Till the End of the Moon- Novel Ending Part VII

Since he has come, it seems pointless to reject her invitation to go in. Bai Ziqian followed Su Su inside. 

Su Su poured wine for him. With her chin resting on her hand, Su Su looked at him through the flickering candlelights in the wine shop. After a thousand years, she is finally able to sit like this with him again. 

Her gaze was clear but scorching hot. Even someone who is usually as unfazed by things as Bai Ziqian couldn’t stand this level of scrutiny. He gritted his teeth even as he could feel the burning sensations on his ears, and the vile shameful racing of his heart. 

“Why is Miss Li looking at me like this?”

Su Su replied, “You are very similar to an old friend of mine.”

Bai Ziqian was silent for a moment, “Is it Miss Li’s husband who passed away?” 

Su Su smiled and admitted frankly, “Yes.”

His hand tightened around the cup “Miss Li loves that person very much?” 

He laughed at himself inwardly, why would he ask such a ridiculous question? With her appearance, even princes and generals would all be vying to marry her. If she didn’t love, then why would she not have married someone else? 

“A long time ago I didn’t love him. I was always calculating against him. When I loved him later, the opportunity was already gone.” 

Bai Ziqian drank the wine in his glass, his eyes were dark. 

Su Su blinked and held back a smile, “And what about Master Bai? I heard that Master Bai and Miss Liu have a marriage agreement, and should have been married two years ago. Why hasn’t Master Bai married Miss Lu yet?” 

Bai Ziqian said, “It was a joke between our parents so can’t be taken seriously.” Before his mother passed away she had already said the marriage agreement was null and void but Liu Dong Yan refused to admit it. 

“Is that right? No other reason?” 

“No.” He answered firmly.

Su Su didn’t try to push but just drank with him. The atmosphere was rather harmonious. By the time the wine shop closed, Su Su’s cheeks had a faint blush of peach blossom red. 

Su Su closed the shop after the helpers left and discovered that Bai Ziqian was still waiting for her. 

The nights in Changle are often not a peaceful one, especially for a woman like her. 

She looked at the lean shadow on the ground and felt her heart melt into a puddle. 

She suddenly really missed that year when she and Tantai Jin had gone into a small village to subdue the peach blossom demon. He was in a woman’s wedding dress, his brows cold and stern exuding impatience all over, yet he still carried the still weak her to see the dead souls under the peach blossom tree.     

She had been missing a person, a had been missing him for a thousand years. 

Which is why she purposefully sprained her ankle and turned her head to look at him. 

Su Su said, “Master Bai, would you go find A Guang (one of the helpers) from the wine shop and call him back to help me?” 

With an unhappy curve in the corner of his lips, he put her on his back without a word and headed for Su Su’s house. 

A faint smile appeared in Su Su’s eyes as she looked at their overlapping shadows under the moonlight. 

She gently wrapped her arms around him and whispered in his ear with a low laugh “Master Bai, it will only take one silver to marry me.” 

When she spoke, there was a faint flower fragrance, scattering in the night. 

It sounded like nonsensical drunk talk, but it made his heart skip a beat. 

“Don’t talk nonsense.”

“Not nonsense.” Her voice was clear and light but sounded matter of fact, “Ah Mi needs a dad and I need a husband. Do you mind that I have been married before?”

She leaned on his shoulder and inclined her head to look at him. 

Bai Ziqian swallowed hard but didn’t speak. 

He doesn’t mind. How could he when his heart is almost bursting with joy, afraid that all this was just a joke. 

Love is sometimes a strange and wondrous thing. Liking someone can be hidden but love cannot be covered up. 

Even if they don’t speak to each other but that subtle emotion would grow and spread continuously. 

Su Su smiled. Even though he didn’t answer but she wasn’t disappointed. 

He had been abandoned too many times, he is already covered with wounds and bruises. 

This time she has the patience to wait for him to go home together. 

Their walk under the moonlight, is the most peaceful Su Su’s heart has been in the last thousand years. 

However, just as they got close to her house, Su Su saw the fiery light that filled the sky. 

She watched with surprise as Mama Liu come running out of her house in a panic, “It’s not me, it’s not me, I didn’t do it!” 

Bai Ziqian put Su Su down, “Where’s Ah Mi?”

Su Su said, “Inside.”

Bai Ziqian’s expression darkened and immediately rushed into the burning house. 

Su Su knew that her daughter was fine. With one single glance she could tell the fire was just an illusion. Mama Liu probably came to cause trouble and Ah Mi decided to scare her a bit. Ah Mi has the body of a god, so the fire couldn’t hurt her anyway. 

She followed Bai Ziqian inside, he looked back and yelled angrily, “Why did you come in for, get out, I’ll bring Ah Mi out!” 

She froze for a moment then smiled, “Alright.”

Bai Ziqian didn’t expect that she would trust him so much. Without another word, he came out with Ah Mi in his arms. 

Ah Mi looked dazed, looked at her mother, and wondered if she had caused trouble. 

Su Su sighed, took her from Bai Ziqian, and decided to go with the flow. She looked at Bai Ziqian and said, “We have nowhere to go.”

Ah Mi was very cooperative and promptly put on a very pitiful expression. 

Looking at the mother and daughter, Bai Ziqian was silent for a moment before saying, “If you don’t mind, you can come to my house to rest for a night.”

Ah Mi almost let out a cheer. 

Su Su’s lip also curved up. 

Bai Ziqian brought Su Su and Ah Mi to the room where Ah Mi had stayed in before. 

Before Su Su closed the door, he suddenly pushed against the door. 

Su Su looked up at him in confusion. 

Her hand sank, something heavy had suddenly been put into it. 

“Whether what you said was true or not, I took it seriously.” He took a long look at her, ignoring the warning voice in his mind, and said with a cynical stubbornness and warning, “Don’t lie to me, or….”

Su Su opened the bag in her hand. 

—– it had more than five hundred taels of silver in it. 

It’s not easy to save more than five hundred silvers in this remote town. This was probably his entire family fortune and to give it all to a “widow” he just met, it is indeed something he would do. 

What he didn’t finish saying, Su Su could easily guess.

Don’t lie to me or else I will not let you off even in death. 

The paranoia of Tantai Jin’s character is engraved in his bones. It’s okay to cheat him out of money but if one was to run away with his heart, then he would kill her first then kill himself after. 

This night, Su Su slept peacefully with little Ah Mi in her arms. 

For the first time in the thousand years since losing him, she is at ease because Tantai Jin is just next door, she will see him when she opens her eyes. 

Bai Ziqian however, did not sleep peacefully. 

Since he was a child he had a keen intuition that surpassed ordinary people. He had an ominous premonition the year the Bai couple had the accident. He tried to stop them but they took his words as childish jokes and still left in a stormy night after comforting him. 

Leaning on his arm, he tossed and turned all night. 

Bai Ziqian knew in his heart that Su Su and Ah Mi must come from an extraordinary background. Thinking back to the day he had picked up Ah Mi, the little girl was up on the tree. The tree was very tall, too tall for a little girl to get up by herself. 

When he carried the little girl out tonight, she had obviously stepped on the fire but Tantai Jin noticed that Ah Mi’s clothes didn’t suffer the slightest damage. 

That little girl is not afraid of fire. 

Stunning appearance, bizarre background, no matter how one thinks about it, she can’t be mortal. 

Bai Ziqian was not afraid of spirits and cultivators. What he is afraid of is that once they leave, there is nothing he can do about it.  

Or that, she was drunk last night and that’s why she had jokingly whispered those words in his ear, saying that she only wants a tael of silver as a betrothal gift. He is afraid that once she sobers up, she would regret her words. 

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