120 The arrival of the third. (2/2)

Fang Ying didn't fall for his theatrics for even a single second, heavily rolling her eyes and stretching out Li Yang's cheeks as far as she could, quickly removing his bitter expression.

”You're an overdramatic idiot.”

Fang Ying was stretching out Li Yang's cheeks, but thanks to the skillful control she had over her strength, he wasn't able to feel the slightest amount of pain. Li Yang's lips cracked into a smile as he let out a laugh, not denying Fang Ying's words.

”Yup, but I'm you're overdramatic idiot.”

Li Yang moved his arms away from Fang Ying's waist, grabbing onto her wrists and pulling her hands away from his face. With his cheeks finally free, he leaned forward and planted a kiss on her lips, contently enjoying the peace he had finally reclaimed. Fang Ying ended the kiss after a little over a minute, her lips curling up slightly as she seemed to remember something.

”Hey, remember the bet we made about who could kill the most panthers? I told you I would ask for my prize when we were alone, didn't I?”

It had taken place a mere month ago, so how could Li Yang possibly forget? Fang Ying let herself fall to the side and onto the couch, quickly turning her body so that her head was resting on Li Yang's lap. She swiped her interspatial ring and brought out a wooden comb, holding it up to Li Yang's face while making her request.

”Lull me to sleep, just like you did in the past.”

Li Yang nearly broke out into laughter when he heard her simple request, pushing back Fang Ying's comb. He swiped his interspatial ring and took out a wooden comb of his own, one he had personally carved in his spare time. He raised her head slightly so that he could organize all her hair, chuckling lightly all the while.

”All you had to do was ask. Really, what a waste of a prize.”

Just as she requested, he started to lull her to sleep just as he had done to her and their daughter in the past. He gently brushed her hair and sung the only lullaby that he knew by heart, the one his mother had sung for him when he was a child in his previous life.

The lullaby was, in fact, a story, the ancient tale of a hunter whose wife was kidnapped and taken to the moon to serve as fertilizer for a legendary tree said to reside on the moon. The hunter abandoned his bow and picked up an axe, chopping down tree after tree so that he could stack them together to form a bridge between the earth and the moon. But his bridge collapsed when he got close to the moon, his body scattering to the spatial winds and joining the stars, his wife following him once she became fertilizer for the tree.

It was a rather depressing tale, to the point where Li Yang sometimes wondered why his mother had chosen it to be his lullaby. As such, when Li Yang sang the lullaby for his own daughter, he had changed the ending to a happier one. The hunter completed his bridge and reached the moon before his wife became fertilizer, using his axe and strong body to cut down the legendary tree, using the sap to make both him and his wife immortal. It was a bit uninspired and sappy, but it was a far better ending to a children's lullaby than the original.

Li Yang continued to brush Fang Ying's hair and sing the lullaby, both of them completely shutting out the outside world, focusing entirely on the present time shared between the two of them.

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While Li Yang was lulling Fang Ying to sleep, someone appeared in the sky above the Ocean God's Graveyard, arriving through the maelstrom that was the entrance. The man who arrived was a handsome youth with a burly body and chiseled features, his long silver hair was tied into a neat bun and his golden eyes were sweeping over the land beneath him with a gaze so excited that it was nearly burning.

”Well then, Brother Yang and Sister Ying, there's no way that the two of you haven't come here, is there? Let's see if I can still use the tracking technique we had in the past, follow the chaos.”

The handsome youth, The Silver Dragon Prince Zhao Feng, wore an incandescent grin, his eyes rapidly moving and looking for any signs of chaos. It was time for the three of them to meet up again and cause chaos together, just like they had in that glorious past.