Chapter 303
Chapter 303: Chapter 16 Peace and Pinky Chapter 303: Chapter 16 Peace and Pinky Lee Ningning’s words left Big Face Cat speechless.
Looking at her now…
he saw shades of Lee Cheng from many years ago, the man who took on death alone in a hot air balloon, going against everyone else.
He had intended to take good care of Lee Ningning, to raise her into an ordinary, happy girl.
But unexpectedly.
The women of the Lee Family always turn out this way, always end up this way.
Back then, knowing well it was a death sentence, Lee Cheng still firmly boarded the hot air balloon, all for the very same words Lee Ningning had just spoken—
“If I don’t go, how can I ask someone else to?”
That included Lee Ningning’s mother’s last words:
“After the men have died, the women must keep up.
If Lee Cheng’s woman doesn’t go…
why should any other woman?”
Big Face Cat’s face was ashen.
He didn’t know what to do at this moment.
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Standing behind Big Face Cat, witnessing the whole argument, Lin Xian let out a silent sigh.
Lee Ningning.
This girl was always so stubborn, so unyielding, so unbelieving in fate, so unafraid of death.
In the Second Dreamland, at such a young age, she risked being shot by drones to steal books from the garbage dump.
In the Third Dreamland.
She was still resolute, wanting to stand in front of everyone just like her parents.
Lin Xian did not dislike such a girl.
In fact, he admired her.
Every era needs people like her who fearlessly rise to the occasion, to avert crisis and save history and the world.
He chuckled softly and stepped forward.
He stood between Big Face Cat and Lee Ningning, his right hand gently stroking her smooth head, looking into her lifted eyes:
“Ning Ning, you’re still young, you shouldn’t be involved in this kind of thing.”
“But…” Lee Ningning stood on her tiptoes.
“You’ll have the chance to go to Rhine Sky City, but not now.” Lin Xian interrupted her, smiling at a puzzled Lee Ningning:
“Don’t worry, I’ll bring that city down for you.
Then…
you can step on it however you like; no need for such dangerous skydiving, you’ll be able to walk right up.”
“Bring…
it down?”
Lee Ningning’s eyebrows quivered, not understanding what the young man was talking about.
“So, just wait on the ground for now.”
Lin Xian crouched down, his right hand hooking Lee Ningning’s little finger:
“Let’s make a pinky promise, I’ll make sure to keep my word this time.
So…
just be good and watch the sky from here.”
Lee Ningning stared with wide eyes at their linked pinky fingers, tightly intertwined.
Could this really work?
A simple pinky promise, just like one would make with a child, and he was going to destroy Sky City for her?
That must be a lie!
But then…
Lee Ningning blinked her eyes, looking into the sincerity and certainty in Lin Xian’s gaze.
Why.
Even though it was such a preposterous idea.
Did it feel like he was serious?
Upon reflection, he was the one who would risk his life by parachuting into Rhine Sky City, somehow knowing the exact spot in the air defense net where only her mother had miraculously managed to get through…
Could he be a miracle too?
Could he really pull it off?
Lee Ningning pursed her lips tightly and finally…
nodded emphatically.
Imitating how her father had made pinky promises with her when she was younger, she flipped her thumb upwards, pressed it against Lin Xian’s thumb, and sealed the promise.
Pinky promise, hang and dangle, no changing for a hundred years.
That way, it was set.
“You better not lie to me,” Lee Ningning stared at Lin Xian:
“I’ll be waiting for you.”
Lin Xian nodded and was about to get up.
But Lee Ningning held onto his arm.
She pulled out from her inner pocket a slightly tattered wallet, one that had been stitched and re-stitched many times, and was now a bit deformed.
The wallet had been repaired so often that it had started to warp, but one could still make out, embroidered with red silk thread on the front of the square wallet, two characters—
[Peace].
This was…
Lin Xian looked at the familiar yet strange Peace Wallet.
Before crossing the garbage dump with CC in the Second Dreamland, Lee Ningning would always stuff this Peace Wallet into his palm.
She had said it was embroidered by her mother, very magical, and it had always kept her safe when stealing from the garbage dump without ever getting caught.
Each time, Lin Xian promised her that he would blow up New Donghai City’s wall and destroy the city she loathed so much.
Only…
In the end, he had broken his promise.
It wasn’t that he intended to break it, but the Temporal Flux came suddenly, and without any preparation, the Second Dreamland disappeared, and he found himself in the Third Dreamland.
All those previous wallets had been quite new.
After all, in the Second Dreamland, Lee Ningning’s mother was still alive to mend it for her, even to replace it with a new one.
But in the current dreamland…
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Lee Ningning had been an orphan since she was young, not even sure if she remembered her parents’ faces.
This little wallet must have been left by her mother before her death, and those clumsy stitches…
must have been made by Lee Ningning herself.
The calluses on her hands from skydiving and sports suggested she probably wasn’t skilled at needlework.
But the fact it was mended to this state showed how much effort she must have put into it.
“This Peace Wallet was in my pocket when mom took the hot air balloon into the sky,”
Lee Ningning said softly as she looked at the wallet in her palm:
“Back then, I didn’t understand anything until several days later, when I found out that my mom would never come back.
The last time I saw my mom had passed without my realization.”
“Since then, I’ve always carried this wallet with me, despite all the messy stitches…
I feel it’s really magical.
I’ve been safe all these years, never fell sick, nor had any accidents, almost as if my mom is really looking out for me.”