Ping'an

As night fell, Guo Baiyu and Zhao Renshu were sitting next to. Each leaned on each side of her. There was a light shining at them in the distance. Xiao Hui and Xiao Dan walked to them, and the two Xiao sisters sat beside them. Each sister took out two small pot of rice wine.

Xiao Hui smiled in a sexy voice, "Drink something." She handed a pot of wine to Zhao Renshu. "You two have not eaten or drank."

Xiao Dan smiled and said, "Everyone is very worried about you two. Father said, we will leave for Fox Mountain early tomorrow morning." She handed Guo Baiyu a pot of wine. "If you two are going to stay here overnight, the wine will warm your body."

The two took two small pots of wine.

Guo Baiyu smiled and said, "Thank you, we are all right."

Xiao Hui said worriedly, "I know you are fine, but are you in good spirits?"

Guo Baiyu smiled, "We just need time to adapt."

Xiao Dan looked at Ping'an, "What will happen to Ping'an?"

Guo Baiyu said, "She will remain like this for eternity. If the Demon Gate open again, she will came back to life as Syaoran and after her work is completed, she will change back to clay sculpture like this."

Xiao Hui looked at the two men, "What about you two?"

Zhao Renshu took a sip of his wine, "We will stay here with her."

More lantern lights rushed towards the small group of friends. Fang Yaoting, Lee Dachin, Lim Peizhi, the Huang sisters, Guo Longtong, Boss Xiong, and Xiong Lifeng approached the three seated friends. They came, forming a big circle. One by one, Xiong Lifeng's prepared dishes were brought out. Everyone ate quietly without talking.

Guo Longtong spoke first, "You two don't remember how to hold the chopsticks?" He laughed. "I remembered the first time I saw Ping'an picking up two pairs of chopsticks. Ha...ha...ha... one in each hand. Then she picked up a piece of meat and put it in their bowl, and then handed them the chopsticks, I got goose bumps."

Everyone laughed out loud.

Xiaohui said in a sexy voice, "I still remembered the first time I saw her, I was chased by some wild wolves, and I ran to her. When Renshu attacked the wolf, I changed into a human form and she was scared very bad." She laughed. "Her frightened face is priceless."

Xiao Dan chuckled softly, "For me, she whipped me so hard, it is difficult for me to avoid her attack."

Everyone continues to laugh.

Huang Hongse said coldly, "When I first saw her, I didn't like her. Her love for you two defeated me."

Huang Yueliang smiled and said, "For me, she is willing to help people in need, that's what I liked about her."

Lim Peizhi, "For me, it is her sincerity. Her willingness to go the extra miles."

Fang Yaoting smiled and said, "When I saw her for the first time, I hated her the most. I hate that someone like her can dominate Baiyu's heart. To me, she is a true friend. She is a person who will not leave you behind. She will accompany you on the most dangerous road." He raised his pot of wine at Ping'an. "I toast to you."

Lee Dachin said softly, "For me, she showed me strength, courage and the will to continue living. She is the kind of person who will not let go of that rope and willing to die with me." Lee Dachin has tears in his eyes. "If that day she didn't hold onto the rope tightly, I won't be here today."

Guo Longtong turned to Guo Baiyu, "Baiyu, how about you?"

Guo Baiyu, "She's ours everything."

Zhao Renshu stared at Boss Xiong with a cold face, "What about you? What is she to you? Why are you here?"

Guo Baiyu look at Zhao Renshu, "Renshu."

Zhao Renshu said coldly, "Not this time Baiyu. What is she to you? I'm very curious about a father who doesn't recognize his daughter and doesn't let her use your surname. A father who let his daughter be an offering sacrifice. A father who raised his daughter as a servant. What was she to you, Boss Xiong?"

Boss Xiong closed his eyes, "I hated her."

Everyone stared at Boss Xiong.

Zhao Renshu shouted angrily, "If you hated her, why they hell are you doing here?"

Boss Xiong scolded Zhao Renshu, "I hated her for looking so much like her mother. I hated her for taking away my best friend. I hated her for taking away my confidence, pride, courage and first love... I hated her for being the reason that cost the death of my most beloved wife. For that reason, I hated her." He bawled. "I'm not good to her, so she will leave, and I won't have to see her face again." He stood up and knelt in front of her statue. "But no matter how bad I was to her, she never complained. She pretended not to hear all the verbal abuses, all the names calling, all the scolds, and all the hits. After all those mistreatments, she never tried to leave. She endured everything. I was wrong. Will you forgive me?"

Xiong Lifeng protested on her father's behalf, "My father never hated her. It was my mother's fault. When Ping'an worked hard all day long, and if there was no more food left at night, father will always had Old Lu cook for her, but he ordered old Lu not to tell her the truth." She went over and helped her father up. "Brother-in-law Renshu, I dare to ask. When you see that scar on Ping'an's left chest, does it always remind you of the person who put it there? I hope that both you can forgive father, just like father accepted the two of as his son-in-laws."

Zhao Renshu understood what Xiong Lifeng meant, because every time he saw the scar on Ping'an's left breast, it always reminded him of Hu Qinge. He said with a low tone, "I'm sorry Boss Xiong."

Lim Peizhi, "Boss Xiong? You need to change how you address Boss Xiong."

Boss Xiong cried, "Please forgive me?"

Guo Baiyu, "She forgave you a long time ago. She once told us that she should thank you for being strict with her, because it made her understand the value of love and friendship. Moreover, you turned her into the woman she is now."

Fang Yaoting, "It reminds me of the night we were on the roof of Peace Town ten years ago."

Lim Peizhi, "Yueliang, play us a song."

Huang Yueliang took out the guzheng and began to play the song she had played ten years ago. Right now, the moment does not equal to the past when the friends were sitting on the roof and watching the fireworks scattering in the night sky. They sat together listening to the same melody, but accompanied by the loneliness of missing Ping'an.