After a night of such intense turmoil, I don't feel tired at all. I sit on the beach, smelling the breath of the lake. My mind gradually calms down. I start thinking about many things, including what happened in the past few days, my family, and what Uncle Liu said to me.

  Am I really suitable for learning Taoism? Am I really suitable for this career?

  I'm only twenty years old, I'm just an ordinary student, I touch the swollen half of my face, are these things really suitable for me?

  I don't have the ambition to punish evil or promote good, I just want to live an ordinary life. After graduation, find a job that is neither good nor bad, return to my hometown and buy a house that is neither big nor small, marry a wife who is neither beautiful nor ugly, and have a child who is neither smart nor stupid. This is the most ordinary dream of an ordinary person like me.

  But why, since I learned the "San Qing Shu", my life has started to change? I began to experience danger frequently, I began to put on a strong face and smile, I began to feel that I was getting further and further away from my ideals.

  Do I have to keep going like this in the future?

  My mind is getting more and more chaotic, I patted my face with both hands, the swollen half of my face transmitted a painful feeling, forget it, let's take one step at a time.

  My purpose was originally very simple, I just wanted to protect my family and friends, I didn't want to lose anything else. But after what happened in college, I understood another truth, that not everything has someone to protect it, like the female ghost's tears, if I hadn't helped her, then Dong Sizhe would be living a carefree life now, while many innocent people would have lost their precious lives because of him.

  Is my life just a life, while theirs are worthless? This society has too much indifference. On the streets, there are disabled people who have fallen and no one helps them up. Someone is robbed and no one chases after. Someone fights and many people just watch.

  But have they ever thought that if one day they become disabled, get robbed or beaten by others, will there still be people willing to help them?

  Although I have lost a lot, at least when I released the female ghost in Dong Sizhe's house, and when I guarded the hotel entrance for three nights, my heart was warm. I don't regret it. Not before, not now, nor will I in the future.

  Looking at the calm lake surface, I suddenly wanted to shout loudly, but I didn't. I could only roar in my heart, choosing silence on the surface, taking it one step at a time. As long as I don't regret it myself, that's all that matters.

  At 5:10, looking at the sun rising from the foot of the mountain, the surface of Mirror Lake was a pink hue, that scene I still can't forget now, it's really extremely beautiful.

  Looking at this scene, my mood actually improved with it, and I restored that smiling face day by day. Yes, as long as I maintain this smile, I'm fine. As long as I live happily, what else do I need to ask for?

  Thinking of this, I stood up and walked to a large basin used for fishing by the inn, which was not far from the beach. I carried it to the lake, scooped half a basin of water, wet myself first, and then struggled to carry it to the girl's side.

  Little sister, don't blame me, I'm doing this for your own good. There are some things that it's better you don't know about, I thought to myself as I splashed the water from the basin all over her. Then I quickly threw the big basin far, far away.

  "Ah!" She woke up, opened her eyes, and the first thing she saw was my half-naked face, a lecherous man. I tried to look as worried as possible at her.

  She immediately sat up alertly, covering her chest with her hands, and then called out to me in a panic: "You... who are you!! Where is this?"

  I knew you'd ask that, so I pretended to be out of breath and said to her: "This is by the lake! Are you a freshman? I found you soaking in the water when I went for a morning run, so I quickly pulled you up. What happened?"

  This move of turning the tables and changing from being passive to active is a skill that I have obviously mastered, directly pulling the topic onto her.

  She shouldn't remember anything after being possessed last night, so I can completely shift the blame. She touched her wet hair, apparently having no memory of what had happened.

  Actually, this little girl looks pretty good, it's the truth. With this face among those women in our school, she can basically achieve the effect of standing out from the crowd. However, with her whole body drenched and shivering slightly, just like Guan Ming after being possessed, her complexion is very poor, deathly pale.

  She hadn't relaxed her vigilance yet, and she trembled as she asked me: "How did I end up here?"

  I forced a wry smile, scratching my head as I said to her: "How would I know, sis? Why did you go to the lake if you didn't sleep well? What happened exactly? Should we call the police?"

  Of course I was bluffing her. In this deep mountain and old forest, where can you go to report the police? Even if you want to report the police, it will take at least half a day to get out first.

  Strategically successful, she was obviously trying hard to think about what happened last night, but no matter how hard she thought, it seemed like there was nothing to grasp. She muttered: "Last night... I made a phone call... and then I don't remember anything."

  Haha, as I expected, you don't remember a thing, which is good. If you did, it would be trouble. I quickly took the opportunity to drive the point home and said to her: "Is there something bothering you? Your body is your revolutionary capital, so from now on, never do anything stupid again, got it?"

  It's really an art to speak, and she was obviously hurt by my words. She started to be silent, very clearly, her mind had gone back to the phone call last night again.

  It's been a long time, the sky is already bright, it's more than 6 o'clock in the morning, it's time to go back. Otherwise, those people will wake up soon, and that would be bad.

  So I said to her: "Let's go back first, we're all wet, go back and change our clothes, don't worry, I won't tell anyone else about what happened today."

  She herself has no main idea now, after listening to me, she forced a smile and said: "Thank you for saving me, I know you, your name is Cui..."

  Nonsense! I was scolded by Liu Mingming in front of everyone for three consecutive nights, so you must know me. I forced a very sunny smile and said to her: "You're wrong."

  She was stunned, "Cui is useless?"

  I was stunned. "Not Cui Zuo Fei, brother, I'm called Cui Zuo Fei."

  She finally smiled, this is the way it should be, girls shouldn't always cry, smiling looks better. I don't know why, but my mood also improved with her, in a way, you could say this is a heroic rescue of a beauty, even if it's not a heroic rescue, it should count as a romantic encounter.

  I stood up and said to her: "Nothing's wrong, go back quickly, it's getting late."

  She stood up, and the half-sleeve that was covering her belly fell down. She suddenly blushed, unexpectedly she's still quite conservative, showing a little belly and blushing, it's really rare in our school.

  I know those girls in our school, usually drink and get hot in the dormitory, all bare shoulders. Of course, this is also what we heard from others. Seeing her so embarrassed, I said to her, "Let me put my half-sleeved shirt on you first. Let's go."

  She nodded shyly and picked up my limited edition Adidas sneakers, then walked beside me with her hands covering her stomach.

  On the way back, we had a few words of conversation. She was still visibly upset. I found out her name was Zhang Yaxin and she's in the first year interior design class.

  She asked me: "What's wrong with your face?"

  What should I say? That she slapped me? Alas, I bitterly replied to her: "This morning I saw you lying in the shallow water by the lake from afar, so I ran towards the lake and accidentally tripped on a rock."

  She fell silent again. At this time, we returned to the hotel. I sent her to the door of her room and turned back to my room, only hearing her say behind me: "Cui Ge, thank you for saving me."

  We turned back, but I had a very happy expression. Back to the house where I lived, Wang Cheng and Xiao Kai were still asleep, alas, you guys are so tired that Laozi almost broke his face.

  I stroked my swollen face, which had grown old. Never mind, I can still sleep for two hours. Once today is over, nothing will be left. As I comforted myself, I fell onto the bed.

  As usual, around eight o'clock, Wang Cheng and Xiao Kai pulled me up. When I struggled to get dressed and put on my shoes, I found that they were looking at me with a very strange gaze. I cursed: "What are you looking at? Haven't seen such a handsome guy before?"

  Xiao Kai covered his mouth and laughed: "Damn, Fei Ge, how did you sleep with a swollen face? Did you get slapped in the ear by yourself in your dream?"

  I was speechless and said to them: "I didn't sleep well, I rolled out of bed with my head down last night, didn't you two hear it?"

  Looking at them laughing heartily, I couldn't help but laugh along with them, it was a smile that came from the bottom of my heart.

  Although it is still very good.