Chapter 33: Yuan Niang's Story (Part 2)

When the surging, vibrant life poured into her body, she sighed with satisfaction: Eighty years, actually eighty full years of lifespan!

Just like that, she almost took away all of the boy's lifespan, leaving him only seven days.

The little boy became an old man in the twilight of his life without a sound.

His originally light steps became stumbling and difficult.

He sensed something, lowered his head, and saw his originally young hands turn into withered old hands.

He was surprised, scared, and then shed tears: "Why did I suddenly get old? Woo woo... what's wrong with me, Dad, I'm so scared!"

Know to be scared now? The mayfly demon sneered softly.

When you had it before, why were you so fearless? Humans, always only know how to cherish after losing.

—She watched from afar, her posture arrogant.

The mayfly, which originally lived in the morning and died in the evening, after taking the lifespan of the human boy, suddenly wondered if the boy would regret wasting time?

So, she followed the crying boy all the way to his door.

The boy's house was just two thatched huts, very simple. Before walking into the courtyard, she heard a series of coughs coming from inside.

The boy wanted to push the door and enter, but stopped his movements, standing at the door shedding tears helplessly.

"If Dad sees what I look like now, he will definitely be scared. No, I can't let Dad see, I can't let him worry about me anymore."

Through the window of the thatched hut, the mayfly demon saw an old father with a sickly face, whose life was coming to an end.

He coughed very hard, and even while sleeping, he was still coughing intermittently.

The white-haired, hunched boy blamed himself and shed tears: "I'm so useless, I couldn't buy the wine Dad was thinking about, and I turned myself into this strange look. What should I do? What should I do!"

The mayfly demon finally understood that the little boy wasted time queuing for wine just to satisfy his father's last wish.

So, she plundered the lifespan of a kind and filial little boy?

But it was too late to regret now, the plundered lifespan could not be returned to the original owner.

Fortunately, it could be slightly compensated.

She went to the wine shop again and stole a pot of peach blossom wine that the owner kept for himself.

With the wine, she came to the little boy and said: "I saw you queuing for wine just now. I happened to buy an extra pot, do you want it? I can give it to you."

"Really?" Those still cloudy eyes were now sparkling, overflowing with gratitude, "Sister, you are really a good person!"

Although she said "give," the little boy still stuffed the copper coins he had saved with hard work to her.

"Sister's wine was also bought with money, I am already grateful that you can sell it to me, I can't let you suffer a loss."

After saying that, he carried the wine and was about to send it into the house, but remembered his current appearance and was tangled about whether to go in.

The mayfly demon saw his difficulty and took the initiative to say: "I'll help you deliver the wine."

"Then thank you so much! If my father asks about me, just say I went to the back mountain to cut firewood."

She helped him deliver the wine inside.

And the seriously ill father saw the wine he was thinking about but didn't drink it, only thinking about his son's whereabouts.

The mayfly demon used the excuse of cutting firewood to cover it up.

The boy's father drank the wine, a flush appeared on his face, and he fell asleep again. This sleep, he never woke up again.

Just like that, the father and son missed even their final farewell.

The mayfly demon watched with some guilt as the boy cried loudly in front of his father's bed.

Until he cried until his throat was hoarse and he couldn't make a sound, she asked: "Do you have any other wishes?"

If the plundered lifespan could not be returned, what she could do was to compensate as much as possible.

In the few days the boy had left, she helped him bury his father and tried every way to make him happy.

Finally, in the afterglow of the setting sun, she watched the white-haired little boy lie on her lap and ask:

"Sister, am I going to die, I feel so cold, so cold... but I still have so many things I haven't done, I haven't grown up yet..."

The boy who hadn't grown up died in the arms of the mayfly demon just like that.

And she, using the eighty years of time she plundered, practiced to become stronger and stronger, finally becoming a great demon.

But no matter how much time passed, there would always be a voice lingering in her mind: "I haven't grown up yet... haven't grown up yet..."

Once a thought arises, a heart demon is born.

When she stepped into the red dust again, she unknowingly came to the town of that year.

The tavern selling peach blossom wine was still open, but the shopkeeper had become a young and handsome boy.

The boy was introducing to customers with a smile: "My family's peach blossom wine is an ancestral craft, I guarantee you'll never forget it after drinking it!"

Yuan Niang was stunned when she saw the boy's appearance clearly.

It's him!

The little boy of that year had re-entered reincarnation, and by chance, became a young man selling wine.

She was originally a mayfly, living in the morning and dying in the evening. But because of a moment of greed, she ended the life of an innocent child.

And because of this, she fell into karma.

In this life, she walked into his world again, and asked him as before: "Do you have any unfulfilled wishes? No matter what, I will help you realize it."

The boy smiled lightly, his eyes full of starlight: "You speak so strangely, why can't I understand? Ah, you don't want to cheat me out of my family's wine, do you?"

Yuan Niang: "..."

At first, the boy remained vigilant against her, not believing anything she said, and even thought she was there to make trouble.

Later, he simply poured her a pot of wine: "If you really like my family's wine, I'll treat you to it. What, you didn't come for the wine? Don't tell me you want to steal my family's secret recipe? That won't do, my dad said this recipe can only be passed on to family members!"

Yuan Niang: "..."

That pot of peach blossom wine was really delicious, clear and cold, with a long-lasting fragrance that made people unforgettable for a long time.

A pot of wine didn't send Yuan Niang away.

To end the karma with him, she must return another wish to him, so that he could live a fulfilling life in this life.

But no matter how thick-skinned she was, no matter how many times she asked, he always said: "I have no wishes I want to realize."

Until the hundredth time she asked, the boy said shyly: "I want to marry you as my wife, can I?"

After a moment of surprise, she nodded and agreed.

She thought that as long as she became his wife, she could end the karma of her previous life, but she didn't expect that the entanglement of this life had just begun.

In the day-to-day getting along, in his murmurs of "wife," she sank deeper and deeper.

When did love sprout?

Was it the inadvertent glance when they first met?

Or did it slowly condense into a vast ocean in the flowing days?

She didn't know.

She only knew that the bright and smiling boy gradually began to age. Time dyed the boy's hair white and carved deep grooves in the corners of his eyes and brows.

Only she, the mayfly that should have lived in the morning and died in the evening, was still the beautiful young girl she was when they first met.

She originally wanted to accompany him through his life properly, so that he would have no regrets in this life. But she developed a new obsession.

When he was about to die of old age, she quietly planted a life-extending silk for him.

She extended her long lifespan to him, and he became the young boy of that year again.

And she herself, white-haired overnight, her elegance gone. ===== CHAPTER 34 =====