When he first saw Su Ran and Qiu Fanghai side by side, Chen Xiao felt a fire burning in his chest.
In his past life, Su Ran had pretended to accept Chen Xiao's confession. On the surface, she had become his girlfriend, but in reality, she was paving the way for the Su and Qiu families to steal the Chen family's fortune!
The relationship that had once made Chen Xiao wild with joy and treated him as a treasure was nothing more than a hypocritical mask.
According to his past life's memories, Su Ran and Qiu Fanghai's engagement date was half a month later, which was the 31st of July.
If Chen Xiao had not been reborn and caught the Su and Qiu families off guard, he would have to wait two to three years before he would realize the truth of his despair under Su Ran's cold gaze!
But in this life, everything was different.
Qiu Fanghai's wails were still echoing in his ears. Under Su Ran's loving gaze, there was a lingering shock and fear.
They were completely unable to wrap their heads around it. Chen Xiao was obviously just an ordinary person, and his family background was at most similar to the Su and Qiu Clans, or even inferior. How could he suddenly become a great figure that they had to look up to?
"Chen, Chen Xiao, what do you mean by this? Don't you want to admit it? "
Su Ran's delicate body trembled. Her eyes seemed to turn red and there was a crystal clear liquid flowing down her cheeks.
Chen Xiao's face was expressionless as he watched her performance coldly.
This woman … No, perhaps he could only call her a young girl now. This young girl had once captivated his dreams. But looking at her now, all that was left of her was a pitiful aura.
It was not a mistake to work hard for one's future.
However, Su Ran was too calculative. No matter what she did, she would always calculate the gains and losses. It was as if her life was only left with calculations. She was even more pitiful than Chen Xiao in his past life!
Her family, her friends, and her fiancé were just a part of her plans.
"You won't admit it?" Chen Xiao's expression suddenly relaxed, and he laughed involuntarily. "Once upon a time, a young man named Chen Xiao did have feelings for you."
He walked over step by step. His aura was not obvious at all, but his figure seemed to be growing taller and taller. His voice rumbled, and it was like the primal chaos divine thunder that could split heaven and earth apart. It exploded in Su Ran's ears, and her face turned incomparably pale.
"But it's too late to say anything now."
The scene that he had dreamt of countless times in his previous life appeared before his eyes, but Chen Xiao's mind was exceptionally calm.
There wasn't much pleasure from revenge, nor was there any desire to scold or ridicule. There was only a deep sense of pity.
In his previous life, he and Su Ran belonged to two different worlds.
In this life, Su Ran and he were people from two different worlds.
Chen Xiao waved his hand with flagging interest, and Ye Xiaoxiao obediently followed. The two of them merged into the flow of people on Ten Mile Temple Street, quickly disappearing from sight.
At the same time, the young man's obsession that had transcended three thousand years had also disappeared.
In the same place, the young girl looked at the young man's disappearing figure in a daze. She wanted to call out to the young man, but she found that she could not call out his name no matter how hard she tried.
She wanted to reach out and ask him to stay, but the distance between the two of them grew further and further. In the end, they had transcended time and space, and had transcended time and years, becoming incomparably distant and unfamiliar.
"We've never crossed the same boat in two lifetimes, and we were originally strangers."
From afar, there seemed to be a low moan, causing the young girl's face to turn incomparably pale, and her heart to ache.
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"I say, shouldn't you give me an explanation?"
When they were about to reach the middle of Ten Mile Temple Street, the lively Ye Xiaoxiao finally could not help but speak up.
"You're so young, why are you so concerned about such things?"
Seeing how she was deliberately imitating Su Ran's tone, Chen Xiao could not help but feel annoyed and amused at the same time. He glared at the young girl and said, "In any case, he's just an old friend. You don't have to worry about him, little girl."
"I'm only two years younger than you. I'm not young anymore, okay!"
When she heard Chen Xiao say that she was young, Ye Xiaoxiao immediately became unhappy. She puffed up her cheeks and glared at Chen Xiao in annoyance. She snorted and said, "Do you think I can't tell? You just had a girlfriend, and then your girlfriend cheated on you, right? "
Ye Xiaoxiao waved her little fist, as if she had something on Chen Xiao, and snickered slyly. "Dating in high school? What if the teacher reports you to Uncle Chen and Auntie Lu? Be careful, you'll have to bear the consequences!"
Although she had a cheerful personality and behaved rather carelessly, compared to the calculative Su Ran, Ye Xiaoxiao was still a lot more innocent. She was like a clean and flawless piece of white paper.
"Even if I told you, you wouldn't understand."
Chen Xiao leisurely shook his head and walked along Shili Miao Street. His heart seemed to have unlocked an invisible shackle, and he unknowingly became much more relaxed.
'After this incident, it will be the time for me to break through to the middle stage of Reincarnation.' Chen Xiao had some enlightenment and muttered to himself.
Along the way, Ye Xiaoxiao was like a lark, pestering Chen Xiao and chattering non-stop.
One moment, she asked him who Su Ran and Qiu Fanghai were, the next moment, she inquired about Master Bai. Not long after, she began to worry about whether the owner of the snack bar would come after them for destroying the tables and chairs.
The more she asked, the more astonished Ye Xiaoxiao became.
She only felt that this young man, whom she once regarded as a pervert, seemed to be shrouded in a layer of fog. No matter how she searched, she always saw a blur, as if she was in a dream.
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In the following days, Ye Xiaoxiao's attitude towards Chen Xiao was obviously much better.
However, what made the girl rather depressed was that although the two of them were already 'living together' in a sense, in reality, she would often not see Chen Xiao's shadow for a whole day!
Either he would leave home early in the morning, or he would only return late at night. Almost no one could see him.
Even when he was at home, most of the time he would hide in the room mysteriously, no one knew what he was doing.
In reality, Chen Xiao was preparing to refine the 'Wind and Thunder Creation Elixir'. Once he succeeded, his cultivation would definitely improve greatly, and he would step into the middle stage of Reincarnation!
However, the dignified Great Heavenly Emperor Chen was currently stumped by a small problem.
"I really didn't expect that I can't find the Earth Fault Vine on Earth!" In the room, Chen Xiao stared at the material in front of him and frowned.
Over the past few days, he had gone to all the pharmacies in the Left Sea, big and small. He had even gone to some small pharmacies, but he still could not find the herb that could neutralize the power of wind and thunder.
No matter how unparalleled his cultivation was, he had not expected that the Earth Fault Vine, which was so common on the streets of Shenwu Continent, seemed to have gone extinct on Earth!
"I even found the Wind and Thunder Cloud Apricot Fruit, but I actually lost to a small Earth Fault Vine. My luck is really out of this world."
Chen Xiao smiled bitterly and shook his head. He could not change this matter, so he could only let nature take its course.
If he could not find the last herb within a month, Chen Xiao would not continue waiting.
When that time came, he would forcefully refine the elixir. With his attainments in alchemy, even if he forcefully refined a ninth-grade elixir, it was almost impossible for him to fail. The only pity was that the Wind and Thunder Creation Elixir might lose a lot of its medicinal effects.
"However, a month is the longest I can do. Any longer and there will be no point in refining the elixir."
On this day, Meng Ziyi suddenly came to visit, bringing with him an important piece of news.
In a remote mountain village outside of Left Sea City, someone had found traces of what seemed to be the Earth Fault Vine!
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