Xingtie: After my death, Liuying will understand love.

Chapter 665 1 Secret

【Year 9】

[You become more and more familiar with 037, but you never see any trace of a saint in her. She always appears in the cabin at mealtime, just like a fixed NPC.]

[I don’t know since when, there are always a lot of fresh fruits and vegetables inexplicably in the warehouse, sometimes it’s green vegetables with dew, sometimes it’s plump and juicy fruits, every time they are neatly stacked in the corner... The most outrageous thing is that sometimes even the plates of tribute are brought together]

[The Saint Lady really treats you as one of her own. All the tributes offered to her were thrown into your warehouse.]

[Whenever you bring up the warehouse, 037 will raise his chin confidently and say that this is the meal fee, fearing that one day you will really go bankrupt from eating.]

"doing what?"

As usual, 037 always liked to suddenly appear behind An Ming, quietly observing him for a long time before suddenly speaking to scare him.

An Ming squatted in the small vegetable garden in front of the window. The vegetable garden was full of various easy-to-grow seedlings. The area of the vegetable garden was not very large, and An Ming's purpose of building the vegetable garden was not to really rely on farming to support himself.

It's just that once people have nothing to do, it's easy for them to let their thoughts run wild. He opened up this vegetable garden in the third year after he came to Tethys, and even each seedling had a name.

"Plant trees."

An Ming turned around helplessly and happened to meet 037's smiling eyes. He straightened the branches and leaves of the loquat sapling, stood up and patted the dirt on his hands.

"The loquat tree will be full of fruits in two years."

037 She was still wearing the same plain white dress today, squatting nonchalantly in front of the sapling, with the hem of her dress hanging on the wet soil.

The girl gently stretched out her fingers and carefully touched the tender green leaves, staring at this fragile life without blinking, "It is said...it can live for a very long time?"

"For humans, it is indeed a long time."

An Ming stood beside the girl and looked at the blue moon in the sky again. "But if you always think about things so far away, you will miss the present time."

"I don't understand."

037 raised her beautiful face, her blue eyes full of confusion.

"Hey," An Ming pulled her up from the mud and smiled, "What do you think our relationship is?"

The girl blinked in confusion, her long eyelashes casting tiny shadows in the moonlight. After thinking seriously, she came to a conclusion from her memory: "Keeping a sponsor?"

An Ming's hand froze in mid-air: "?"

Sometimes he found it difficult to imagine what the girl had seen in her memory, but it seemed that Tethys had no concept of this.

"In my hometown, this is called a rice dal."

"Oh~"

037 nodded thoughtfully, then tilted his head and asked again: "Do you mean friends?"

This understanding is not wrong, and this is exactly what An Ming wants to say next: "Aren't you curious about where my memories come from?"

"Why are you curious?"

037 stared at An Ming stupidly, scratching his head in confusion, "Didn't you say that those were all things about your hometown?"

An Ming was slightly stunned. No wonder the girl in front of him had never questioned his background. This girl was too simple to think about it in that direction.

Perhaps in 037's cognition, even if An Ming's hometown is far away, it is still in the universe and is a planet like Tethys.

Sometimes An Ming really couldn't understand 037. As the saint of Thethys and the blessed one by the gods, she had never shown any majesty to him.

Not too long ago, on that beach, he met 037 for the first time.

At that time, there was only emptiness and indifference in the girl's eyes. She could not understand what was happening before her eyes, until a young man rushed towards the absolutely invincible enemy with a dagger in his hand.

At that moment, the first ripple appeared in the girl's eyes, and the blank doll felt emotions that had never existed in her memory at that moment.

So I wanted to touch him and get to know him better.

“My hometown is not here.”

An Ming sat at the dining table with a look of emotion. Nine years had passed since he came into this world, and he finally had the opportunity to tell his deepest secret.

"Is it farther than Bittis?"

"farther."

The girl tilted her head, her silver hair falling from her shoulders, "Then... at the end of the universe?"

An Ming couldn't help but smile when he heard this. "How can the universe have an end? It's just that my hometown is not here, not in this universe."

037's clear eyes seemed to be in some kind of downtime, and she was a little unable to understand An Ming's words.

So...the reason why those memories have never appeared in Tethys is because those memories do not belong to this universe?

Thinking can provide answers, but it cannot understand the answers.

“The stories I told you all come from my hometown.”

An Ming has complicated thoughts about 037. He originally kept her to obtain more information about Tethys, which can be explained in a colder way: "utilization".

Taking advantage of this ignorant Saint Lady, and also to get closer to home.

As the time he spent with the girl gradually deepened, the smile on An Ming's face in the short two years since he met 037 exceeded that in the entire time he came to Tethys.

The girl's sincerity made him reflect, would he lose more if he just kept chasing her home?

What can change in two years?

It was the worry of standing by his bed and touching his forehead to feel the temperature.

It is the sparkling eyes when you hold the bowl of rice and say "delicious".

The girl's unguarded sincerity was like a mirror, reflecting not only her clear and transparent beautiful soul, but also allowing An Ming to see his own heart clearly.

I don’t know when it started, but when the girl was not around, An Ming would habitually look at the wooden door, as if waiting for that familiar figure to appear again with that beautiful smile.

This expectation grows quietly, just like the cabbages in the vegetable garden by the window, growing vigorously in the sunshine.

The girl never tried to hide anything from An Ming. This gentle sincerity gradually melted the last bit of ice in An Ming's heart, and he had no reason to continue hiding anything.

It was during the two years since he met the girl that An Ming felt the warmth of home for the first time.

So An Ming chose his birthday, a day that now seems to have no special meaning, to tell 037 his entire past.

"Blue Star, that is my hometown."

Sometimes An Ming didn't know where to start. When he was on Blue Star, he never thought that he would really travel through time. After traveling through time, he had already prepared himself to endure eternal loneliness.

Until I met her with long white hair on the beach that day, everything changed.

Maybe this is fate. When you are ready to go on your own, you meet her.

An Ming was still thinking about which part to start with, but out of the corner of his eye he saw 037 sitting upright and couldn't help but smile.

Her long silver hair fell neatly on her shoulders. Her hands were neatly placed on her knees as she listened very attentively, like a good student in class.

She always listened quietly like this, but at this moment she straightened her back with a little nervousness in her expression.

This was the first time I felt an inexplicable tension when listening to An Ming speak.

037 himself didn't understand why he was nervous. He used to be very relaxed when listening to An Ming telling stories, but now when he met his eyes, he subconsciously became serious.

Hometown is very important to An Ming...so she will listen carefully and remember all of it.

"Novel, movie, game? Sounds great!"

037's eyes twinkled as An Ming spoke, like sapphires filled with starlight, and he shook his legs excitedly when he heard the part that interested him.

"Hey, what is school?"

"You can only go home two days a month? You still have to take exams? After you get into college, you will just end up on the side of the road in society?"

037 added weakly, "Then let's not go." When I first heard it, I thought it was a beautiful scene, but it turns out that there are also sorrows in An Ming's hometown.

An Ming couldn't help but laugh. He didn't expect that the girl cared about going to school. "But, maybe it is precisely because of these imperfections... that happiness becomes more heartwarming."

Looking at An Ming's sparkling eyes when he talked about his hometown, 037 quietly moved towards him, and her skirt spread out on the sofa like petals.

"Is there any meaning in being unhappy?" Many images flashed before 037's eyes. In Thetis' memory, even if she didn't take the initiative to look at it, she could feel the sad memory.

Those painful memories would drown her and swallow her completely into darkness if they were even slightly touched.

An Ming gently stroked the girl's hair, with a warm smile in his eyes, "If it weren't for those lonely times alone, maybe I wouldn't understand...how precious the time I spend with you is now."

Just as only after experiencing darkness can we cherish the starlight more.

"It's so hot."

037 suddenly stood up from the sofa and stood at attention, his cheeks flushed, his fingertips pressed tightly on his lips, and even the tips of his ears were dyed the color of the sunset.

Why does the heart beat so fast?

Why do my cheeks feel as if they were on fire?

She lowered her head in confusion and found that her hands, which were clutching the hem of her skirt, were still trembling slightly, just like her heartbeat that could not calm down no matter how many deep breaths she took.

When 037 noticed An Ming's gaze, he left the wooden house as if escaping, and his long silver hair left a messy arc in the air.

After she closed the door with great force, she leaned against it as if she had lost all strength, with her own deafening heartbeat echoing in her mind.

Escaped...

If you stay there for even one more second, you will melt completely.

Under the clear silver moonlight, the girl placed the slightly cold back of her hand against her hot cheek, and the blush spread from her cheek to the tips of her ears.

The night wind seemed to be mixed with the fragrance of loquat trees. The girl suddenly remembered what An Ming once told her. In his hometown, this feeling seemed to be called -

"like?"

037 whispered something unfamiliar, with some unknown humming coming out from between his lips.

It’s all An Ming’s fault. We clearly agreed to just tell the story of Blue Star, so how come it turned out like this in the end...Are all the people on Blue Star like this?

She hugged her knees and buried her burning face in her arms.

But...this feeling is not unpleasant.

The long silver-white hair fell like a waterfall, flowing with a hazy halo between the silver moon.

"Do you know why I never called that number?"

An Ming's voice flowed in through the crack in the door, like moonlight flowing over the windowsill, very light but exceptionally clear.

The girl sat outside the door with her knees hugged, while An Ming stood inside.

"Eh...?" 037 never expected that An Ming would ask such a question, but when she thought carefully about it, she could easily find out that An Ming had never called her "037".

It's always "you" or "hello" with a smile, or just get straight to the point without any premise.

Not once.

Never called her 037 once.

“No matter who gave you that string of numbers, before that, you should be yourself first.”

"so..."

"Do you want to give yourself a new name?" There was a gentle smile in An Ming's voice, and silent encouragement in his words.

The wooden door made a slight "creaking" sound, and when 037 opened the door, moonlight and starlight fell at the same time, and the girl stood in the center of light and shadow.

The heat that she couldn't understand was now welling up from her eyes, and tears ran down her chin and fell to the ground. "I... don't have a name."

"Well, that's why it has a name," An Ming took a step forward, stepped into the shadow where the girl was, and reached out his hand to wipe away the tears on her face.

The long silver hair swayed gently in the night breeze, and she saw herself in An Ming's eyes.

She is not a saint, nor is she the meaningless number "037".

But he is an ordinary person who can cry, smile, and deep down he wants to have a name of his own.

"Is it really possible for someone like me?"

Listening to the girl's trembling voice, An Ming gently held her hand, his eyes gentle but firm: "Not 'people like you'——"

“It’s uniquely you.”

Tears rolled down my cheeks, but why was I so happy?

036...I seem to understand a little bit why crying can bring happiness.

"But I don't know how to name it," 037 wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes and smiled.

"That..."

An Ming seemed to see again from the girl's eyes the sea when they first met. That ocean was as gorgeous and beautiful as the Milky Way.

"Aini."

"Ok?"

"Aini, I named you using the words of the Blue Star."

"Ai...Ni, what does it mean?"

"secret."

An Ming smiled and said, "I'll tell you when I want to."

"Hey~ Why is this happening?" Annie puffed up her cheeks cutely, but still couldn't hide the happiness in her eyes.

Happy Children's Day to everyone! ~

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