Rebirth: War on the Honest

A short walk from the Jiugong Mountain halfway up the mountain, you can see Yunzhong Lake. Even though it is still some distance away from autumn, the lake is still covered with mist.

Zhong Leyi hummed a little tune, casually untied her hair tie, letting her long hair hang naturally on her shoulders, bouncing all the way, unable to hide her excitement.

"You walk slowly, be careful not to fall into the lake!"

The road was steep and uneven, and Gu Yun was afraid of falling, so he couldn't walk very steadily.

Zhong Leyi ignored Gu Yun's reminder and was completely immersed in the scenery of the lake and mountains. Her footsteps became faster and faster as she went down the mountain.

"Hey!" Gu Yun took three steps at a time and grabbed the girl's hand from behind.

Zhong Leyi broke away several times, but she didn't expect that Gu Yun's hold would become tighter and tighter.

"He probably didn't do this on purpose. Maybe he was afraid that I would fall."

With no one around, Zhong Leyi quickly overcame her rapid heartbeat and began to reversely rationalize Gu Yun's behavior.

Birds fly back to the mountains and forests, and fall into the lake and sea in summer. My thoughts are hidden in the noon wind, and my love is hidden in the sea.

The sun has reached its highest point, and although the nearby branches and leaves are tall and dense, there are still fragments of sunlight shining down, and they fall like golden spots on the man and woman holding hands.

After going round and round, having lived two lives, looking at the girl in front of him who was one with nature, Gu Yun unexpectedly found that he still fell in love with Zhong Leyi.

He couldn't help but think of a boring question he once answered: Between the person you like and the person who likes you, who would you choose?

At that time, he was an honest man and had never been liked by anyone, so he naturally chose the person he liked.

As he got older, Gu Yun experienced many things and discovered that it was so happy to choose someone who likes him.

Until he suddenly realized at this moment, it turns out that the most wonderful thing in the world is the happiness between two people. The so-called choice is just an honest person who cannot get what he wants and settles for the next best thing.

When they reached the end of the path, a steep slope appeared in front of them. Water flowed down the slope, forming a loud waterfall. They arrived at their destination - Yunzhong Lake.

"Climb up first and then pull me up." Standing on tiptoe and looking around for a long time, Zhong Leyi gestured to the stone next to her that she could use for strength, and looked at Gu Yun expectantly.

Gu Yun rubbed his hands and used his skill of skipping classes all year round in high school to climb over the wall. He stepped and jumped and successfully climbed up.

Using both hands, he pulled Zhong Leyi up. It was very humid behind the high slope, and there was almost no sunlight. There were many gravels and moss beside the water. Gu Yun used the wooden sticks he picked up to clean up a convenient area.

Sitting on the grass, preparing to cast a net to catch fish.

Zhong Leyi took off her canvas shoes and socks, looked at Yunzhong Lake, and said softly: "Gu Yun, do you think this lake is deep?"

There were many fish and shrimps in Yunzhong Lake, and the water was very clear. Gu Yun walked over and stretched out his feet to try. The temperature of the lake was very cool.

"It should be quite deep. Do you still want to swim?"

She didn't reply. She walked back to Xiu Yun and looked up at the dense leaves that covered the sky. The leaves cut the light and shadow into uneven shapes. She breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "This scenery is so beautiful. If I can catch fish,

, this trip is worth it.”

Zhong Leyi's whole body was shrouded in an indescribable light, like the first flower of Hongmeng's first pregnancy in the world. There was no pollution, and even the air she breathed was the freshest.

Gu Yun looked at the girl's slightly sweaty side face and said softly: "You are also beautiful from this angle."

She turned her head in surprise. As the angle of the light changed, she returned to her normal appearance. She was still beautiful, but she lost the holiness that made people look up to her. Her expression was a little different.

Gu Yun couldn't help it any longer, so he leaned over and kissed her, blocking the falling sun with his face.

This is the perfect time for a kiss.

"I'm sorry...Oh, fuck!"

He just stretched out his arms to immobilize the girl in front of him, but the other party's reaction was much more intense than expected. Zhong Leyi suddenly pushed Gu Yun away, but failed to push the prepared bad guy away, and fell into the lake instead.

"Plop!" With a sound, all the fish in the net were shocked.

Gu Yun was so anxious that he jumped into the lake without having time to think.

He hugged the girl who was scratching her limbs wildly, and Gu Yun laughed angrily. The water in the lake was not deep, only reaching their shoulders.

"You can choke in such a shallow lake? Are you a fool?"

"Who told you to act like a hooligan?!" Zhong Leyi was so angry that she pinched Gu Yun, but she could not refute.

"Do I save your life? It's okay if you don't agree with me, but you still pinch me?"

Zhong Leyi staggered to the shore with Gu Yun on her arm, wiped the water droplets from her face, and looked at him with moist eyes. The black suspender clung to her body tightly, and the mountains were looming.

She asked softly, and in the deserted mountain forest, those words seemed to echo, ringing in Gu Yun's ears like a whisper.

"You just kissed me, what is our relationship now?"

Gu Yun was stunned.

By the Yunzhong Lake, which was like a paradise in the world, he had imagined that his beloved girl asked him this question in countless dreams, and only then did he realize clearly that the honest man's inner demon in his previous life had been crushed by his own hands.

There was no push and pull, no mutual testing, and even a hint of tone, just waiting for him to say the answer himself.

He thought quietly for a few minutes, knowing that any answer he gave at this time would greatly affect the future relationship between the two people.

Zhong Leyi did not urge her, she sat quietly on the bank, staring at him, waiting for him to speak.

"Do you know about the suspension bridge effect?"

Gu Yun said in a deep voice.

"Of course I kiss you because I like you, but of course I can't define the relationship between us alone."

Zhong Leyi blinked and shook her head like a rattle: "I don't understand what you mean."

"I just saved you. Because of the suspension bridge effect, you would ask me this question. I understand."

Gu Yun touched the water drops on her shoulder, took off his short sleeves, and helped her wipe the water on her body: "What I want to express is that I hope you are asking me this question in a calm state, not because of me.

Saved you."

"But you ask what kind of relationship we have now... It doesn't matter if I alone say it, what kind of relationship do you want it to be?"

The boy threw the hydrangea back intact.

Zhong Leyi smiled and did not answer.

"It's a bit cold here, and the fish have all run away. How about we twist our clothes and go back."

"Okay, I'll turn my back." Gu Yun was a rare gentleman.

Zhong Leyi picked some wild flowers and made them into a garland and put it on her head, as if she were performing some kind of ritual, focused and serious.

The two of them wrung out their clothes and walked back on the road under the sunshine. Every breath they took in breathed out the refreshing smell of the mountains and forests.

But the hands they held never parted again.