Chapter 39: Sunflower
Since Guang Yu had made such a huge sacrifice, in that case, Ye Zhibai couldn’t let her die in vain!
Guang Yu: I’m not dead yet!
In any case, Ye Zhibai quickly grabbed… cough, politely took Lin Zihan’s sleeve, and hurriedly whispered to the still-confused girl.
“Take advantage of the situation, let’s go, get out through the back door, and plan from there.”
“Eh…? Alright!” Lin Zihan responded quickly as well.
Even though she had no idea what was going on downstairs, this was indeed the chance to escape!
The two of them tiptoed lightly, tap, tap, tap, as they retraced their steps back down the stairs, exiting through the back door.
But they didn’t leave just yet.
After all, Guang Yu was still fighting on the front line!
No matter how unreliable Ye Zhibai might be, she couldn’t just abandon her here.
The two of them, one on the left and one on the right clung to the doorframe, secretly observing the movement downstairs in the flower shop.
From a distance, Lin Zihan saw the little girl, holding her forehead, wobbling as she got up from in front of the stone vase.
After thinking for a moment, she quickly remembered!
“Ye Zhibai! Isn’t that the little girl you bought a drink for at the beverage shop earlier?! What’s she doing here…?”
“Yeah, she must’ve come to repay the favor. See, doing good deeds gets you rewards.”
“Unbelievable…!”
Shocking Lin Zihan. Once believed in science.jpg.
Inside the flower shop, Elsa was in a panic.
She didn’t know whether she should call an ambulance or just grab a Band-Aid!
The little girl looked like she was hurt, but at the same time, didn’t seem to be.
She didn’t need to do anything at all.
Guang Yu’s full-force headbutt made her head buzz, but she wasn’t harmed in the least.
Just think about it— even Ye Zhibai, a being crafted by the mother goddess herself, only suffered minor scrapes when hit by a car.
Let alone, Guang Yu.
She’s a true god!
This is the pressure tolerance of a deity!
Guang Yu shook her head from side to side, suppressing the buzzing sounds in her mind.
Her blurred vision quickly refocused, returning to normal.
Then, in an instant, she spotted Ye Zhibai, who was stealthily waving to her from the back door.
Guang Yu immediately understood.
Her mission is completed!
Next, all that remained was to retreat!
Guang Yu took a step back.
Even though the impact just now was enough to be fatal, the brown-haired little girl in Elsa’s eyes simply rubbed the back of her head and smiled foolishly.
“Hahaha, Auntie, I’m sorry! Just now I accidentally slipped at the door, and what a coincidence! I slid along the floor—wham! Crash! Zip, zip—and I smashed right into your store’s vase!”
Guang Yu was very satisfied with her use of sound effects.
But her vocabulary, well, that was the limit.
Out of things to say, it was time to turn and slip away!
“I won’t disturb you anymore, I’m off now!”
“Wait!” Elsa had only just come to her senses.
She immediately called out in a hurry.
“?!”
What’s going on? What happened?
Guang Yu quickly looked at the vase her forehead had just bumped into.
It wasn’t broken! The vase was still intact!
My forehead can’t possibly be harder than a rock!
Seeing the little girl in front of her looking panicked and confused, Elsa quickly squatted down, her expression softening considerably.
She didn’t want to hold the girl accountable.
She just wanted to make sure the little girl wasn’t hurt.
Looking at Guang Yu’s forehead, it was a bit red, but there were no signs of bleeding.
After confirming that the impact hadn’t caused serious harm, Elsa finally let out a long sigh of relief and stood up.
She looked down at the little girl in front of her.
Her tone was earnest and sincere.
“Thankfully you’re not hurt… Little girl, how could you be so naughty? I see you’re carrying a schoolbag… Is this right after school? Where are your parents? Did you get lost? Do you need Auntie to help you find them?”
Guang Yu replied, “Uh… my parents? I don’t have parents.”
“Huh?”
“No… no! My parents are at work! They’re too busy to look after me! I’m going home by myself!”
What a mess!
I was born from the convergence of Heaven and Earth’s spiritual energy, from the divine aura of creation!
Where would I have parents?
I don’t have a mom! Or a dad!
Elsa heard these words.
Her already furrowed brow tightened even more. Even her sighs of exasperation grew uncontrollable.
There was even a bit of sternness in it.
“You’re so young and going home alone… Ah, parents in this world, they’re all the same! They have children but don’t fulfill their duties. Especially the fathers, they’re all so heartless! If your mother knew about that bump just now, how heartbroken would she be… The sound of that crash made my heart skip a beat. Next time, be careful of your footing, don’t slip…”
“Understood!”
Guang Yu truly looked like a little schoolgirl.
Standing at attention, getting scolded, all that was missing was a salute!
How did I suddenly get lectured?
Elsa looked at Guang Yu like this. She couldn’t help but show a flicker of nostalgia in her eyes.
A long-lost gentle smile appeared on her face.
Zihan was this small too when she was little… and just as mischievous.
At that time, Zihan’s eyes were just as bright, mischievous, and innocent, always startled by little things.
Elsa wanted to, just like in the past, brush the dust off Zihan’s clothes, flick her forehead, and say, “Be careful next time.”
But just as her hand reached midair,
it stiffened and stopped.
It was only then that she remembered, the little girl in front of her… wasn’t Zihan.
She somewhat dejectedly lowered her hand.
Elsa gave a bitter smile and shook her head as she spoke.
“Little girl, wait a moment.”
“Hm?”
Elsa, with her once golden hair now faded and dull, searched for something in the flower section on the right.
Soon, with her left hand, worn from years of labor and no longer as youthful as it once was, she lifted a sunflower wrapped in beautiful packaging paper.
The sunflower was in full bloom.
Even inside the shop, it still bloomed in the direction of the sun.
Elsa calmly smiled as she returned to Guang Yu, pushing the sunflower in front of her.
“Little girl… Today you slipped in my shop, so I guess it was fate that brought us together. Here, take this sunflower. I hope you grow strong, just like the little sun in the sunflower, always happy.”
“……”
Guang Yu dumbfoundedly accepted the sunflower.
This was her first time seeing such a large flower. But she didn’t know.
When Elsa saw her take the flower, the cloudy eyes that had once been bright were filled with deep memories of the past.
Outside, Ye Zhibai casually turned her head.
She noticed that Lin Zihan’s demeanor seemed to have changed.
Just a moment ago, she had been leaning against the doorframe, secretly watching what was happening inside.
But at some point… she had already crossed her hands behind her back and was leaning against the wall, no longer watching.
She was merely listening—and lowering her head in contemplation.
Elsa’s voice still echoed.
But as she walked Guang Yu out of the flower shop, her voice grew more and more distant.
Yet it remained clear.
“My daughter, when she was little, she was just like you—careless and very mischievous, always slipping and falling. Haha… But little girl, you’re much tougher than she was! If Zihan fell, she would cry, throw a tantrum, and complain that it was the stone’s fault for tripping her. But really, everyone knew it was her carelessness…”
“Uh… Sorry, sorry, little girl, you’re probably in a hurry to go home and do your homework, right? Look at me, babbling on with a little kid about so many useless things. Off you go, study hard, get into a good university when you grow up, and be safe on your way home. Oh, and also, make sure to take care of your eyes! You kids these days have such beautiful eyes, but you always end up wearing glasses, what a shame!”
Every word filled Lin Zihan’s ears.
Her scarlet right eye sparkled with a strange flicker of light at every word.
Until the shop fell completely silent.
Elsa had likely escorted Guang Yu out.
For a long time, there was no movement in the shop, only the intermittent sound of rearranging the flowers.
It wasn’t long before Guang Yu, now back in her hidden state and holding the sunflower, circled back to the back door to meet up with Ye Zhibai.
At that moment, Lin Zihan finally let out a sob.
But before the sob could even fully form, she tilted her head back, suppressing everything inside, not letting it escape.
She took Ye Zhibai by the hand and walked a step farther from the back door.
The playful smile on Lin Zihan’s face and the redness in her right eye showed no trace of tears.
She clasped her hands together and softly apologized to Ye Zhibai.
“Sorry, Ye Zhibai… This was your first time coming out with me, and it turned into something like a guerilla war… I made a fool of myself. How about I buy you a drink to make it up to you? Anyway, let’s… find somewhere else to talk, okay?”
“Alright.”
