Zhang Ye had a dream. In the dream, he saw a yard where many children were playing, and he himself had turned into a child too.
However, instead of playing with those children, he squatted in a corner, watching all this.
Suddenly, a little girl he had never seen before ran over and asked him, "What are you doing?"
The little girl was all in white. She had white skin, white eyelashes, short white hair, and was dressed in a white pair of shorts and a white shirt. Everything about her was white except for those blood-red eyes, which made her look so flawless.
He stared at her blankly for a moment before saying, "You... can you... can you see me?"
"Sure I can," the little girl blinked her eyes and asked again, "What are you doing?"
He shook his head without a word.
"Why don't you play with them?"
He looked at them, his eyes full of hope. Finally, his eyes dimmed and he shook his head again without speaking.
"Then I'll play with you!"
"Really?" He couldn't help but raise his head, looking dazed.
"Really! Come on, let's go catch little fish by the river!"
"Grandpa the dean... won't allow it..." He shook his head hesitantly.
"Oh, it'll be okay!" The little girl grabbed his hand without hesitation and ran towards the river, asking as she ran, "What's your name?"
"Zhang... Zhang Ye..."
"What a nice name."
He looked at the little girl's bright smiling face and summoned up his courage to ask, "What's... what's your name?"
"You can call me Xiao Bai."
"Xiao Bai... huh?"
"It's Xiao Bai. Call me Xiao Bai."
"Oh..."
...
"Xiao Bai..." He murmured and opened his eyes.
Huh?
He sat up all of a sudden, feeling a bit confused.
Was that just... a dream?
Was it a dream?
Or was it a memory from his childhood?
All his memories before the age of sixteen were blank. According to the doctor, he had lost his memory.
But what was that he dreamed about just now?
Could it be a memory from the past?
Or just a simple dream?
He was a bit confused and started trying hard to recall, but found that everything in the dream seemed to be fading away. In a moment, he couldn't remember clearly what he had just dreamed about.
All he remembered was that there was a girl named Xiao Bai.
But he had forgotten what she looked like, who she was, and also the memories related to her.
However, he vaguely remembered that she meant something special to him.
"Xiao Bai..." He murmured, as if trying to remember these two words. Suddenly, he turned his head.
"Hey, where's Leona?" He exclaimed in surprise, "Aira, Aira?"
"Here I am," Aira's figure appeared.
"Where's Leona?" Zhang Ye asked.
"I don't know," Aira shook her head. "After you fell into a coma, I couldn't manifest a physical body, so I don't know anything."
"However, most of your injuries have healed. It should be Leona who healed you... Pfft!" Aira said, then shifted her gaze to the top of Zhang Ye's head and almost burst out laughing.
But Zhang Ye didn't notice it.
"My injuries..." Only then did Zhang Ye realize that his injuries were almost completely healed. His hands were just a bit numb, but there was still a stream of magic flowing in his hands, healing them. He believed his hands would soon recover completely.
But... Leona was gone.
He suddenly felt a bit downcast.
It felt like he had been abandoned, as if... everything he had done was meaningless...
But he quickly put on a smile and said, "It's not a big deal. This way, I don't have to take care of her every day either..."
"Oh? Do you dislike me?" Before he finished speaking, a tall figure appeared at the entrance of the cave. A magnetic voice came, and Zhang Ye was startled and looked towards the entrance of the cave.
The sunlight at the entrance of the cave shone on her, as if outlining a hazy halo around her.
She was so beautiful.
Leona walked straight up to Zhang Ye, bent down, and got close to his face.
Their faces were very close. Zhang Ye could even feel Leona's warm breath, which made him subconsciously shrink his neck.
"Then why did you save me?" Leona asked directly.
Zhang Ye was stunned for a moment and then asked in return, "Does saving someone... need a reason?"
Leona stood there dumbfounded, staring at Zhang Ye.
"Does it..." She murmured, then grinned, "Hahahaha!"
"No, it doesn't!" She showed a bold smile on her face and slapped Zhang Ye's shoulder hard. "Not bad, kid!"
Instantly, Zhang Ye grimaced in pain.
Leona was so strong that those two slaps almost made him fall back to the ground.
"Ouch, it hurts..." He took a sharp breath.
Leona laughed heartily and then turned around and walked outside. "Let's go!"
"Where are we going?" Zhang Ye was stunned.
Leona turned around and looked at him with a smile. "Didn't you ask me to teach you magic?"
"Huh?" Zhang Ye stared at her blankly, and then his face flushed with embarrassment. "You... could hear that?"
"Yes, I could hear it," Leona nodded and then showed a meaningful smile. "Someone said that I should marry him as a way to repay him when I was in a coma. Who could that be?"
She bit her lip, pretending to be puzzled, but those beautiful eyes were always looking at Zhang Ye with a smile.
Zhang Ye took a step back, blushing, scratched the back of his head and smiled awkwardly. "I was just joking..."
Before he finished speaking, Leona flashed in front of Zhang Ye, grabbed his collar again and pulled him in front of her.
"I don't like jokes!" As she said that, she turned around. Fiery flames emerged from her body. Then the flames formed a lion's paw, which grabbed Zhang Ye's head and lifted him up, walking outside.
"Oh, I'm gonna be burned... Huh, it's not hot?" Seeing the lion's paw formed by the flames grabbing his head, Zhang Ye instinctively thought he was going to be burned. But to his surprise, the flaming lion's paw wasn't hot at all. Instead, it was rather warm.
Wait a minute!
Where's my hair?!
Zhang Ye was shocked to find that he was bald!
I'm bald, but I'm not stronger!
He was on the verge of crying. It seemed that when he was transferring magic power to Leona, his hair had been burned off...
Leona strode forward without looking back, saying as she walked, "Your talent is the most extraordinary one I've ever seen. In just a few days, you've gone from an ordinary person with no magic power to a fourth-level mage."
"And you stole all your magic from me, right?"
"Uh..." Zhang Ye smiled sheepishly. "What a scholar does can't be called stealing... It's called borrowing."
Leona: "..."
She laughed heartily. "Interesting!"
"You should be from another world, right?" Leona asked.
"Huh?" Zhang Ye was surprised. How did she know that?
Leona said, "You don't have the aura of this world on you. You should be from another world. People from other worlds always have some magical abilities, so it's not that strange."
"Really? Are there many people from other worlds like me?" Zhang Ye pointed at himself and asked, completely forgetting that his head was being held by Leona's lion's paw.
"Not many. And although people from other worlds have magical abilities, someone as extraordinary as you is the first one I've ever seen." Leona said. Then she turned her face, and a smile appeared on her beautiful face. "Kid, it's not easy to be my man. You should be psychologically prepared."
"Huh?" Zhang Ye looked at her and it took him a while to react. He then looked excited. "Are you really going to marry me?!"
Leona shook her head. "It's not that I'm going to marry you. It's whether you can make me marry you."
As she said that, she smiled. "My name is Leona, Leona Carlomon. What's your name?"
Hearing this, Zhang Ye smiled brightly.
"My name is Zhang Ye."
"Zhang, the shining one!"
"Ye, the glorious one!"
"An interesting Eastern name," Leona nodded and then said, "I've given you the chance. I only have one requirement."
"Get stronger!"
"Get so strong that you can defeat me!"
"Only then will I consider whether to marry you or not."
"No problem!" Zhang Ye said excitedly. "With my leveling-up speed, I'll surpass you soon!"
"Really?" Leona laughed heartily. "I'll wait and see!"