Strange Cards

Chapter 423 He's Here

"..."

"Did he really say that?"

"That bastard's going home the day after tomorrow? And he's going to have dinner at the old man's?"

Qi Wu looked at his wife, who was in tears, hugged her, and gently patted Gu Yue's back.

"real."

"The method he used was the lip-reading technique we used back then, I can't be mistaken."

"He...is indeed coming back."

"But I don't know who persuaded me."

Gu Yue looked at Qi Wu with her beautiful, tear-filled eyes. Their eyes met and they both saw the name in each other's eyes.

"Won't..."

"Was it Xiaoyu who dried it?"

The two of them thought of the boy who came back for one night and then left again; it seemed that only he could persuade Gu Nian.

After all, he was the first person to return home after joining the Otherworlders, so it seems reasonable for him to persuade Gu Nian.

Gu Yue looked at Qi Wu, wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes, and then said.

"That bastard, he's been gone for ten years, and now he finally remembers he has a home, huh?"

"Going back to Grandpa's place? Aren't you afraid he'll be furious?"

Although Gu Yue was angry, she had already opened her phone and started ordering food.

Although Gu Yue was stern in her words, she was, after all, the older sister, and no older sister wouldn't feel sorry for her younger brother.

What's more, it's my younger brother who has been wandering for so many years and is finally coming home.

Back then, Gu Yue and Gu Nian had a very good relationship; the siblings were so close they were practically inseparable.

Because Gu Ri left relatively early, Gu Yue and Gu Nian, a brother and sister, grew up together. After growing up, they both joined the Hunters and became comrades who could entrust their backs to each other.

But after what happened ten years ago, Gu Nian followed in her brother's footsteps and embarked on the path of saving the world, leaving the hunters and also leaving the sister she had grown up with.

Gu Yue was always gentle to others. Her personality was just like that of a woman from the Jiangnan water towns: knowledgeable, reasonable, and understanding.

But when facing Gu Nian, Gu Yue could scold him like a grandson, leaving Gu Nian meek and submissive, not daring to talk back.

The siblings had always had a good relationship, and even after Gu Yue married someone else, she did not neglect her feelings for her brother.

If you ask Gu Yue about hatred, she definitely hates it.

She hated her younger brother for being so heartless, leaving for ten years without ever coming back.

Aside from their last meeting with Gu Nian, the two siblings did not see each other for a full ten years.

A whole decade.

Ten years is enough time for water to wear away stone, and enough time for a sapling to grow into a towering tree.

Although Gu Yue obtained photos of Gu Nian from other places and saw what he looked like now, her impression of Gu Nian was still that of ten years ago, that naive, immature, yet brave young man.

The thought that Gu Nian would be going home the day after tomorrow made Gu Yue realize that her hatred for Gu Nian had suddenly faded a lot, and was almost gone.

Ultimately, Gu Yue's hatred for Gu Nian was simply that he was heartless and that he hadn't come to see her in person for ten years.

But after learning that Gu Nian was going home, Gu Yue stopped hating him and started preparing for the day after tomorrow.

Looking at his wife, who was cursing and swearing but whose face was beaming with joy, Qi Wu knew perfectly well that she had a sharp tongue but a soft heart.

Just then, Qi Nannan, holding a tortoiseshell cat, walked over and looked at her busy mother, who was muttering and cursing under her breath.

"dad."

"What is Mom doing?"

Qi Wu looked at his daughter, Qi Nannan, who was wearing a long dress, and patted her head.

"Your mother is preparing for the day after tomorrow."

"Someone who hasn't been back for a very long time, but is very important to your mother, is coming back."

"Your mother is grumbling and cursing, but she's already started preparing."

Qi Nannan tilted her head back, stretched out a hand, and gestured for Qi Wu to pick her up before gently bringing her mouth close to Qi Wu's ear.

"Dad, who is that?"

Do I know him or not?

Qi Wu looked at his lovely daughter and gently rubbed her smooth little face.

You don't know them now, but you will soon.

"She is very important to your mother, and she is also very important to you."

"That person is your mother's younger brother, her own brother."

"He's also your maternal uncle."

……

This time, Shigure didn't choose to relax at Mount Hinode or by the sea; instead, she came to Kyoto alone.

Shiyu was dressed casually, wearing a pair of gray jeans over a white sweatshirt, and then a jacket over that.

A jet-black baseball cap pressed down on her head, completely covering Shigure's dark gray hair.

Shigure wandered aimlessly through Kyoto, and as she wandered, she came to a very, very old cemetery.

As Shi Yu walked into the cemetery, she found her grandfather's and grandmother's tombstones among a pile of gravestones.

The two elderly people's tombstones are buried together, and it looks like they haven't been tended to for a long time.

Shiyu slowly tidied up the surroundings, and after cleaning the area, she took out a brush dipped in cinnabar water and carefully traced the faded characters on the tombstone back to red.

After finishing everything, Shi Yu looked at the two kind faces on the joint tomb, offered incense, and respectfully kowtowed three times.

"Grandpa, Grandma."

"Your grandson is unfilial, taking so long to visit you two."

"Please don't blame me, both of you."

At that moment, a gentle breeze was blowing around them, and the delicate wind caressed Shiyu's face, just like when she was a child in the arms of two old people.

Shi Yu knelt upright before the graves of the two old people, recounting her experiences over the years.

She didn't talk about what happened before she was six years old, because the two elderly people knew it all very well.

The story of what happened after he turned six was told for a very long time, from dawn to sunset, and from sunset to dawn.

After speaking, Shigure suddenly felt relieved, and the oppressive feeling in her heart didn't feel so bad anymore.

Shiyu swept the joint burial tomb one last time, then turned and walked outside.

Shiyu knew she missed them and longed to go back home.

But Shigure can only look back, not walk back.

Such was the responsibility on his shoulders, even though he was so tired that he could no longer walk.

Even at this point, Shigure could only continue walking alone in the darkness, quietly waiting for the true dawn to arrive.

Don't look back.

"There is nowhere to go back from here."

Hearing the faint sound carried on the wind, Shi Yu turned around abruptly, but couldn't see the direction from which the sound came.

It wasn't until Shiyu saw it that two gray butterflies were quietly resting on the joint burial tombstone.

The two butterflies nestled together, and after noticing Shiyu looking at them, they gently fluttered their wings and flew into the sky one after the other, quickly disappearing from Shiyu's sight.