Chapter 123 – The Stars Are Your Lies

Beneath the starry canopy was a silence that fell upon all things.

The night breeze was gentle, bringing the scent of flowers from unknown places, as well as the faint hissing of demons, which gradually dissipated into the wind.

The sound of paper folding is left alone.

It was especially clear in the empty courtyard.

As if it were a lighthouse on a sea of darkness, it was so noticeable that it was hard not to notice.

“Crunch–“

Xu System pushed open the door to his room and walked through the dimly lit compound, easily finding the source of the sound, which was a familiar red and white robed figure.

At this point in her life.

was fumbling about, laboriously folding an old piece of paper with ten fingers that did not obey at all.

The Xu system recognized the look of the paper.

From the original book of Nourishing Yuan Gong.

After the development of the Silly Gong, the Yuan Nourishing Gong became an unneeded scrap, and no matter how much it was tossed around, the Xu system wouldn’t be heartbroken.

He only wondered what on earth the girl was doing.

“Ahem…”

The Xu system stood behind the girl.

In that small space where the moonlight only illuminates a small patch.

Coughing lightly a few times, he tried to get the girl’s attention.

“Damn it, how come it just doesn’t work ……”, the girl’s mouth shattered, not hearing the Xu system in the slightest, as she frowned sadly, lying on the stone table and folding the paper.

So, the Xu system turned up the volume.

“Ahem!”

“!!!”

This time, 17-year-old Wu Yingxue finally heard it.

As if startled, she quickly turned around and turned back, and lifted the dragon lance that was placed beside her in the process.

But after seeing the Xu system.

The expression became rigid again.

“First, sir? How did you ……”

Wu Ying Xue’s voice came to an abrupt end, and she, who had wanted to ask Xu Department why he was here, suddenly reacted that she was the one who had disturbed Xu Department’s rest.

So, an apologetic look crossed her face.

“I’m sorry, sir. ……”

“It’s okay.”

The Xu system waved its hand, interrupting the girl’s apology.

The tranquility of the night is like a deep pool of stagnant water that swallows up all light, making everything obscure and difficult to recognize.

But even so.

The Xu system still saw it.

The paper, clutched tightly in the palm of the young girl’s hand, was folded crookedly.

“Yingxue, what are you doing?”

Facing the inquiry from Department Xu, Wu Ying Xue’s expression was slightly embarrassed.

The small, pretty face changed multiple colors one after another.

Eventually, embarrassed, I said, “I was folding flowers.”

“Folding flowers? Is that what you woke up to do?”

“Ah, no, actually I …… didn’t sleep.”

Xu System was an innate martial artist, and Wu Ying Xue was a blood change in the fifth realm of body forging.

It was logical that Xu System, who was physically stronger, would wake up earlier than the girl, but he saw the girl’s figure first.

The answer is simple.

Since the daytime goodbyes.

Wu Yingxue didn’t sleep at all.

“I was trying to sleep, but after I lay down on the bed, I became unable to sleep instead,” like a playful child caught in the act by a parent.

The young girl smiled sarcastically as she explained in the thick of the night.

The moonlight tonight was dull and not too bright, forming a faint veil of haze that reflected the maiden’s overwhelmed fingers.

“It’s okay, just forget it if you can’t sleep.”

The Xu system smiled reassuringly, letting the girl down.

Immediately after.

His eyes focused on the “flower”.

No, it’s better called “tattered paper”.

Even though the girl repeatedly emphasized that what she wanted to fold was a flower, the product of those ten fingers’ crumpling was more like a scrap of paper ball casually pinched.

“?”

Facing the puzzled look cast by the Xu system.

Wu Ying Xue said with wide eyes, “Because it’s too dark, I can’t see at all, and I didn’t dare to light the lamp before for fear of disturbing Mr. Sleep!”

Like to prove something.

As fast as she could, the girl got an oil lamp from her room, the oil in it came from a demon and was very durable.

“Snort–“

The fire leapt up, its faint glow opening up small spaces in the night.

Though not bright enough.

Albeit very faintly.

But there was enough to see, too, the palm lines and tiny marks on the hands.

“Watch me,” Wu Ying Xue took a deep breath, laid the paper flat on the stone table, and slowly pinched the edges of the corners of the paper with both hands.

Step by step, carefully.

Shape the paper into–

Waste paper clumps.

Starlight poured down like crushed silver, mixing with the pale moonlight to illuminate the silent silence of the scene and the inexplicable rise of embarrassment.

“I, in fact ……”

The young girl wanted to speak and stopped speaking.

It seemed to be trying to argue something.

“Better let me do it,” Xu said, helplessly, picking up the ravaged ball of paper and spreading it out flat once again.

Fingers precisely hold the paper, either folded or diagonally.

It was fast, so fast that the young girl’s eyes widened.

Like something came out of nothing.

The previous waste paper ball suddenly turned into a paper flower, a strange paper flower that would never wither and had a whitish-brown surface.

“Awesome ……”

“No, no, no, sir, you still know this?”

The young girl first marveled, then with blank eyes, she looked at the Xu system.

She couldn’t connect the Xu system in front of her, together with the image of her previous days of martial arts mastery, killing demons like butchering dogs.

“Used to learn some of it when I was a kid.”

Looking at the disbelief on the girl’s face, Department Xu laughed softly and explained.

“Awesome, awesome ……”

Wu Ying Xue chanted.

Holding the not-so-precious paper flower against the bright moon in the night sky, I observed it over and over again.

Eyes on Maine.

Love it.

As Xu Department looked at such a young girl, he couldn’t help but ask, “Ying Xue, why did you suddenly think that you would be folding paper flowers in the middle of the night?”

“Actually ……”

The girl hesitated for a moment before finally revealing the reason.

The reason why she couldn’t sleep was because she remembered her parents who had passed away, and when she was a child, Princess Ding Yuan had taught the girl how to fold paper flowers.

“Back then, I wasn’t interested in origami flowers at all ……”

“Think only of saving your country and becoming a warrior ……”

Wu Ying Xue’s expression was somewhat despondent.

With a gentle rubbing of the fingertips, the paper flower spun in his hand.

Xu Department seldom in the girl, see this kind of expression, in the past days, Wu Ying Xue show are strong look.

Just.

Even the strongest of people can lose it at times.

“Sir, you said ……”

“In this world, where do people who die go?”

Wu Ying Xue looked down at the paper flowers and asked this question.

The Xu system looked at the girl, at the night sky above her, and replied in a soft tone:

“In my hometown, there is a saying that when people die, they are transformed into stars that hang in the sky and continue to watch over their loved ones on earth, and whenever the stars shine brightly, it is proof that they have come.”

“Is that so? …… That’s a really nice way of putting it.”

The girl smiled.

She knew it was fake, but she liked it.

“Sir, teach me to fold paper flowers, I want to learn it.”