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Chapter 511: Holding hands!

Translator: Legge Editor: Legge

What?

That's it?

Old Wu had agreed?

Zhang Ye's spirit was a little shaken, as he did not believe what he had just heard. Even though he had already confessed with the knowledge that this was in a five times reduced difficulty environment, which would otherwise prove impossible in normal circumstances, he still did not harbor much hope that he would succeed here. After all, in terms of their characters, age, or work, they were basically from two different worlds. To be in a relationship together? It was probably because there was nothing much in common between them that Zhang Ye had blurted out that Verse of the Stone Bridge.

This verse stemmed from a story.

Or rather, a story from Zhang Ye's original world.

Anan—one of the ten principal disciples of the Buddha. His full name was Ananda. The name had the meaning "to like, to celebrate, and being untainted." He was Buddha's younger cousin and became a principal disciple of Buddha after being a monk for more than 20 years. He had a good memory and could remember many of Buddha's teachings and was named the Prime in conduct to Buddha. Ananda was blessed with naturally good looks: a face that glowed like the moon, eyes like the lotus flowers, and a body as clean as a bright mirror. Even after entering monkhood, he could not resist the temptation of women.

One day.

Ananda told Buddha, "I fell for a girl."

Buddha asked Ananda, "How much do you like this girl?"

Ananda replied, "I would be willing to reincarnate into a bridge of stone, taking 500 years of the cold wind, 500 years of the blazing sun, and 500 years in the beating rain, only with the wish that she would walk once over the bridge."

How much did he like her?

But exchanging a lifetime for love at first sight?

Willing to wait, but not asking for any returns?

Understanding all of this and yet he was still willing to endure all that suffering just for a moment of meeting.

Ananda, just how much do you like that girl to give up everything and choose the path of torturous love?

This was the full text of the origin story. In his previous world, there was a very well known movie which had also used these lines. When Zhang Ye heard Wu Zeqing ask how much he liked her, he reflexively answered with this Zen verse. What mattered was that he had also felt this way in his heart as well. He had really liked this gentle and beautiful lady and thus rushed to confess to her. He really had not expected Wu Zeqing to agree.

This was unbelievable!

Other than disbelief, he felt more disbelief!

Zhang Ye was so happy that a smile bloomed on his face. "Are you sure, Sis Wu?"

Wu Zeqing said, "Hur hur, didn't I already say it?"

"Don't fool me, alright? I will take this to be your serious answer." Zhang Ye was getting excited as his heart beat faster and louder, feeling worried at the same time and asking to make sure again. He could not help it at all. This surprise had come too suddenly, so sudden that Zhang Ye felt that it was unreal.

She just said, "Really."

Zhang Ye smacked his thighs and shouted, "OK!"

Wu Zeqing turned back around and held the mouse in her hand. "Let me read the new chapter of Legend of Wukong first." She continued on with her reading.