So he obviously came into contact with the residual soul of Lei Dianzi in the process of cleaning up the sea ghosts, and was moved by Ah Zhen, which led to the subsequent development.

Although the current situation cannot be said to be a bad thing.

But she also vaguely saw the influence of Shen Zhigui on the sisters, and she also knew that Lei Dianzhen might not be able to live beyond the next fifty years. And if Ah Zhen could not help Ah Ying get out of the shadow of loss and change her view of eternity, then a hundred years later, Inazuma might fall into that desperate cycle again. At that time, maybe she would have to continue to rely on that young man, or the blonde girl in front of her?

But she knew very well that gaining the approval of a paranoid warrior like Lei Dianying was a very difficult thing. Although Shen Zhigui had the right time, place and people to help Ah Ying come out of her pure land under such circumstances, if it were another person, it would be impossible for Ah Ying to have such a thorough transformation like he did. After all, resurrecting a long-dead demon was simply unheard of. Although this kind of resurrection seemed unreliable, it was more like giving people a dream with a limited time. After the dream was shattered, Ah Ying would most likely return to her old ways.

Therefore, Yae Shinto was somewhat worried:

What on earth was that young man thinking about, and what exactly was he planning to do?

Chapter 60: The Sorrows of the Sea and Sky (Part 2)