Chapter – 98
The Beginning of Reconciliation (3rd Update)
“Don’t look.”
After a brief moment of distraction, Mu Wanwan quickly came back to her senses and hurried to grab it back.
While they were pulling at it, the small pouch fell onto the pile of dry grass, and the thing inside dropped out as well.
Under the firelight, a silver bracelet appeared on the dry grass.
It looked exactly the same as the one Lu Li was wearing on his wrist, except the words engraved on it were different.
This one had his name on it.
At that moment, a deep light flickered in Lu Li’s eyes, dark and unreadable.
The bracelet he had always thought she had thrown away was now right in front of him.
The thing she had risked her life to run into the back mountain to find… was actually this bracelet.
Lu Li tightened his fingers around the small pouch, his heart filled with complicated emotions.
His voice became hoarse.
“Why are you still keeping this bracelet?”
It was the same question she had once asked him.
Mu Wanwan avoided his gaze and stubbornly said,
“I just think it looks nice, so I kept it.”
Even if she lost everything, she was willing to lose.
Lu Li’s eyes softened. A low laugh escaped from his slightly red lips.
“Little liar.”
Mu Wanwan picked up the folded square paper charm from the ground and handed it to him.
“Here. Your safety charm.”
Her eyes wandered elsewhere, and the tips of her ears quietly turned red, as if she was shy.
Lu Li looked at the safety charm in her hand.
“You prayed for this for me?”
Mu Wanwan did not answer.
The charm was placed together with the bracelet. That meant she had asked for it for him a long time ago.
Did that mean that all these years… she had been thinking about him too?
Mu Wanwan looked at him and suddenly felt it was a little funny.
The way he held the charm looked almost like he was worshipping a sacred object.
Suddenly, Lu Li stretched out his long arm and pulled her into his arms.
Mu Wanwan’s body tilted, and she fell into his embrace.
When she looked down, she saw the wound on his back, covered in blood.
Her eyes gradually turned red, and a thin layer of mist filled them.
Lu Li stared at her quietly.
Just as Mu Wanwan opened her mouth to speak, Lu Li placed his finger gently against her lips.
“Shh. Listen to me first.”
He lowered his head and spoke softly beside her ear.
“Mu Wanwan, I won’t ask about the reason you left anymore… not until the day you are willing to tell me yourself.”
His voice became deeper.
“Four years is too long. Every day I waited for you felt like a year.”
Mu Wanwan suddenly understood.
When he had rushed into the back mountain without hesitation to find her…
When he appeared in front of her…
She had already surrendered.
Actually, from the moment she met him when they were young, she had already lost her heart to him.
Since she could never let go of him, why should she keep making things hard for herself?
Mu Wanwan slowly raised her hands and hugged him back. The corner of her lips lifted slightly.
“Okay.”
It was just a simple word, spoken very softly.
For a moment, Lu Li thought he had heard it wrong.
His eyes brightened as he looked at her.
“What did you just say?”
“Good words aren’t repeated twice. If you didn’t hear it, then forget it.”
With the distance between them finally gone, Mu Wanwan suddenly felt relieved.
Lu Li quickly took the safety charm, placed it carefully back into the small pouch, and then put it into his pocket with great care.
Then he looked at her again.
“Just like before… I’m still your Lu Li. And you are still my Mu Xiaodai. Come back to my side, okay?”
Mu Wanwan looked at him and couldn’t help smiling.
