The tourist bus arrived at the gate of the school. The students got off the bus and walked back to their respective homes. Jade and Hsi Wu walked towards China Town under the slanting sun.

“Jade, give the flute to me for well-keeping!” Hsi Wu suddenly stopped at a corner.

“What? What do you plan to do with it?” Jade perceived that Hsi Wu’s calm tone contained some command.

“Nothing, don’t tell this to Uncle and others.” Hsi Wu was still serious.

“You are afraid of this flute!” Jade remembered the painful expression of Hsi Wu when Miss Hartman tooted the flute. It can’t be pretended.

“I needn’t hide it from you, this flute is different from others,” said Hsi Wu.

“Different? So you’re going to hide it from Jackie and Uncle. You fear that they will harm you?”

“Yes. I just want to keep it secret. Otherwise, my study which I did to break the injury of flutes will be in vain.”

“Don’t you feel embarrassed to mention you read the book sneakily before? Do you still have evil in your heart?”

“Am I like someone who has evil in heart? Jade, I thought you believe in me most. If Uncle said these words, that’s nothing, but I didn’t expect you…”

“Sorry,” On hearing Hsi Wu’s words, Jade looked down and smoothed her voice, “but I made no mistake, right?”

Hsi Wu turned around and did not speak for a while. “Yes, you did. There’s no evil in my heart. I am the evil itself.”

The pedestrians and vehicles were flowing down the street. However, the two felt it was so silent at this moment.

“I send you home.” Hsi Wu turned back and took Jade to fly. The afternoon San Francisco was under their eyes, where skyscrapers staggered with each other under the golden setting sunshine.

Hsi Wu flew to the place 50 meters from the Rare Finds and stopped.

“You go home,” said Hsi Wu.?????????????????????????????????????????

“Me? And you…”

“Perhaps, Jackie is right. We’re not the same race so will never be together.” Hsi Wu took off the copper coin necklace. “This, return to you.”

Jade stared at Hsi Wu, astonished, and the copper coin slipped to the ground.

Hsi Wu turned back and was prepared to leave.

“Wait a minute, this for you.”

Hsi Wu turned around, only to see Jade stretched out her right hand with the flute in it, head down to the left.

Hsi Wu took the flute, shivering, and ready to leave.

“Thank you. This half year is the happiest time in my life.” After saying this, Hsi Wu flew away. He flew to the tower where he once kidnapped Uncle, wanting to turn back several times but doing none.

Jade picked up the necklace from the ground, looking at the sky, tears in her eyes.

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Jade adjusted her mood and knocked on the door of the shop.

“Uncle, I’m back!” Jade pretended to be happy.

“Oh, it’s just time for dinner.”

In the Rare Finds, Tohru was still cooking in the kitchen, Uncle had been at the table, and Jackie was laying out the bowls and chopsticks. Everyone had no expression, thoughtfully.

“Jade, bad news, Daolon Wong escaped,” said Jackie.

“Oops! Didn’t Uncle impose magic on his cell?”

“That’s what makes Uncle most worried. He could escape even after this, which illustrates his magic has revived to the extent more powerful than Uncle,” said Uncle.

“One more thing, why didn’t Hsi Wu come back?”

“He… haven’t flown for so long, maybe can’t help soaring for a round.” Jade made up the lie.

“Jade, tell the truth. Your face had betrayed you. Are you at odds with him?” asked Jackie.

“Alas, nothing. A tiny thing.”

However, Jade knows exactly that it wasn’t a tiny thing. The cause of this incident pointed directly to the most essential contradiction between Hsi Wu and her, and Uncle, Jackie, and Tohru.

“Jade, what’s on earth the matter between you? You should know it’s related to you that Hsi Wu isn’t evil now,” said Jackie.

“No, it’s related to Uncle!” said Uncle hurriedly.

“Jackie, that’s not the logic as you said. If my aim is only to keep him from being evil, it’s better that I haven’t had this friend!”

“I’m sorry, Jade. If things are really like this, we won’t allow it, too!” Jackie felt a little embarrassed.

Tohru came over with the last dish and the dinner was to begin.

“Alas, I won’t eat!” Jade stood up and walked to her room.

“Jade!” shouted Jackie to Jade.

“Alas, just leave her alone for a while,” said Uncle.

The last warm sun of late autumn set down below the horizon. The chill wind blew and flakes of snow drifted from the sky.

“Strange, the weather forecast says it’s sunny today. How does it snow?” said Jackie.

“Maybe Hsi Wu was also being sad,” said Tohru.

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With wings spread and the body in the form of the human, Hsi Wu walked over and over on the top of the tower with the flute in his hand. Gradually, a row of footprints emerged in the snow. A thin layer of snow also covered Hsi Wu’s head, shoulders, and wings.

Not just for nine or even ninety-nine days, Hsi Wu had thought about leaving Jade rather earlier. The lifespan of human beings is just a drop of water if his is a sea. And not to mention the length of the lifespan of human beings, he would still be like a junior high school student when they should go to senior high school three years after, which was also an issue hard to solve. It was a reality these months, or just a dream or a game? Hsi Wu himself also did not know.

These thoughts had been hidden deep in Hsi Wu’s heart. However, the flute incident made him feel it was time to make up his mind. It was not bad to make up the mind when the relationship had not been set, when the harm had not been too profound. Part with each other earlier, and we may both have a promising future. Hesitate and wait, and tragedy may take place.

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Suddenly, Hsi Wu felt the abnormal movement of the demon chi. It was in the east! It was the Wind Demon Chi!

“Must be someone contacting the demon chi!” Hsi Wu cheered up from sadness, flying swiftly to the east.

By intuition, Hsi Wu crossed the entire American continent and came to a ruined building. Suddenly, three dark chi warriors stopped him.

“You! You escaped!”

The three began to fight Hsi Wu, who defended against their weapons with his wings, pouncing down, and attacking them with his feet. Hsi Wu was not afraid of these assistant characters. But he could feel apparently that they were more powerful than before. Only Hak Foo could be called a warrior before, Finn, Ratso, and Chow were absolutely clowns.

“You stop now. I just wondered who came. It turns out to be master Hsi Wu!” Daolon Wong walked over with a smile.

“How do you come alone? Where are the wizard and the girl? I guess you can’t bear being with them anymore! Darkness must be in alliance with darkness.”

“You!” Hsi Wu felt clearly the Wind Demon Chi was in Daolon Wong’s body. He inhaled fiercely and the demon chi flowed out of Daolon Wong’s eyes to his body.

“You! You can…” Daolon Wong did not know Hsi Wu could do that.

“Don’t dream of cooperating with me anymore. Uncle and I will prison you one more time.” Hsi Wu found unexpectedly he spoke out Uncle. He had decided not to remain on terms with Chens.

Daolon Wong recited the spell and emitted beams of light toward Hsi Wu. The dark chi warriors also attacked him with weapons.

A beam of magic light hit Hsi Wu, who didn’t dodge in time.

“So painful! The old wizard’s magic is more powerful than before,” thought Hsi Wu.

“But I also have one more kind of demon chi!” Hsi Wu blew a gust of strong wind toward Daolon Wong.

“Ah!” Daolon Wong drew his sleeves over his face, stepping back in the wind.

“We go!” Daolon Wong said to his warriors and they all vanished.

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? Hsi Wu was facing the ruin, sensing the waves of the demon chi within his body, and looking at the flute in his hand. He couldn’t help recalling the girl who brought him a sense of life, the old urchin who made him rather annoyed, and Jackie Chan and Tohru who fought shoulder to shoulder with him. And Tohru’s mother, the village head, Mr. Wing, Lixia, and Zhanguo. Everything of this half year would be swept off?

Hsi Wu flew, at the highest speed. Maybe not as fast as a missile, but at least surpassed all planes. It was urgent that Daolon Wong sought the demon chi so he should tell Uncle at once, which had nothing wrong. But the more important thing was his returning heart as an arrow.

Hsi Wu landed at the door of the shop and knocked on it.

“Aiiee-yaahh! You come back!” It was Uncle who opened the door. A smile was on his face as his first reaction.

“Phut!” Uncle immediately became serious and gave Hsi Wu a two-fingered slapping. “You the demon boy, where did you go? Do you know Daolon Wong escaped!”

“Uncle, I have known. And I know Daolon Wong was to suck demon chi.”

“Aiiee-yaahh! Demon chi. You mean the chi of your demons?”

Hsi Wu nodded.

“How did you know?”

“I felt the abnormal movement of the Wind Demon Chi so I followed the direction and found Daolon Wong in New York. Don’t worry, I have inhaled back Daolon Wong’s demon chi.”

“That is to say, you hold two kinds of demon chi now?”

“Yes.”

“Aiiee-yaahh!”

“Uncle, I… I felt not so comfortable with two kinds of demon chi. It’s the very feeling as your humans… stomachache, yes, stomachache. You study a device to store the demon chi, okay?”

“Okay. To make you feel more comfortable, Uncle will do some research.” Uncle smiled again.

“And one more thing, this is for you!” Hsi Wu took out the flute, head downward.

“What’s this, an antique?” Jackie walked over.

“Didn’t Jade tell you?”

“No, she didn’t mention anything about the flute.”

“Oh…”

“Then let me say. The demon chi scattered in the human world now should be kept in the eight immortals’ original instruments. This is my token, but the chi attached to it had been sucked by me.” Hsi Wu still hid something.

“Okay, we can research how to find these original instruments,” said Jackie.

“But Hsi Wu…” Jackie pointed at Jade’s room.

“I understand.”

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Hsi Wu knocked on Jade’s door.

“Come in!”

Only to see Jade sitting by the edge of her bed, looking down closely at the half copper coin clutched in her hand.

“Figured out so come back?” Jade looked at Hsi Wu.

“To be honest, I haven’t figured it out.”

“Then you come back just for Daolon Wong?”

“No either. I didn’t figure it out but I can’t bear leaving you alone. I think we have a talk today, from the heart of hearts, okay?”

“Okay.”

Then Hsi Wu uttered all the thoughts he held recently.

“Seymour, I also had thoughts exactly the same as you.” Jade also looked down.

“But if you part with us, won’t all the changes you make be in vain? Your changes in these months are not a dream, not a game, but reality,” said Jade.

“I always think about the future,” said Hsi Wu.

“Future is nothing. I will keep you as my son in 30 years,” Jade stared into Hsi Wu’s eyes, half joking.

“Then in 60 years, will I be the grandson?” Hsi Wu also joked.

“Hahaha, by then I can boast that I have a demon grandson.”

“But what about 100 years after, by then you will have…”

“Pooh! Quickly close your crown mouth. You dare curse your grandma for not living to her one hundred and twelve? Why do you always think about the time after 100 years? Even the greatest politicians can’t plan things after 100 years. As I see, we should cherish the present.”

On hearing this, Hsi Wu emerged his iconic smile which had been absent for several hours.

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Indeed. The past cannot be traced back. The future cannot be predicted. The only thing we can do is cherish the present.