Home is everywhere

After finishing the gossip and having a full stomach, the two said goodbye to the enthusiastic landlady and left the small restaurant. Once again, they wandered aimlessly, leaving the village and following a path through the woods.

“Luoluo, you said you wanted to breathe fresh air, but you were actually lying to me, right?” Li Yin suddenly asked.

“Oh dear, Yinyin caught me!”

“So what do you really want to do?”

“Actually, I just wanted to change where we live. That place has no meaning anymore. Besides, living in a place like that doesn’t match Yinyin’s status, hehe~”

“You’re such a chatterbox.” As she spoke, Li Yin gave her a chop to the head.

“Wahhh~ Yinyin hit me!”

“Stop fake crying. My hand hurts more.”

“Ah, let me kiss it better!”

Amid their playful banter, a floral scent drifted over, refreshing and fragrant.

“Yinyin, do you smell that? It’s so nice.” Dragons have a keener sense of smell than humans, so Li Luo detected it first.

“Huh? I don’t smell anything.” Li Yin was puzzled. All she could catch was the natural scent of the dense vegetation around them.

“Over here, over here!” Li Luo suddenly grabbed Li Yin’s hand and dragged her into the forest.

This gave Li Yin quite a fright.

“Hey! Don’t pull me like that! The egg!” At that moment, Li Yin wished she could slap Li Luo across the face.

“Don’t worry, the dragon egg’s shell is as hard as dragon scales. It’s not that fragile.” Li Luo remained delighted.

“But I’m afraid the yolk will get shaken up!” Those words shattered Li Luo’s good mood.

“…”

And so, Li Luo stopped, but by then the two had already reached their destination. A wave of floral fragrance rushed toward them.

“This is…” Li Yin’s eyes widened as a dreamlike scene reflected in her pupils.

Who would have thought that amidst the lush greenery lay a sea of golden flowers?

Coming back to her senses, Li Yin stepped forward and bent down, reaching out to touch them. But just before she made contact, the golden flowers aged and withered at an astonishing speed.

“What’s going on?” Li Yin was startled. Still unfamiliar with this world, she couldn’t understand why the flowers wilted as she approached.

“Could it be that Yinyin smells too bad, and the flowers can’t take it?” Li Luo came over, smirking mischievously.

Hearing this, Li Yin panicked and quickly sniffed herself. She didn’t smell bad—in fact, she smelled a bit nice.

“You tricked me again!”

“Who told Yinyin to be so adorably clueless? I just wanted to tease you a little~”

Li Yin pouted and turned away, ignoring her.

“Hey, hey! No cold wars—that’s cheating!”

Li Yin remained unmoved.

“Alright, alright, I was wrong!” This time Li Luo truly didn’t dare to be sassy.

“Then explain what’s going on here.” Having achieved her goal, Li Yin stopped while she was ahead and posed the question.

“It’s actually because of the flowers themselves. These are called Jinjian flowers. They’re afraid of magic. If magic touches them, they quickly wither. But when they bloom, they are highly poisonous—they can rapidly decay flesh, so you can’t touch them.” Li Luo explained, and as she waved a stream of magic from her hand, sure enough, all the flowers in range withered.

“Wait, what’s that?” Li Yin suddenly noticed something among the withered blossoms.

Coming closer, she saw a pair of brown leather boots, a white long dress, scattered brown hair on the collar, and a withered flower crown. The arrangement of these items roughly formed the shape of a person.

“Excuse me, have you seen my wife? Brown hair, about shoulder height, wearing a white long dress.”

A memory suddenly surfaced in Li Yin’s mind.

Could this be…

Li Yin bent down and picked up the dress, stained with a bit of dirt. Suddenly, a small box fell out of it. Inside the box was a golden ring the same color as the flower sea, along with a note.

“…”

“Yinyin, what’s wrong?” Sensing something amiss, Li Luo approached with concern.

“Ah, nothing. Maybe we should go back to the village and bring these things with us…”

…

Back in the village, at the same village entrance, they found Robin. He was sitting on a nearby rock, looking dejected.

“We meet again.”

Hearing the voice, Robin looked up.

“You’re the ones from before…”

“We came to give you something.”

With that, Li Yin carefully took out everything she had found in the flower field from her magical space.

“This… this is Lina’s dress! How could it be…”

“We found it by chance in a patch of Jinjian flowers.”

“Jin… Jinjian flowers? No… it can’t be…” As if guessing the outcome, Robin’s hands trembled violently as he took the dress.

The ring box resting on the dress fell to the ground, the ring flew out, along with the note.

(Robin, I know you like gold, so recently I planted a golden flower field outside! Though I forgot what flowers I planted, they’re so beautiful! But they haven’t bloomed yet…

To be the most beautiful bride in your eyes, I plan to wait until the flowers bloom, then bring my handwoven flower crown and have the most perfect wedding with you there!)

After reading the note, Robin was stunned. In a daze, he seemed to see his wife’s smiling face on the paper.

“…”

He cried like a child.

Robin’s wife actually suffered from dementia and often forgot things. This note was her way of making sure she didn’t forget. The tragedy occurred because she didn’t know the flowers she planted were highly toxic to ordinary people.

Perhaps it was an accident caused by dementia, or maybe someone intentionally led her there.

But regardless, Robin’s wife had not abandoned her husband. She didn’t fail to return because she didn’t want to; she simply couldn’t.

She had only wanted to have the most perfect wedding with her husband, but it cost her life. Worse, after her death, she was unjustly slandered by the villagers.

And her husband, unwilling to give up waiting, became the foolish lovestruck fool in others’ eyes.

Maybe if they had searched deeper into the forest sooner, this wouldn’t have happened.

But life is like that—like the beautiful yet dangerous Jinjian flowers. Once touched by a dangerous external force, they quickly rot and wither. And other ignorant, weak creatures, once they touch what they shouldn’t, meet the same fate.

This world is inherently unsafe.

Anyway, the matter was settled. Li Yin and Li Luo did not linger and left the village once more.

“Luoluo, if something like that happened to me, what would you do in the end?” Li Yin suddenly asked.

Unexpectedly, Li Luo did not play by the rules at all.

“Don’t worry, Yinyin doesn’t have dementia. And even if something happened, I could bring you back from the underworld—even Death couldn’t stop me!” Her serious tone threw Li Yin off. If she asked further, wouldn’t she be admitting she had dementia?

“Forget it, let’s not talk about that. Where are we going exactly?”

“I don’t know. Wherever Yinyin wants to go—the sky, the sea, the underground—if Yinyin wants to go, I’ll take you there!”

“Ah…” Li Yin couldn’t help but clench her fists.

“Do you think I want to hear all these cheesy love words?”

Dong—

With a thud, a bump sprouted on Li Luo’s head.

“Wahhh, those weren’t love words!” Li Luo cried, holding her head.

“Forget it, asking was useless anyway.” Li Yin didn’t feel sorry for her; instead, she quickened her pace. She didn’t think Li Luo’s head hurt more than her hand.

Damn, dragons are too hard…

Meanwhile, Li Luo, falling behind, didn’t immediately catch up. She lowered her hand from her head and gazed at the figure ahead. A slight curve lifted the corners of her mouth, her brows softening, revealing a doting smile.

Like the gentle spring rain, silent yet tender.

“As long as Yinyin is here… anywhere is home.”