CH 1

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This must be the most embarrassing moment in Ning You’s life.

When he saw someone riding a horse from afar, he hastily waved up his hands and swooped down from the hillside without regard to his image. He wanted to stop in front of the horse in time, but he unexpectedly tripped over a tree branch under his feet and fell flat on his face. 

The galloping dark horse was frightened, its two front hooves were raised high and it let out a high-pitched neigh.

Seeing the horse’s hooves was about to step on Ning You, the man on the horse’s back firmly tugged on the reins and turned the direction of the horse’s head, which prevented Ning You from becoming a newly deceased soul under the horse’s hooves.

— Within these few hours of being lost in the birch forest, Ning You had imagined countless ways to die, but he never thought of being trampled to death by a horse.

In any case, he was finally saved. 

Ning You breathed a long sigh of relief while smelling the fragrance of the soil.

His legs were already exhausted, with this heavy fall, Ning You lost his fighting spirit to survive. He lay down on the ground with a sore body and didn’t want to get up.

But his innate mysophobia wouldn’t allow him to lie on the ground and slowly propped himself up. He was about to ask the kindhearted man on the horse’s back to lead him out of this labyrinth-like birch forest when he heard a cold rebuke ring out over his head: “Are you looking for death?”

Ning You stopped getting up, he lifted his chin subconsciously and met the man’s line of sight.

It gets dark very late in Xinjiang, with the sun only vaguely setting at 7 to 8 pm. But in this dense birch forest, the golden leaves blocked most of the light, making it impossible for Ning You to clearly see the man’s appearance. He could only feel the pair of dark eyes looking at him with an extremely unfriendly gaze.

“Sorry, I didn’t mean to do that.” Ning You withdrew his gaze, stood up and patted the leaves on his body.

The horse owner’s unfriendliness is understandable, because if it were Ning You who were driving normally through an intersection. But suddenly someone ran while it was a red light, forcing him to have an emergency brake. He would have the same thought – is this person rushing to reincarnate?

The only difference is that a good upbringing won’t let Ning You express his thoughts; at best, he will just give the reckless person an unkind look and let that person understand it by himself. 

“Do you know how dangerous it was just now?” The man tugged hard on the reins to appease the dark horse that was stumbling in place, perhaps because Ning You had a better attitude in admitting his mistake, and he did accidentally tripped over a tree branch, his voice somehow a little warm.

“I’m sorry, my legs are a little out of control.” Ning You apologized once more, and his expression returned to his previous calmness, as if the fall flat on his face just now had never happened, “I’m lost, can you take me out?”

The man finally calmed down the dark horse and leapt down from its back. He frowned slightly, sized up Ning You twice and asked, “How did you get lost?”

The sudden closeness of the distance allowed Ning You to see the man’s appearance clearly. Flamboyant eyebrows and profound eyes are not a rare combination, but when it comes to this man, there is always an inexplicable unruliness. 

This unruliness may come from that unkempt beard – one of Ning You’s least favorite male traits.

“That’s a long story……”

If Ning You were allowed to come again, he certainly wouldn’t unconsciously show an unhappy look due to the excessive number of tourists in the scenic spot.

In this way, Li Chao will not perceive his dissatisfaction and let the local guides take them to a place where there are no tourists. 

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Regardless of the location of the scenic spot, the landscape of the border can make Ning You, who grew up in the city, feel relaxed and happy.

To the extent that his impression of Li Chao has increased a lot. 

Ning You and Li Chao only met twice, the first time is a blind date, the second time is now.

The elders of the two have confirmed the content of the business marriage not long ago. If nothing happens, they will get married after they travel back from northern Xinjiang.

Originally Ning You did not want to get married, he didn’t even want to fall in love.

In the early years, Ning You also had an object of desire, but whenever the distance between the two pulled in, he would always become more and more critical, even if the other party’s surfing posture was not elegant enough, it would become a demerit in his mind. 

Over time, Ning You gradually lost interest in emotional matters, and focused his entire mind on his research project.

For this reason, he had just turned 29 when his parents gave him a deadly order to find a husband with ability before he turned 30 to help manage the huge family business of the Ning family.

Li Chao is considered the perfect fiancé candidate in Ning You’s mind. He still remembers the first thing he said to Ning You: “Hello, my name is Li Chao (zhao), Chao of the rising sun.” At that time, Ning You felt that this must be a very motivated person.

During the road trip, Li Chao was considerate enough to Ning You. Even if Ning You wanted to go to the bathroom, he asked if he needed to be accompanied. 

If you let Ning You start all over again, he will not think he is making a fuss over a minor issue and say that “no need” to Li Chao.

“At that time, my friend and I were walking on a long narrow piece of wood plank road. I went to a nearby bathroom, and then… when I returned, I should have gone in the wrong direction.”

Ning You omitted the premise and chose to make a long story short, he believed the horse owner would not be curious about the reason why he came to travel in northern Xinjiang.

“The long narrow piece of wood plank road you mentioned is on the other side of the mountain.” The horse went completely silent and the man raised his chin in the direction of the setting sun, “Can you contact your companion?” 

Ning You shook his head: “My phone is out of battery.” Besides, in the middle of nowhere, even if his phone has power. There is no signal, otherwise he would have contacted Li Chao.

The man looked at the direction in which Ning You came, and then looked at the direction he was going. As if he was deliberating, he finally said to Ning You: “It’s almost dark, I can only take you to my place first.”

A heart hanging in the air finally fell, no matter where to go, just don’t leave Ning You alone in the woods.

Although the first impression of this border man was fierce. But just like Ning You’s understanding of the simple traditional customs here, these local people were really helpful and didn’t abandon him. 

“Thank you.” Ning You said politely, “May I ask what your name is?”

After Ning You returns to Jin City, he must send someone to send a silk banner to thank this benefactor, and then donate a few million to the local government in the name of the benefactor for the construction of basic communication facilities.

The man naturally did not know Ning You’s plan and answered rather casually, “Li Mu.”

Ning You was surprised that the stereoscopic facial features were actually not from ethnic groups. For a moment, he forgot to ask the man which “mu” was the word “mu”. 

At this moment, Li Mu patted the saddle beside him and said to Ning You: “Get on the horse.”

“Wait, wait a minute.” Ning You, who had a great difficulty in regaining his composure, panicked again, “Do I have to ride a horse?”

Ning You learned equestrianism when he was a child. He still remembers up until now, only that pony was not friendly to him at all. Not only it didn’t listen to him, but it also threw him off on its horse’s back.

After growing up, Ning You is indifferent to cats, dogs, and other small animals, which is largely due to the shadow of learning equestrianism when he was a child. 

“Otherwise?” Li Mu did not give Ning You any other choice, he straightened the saddle, fixed the stirrup with his hand, and motioned to Ning You, “Step here.”

Ning You still has some hesitation: “But I can’t ride a horse……”

“Didn’t let you ride.” Li Mu said, “I’m behind you.”

It’s getting late and it’s not wise behavior to continue to waste time. Ning You also wanted to leave here early, so he gritted his teeth, supported the saddle with both hands, and stepped on the stirrup with his right foot…… 

However, he didn’t know what to do next.

The dark horse in front of him was tall, fit and muscular. Ning You believed that it could certainly carry himself, but he always had a feeling that as long as he just had to exert his right foot, the saddle would slip off the horse’s back, or maybe mounting on the dark horse would cause him to fall to the right side.

This is an illusion that people who are not used to riding horses often have. Currently, Ning You knows he only needs his right leg to stomp hard, and then extend the left leg to flip up. But he jumped up twice, and finally looked helplessly at Li Mu. He said: “I can’t go up.”

Li Mu frowned, obviously losing a lot of patience: “Stomp hard upwards, did you stomp hard?” 

“I’m stomping it hard ah.”

Ning You symbolically jumped up a little to prove that he really couldn’t go up. But before he could land on his left foot. All of a sudden, Li Mu who is next to him slapped his ass with a “pa”, forcibly lifted him up.

The dark horse beneath him should be unaccustomed to other people riding on it and took a few steps in annoyance. Ning You didn’t have the extra thought to be afraid. His eyes widened in shock, looked at Li Mu and asked, “Did you just spank me?”

Even Ning You’s parents had never spanked him, so how could this strange man be so casual? 

Li Mu did not pay attention to Ning You, but he quickly mounted onto his horse, tugging on the reins to urge the dark horse to gallop forward.

The tree trunks on both sides began to retreat rapidly, Ning You was so scared that he grabbed the saddle hard, his heart was about to be shaken out.

“You slow down, it hurts ah!”

The roots between his legs hit the saddle heavily, and he couldn’t find the right rhythm no matter what. Every time Ning You fell from the air, it was the time for the dark horse to leap upward. If Ning You’s former equestrianism teacher had seen how he was riding now, he would have silently looked away and pretend not to know this person. 

“Slow down for me!” The dark horse was running faster and faster, Ning You couldn’t help but raise the volume of his voice, “I won’t press the waves!”

Pressing the waves is one of the basic skills of equestrianism. When the horse is moving at a fast pace, the rider needs to follow the rhythm of the horse and ride with his hips closely to the saddle.

If the pressure wave is not done properly, it will be like the current Ning You, the ass bouncing high on the horse’s back causing the root between his leg to be painful from the saddle.

Li Mu somehow lowered the speed of the dark horse. He freed up his right hand and patted Ning You’s ass, reminding him, “Relax your ass, don’t clip the horse’s belly.” 

In order to make himself feel better, Ning You just had to obey and do as he was told.

The hand on the side of his ass soon came to the side of his waist, only to hear Li Mu say again, “Straighten your back.”

Ning You leaned back, his back almost touching Li Mu’s chest.

This is a very strange position, because Ning You doesn’t even know the man behind him. At least in his perception, leaning his back against his chest is not a normal social distance. 

In the next second, Ning You’s right shoulder was pitched again, and a voice came from behind his ear, “Relax your shoulder.”

Ning You also knows that the key to pressure waves is to relax the body, but theory is theory and practice is practice. No one has ever learned to pressure waves with a horse running, let alone two people crammed into a saddle, making Ning You feel uncomfortable.

A few seconds later, Ning You resumed his previous position and couldn’t help but cry out in pain.

Li Mu completely lost his patience because of the noise and asked in an unpleasant tone, “Will you shut up?” 

After saying that, he unreasonable quickened the pace of the dark horse again.

Ning You clenched his teeth and forced himself not to shout, as he realized with hindsight that such behavior was not elegant at all. But quiet is quiet, the resentment in his heart is not less —

The people in this border area are really savage ah.

Don’t want to send him a silk banner anymore. 

The author has something to say:

The border is set in the Xinjiang Kanas Lake National Geological Park, and the term Hanas is used because there are many overhead places.

Written at the beginning: the persona of shou is delicate, if you don’t eat this persona, don’t force yourself.