Marry the NPC with Money, Wife Comes Knocking - Chapter 105

Chapter 105

Hua Suihe redeemed a Random Teleport. The moment she regained her footing, a tornado bore down on her. Her pupils shrank, and she used her second teleport in a flash of quick reflexes.

Random was indeed random. She either fell into pits or ended up surrounded by cacti. Once, she even got half a leg buried in quicksand. It took seven Random Teleports before she finally appeared in a relatively stable and safe location.

[Zimu: Hahahahahaha! I told you one wouldn’t be enough! Hahahahahaha!!]

[Even though the situation is dangerous, why do I want to laugh so much?]

[My Hua Hua is so fragile. I suggest buffing her.]

Hua Suihe silently brushed the sand off her long coat. At this moment, she truly looked a bit like a refugee.

She adjusted her state of mind before surveying her surroundings. Bathed in moonlight, she could see she was on high ground. There wasn’t a soul around, but there was no telling if lethal threats were hidden beneath the sand; she had seen on TV that there might be venomous scorpions or snakes.

The wind was blowing quite hard, so Hua Suihe pulled up her hood to keep her hair from flying wildly. She redeemed a few dozen yuan worth of “Flame” donations, which manifested as a fire stick.

This cluster of flames wasn’t affected by the wind at all. She had heard of windproof lighters, but never a windproof fire stick. Today was certainly an eye-opener.

Hua Suihe put on her glasses to check Ye Susheng’s location. Her random teleports had moved her further inward, and Ye Susheng was also heading her way, so they were now only two hundred kilometers apart.

She wasn’t sure how high the High-Altitude Fireworks would go, but she hoped they would be high enough for Ye Susheng to see.

Gu Gu and Zimu had donated a massive number of fireworks. When the fireworks were redeemed and placed, Hua Suihe was dumbfounded. They were packed so closely together that she wouldn’t even have a chance to light them without being blown away. There were hundreds of them, each as long as she was tall.

Hua Suihe stood frozen in place holding the fire stick, staring at the fuses in hesitation.

[Stop trying to be brave. There’s an auto-igniter for fireworks, and it’s only a hundred yuan. I’ll send it.]

[Holy crap! Who sent it?!]

[Ahhh, Hua Hua, run!!]

Just as Hua Suihe was about to grit her teeth and light the fuse, a notification sounded in her mind saying something had been redeemed. Then, the fuses in front of her caught fire.

It wasn’t just one firework; it was all of them.

“Ahhh!!!” Hua Suihe didn’t even care about the fire stick anymore. She tossed it into a sand dune and bolted, covering her ears with her hands. Her screams echoed across the endless sea of sand, only to be completely drowned out a moment later by the thunderous explosions of the fireworks.

After running a certain distance, Hua Suihe realized she wasn’t in danger. She stopped and looked back. The fireworks were blooming wildly in the sky, seemingly side-by-side with the moon-the only burst of color over the desert.

The black mist had emerged the moment the fuses were lit, wrapping around Hua Suihe to protect her. In the black mist’s consciousness, the smell of gunpowder meant danger. Ye Susheng had faced countless muzzles pointed at her, and that smell always followed the sound of gunfire.

Ye Susheng could take it, but Hua Hua could not.

Hua Suihe marveled at the beauty of the fireworks, praying in her heart that Ye Susheng would notice this bright display. It could count as the first time they watched fireworks together.

Just as she was about to lower her hands from her ears, she was suddenly yanked into a cold, familiar embrace by a powerful force. The black mist wrapped around her frantically like a cocoon, blocking her vision and plunging her into darkness.

Ye Susheng held her from behind, pressing against her. Her ragged breath brushed against Hua Suihe’s ear, and cold, sticky droplets fell onto Hua Suihe’s neck.

The wailing arrived before they could even see each other’s faces: “Waaaaah… Hua Hua!!”
Hua Suihe rested her hands on the arms wrapped around her waist, patiently repeating her response over and over. “I’m here, I’m here. I’m right here, darling.”

“Waaaaah…”

Ye Susheng held Hua Hua with a strength that knew no bounds, not daring to let go for even a second as she sobbed uncontrollably.

She had searched for so long, and the longer it took, the more her anxiety grew. She had directly frozen time itself, but while time stopped flowing, it couldn’t change the fact that she couldn’t find Hua Hua. Unable to find her, she had simply cried and cried, until her clear tears turned into tears of blood.

Red patterns crawled across Ye Susheng’s skin, and her white hair was a tangled mess from the wind. There was no telling how many places she had stepped through; a layer of sand had accumulated on her body, sticking to her along with the bloodstains, impossible to shake off.

Everywhere Ye Susheng went, the land was stripped bare of life. She had been ready to tear up the very earth to find Hua Hua. It was fortunate that this dungeon was massive; otherwise, it would have had to close for repairs.

Even with Hua Suihe in her arms now, it wasn’t enough to fill the void of her collapse and panic. She kept calling out Hua Hua’s name incessantly.

Ye Susheng trembled violently, her shoulders twitching as large droplets of blood-tears fell. Her voice was choked as she repeated a single phrase: “Hua Hua… couldn’t find… Hua Hua… I couldn’t find Hua Hua, waaaaah…”

Ye Susheng’s embrace was incredibly tight, and her body was as cold as a block of ice. Hua Suihe didn’t feel any discomfort, however; the defense stats she had just maxed out were now being put to good use.

“Don’t be afraid, Ye Zi found me. I’m here.” Hua Suihe desperately wanted to turn around and hug her properly-that was the kind of embrace that provided the most security-but the moment she made a slight movement, she was pinned by an even greater force that forbade any struggle.

Hua Suihe gave up on that idea. She raised her hand to soothingly stroke the head resting on her shoulder. Unable to wipe away the other girl’s tears, she could only offer constant, patient comfort with her words.

“Look, I set off fireworks for you.” Although Hua Suihe’s view was blocked, the sound of the fireworks exploding hadn’t stopped yet.

Ye Susheng couldn’t hear a word. She simply shook her head blindly, whimpering in a low voice, “Hua Hua, I’m sorry, Hua Hua… it’s my fault, I’m sorry…”

“You can make a wish on the fireworks, you know. If they’re heard, there’s a chance the wish will come true.”

“Hua Hua… don’t… Hua Hua… leave…” Ye Susheng sobbed as she spoke, her sentence breaking several times between gasps.

Seeing that she wasn’t listening to anything, Hua Suihe teased her on purpose. “Don’t want Hua Hua?”

“Want! I want Hua Hua! Don’t leave, waaaaah!”

Ye Susheng finally registered Hua Suihe’s words, but she was still crying piteously. Blood-tears smeared onto Hua Suihe’s neck; it seemed the girl was intent on crying out every drop of blood in her body through her eyes.

Her body temperature remained cold, meaning her emotions had yet to stabilize. It took a long time of coaxing before Ye Susheng was willing to turn Hua Suihe around to hold her face-to-face.

Hua Suihe took Ye Susheng’s face in her hands and pressed her lips against the other’s. The person before her had messy white hair, red patterns covering her face, and four streaks of blood-tears running down her cheeks. Her red eyes had dilated to fill her entire sockets, making her look both wretched and terrifying.

But Hua Suihe didn’t care at all. She simply captured those cold, soft lips, kissing and lingering. She coaxed her tongue into a rhythmic dance, feeling the tremors of the sobbing body. Her hands moved behind Ye Susheng’s back, stroking and patting her gently. Her patient, tender movements were like those used to handle the world’s only precious treasure.

[Finally found her. That really wasn’t easy.]

[Brother Zimu and Gu Gu’s fireworks deserve the credit.]

[The fireworks acted as a fuse; the black mist was bound to take action.]

[So romantic… so, were the fireworks for us to watch?]

After an unknown amount of time, Ye Susheng stopped crying, and her body gradually began to warm up again.