214: There Is a Long Way to Go

Chapter 214: There Is a Long Way to Go

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Yan Zheke stared straight ahead and even dared not to turn to look at Lou Cheng. She casually picked up a jewelry store and rushed into it. While pretending to watch the jewelry carefully, her heart was beating rapidly.

My purpose must be kept from him, or I'll be so embarrassed!

Thanks to my wisdom that I didn't let him hold my hand before I offered this proposal, or my little secret would be exposed if he used his listening skill!

But how do I give him a hint later?

Lou Cheng followed the sights of Yan Zheke and also looked at the rings in the crystal counter. His heart was also beating heavily, but it was out of the fear for the price.

Here were diamond rings priced from hundreds of thousand yuan to 17 or 18 thousand yuan, and then 15 or 16 thousand yuan. And the cheapest ring even would cost at least 10 thousand yuan.

Compared with the price of the rings, my private money is so miserable and shabby... Most of Lou Cheng's complacency about having earned more than 13 thousand yuan within half a year had disappeared. He felt eager and desperate to a great extent rather than feel self-abased.

I will take advantage of my young age when I can still struggle for success, I must make a rise in life!

However, according to what my master has said, Dan stage is considered as a real entry of martial arts in the field of fighters!

Yan Zheke simply had no idea about what she was looking at that time and she recovered her mind after dozens of seconds.

She glanced at the jewelry and moved a few steps with an easy grace. Then she came to the counter for the platinum ring and started to select the ring carefully.

After seeing the price in this counter, Lou Cheng felt like coming back to the real world again. Following the girl's sight, he pointed at a classic ring of simple style and asked, "Do you want to try this one?"

Uh? Why so active? Yan Zheke startled for a while and pretended to be very casual,

"Okay!"

Because both Lou Cheng and Ke had an excellent temperament, the clerk showed them a polite smile while putting on gloves. "Lady, which size of ring do you wear?"

"I haven't bought any ring before, please help me measure it." Yan Zheke answered leisurely and gracefully, for there was nothing to be ashamed of as she hadn't bought any ring before.

Which little child would buy a ring for nothing?

"Okay." The clerk turned around to look for the measuring tools.

For Lou Cheng, this was a critical moment. He stared at them with bright eyes and listened to them very carefully.

Yan Zheke looked at him and she felt that Cheng was a little strange at that time

"The middle finger is the size of 11, so this ring will fit you well." The clerk said as she was looking at the measuring data of the left hand of Yan Zheke.

"And what about the size of her fourth finger?" Lou Cheng could not help but interrupt her.

Yan Zheke experienced an epiphany and was vaguely aware of her boyfriend's desire. After she thought about it, she suddenly combined the arrival of the prize money and the sudden shopping invitation with the proposal for trying the ring, she came to an obvious conclusion.

Does Cheng want to give me a ring?

Her corners of mouth were pulled up, then, she even couldn't cover the smile. Her black eyes were filled with the shining brightness.

For bodies no fluttering side by side of splendid phoenix wings, for hearts the one minute thread from root to tip of the magic horn... She thought of this sentence suddenly in her mind and she felt very warm and sweet.

"The size of the fourth finger is 9." The clerk completed the measurement and took out of the ring which Lou Cheng has referred before. She helped Yan Zheke wear it on her middle finger and complimented a smile, "It fits so well and looks very beautiful."

"Let's look for another one." Yan Zheke offered this suggestion before Lou Cheng made some excuses.

She took off the ring and deliberately looked at the phone to bear the smile, then asked him seriously, "Cheng, I have something to ask you."

"What kind of thing?" Lou Cheng was pulled out of the jewelry store by the girl. And they stopped in the corner of this store, Lou Cheng was very confused.

Yan Zheke bit her lips slightly and said with a faint smile,

"You want to buy me a ring, don't you?"

"Ah?" Lou Cheng was so surprised by her words.

Did I show my purpose too obviously? What about the surprise!

His girl said with a serious face, "Do not lie to me!"

Lou Cheng blushed, so he had to say frankly, "Yes, I want to. I have thought that if I got the prize money, I would give you a ring for we had dated for almost a hundred days. And when children were a hundred days old, they will celebrate this day for seeking the longevity. Our relationship is also like, like a newborn child, so when it turns to be a hundred days old, it also needs a good sign for longevity and for that we can grow old together.

This was what he prepared to say when he was ready to give her a ring, and in his imagination, once the surprise was created and the atmosphere was appropriate enough, these words would be quite touching and quite sincere. But now with nothing he prepared was done, he suddenly had to say these words made he feel very awkward no matter how he put it.

And his feeling was right. Under the wrong atmosphere, the more Yan Zheke listened to his word, the funnier she felt. What's the connection between these two things? What a strange metaphor Cheng has used!

His words had her laughing. She laughed so happily with one hand clutching her mouth and the other pressing on her stomach.

Haha, I can remember, remember this proposal of Cheng for a lifetime and I will laugh at it forever!

Did he say that the relationship in the beginning just like a newborn child which also needed to celebrate its one-hundred day? LOL, so should we also hold a party for turning 100-day-old?

Lou Cheng took a breath and looked at his girlfriend who was easy to laugh with a doting face.

It also could be considered as a success that I could make her laugh...

Yan Zheke laughed for a while, then she gradually stopped to recall what Lou Cheng has said just now. She didn't know why, but she felt that she was touched by him now.

Her cheeks just became pink and blush because of the laughter and she stared at Lou Cheng with her bright and blazing eyes. She grunted,

"Since you are so sincere to give me the ring, I just reluctantly accept it~ But all the rings are in pairs, if only I have a ring while you don't have, how can we be called a couple?"

As she was saying this, she could not help but look to the other side and dare not to look at Lou Cheng's eyes.

Lou Cheng instantly forgot the previous embarrassment. He nodded heavily and said, "Well, I will a pair of couple rings and one for you, the other one for me."

"No, it will have good meaning only if I buy you a ring!" Yan Zheke induced him step by step and finally set a good stage for stating this sentence.

Well, I tackle this complicated problem in a very easy manner and don't refer to anything about money!

"Yes, you are right." Lou Cheng pulled the girl gladly, "So let's go to select the couple rings."

When he was speaking of this, he suddenly felt that the development of this thing seemed to be arranged before.

Who just now offered to watch the jewelry?

I maybe have been struck in the tricked set again...

He bore the inexplicable smile and warmth in his heart and asked tentatively, "Ke, have you already planned to take me to select the ring today?"

"What are you saying now? I do not understand!" Yan Zheke's beautiful face blushed at once and she answered "without any doubt" as she was looking to the other side.

She at first intended to answer "no" directly, but she didn't want to lie to Lou Cheng.

How does Cheng suddenly become so smart?

Lou Cheng stopped asking her because he has already felt so happy just like a weasel who had stolen a chick. He pulled Yan Zheke back to the jewelry store with a big smile, while this time that they began to see the platinum ring for couples.

They have selected for a while, then Coach Yan decided to buy a pair of rings with the simple and classic style. There were only two spiral lines around the ring which at last intersected in the forefront of the ring that then bring out the polished water droplets. Because the size is different and had no fancy diamond, the female ring was cheaper only charged for one thousand and a hundred yuan.

Lou Cheng paid the bill with his credit card. Then he carried lots of shopping bags and looked around to find a quiet place where he could wear the ring for Yan Zheke. As to which finger he should put ring on, he had already checked, it should be the left middle finger!

Yan Zheke looked at him who was trying to look for the place, then she pretended to say inadvertently,

"There is a cafe on the fourth floor... "

"Is there?" Lou Cheng asked subconsciously, and he showed no doubt. Then he sighed, "You observed so carefully... "

At that time, I was supposed to enjoy the happiness of shopping with her and I experienced both pain and happiness.

Yan Zheke raised her head with a proud face,

"Of course, I'm a famous detective!"

... …

On the fourth floor, they found seats around the corner in the Yuan Mu cafe.

This time, Lou Cheng sat on the seat in front of Yan Zheke deliberately, then he opened the box of the female ring and solemnly picked up her left hand.

Yan Zheke lightly bit her lips with crimson face and her sweet dimple. Even though she was afraid to look at Lou Cheng, she still watched his action firmly which he put the ring on her middle finger with his serious and solemn face.

Suddenly, she felt the surrounding atmosphere also has become very solemn and serious. It wasn't the game which was like playing house between young couples.

As Lou Cheng was pushing down the ring slowly, he said half-jokingly and half-heartedly,

"As long as you put on this ring, you'll be my wife."

The moment he said the word "wife," he felt something heavy and he felt it would be the most sacred responsibility in his whole lifetime.

This time I give her a normal ring, but then I will give her better rings for engagement, for marriage, or for the anniversary...

Yan Zheke chuckled and wanted to curse him that it was a nice try. However, she just opened her mouth and did not say anything. She just watched Lou Cheng completing this ceremony with her charming eyes.

Then, she also opened the box of male ring, picked up the ring and held Lou Cheng's left hand. When she was wearing the ring on his middle finger, she was a little trembling. Then she looked at the shining rings on their fingers, she said gladly and shyly,

"As long as you put on this ring, you are my Cheng... "

At first, her first voice was so thin and low just like the hum of mosquitoes, then as she said, she put the words more smoothly, more confidently and more firmly.

Heard of this sentence, Lou Cheng felt that all his heart was filled with excitement and satisfaction and he would like to hold his beloved girl into his arms to share his feelings and his passion with her. But the cafe wasn't private enough and often had guests going around, he could only control his emotions and sat next to Yan Zheke so that she could lean on his chest as he was touching her slippery and black hair.

Yan Zheke leaned on him quietly and listened to his passionate heartbeat. Also, she could feel the apparent love of him and she enjoyed his silent tenderness.

After quite a while, she suddenly laughed and said just like thinking out loud,

"I thought of a word ~"

"Which word?" Lou Cheng asked her with a smile on his corner of the mouth. His voice was very soft because he didn't want to break the peaceful joy.

Yan Zheke reached out her hand to hold his arm and chuckled, "You can guess ~"

Lou Cheng thought it over and also considered his own feelings, then he said indefinitely,

"Is it marriage?"

"Yes... " Yan Zheke agreed with him with her crimson cheek and she felt there was a kind of tacit understanding between them.

Lou Cheng looked at her shy look and he could not help but begin to flirt with her,

"Ke, since we have exchanged the ring, is it the time for you to call me differently?"

"So what should I call you?" Yan Zheke looked very innocent and confused.

"Something was called like husband and wife." Lou Cheng was thick-skinned and he said with a laugh.

Yan Zheke suddenly felt shy and angry, so she hit his chest with her hand slightly and said,

"That is a nice try!"

...

After enjoying the time in the coffee shop in which they talked aimlessly but closely and after they ate the local dishes which Cai Zongming recommended, they walked through the old campus holding hands and got on the last school bus which drove back to the new campus where hasn't turn dark yet.

When she was walking down the bus, Yan Zheke suddenly took a slight breath.

"What happened?" Lou Cheng had a sensitive sensory and he always put attention on his girlfriend, so there was no way for him not to notice her abnormal behavior.

Yan Zheke pursed her mouth and turned around as she said a little embarrassingly,

"My legs are a little tired... "

After practicing martial arts for the whole morning and going shopping for the whole afternoon, no wonder her legs were tired...

Lou Cheng immediately said, "How about we find a place to sit down so I massage your legs?"

He was not tired, and even all his fatigue spirit had disappeared because of the exchange of ring, he was completely excited about this.

Yan Zheke glanced at him with a supercilious look and felt a little annoyed but funny, "I wear a skirt today, fool!"

No matter what posture she used when he massaged her legs and feet, she was easy to expose and she would be especially embarrassed!

Lou Cheng patted his head, and thought to himself that he wasn't delicate enough in mind. So he then suggested, "So, let's look for a bench to sit and rest for a while."

Because it was the last school bus, as the bus went away, it became quite nearby. And there were still fewer people coming and going.

Yan Zheke nodded, followed Lou Cheng to find a bench. Then she had a tacit understanding with him, so she took out a paper from the bag and gave it to her boyfriend to wipe the surface of the bench.

After sitting down, she bent down and rubbed her calf with her flash eyes. She said with a curious and shy smile,

"Cheng, I have thought that you would suggest taking a walk along the lake... "

Cheng was so excited and happy when we exchanged the rings this afternoon, I felt that he was suppressing his passion and he wanted to release it and make out with me.

It's unbelievable that he holds back...

Since they had communicated about it on 1st May, Lou Cheng didn't kiss her so violently while they were taking a walk. But the environment and atmosphere along the lake were so good and they are still in the hot time. Sometimes they even would do something hot and passionate. So on such a special day for they had changed their rings, Yan Zheke thought the suggestion for taking a walk along the lake meant the request for making out.

Lou Cheng put his hand around the girl's shoulder and let her lean towards him. Then he turned around and looked into her eyes. And he smiled and said, "If I suggested going to the lake now, I would feel that the exchange of rings was an excuse to induce you to make out with me or to do something closer. But, in fact, this thing is very important and solemn for me. It is my promise and my expectation instead of an excuse for inducing you to make out with me."

"I want to prove that you are the most important in my heart. Only because I like you that I want to make out with you and I am so excited and desperate for it. It isn't because that I am thirsty. I want to prove that I will keep my promise and I can bear it."

Although this was an impulsive blur, but also this was the burst of what he had thought for so many days.

Yan Zheke black beautiful eyes seemed to have a layer of mist, then she bit her pink lips with her beautiful teeth which were as smooth as shell. And she denounced him cutely,

"You are getting more and more nauseating!"

Even you can say the lovey words which are close to the dialogues appeared in the TV series!

Why I even like it a little... I like it not just a little...

Lou Cheng could understand the real meaning of her words and he chuckled,

"Anyway, I do not want to add any desire on this particular day for us."

Of course, I had a passion and impulsion this afternoon, but I held back myself at last.

Speaking of this, he added with a smile, "In fact, I also like the way that we are getting along with now."

"I also like it... " Yan Zheke leaned his face on Lou Cheng's shoulder and then she smiled beautifully and quietly.

After a brief snuggle without any talking, she whispered just like she was playing tricks on him and also like she was still wondering her own emotions,

"What if, what if I invite you to go to the lake for a walk tomorrow night?"

Pound. Lou Cheng's heart suddenly began to beat heavily, and he also heard of the rapid heartbeat of his girlfriend from their clenching hands.

He suddenly felt nervous and he felt very expected. "I would totally love to!"

Yan Zheke slightly opened her mouth and took a quick breath. Then she tried to recover her emotion to stop being too shy and murmured with a smile,

"I just said if ~ if!"

I just want to make fun of Cheng, why I feel I am getting into troubles inexplicably after I said that...

But the reaction of Cheng is really funny ~!

Lou Cheng laughed and shook his head. He lightly rubbed his girlfriend's hair and deliberately said with a ferocious face, "Be careful because the beast in me may come out."

"I believe you ~" Yan Zheke sit straightly and smiled sweetly with her pure and innocent eyes.

Then she jumped up and walked with her hands clasped behind her back, "Let 's go back to the dorm now!"

Today is a happy day!

... ...

Outside the third dormitory building, Lou Cheng pulled the hands of the girl and he felt he was so reluctant to let her go.

"See you tomorrow ~" Yan Zheke resist the urge to spend time with him, then she said with her bright eyes.

Lou Cheng looked at the ring on her left hand, and then looked at his own ring. Watching them in pairs, he suddenly felt a burst of impulse, so he pulled the girl back and held him into arms tightly.

This is my wife...

"What happened?" Yan Zheke felt his excitement, so she blinked her eyes and asked confusingly.

Lou Cheng said with a half-joking and half-hearted tone, "I just find that the rings on our hands are in pairs, so I suddenly want to call you my wife... "

When he was saying these words, he suddenly became a little shy, "But I still think that I am unqualified enough to call you like this, I don't have enough ability to make you have a better life. So I hold myself back."

"You are so nauseating!" Yan Zheke gently patted him.

After she tried to calm down for tens of seconds, she thought of something and endured the smile. She separated herself from the embrace of Lou Cheng and said like a water lotus which looked delicate, "So, how about, I call you a sweet name?"

"Really?" Lou Cheng felt so surprised.

Does what I said just now touch Ke particularly? So touched that she could even have the courage call me husband?

"Really!" Yan Zheke said it with a very "serious" face.

"Good! Okay!" Lou Cheng nodded heavily, and he answered without pause for fear that she would regret.

Yan Zheke took two steps towards the dormitory, then she turned around and looked at Lou Cheng shyly. She opened her mouth slightly and called him in a low voice,

"Wife~!"

Ha ha ha... After she called him like this, she ran into the dormitory with her light steps, with her beautiful long hair flying in the air and with her happy laughter. She just left Lou Cheng alone who looked dumb and she even laughed into tears.

Today is a happy day!

Wife... I was played by her again... Lou Cheng wanted to behave like he was annoyed, but still, he couldn't cover the smile on the corner of his mouth.

While he has gone back to the dorm with many shopping bags, he looked through the bills. Then he found that besides the ring, Yan Zheke also bought him clothes, pants, and shoes which amounted to seven or eight thousand Yuan. Although she didn't buy too many things, the prize of each cloth was relatively high.

And looked at the attitude of Ke, she still thought that these clothes and pants are not good enough ... Lou Cheng wasn't a fool, so he could easily find that Yan Zheke wasn't sensitive to money at all.

In other words, she has never worried about money.

And just thinking about the grace of her mother, thinking about the martial arts of her grandparent's, I could obviously understand her attitude.

After putting down the bags, Lou Cheng replied the message from Yan Zheke and he gently relieved a breath.

If I want to marry this girl and give her have a better life, I have to work harder!

If it happened before, he would certainly feel self-abased, but now he has experienced so many things again and again, he felt that he had the confidence to fight and to struggle for success. As long as Ke and he were always in love, everything else will be okay.

Although I'm not a rich kid, I will become rich by myself!

... ...

The next morning, along the lake, Lou Cheng who was filled with struggling spirit at first calmed down and began to do the daily tempering. Until he finished most of the homework that he began to consider how to rely on Jindan to complete the combination of two ways of visualization.

He practiced the concealment of spirit and got rid of other thoughts. Then he gradually got his spirit down to approach to the Jindan in the lower abdomen. And before this, he has already been thinking about how the ice and fire were unified.

He was an outstanding student who had experienced the physical course in junior school and high school. And he also had two compulsory courses about university physics, so he had already cultivated the thinking pattern at this aspect of and he was used to analyzing the natural things by this model. If it was spoken in a similar way or in a bit unclear way, ice was only different from fire in the surface, in fact, they belonged to one of the material state. They are the same material with various forms in the different temperature, different pressure, and different environment!

If you think it extremely, "ice" can be replaced by the "frozen state" in the ultralow temperature, while "fire" can be called as the "plasma state" in the ultrahigh temperature. The same material with different minute structure and the same thing with different aspect, they are opposite but unified.

Lou Cheng didn't study these two aspects of knowledge deeply, he could barely catch this point and immersed his spirit in it slowly which helped him enlarge the inner image of Jindan in the "range of visibility."

Blaze was considered as the sun, as the fixed star which emitted light and heat in the extreme cold and dark universe and which also brought out the color of life for the eternal loneliness.

There were abnormally cold and "ruthless" ice crystals around them that looked like planets and moons. But if you watched them from the outside world, they reflected the light and were shining like the stars in the sky, which also was the fixed star.

Lou Cheng thought it went against his understanding and against the astronomical phenomena he observed. So he dared to make a change that he regarded ice crystals as stars or planets, but as a symbol of the dark universe in a low temperature. And what they reflected was the vast sky instead of specific stars!

Because his cognitions have changed, what he saw also began to shake. The sky and the nebula in the Jindan suddenly magnified to the extreme.

In the infinite and cold dark sky, the dust material accumulated gradually and attracted each other. So they ultimately reached the limit of gravity, and the sky collapsed violently and changed dramatically. It also burned the fire and gave birth to a fixed star...

Lou Cheng at first cognized the "ice" and "fire" in microscopic structure as a diametrical unity, but now they are at the aspect of astronomy.

Minimum and maximum are against each other but also unified together.

And this was slightly different from the essence in the image of Longhu Immortal!

The picture flashed in his mind, so Lou Cheng's spirit flew up which forced himself to withdraw from his mind and stopped visualizing.

He always had a feeling that Longhu Immortal made some mistakes when he was dealing with the star image of Jindan. Longhu Immortal regarded blaze as Great Sun and ice crystal as stars, so his success had some factors about luck.

At that moment, he suddenly understood why Peng Leyun chose to take college entrance examination and attend the university, also why, in particular, he chose the department of physics in Shancheng University!

In ancient times, the fighters neither had tools nor did they have relatively realistic theory, so what they could do was to percept the nature by their own feelings and accumulated them, then passed to the next generation. While nowadays, our society had much clearer understanding to the material and to the universe. If we don't use them in martial arts, then it would be such a big pity!

Geezer Shi stood next to him relaxingly and found that his disciple was in a daze instead of practicing the Severe Warning, so he asked by the way, "What are you doing?"

Lou Cheng has been embarrassed to talk about his own ideas before because he was afraid of being despised by his master. However, since now he was asked, so he honestly confessed, "Master, I'm thinking that since Longhu Immortal could balance and unite the ice and the fire, why couldn't I combine the Thunder Roar Zen with the Frost Force."

Geezer Shi first stunned for a moment, then he laughed himself into fits,

"Okay, good. You have more ideas than me in your age. Just try it. Having a try won't make anything wrong."

Only if you tried, that you could know what is whimsical, what is the right direction, what is the lack of training, what is the difficulty or what is the ideas that can be implemented really.

Lou Cheng turned blushed and felt slightly embarrassed. But at the same time he received "encourage" from his master, so he began to calm down and to think about what was in common between "Thunder Cloud" and "Ice-bound."