Chapter 171 - She Couldn’t Remember (2/2)

Hong Bao contemplated and finally decided that it was alright for him to let her wait for so long. Someone this handsome had probably a high status, so he should have a lot of things to do in heaven. She couldn't fault him.

Hong Bao grabbed his other arm, too, and smiled. ”It's alright”, she conveyed her conclusion. ”Forget what I said before. You can take me to heaven now!” She held onto him tightly and closed her eyes. After all, it would probably get really stormy when you flew to heaven, wouldn't it?

The man blinked. ”Heaven? Why would I take you to heaven?”

Hong Bao cracked her eyes open. ”Haven't you come to take me to heaven? You know, because of defeating the demons and everything.”

”Defeating the demons?” The man's eyebrows rose. ”I'm afraid I don't understand what you're saying.”

Hong Bao opened her eyes completely and let go of his sleeves. ”You're not the envoy from heaven?”

”No. Why are you even asking? We know each other.”

Hong Bao shook her head. ”No. I've never seen you before.”

The man was stunned. Hadn't she just reacted as if she had finally seen a long-lost friend again? ”Then what was with that greeting just now?”

”Uh …” Hong Bao who had slipped up already could only continue her small lie. ”I … mistook you. I thought you were somebody else. It was dark, after all.”

”Mn. But you really don't remember me?” It might have just been a short time but hadn't it been intense? ”I'm Liu Cheng, the demon hunter. We met each other in the capital when you had found that demon.”

Hong Bao tilted her head. Demon hunter? Demons? Capital? She frowned. ”But I've never even been to the capital!” That was definitely the most important point! What demons and demon hunters? She had lived her whole life in the village!

Liu Cheng frowned just as much. That couldn't be. He definitely hadn't mistaken her. She was Hong Bao. She looked like her, she spoke like her … Everything was the same.

That could only mean one thing: The demon that had managed to subdue him and then kidnapped and interrogated him before bringing him back to the capital had done something to her, too! And it seemed the consequences for her were even graver. She couldn't remember her time in the capital at all!

Liu Cheng looked at her with a pitying gaze. That poor girl, maybe her memories would be lost forever. No, he had to do something! ”Hong Bao, since it's a little brighter now let's go to the place you live.”

Hong Bao squirmed a bit. There was actually such a handsome man asking her to take him home! Maybe she had somehow helped her sister unknowingly with banishing those demons? She couldn't have that much luck without reason, could she? Ah, the goddess of love was really smiling at her from above!

She gripped Liu Cheng's sleeve again and the two of them went into the direction where Hong Bao thought to find her village. Unfortunately, she was disappointed soon enough. Even though they walked for nearly an hour she just couldn't find it. Even worse, her surroundings weren't the least bit familiar anymore. Slowly, panic arose from within her heart.

Of course, it was only natural that she couldn't find it. After all, the village Hong Bao grew up in had already ceased to exist. It wasn't really a surprise since she had lived in the nine heavens for quite a bit of time and one day there equaled a year in the mortal world. It had just been too long for a small village such as theirs to survive until then.

But unfortunately, Hong Bao's memories had been erased upon her banishment. Thus, she couldn't remember how long she had been away. She couldn't even remember that she had been away at all. For her, it was as if it was still the same day where she had taken her sister's place to go to the nine heavens.