Push Me Away When I Come, Don't Hold Me Back When I Leave - Chapter 156

Chapter 156: Meeting in Dreams

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It seemed that Ye Han truly kept her promise, only holding her without doing anything inappropriate.

A fragrant breeze kept coming from behind Xia Ruoming, but she couldn’t move at all because Ye Han was holding her extremely tight — just as she said, like hugging a stuffed animal!

Was she a koala? Or did she think she was a tree like the ones koalas cling to!

Originally planning to quietly let her sleep alone after she fell asleep, Xia Ruoming now realized just how terribly wrong she was. That octopus-like sleeping position had a grip stronger than any hold she’d experienced in combat training. She could only maintain an unbearably uncomfortable position on the bed.

When she tried to get Ye Han to loosen her grip a bit, she found that she had already fallen asleep and wouldn’t wake up no matter how much she shook her!

Really like a koala!

Xia Ruoming endured for a long time. As the night deepened and the moon reached its zenith, she finally felt drowsy. This sleepiness was enough to let her ignore the torture Ye Han was putting her through, and she finally closed her eyes and fell into deep sleep.

In her dream, Xia Ruoming felt as if she had escaped from Ye Han’s constraints, and the weight on her body seemed to have been lifted.

She thought Ye Han must have changed positions in her sleep and thus released her, but when she opened her eyes, that wasn’t the case at all. She was clearly sleeping, so why was she fully dressed and standing in some strange place, and why did this place seem… somewhat familiar?

Wait, isn’t this An Jinrou’s shop?

“You… how can you still come back?” Seeing Xia Ruoming suddenly appear before her, An Jinrou hesitated for a moment before speaking. Xia Ruoming and she had already met once, their karmic connection fulfilled, so why could Xia Ruoming still enter this magic house?

“Our fate isn’t finished yet, so why not?” After seeing that it really was An Jinrou, Xia Ruoming quickly calmed down and said half-jokingly.

Although this situation was also very difficult for her to understand, she knew that in her previous life, she had a deep ‘karmic bond’ with An Jinrou. The price of An Jinrou’s divination was also the ‘fate’ between them. Since her story with An Jinrou was not yet over, being able to see An Jinrou again was only natural.

In her previous life, she had also learned one of An Jinrou’s sayings: Everything is destined by heaven’s will, don’t seek too many answers.

“You’re quite interesting…” Although An Jinrou said this, her gaze was incredibly sharp, as if trying to see something in Xia Ruoming.

“Come on, shop owner, don’t look at me like that. I don’t know how I got here either, I was just sleeping before this.” Xia Ruoming shook her head helplessly and said, “Why don’t you think of a way to send me back?”

“I’ll believe what you’re saying for now… Well, everything is heaven’s will, I shouldn’t seek too many answers either.” An Jinrou sighed, there were always things in this world that even she couldn’t know. “By the way, since you’re already here, that Moon card… has it reached your hands? If I had known you would come back, I wouldn’t have had her give it to you on my behalf.”

“What exactly is that card for?” Xia Ruoming asked, effectively confirming An Jinrou’s question. In her previous life, she had used The Magician card to avoid Jiang Ruhua’s search. Whether it was The Sun or The Star, she had seen An Jinrou use them in her previous life, but An Jinrou had never given the platinum Tarot cards to anyone else. Among the three celestial cards, she had never seen An Jinrou use The Moon.

“I don’t know,” An Jinrou calmly replied.

“Huh?” Xia Ruoming was completely stunned, thinking An Jinrou was joking with her. “No, shop owner, aren’t these your tarot cards? How can you not know?”

“The Moon’s power varies from person to person, and…” An Jinrou suddenly stopped explaining, sitting in contemplation for a long while, seeming to hesitate whether to tell Xia Ruoming what came next.

“Shop owner, please feel free to speak…” Xia Ruoming said.

“This Moon card originally didn’t belong to you…” After hearing Xia Ruoming’s words, An Jinrou slowly spoke, “As cards representing celestial bodies and constellations, the Sun and Moon are destined to be a pair, but for some reason, although you are the Moon, the Moon card wasn’t originally meant for you in your destiny.”

“When I first met you, I already found it strange. Your fate pattern was completely different from the divination results. At that time, I wondered about something: had my divination skills deteriorated, or had someone tampered with your destiny?”

“If it doesn’t belong to me, then why did you give it to me, shop owner?” Xia Ruoming asked with a smile. She wasn’t particularly interested in this divine power, after all, after her rebirth, she could already walk through her future life on her own. As for tampering with destiny, wasn’t that what she did herself? After all, she had been reborn, so it was only natural that her life was different from what was destined.

“‘The Moon’ returned it to you, or more accurately, the owner of the ‘Moon card’ returned it to you,” An Jinrou said. “Of course, there’s another possibility for this outcome, which is that the Moon card’s owner passed away, so the card naturally belonged to you, like inheriting a noble title.”

“Then who was the original owner of the Moon card?”

“I don’t know that either, only that the destiny link belonging to her on the Moon card has dissipated, and the Moon card has chosen you again.”

Xia Ruoming: “…”

“Well, although I don’t know who gave it to you, it seems to have brought you new good fortune,” An Jinrou said expressionlessly. “However, you’ve been here long enough, let’s meet again next time… if we are still destined to meet…”

“Wait, I still…” Before Xia Ruoming could finish speaking, she felt everything spinning.

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The next day.

When Xia Ruoming woke up, she felt pain all over her body, and everything was sore, as if she had been lifting weights all night, because she had been hugged by Ye Han all night long, and she hadn’t slept well at all!

And what was most embarrassing was that Ye Han was already awake and staring at her.

After discovering that Xia Ruoming was awake, she immediately gave her a good morning greeting.

“Sister Ruoming, did you sleep well last night?” Ye Han chuckled softly, teasing near Xia Ruoming’s ear.

Xia Ruoming gave Ye Han a side-eye. How well I slept or not, don’t you know yourself? Being hugged all night without any loosening, are you a koala?

“Hmm~ Sister Ruoming was hugged all night, aren’t you happy?” Not getting an answer from Xia Ruoming, Ye Han continued to ask near her ear.

“Happy… my foot! Next time you do this, I’m going to spank you!” Thinking of the unbearably uncomfortable position she had to sleep in last night, Xia Ruoming wanted to get up and beat this cute Ye Han, this memory was completely in the category of embarrassing history.

“Oh, so that’s how it is~ Today I learned something~” Ye Han covered her mouth and giggled.

“Hm? What did you learn?” Xia Ruoming asked confused. Had she said something strange? She didn’t think so?

“Big sister is someone who says one thing but means another. Last night you were saying in your sleep for Hanhan to hold you tighter, but this morning you’ve changed your tune. Even Sichuan Opera masters don’t change faces as fast as sister does.”

Seeing Xia Ruoming’s face suddenly full of black lines, Ye Han’s smile grew even broader.

“You appear pure on the surface, but you’re dark inside! I don’t have a sister like you!”

“Sister clearly enjoyed it! Where else would you find a sister like me if you didn’t have me!”