“You’re welcome.” Xu Liyi smiled and took back the phone, but did not leave and continued to stare at Ning Cheng.
Li Yuling also relaxed, before pulling onto Xu Liyi, “Liyi, let’s hurry back to school.”
“Wait a minute; nothing is going on today anyway.” Xu Liyi casually gave an answer, then looked at Ning Cheng and spoke, “Can you tell me your name? It anyways happens to be lunchtime. So do you want to go grab a meal together?”
This time it was not only Li Yuling; even Ning Cheng was also looking at Xu Liyi with surprise.
Li Yuling was, of course, surprised, although Xu Liyi had a ubiquitous appearance; she unquestionably possessed a unique noble temperament to her. With her character coupled with her unusual family background, it attracted the pursuit of many boys. However, Xu Liyi never dated anyone, let alone taking the initiative to invite male students to a meal. Was Xu Liyi possessed today? Alternatively, did Xu Liyi suddenly turned infatuated?
Ning Cheng gave a slight frown; he had initially thought that Xu Liyi was the kind of girl who liked helping others. However, at this moment he could perceive that it is not as he had initially thought about. Even if one loved helping others, they would probably not invite a dirty looking renovation worker for a meal without any reason.
Did Xu Liyi see him falling from the air?
It was also unlikely that there were any Spiritual Power Fluctuations when he was falling. Moreover, his speed was also quite rapid, combined with the already low visibility, how could people without any cultivation even see him?
Ning Cheng then carefully looked at Xu Liyi and found that she was just an ordinary girl, with a peaceful aura. This kind of calm atmosphere served as a contrast to her unique temperament. However, Ning Cheng soon shifted his gaze towards Xu Liyi’s eyes; he found that there was something different with Xu Liyi’s eyes. Ning Cheng was a cultivator; as such, he was able to sense an indistinct Spiritual Fluctuation from Xu Liyi’s eyes.
In just an instant, Ning Cheng understood what was going on. Xu Liyi’s eyes were different from the eyes of ordinary people, in other words, she was able to perceive Spiritual Qi Fluctuations. She definitely must have seen him fall out from the air; therefore, she approached him with a purpose.
However, Ning Cheng did not care about this, replaced by any other person, what else was he expected to do? Since Xu Liyi saw it, then in the future, once he restores his cultivation, he could then give her some pointers for her benefit. After all, it might even be predestined for her to see him.
Thinking until here, Ning Cheng also did not continue to reject, he nodded and spoke, “My name is Ning Xiaocheng, and of course sharing a meal would not be a problem. However, I have no money so I will have to trouble you for the expense.”
Although Ning Cheng had lost his cultivation, his cultivation loss was only temporary. With Ning Cheng foundation, even if he did not eat for many years, as long as there was a small amount of Spiritual Qi available, he would at least not starve to death.
“Great, Elder Brother Xiaocheng, I am called Xu Liyi. This is my classmate Li Yuling.” Xu Liyi on seeing Ning Cheng agree became even happier.
Li Yuling couldn’t help but swallow a mouthful of spit; she really did not think that matters would take such a turn. Not only did this renovation worker agree to Xu Liyi’s invitation, but had even clearly stated that he did not have any money. This caused her to feel as if the world had turned completely messed up in front of her eyes. Invited by such a beautiful woman for a meal, even if it was a renovation worker, how could he say that he did not have any money? Moreover, how much would even a meal cost anyways? She knew that renovation workers earned very high wages.
“I know a place where the dishes are quite good; it’s not far from this pedestrian street.” Xu Liyi was afraid that Ning Cheng would renege on the promise and quickly spoke up.
Ning Cheng only gave an ‘um’ sound, he really had nothing much to say. He was thinking about ways to borrow money from Xu Liyi. He at least needed to find a place to live first, then buy himself a set of clothes, and take a bath.
The three people, with their own concerns, had just walked out of the pedestrian street, when Ning Cheng suddenly stopped, while simultaneously stared at the coffee shop right across the street. He had actually felt a genuine Spiritual Qi Fluctuation, although he had not yet recovered his cultivation, in this place with sparse Spiritual Qi, if there were even a slightly more substantial Spiritual Qi Fluctuation, he would immediately be able to feel it.
“The two students here, please wait a moment, I’ll just go in and wash my hands before coming out again.” Ning Cheng spoke and without waiting for Xu Liyi to reply, quickly walked into the coffee shop.
“Liyi, are you insane? This person is of unknown origins and is a renovations worker. Why did you let him borrow your phone, moreover even invite him to lunch? This is simply not your style at all.” As soon as Ning Cheng left, Li Yuling quickly grabbed Xu Liyi’s arm and spoke.
Xu Liyi nonchalantly picked up a wisp of her long hair near to her face and tucked it behind her ears before she gave a smile and spoke, “Yuling, I feel like meeting him was predestined. Besides, he also looks like a man who has faced many hardships, so inviting him to a meal is nothing much.”
Li Yuling stared at Xu Liyi with wide eyes before speaking, “Liyi, don’t tell me that you fell in love at first sight? You will be a renovation worker…”
“Don’t speak rubbish.” Xu Liyi gave a light slap to Li Yuling, “Did you not feel that this person looked very embarrassed, in fact, his temperament is several folds much nobler than those of our classmates?”
Li Yuling froze for a moment before replying, “I also felt that was the case, when you helped him a moment ago, I felt that he probably was a very proud person, but he was not even as proud as you, this feels really strange.”
Xu Liyi also nodded in her heart secretly; sure enough, Li Yuling also had such a feeling. This affirmed her notion that this Ning Xiaocheng was definitely not ordinary. Even if she looked through her own eyes, this Ning Xiaocheng was probably not an average person.
……
The waiter at the coffee shop did not stop Ning Cheng, allowing Ning Cheng to rush up to the second floor.
Standing at the staircase of the second floor, Ning Cheng finally stopped. He immediately recognised the person who was in front of him. Even though he was only facing this person’s back, he could still identify this person.
Ning Cheng had never imagined that the first acquaintance that he would meet after coming back would not be his younger sister, but instead Tian Muwan, the one person that he did not want to meet the most. If he knew that it was Tian Muwan, Ning Cheng would never have come here. With his heart already occupied by Shi Qionghua and Ji Luofei, Tian Muwan was getting increasingly distant from him.
Even though he returned to Earth, he had never thought of this name. The Tian Muwan in front of him was still the same, her long hair still draped over her shoulders, although he was only able to see her back, she gave him a homely feeling.
Ning Cheng found that his current emotions were far from the excitement that he had initially imagined; even his breathing had not changed. He sighed a bit at this, while simultaneously understanding in his heart that in any case, he could no longer treat this woman the way he had before.
The only thing that he didn’t understand was that Tian Muwan turned out to be a cultivator at Qi Gathering 4
th
Level, which made Ning Cheng very puzzled. From the Spiritual Qi overflowing from her body, he could see that she had just advanced to the intermediate stages of the Qi Gathering Realm, but was still unable to control the dissipation of Spiritual Qi.
“Sir, this is a VIP Room, please go downstairs….” The waiter had almost succeeded in pulling away Ning Cheng when Tian Muwan turned her head.
“Is that you?” Tian Muwan had a shocked expression on her face as she looked at Ning Cheng and could not react for a long whi
le.
Ning Cheng looked at Tian Muwan, her face was still beautiful, her slim stature was the same, and even her temperament was still the same. However, there was one thing that had suddenly shattered in his heart, similar to fireworks swept away by the wind. Although the fireworks looked very beautiful initially, after they bloom, their beauty would only remain for a few fleeting moments. These brief flashes of beauty would then stay in the bottom of one’s heart.
Shi Qionghua and Ji Luofei’s shadow appeared in his eyes. Although Tian Muwan was outstanding but compared to Shi Qionghua, she still would not be able to hold even a candle in front of them. No matter the appearance or the temperament, there was no means to make a comparison. Even Yan Ji and Nalan Ruxue were much better than Tian Muwan.
Ning Cheng suddenly thought of something out of nowhere, this kind of comparison was very unfair towards Tian Muwan. He shook his head, why was he even thinking of what was fair, and what was not? Why did he make this comparison? These things were utterly irrelevant.
Ning Cheng slowly turned his head away and started walking down the staircase. He didn’t even greet Tian Muwan; he thought that there was no need to do such a thing. When she had put that pearl hair clip that Ning Cheng had got for her into the hands of another person, moreover a person who had intentionally tossed the pearl hair clip into the sewers, Ning Cheng immediately realised that this kind of scenery no longer belonged to him. Or rather, at that time, that kind of landscape was not what he wanted.
“Ning Xiaocheng….” Tian Muwan struggled to calm down her tone, “You came back.”
Suddenly she felt a kind of tearing pain in her heart, it was as if they were meeting for the first time. If possible, she would rather never see Ning Cheng again. She never thought that she would end up meeting Ning Cheng after a few years, moreover with such a down and out appearance.
The waiter on seeing that Ning Cheng and this beautiful woman knew each other, hurriedly let go of Ning Cheng’s sleeve and spoke, “Sir, please come in.”
Finished saying that, he then quickly turned around to immediately head down the stairs while secretly despising Ning Cheng’s outfit. Since the two of them apparently knew each other, then he should also be knowing that she was the CEO of the Tian Group. Yet he still chose to disguise as a beggar, why didn’t he just pretend to die instead?
Chapter 0363 – Just A Remembrance
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Ning Cheng smiled before walking up to Tian Muwan and spoke, “Long time no see.”
“Yes… long time no see…..” Tian Muwan was still not able to calm down her tone, after a while, she finally spoke out in an out of breath manner, “Let’s go, and sit inside the booth.”
Before Ning Cheng could answer, the door of the booth in front opened, and a man and a woman walked out.
“Chief Tian…..” The two people who had just come out of the booth gave out a greeting with a face full of smiles.
Tian Muwan finally calmed herself down, she then spoke with an apologetic smile, “Chief Kang, Elder Sister Lu, I just met an old acquaintance of mine, can you loan me the booth….”
The man apparently was a veteran in business; he did not wait for Tian Muwan to finish her words that seemed obviously tricky for her, before he took the initiative to speak up with a smile, “Of course there would not be any problems, Chief Tian. You can use it freely. Little Lu and I already have a few things that are going to keep us busy anyway. We can schedule another appointment at a later date to discuss it.”
“Thank you very much.” Tian Muwan thanked them in a sentence.
From the beginning to the end, this pair of man and woman did not even lose the slightest bit of composure in the face of Ning Cheng’s destitute appearance. Moreover, just before leaving, they also nodded towards Ning Cheng with a smile.
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Tian Muwan brought Ning Cheng into the booth, the two of them sat there for a long time in silence. She honestly did not know what to talk about or even where to start.
Finally, Ning Cheng broke the silence. He smiled and spoke, “Muwan….”
“Call me by my first name, or call me Chief Tian.” Tian Muwan sighed; she finally made up her mind. She had hurt Ning Cheng deeply once. However, Ning Cheng brought pain to her more than once, it would be better to just turn the pages of the past and get over with it.
Ning Cheng also calmly nodded, “I just wanted to ask you one question. Did my sister Ruolan contact you? Do you know where she is right now?”
Hearing Ning Cheng asking about Ning Ruolan, Tian Muwan’s hand clenched once again. She could never forget that crazy look from Ning Ruolan. At that moment, she had even felt that Ning Ruolan would not hesitate to eat her up.
“You surnamed Tian. Is my brother not up to par for you? If you did not like him, then you should have said so. Using your status to trample over others dignity, are you feeling a sense of accomplishment……”
“You think you are beautiful? In my eyes, you are just a cheap woman. It is not that my brother was not worthy of you, it was you who was not worthy of my brother……”
“I wish I could bite you to death, return my brother to me……”
“Wuwu… Give me back my big brother…”
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This was Tian Muwan’s first time to be insulted in public and even criticised as being a cheap woman. However, in Ning Ruolan’s eyes, Ning Cheng was dead because of her. Nevertheless, at this time, he was actually still living and sitting right in front of her. Although he looked like a beggar and his hair was also somewhat grey, but he definitely was not dead.
He was not dead, not only did he not explain it, but he also let his sister Ning Ruolan throw verbal abuses at her. Initially, she had believed Zeng Jiyun’s words causing her to misunderstand him. However, over these few years that he was out of sight, Ning Ruolan had hounded and continuously insulted her. Because of the accusations of her forcing her boyfriend’s death, she even had to drop out of school.
After clenching her fists, Tian Muwan suddenly found herself unable to calm down, she was already a True Cultivator, so why was it that she was unable to calm down? She had never blamed Ning Ruolan for her persecution. If it were her own brother who had died, then she would definitely be like her or even crazier. However, to her disappointment, Ning Cheng was still alive, yet had never come forward to explain.
Ning Cheng was silently watching Tian Muwan, he was aware that Tian Muwan’s mood currently was very volatile, it wouldn’t even be a surprise if she actually erupted in hostilities.
Some things in life were utterly meaningless without an explanation.
Tian Muwan looked at Ning Cheng’s eyes as she forcibly calmed her mood. At present, Ning Cheng still had that gentle look in his eyes; it immediately reminded him about the time from a few years ago where she was still madly in love with the man in front of her, the time she had enjoyed immensely. However, at this moment, when she saw that same look in Ning Xiaocheng’s eyes, it only brought her more pain.
Even if she were not a True Cultivator, she and Ning Cheng would still not be able to be together.
Some matters, only after personally experiencing it, only then was she able to understand it somewhat clearly. Love, for someone like her, was just a luxury. Moreover, now that she became a True Cultivator, there just was no way that she would be able to enjoy such an extravagant luxury.
Not to mention about her strong determination, even if her family allowed her to be together with Ning Xiaocheng, how long would it even last? After building her foundation, she would have a lifespan of nearly 200 years, and after forming a golden core, she would then have a lifespan of almost 500 years. She and Ning Cheng would never be people from the same world. In the end, everything that she experienced during her college days was only a be
autiful fairy tale from the past.
Tian Muwan’s eyes moved from Ning Cheng’s face to Ning Cheng’s messy hair. Causing her to feel another stab of pain in her heart, as in front of her eyes once again emerged the scene of the debris-filled flood, in which Ning Xiaocheng had desperately carried her and escaped to safety. Without Ning Xiaocheng, she would have died a long time ago.
In front of her eyes, scenes once again appeared one after another all of which contained the same bright smile on the same dirty face of Ning Xiaocheng. Also, there was also the scene from that fly-infested restaurant where Ning Xiaocheng carefully wiped the seat repeatedly.
She felt as if the tears that she had been suppressing for all these years were about to erupt as if they were just longing for Ning Cheng to appear in front of them once again.
However, this feeling gradually disappeared. No, those feelings had no choice but to dissolve.
This was just another moment of remembrance…
Tian Muwan stood up. Ning Cheng could observe everything, from the pain in her eyes in the beginning to the suffering that she was internally going through during this meet, to the present calm; it was as if she had walked through her entire life during this short period.
Tian Muwan took out a card from her handbag and put it on the table, then trying her best to speak with a moderate tone she finally spoke up, “You can use it however you like, and the pin is the birthday. I’ll be leaving now.”
Finished saying, Tian Muwan slowly walked towards the door of the booth and opened it. She did not say whose birthday was it, nor did she mention about how much money was in the card.
When she arrived at the door, she suddenly turned her head once again, looking at the motionless Ning Cheng, she spoke, “The World Trade Exposition is in session in the Ocean City, and Zeng Jiyun also came. Perhaps you can also go meet her.”
Until Tian Muwan finally left, Ning Cheng still did not choose to stand up. Tian Muwan did not explain the matter from the past; moreover, Ning Cheng also did not want to cross-examine why Tian Muwan decided to do what she did in the past.
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