IHOEAYSTTTIW Chapter 102

Chapter 102 Epilogue

Chapter 102 Epilogue

The person he wanted to see, he saw. What needed to be said and what shouldn’t have been said, had all been said. The next step should be to return to the modern world and have a harmonious and beautiful HE (Happy Ending).

The system, which had disappeared for two months, appeared and brought not-so-good news. Because Lin Yan wanted to bring someone with him, the system’s energy was only enough to arrange an identity for Yun Qi, and Lin Yan himself wouldn’t get a single penny.

Lin Yan didn’t care about having any reward in the first place, but since the system came to apologize with thorns on its back, how could he not take advantage of it?

Thus, Lin Yan and Yun Qi got the opportunity for a publicly funded trip.

After another half month, the system finally realized something was wrong. On an evening of full stomachs and warm wine, it suddenly appeared, questioning aggressively.

“Can we leave yet? It’s been half a month already.”

Lin Yan, who was preparing to sleep, froze, his face instantly turning cold.

Okay, the face turning cold was just the system’s wild imagination. The real situation was… Lin Yan was in the middle of a rapid brainstorming session, trying to find a reasonable excuse to delay it for another hundred or eighty days.

Not getting a response, the system became even more dissatisfied, grumbling and complaining.

“You’ve seen the person, you’ve taken the things, I even gave you time for sightseeing, what more do you want…”

After racking his brains for a long time, Lin Yan finally found a suitable reason: “Can we wait until Cheng Que’s child is born before leaving?”

Cheng Que’s child was less than six months along, and giving birth would have to wait until after July.

July?

This “Save the Great Zhou” mission was completed in just over a year, and you still want to continue with a publicly funded trip? What kind of great company offers half a year of annual leave? Are you sure this company isn’t going bankrupt?

The system, driven crazy, blurted out.

“Do you want to wait until the child is an adult before leaving?”

Lin Yan, trying hard to play dumb, pretended not to notice and looked at it with worshipful, starry eyes: “Can we?”

“What do you think?”

“It’s possible, right!”

“Impossible!!!”

“Really impossible?”

“Really impossible!!!”

“Why…”

The low-nutrition dialogue was enough to make anyone collapse. The system refused to answer, coldly issuing the final ultimatum.

“We’re leaving tomorrow, you better hurry up and pack.”

When Yun Qi entered the room, Lin Yan was still “negotiating” with the system. He obediently picked up Lin Yan’s outer robe that was thrown on the ground, and only approached the bed after Lin Yan finished chatting, asking for a rewarding kiss, and stickily asked, “What did the system say?”

“We’re leaving tomorrow, nowhere to go.” Lin Yan sighed, casually ruffling Yun Qi’s hair into a bird’s nest, “Pack up, wash up, and go to sleep.”

Leaving tomorrow?

Yun Qi was prepared, but when the day came, he was still a little uneasy.

He quietly pulled out the list of 108 scenic spots he wanted to visit before leaving, crossing out the ones he had already been to. There were still a few places left…

He didn’t need to go to the others, but there was one place he had to go no matter what.

Yun Qi gave Lin Yan a flirtatious look, his invisible tail hooking Lin Yan’s leg: “There’s still one place I want to go.”

Lin Yan had always been responsive to Yun Qi’s requests, especially when he was looking at him with starry eyes like a puppy. He only hesitated for a second before deciding to squeeze the system again.

“I’ll get him to be lenient for another two days.”

Yun Qi shook his head like a rattle-drum: “No need, half a day is enough.”

Half a day? That meant getting up early?

Lin Yan hesitated for a moment, then chose to call the system.

The system had shut down, and only an emotionless electronic voice replied to Lin Yan.

Lin Yan, turned away at the door, collapsed onto the bed, lovingly stroking the Yun puppy who had come over to him: “You’re not allowed to mess with me today.”

The puppy’s ears drooped, and his tail stopped wagging. He used his paw to pat his master, reluctantly confirming, “Is there no bird’s nest soup left?”

Lin Yan, supporting his waist, refused with ten-times the determination: “None left!”

The April rain in the lunar calendar carried the fragrance of locust flowers. Lin Yan walked barefoot through the shallow paddy fields of the Jingxi rice, the tips of his toes startling a few transparent shrimps.

Yun Qi stood on the boundary marker of the old Nanyuan hunting ground, holding an umbrella, the hem of his clothes soaked in the green waves – since the new Emperor had designated the forbidden garden as imperial farmland, this former racecourse had been transformed into thirty-six thousand clusters of green rice seedlings.

Lin Yan picked up a green shrimp, the shrimp flipped and jumped, leaping back into the water.

Lin Yan wiped the water stains from his face, pulling the smiling Yun Qi into the field as well: “I thought you would take me to Fangshan to see the stone scriptures, or listen to the pine waves at Jietai Temple.”

“Although the scenery there is good, the rice ear that my big brother brought is three times more beautiful than the maple leaves,” Yun Qi scooped up a handful of field water, a semi-transparent rice flower lying in his palm.

The early rice, which should have sprouted ears in May, was now spreading its madder-colored bracts in the rain, the pistils seeping out amber-colored nectar.

Lin Yan was in a daze for a moment.

Half a year ago, he was still in Changning teaching the disaster victims how to compost and plant potatoes. The potatoes should be sprouting now, too, right?

The morning mist gradually dissipated, and endless emerald-colored waves emerged in the rosy light. In the distance, on the ridges of the fields, the silhouettes of farmers bending over were vaguely visible.

“Yun Song sent this over yesterday through An Tan.” Yun Qi took out a red silk package from the bottom of the food box, and unfolded it to reveal two embracing clay figurines, the patterns on their clothes were the same styles that the two often wore, and the base was engraved with “Gods of Bountiful Harvest and their Consort.”

“He said he wanted to build a paired shrine for us in the Temple of Agriculture…”

Lin Yan, who was studying the clay figurines, shrank his pupils, and the little figures in his hands began to feel hot: “I didn’t do anything, why are they starting to erect monuments and write biographies for me???”

Yun Song wasn’t surprised at all by Lin Yan’s reaction. He took the clay figurines back, wiped them clean with a handkerchief, and carefully put them away, before patiently explaining: “These are just Yun Song’s methods to maintain stability, and I know you don’t like these, and I don’t like them either, so I had An Tan pass on the message to change the shrine into a granary.”

Lin Yan, who had changed from a god to a mortal, breathed a sigh of relief, muttering in a small voice with lingering fear: “But I’m not your Shennong! I came to this era by accident, and what I’ve always been concerned about is how to go home…”

“So what?” Yun Qi held Lin Yan’s mud-covered hand, and when their fingers intertwined, he touched the new calluses on Lin Yan’s palm, “Those disaster victims don’t care which era you came from, they only remember that in the year of the famine, there was a crazy person who sold everything to ensure that everyone could have a bowl of thin porridge, and taught them how to grow life-saving grain!”

“You’re good at flattering me.” Lin Yan pulled his hand back, his face flushed suspiciously, “It’s just you…”

“It’s not just me,” Yun Qi smiled lightly, pressing his forehead against Lin Yan’s, “Listen-”

The wind swept through the rice fields, the sound of the waves of rice was filled with children’s morning reading: “Lin Yan, the Duke, is an unknown man…”

The system’s skills weren’t proficient, Lin Yan wanted to give this trip a 0 out of 10.

Bumpy, long, noisy… he could endure all of this, but how could the people and cat who came together be separated?

Bad review, definitely a bad review.

Lin Yan, burning with anger, wanted to confront the system, but the little ball of light had also disappeared.

The curtains of the laboratory were lifted by the summer wind, and the solution in the beaker refracted shimmering light.

Lin Yan was lying on the laboratory table, his raven-colored wide sleeves hanging down on the table.

“Old Lin.” His roommate slapped Lin Yan on the shoulder, and the test tubes on the table also swayed with the rhythm, “Are you wearing this to take a costume photo? Old Zhao just scolded three students in the corridor until they cried, your credits–”

Seeing that Lin Yan was still confused, the roommate grinned and was about to pull his belt.

Lin Yan reflexively slapped away his roommate’s hand, and vaguely heard the rustling of the plane tree leaves outside the window, as if it were the jingle of jade pendants, but all he could see was his roommate’s magnified smiling face.

“Xiao Qi…” Lin Yan murmured, propping himself up. His long hair, which hadn’t been cut for a year, slid down from behind his ear, and with the red mole on the tip of his nose, he looked even more charming.

His roommate was stunned for a moment, and after reacting, he continued to be sarcastic.

“What period? Seven-step Intestine Breaking Fruit?” His roommate took out a blackened fruit from his pocket and waved it in front of Lin Yan, “My fish were living well, but after eating your broken fruit, they all turned belly up! You either compensate me for my fish, or…”

I have to take the blame for this too? The fruit was blown into the lake by the typhoon, you should go find the typhoon!

Lin Yan didn’t want to argue with his roommate, so he got up and walked out.

His roommate grabbed Lin Yan’s sleeve and continued to pester him: “Hey, hey, where are you going?”

“Check the class group, check the class group quickly.” The glass door of the laboratory was suddenly pushed open, and the class president rushed in with his phone, excitedly announcing the great news, “Old Class Rep said that due to force majeure, the thesis defense time has been postponed by two months, we’re saved~”

“Then what’s the point of doing anything.” The girl in the front row slammed her lab notebook down and turned to invite Lin Yan, “Brother Yan, let’s go out and have fun? You’re not going to work again, are you, so diligent…”

“You guys go have fun, I have something to do, I’m not going.”

Lin Yan’s mind was full of Yun Qi. He waved his hand at the girl, barely managing a polite smile, and turned to walk out.

His roommate clicked his tongue, muttering disdainfully, “He’s already been recommended for graduate school, and he’s still so diligent.”

The spots of light leaking through the plane tree leaves scattered on the ground, and the sound of cicadas was like boiling water, bubbling and overflowing the entire campus.

Lin Yan stood blankly in the sun, took out his phone and glanced at it, then stuffed it back into his pocket.

The system arranged a new identity for Yun Qi, a young master from a wealthy family. At that time, Lin Yan was only concerned with teasing Yun Qi, and forgot to leave contact information.

Now it was all over, there was no way to contact him at all.

Lin Yan took a deep breath, muttering and comforting himself: “It’s okay, it’s okay, he knows I’m studying here, he’ll come find me soon…”

A black Maybach rolled over the speed bump, emitting a restrained hum, the little golden man on the front of the car melting into a cone of light in the blazing sun.

This was an agricultural college, tractors were common, but a Maybach was a first.

Xiao Qi had come to find him.

Lin Yan ran towards the car, almost stepping on the moss on the edge of the drain.

There were many students watching the excitement, but Lin Yan, wearing ancient clothes, was still eye-catching.

The Maybach stopped beside Lin Yan, the car window lowered half an inch, a middle-aged man with white hair stretched out his hand wearing a jade ring, the laugh lines around the old man’s eyes made Lin Yan think of the intricate root system of a tomato.

“Little classmate is very enthusiastic.” The man reached out and knocked on the car door, squinting his eyes as if he were evaluating the goods, “Do you want to apply for some research funding from Uncle, or…”

“Sorry, I mistook you for someone else.” Lin Yan took a step back, and his phone vibrated at just the right time.

Lin Yan took out his phone and glanced at it, immediately confirming that it was spam.

An opportunity once lost may not come again.

Lin Yan pretended to be in a hurry, apologized to the man, and ran towards the teaching building in a flustered manner.

The roar of the engine grew closer, and a bright orange Lamborghini drifted to a stop in front of the fountain, the splashing water startling a foraging gray magpie.

Another luxury car.

Lin Yan glanced at it and lost interest, continuing to walk listlessly towards the teaching building.

This car was too flashy, Yun Qi probably wouldn’t like it.

A familiar meow pierced through the campus noise, and the sound of shoes crushing gravel grew closer.

This was… White.

Lin Yan wanted to turn around in surprise, but he already felt a soft touch at his feet, the black cat’s satin-like tail brushing against his ankle.

“Big brother, I’ve come to find you.” A warm chest pressed against Lin Yan’s back, and Yun Qi’s aura enveloped Lin Yan.

The sound of cicadas was still boiling, but Lin Yan heard the vibrant heartbeat of summer hidden in the noise.

Accompanying the heartbeat was Yun Qi’s affectionate confession in his ear: “This time there’s no deception or concealment, and there’s no need to make up stories for passwords. I confess to you, I came from another world, crossing the torrent of time, just for you.”

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