Chapter 1598: I Gave Her the Chance to Come Here

Tuanzi rushed over immediately, ignoring that the person in the rocking chair was still resting, and reached out to push him: "Uncle King, wake up, don’t sleep."

Watching Tuanzi’s anxious and therefore a bit rough movements, Su Li’s heart jolted.

Tuanzi must have guessed something too, and was getting scared.

Usually when Tuanzi came over and saw Feng Ciye lying in the rocking chair, napping and enjoying the view, he would never disturb him; this time he ran up wanting to shake him awake.

The man in the rocking chair seemed to have his broken breath gradually grow chaotic; he gently opened his eyes, covered his lips lightly with his hand, and let out a delicate yawn.

Tuanzi hugged Feng Ciye, crying from joy: "Why is Uncle King sleeping again? We just knocked on the door and you wouldn’t open it, Tuanzi thought you..."

Thought he was going to sleep and never wake up.

Gentle laughter filled Feng Ciye’s eyes. He reached out to rub Tuanzi’s head, his pale fingers slipping through that smooth, ink-black hair.

Sitting in the wooden rocking chair, he turned his head; when he saw Su Li, his mind wavered slightly, and the hand rubbing Tuanzi’s head suddenly stiffened for a moment.

It was a perfect autumn afternoon, sunlight just right. She stood at the doorway, bathed in the golden light, so beautiful it felt unreal to him.

Feng Ciye murmured under his breath: "Su Li."

He liked dozing in the afternoons; in that rocking chair he always seemed able to enter that incredibly real dream, and just like now, she stood in the doorway in the sunlight, smiling as she looked at him.

Feng Ciye raised a hand and gently rubbed his eyes. Seeing that Su Li was still there, he chuckled, braced a hand on the rocking chair to try to get up, only to find himself very weak; in the end he could only remain seated, looking at her with a smiling gaze as he said, "Su Li, long time no see. The lotuses in my courtyard are beautiful this year."

But the clivia is even more beautiful.

Xiao Heng hurried forward to steady the rocking chair, then helped him up, saying, "I remember your health was bad before, but it wasn’t this bad. What on earth happened to you? Did you have a doctor take a look?"

Back then Xiao Heng was always in Africa, so he understood Feng Ciye’s condition even less than Tuanzi did.

Su Li forced down the sting in her nose, walked up to look at him, and suggested, "How about... going to the hospital for a check-up?"

Thinking it over, Su Li quickly added, "Or I could try to get in touch with Xu Xing, ask him to come out and take a look at you?"

Ever since something happened to Uncle Mo Yu, the entire Xuan Sect had gone cold.

Xu Xing had been completely crushed by it, basically never leaving the mountain anymore; he didn’t even attend the Hua Country Traditional Chinese Medicine Conference that he used to go to every year.

Feng Ciye looked at her, smiling as he shook his head. "No need, it’s not necessary."

Su Li’s heart turned cold for a moment, and she found herself almost proactively making excuses for him: "It’s not a bother. Really, going to find Xu Xing isn’t a bother at all."

Feng Ciye gave her another look, only smiling and shaking his head, saying it wasn’t needed.

Watching from the side, Xiao Heng noticed the difference; rubbing his chin, he asked, "Uh... Fourth, Fourth Brother, you... you’re not even the tiniest bit shocked that Su Li isn’t dead and even got younger? You’re the one who personally took Tuanzi to the funeral home to send Su Li and Brother Qi off on their last journey."

Any normal person would be scared half to death, right?

Feng Ciye rested his hand on the rocking chair, his smile deepening, and said softly, "Because... I’m the one who gave her the chance to come here."

Those words landed like a bomb, instantly stirring up towering waves.

Su Li was stunned too, blurting out, "It’s because you let me find a way to come over? That massive time-space rift Professor Tang discovered—was that your doing???"