Chapter 157 – Leaning Heart, Commitment
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Night fell, and the night breeze was slightly cool.W The entire Inner Mansion was so quiet that not even the sound of insects could be heard. Yun Che sat on top of the pavilion roof of the Wind Viewing Pavilion at the rear of the Taixuan Hall, bathing in the moonlight and silently thinking about things in his head.
It had already been a year since he left Liuyun City, and his original life plan was very simple: repair his Xuan Vein, achieve something within three years, and then return to Liuyun City to reclaim his grandfather’s and his little aunt’s freedom, as well as his own dignity. Later, he met Jasmine, he was reborn because of Jasmine, his fate, too, was tied to her, and the trajectory of his life was destined to be turned upside down because of Jasmine.
But now, in his life, there is another Lan Xueluo.
He was fond of Lan Xueruo, this he was sure of. From the first moment he saw her, he was deeply attracted by her beautiful appearance and gentle temperament. After half a year of getting along with each other, especially after experiencing life and death calamities together, the feelings they had for each other in their hearts had matured a little bit from a sprout.
And it wasn’t until yesterday that he learned of Lan Xueruo’s identity and what she was carrying. As well as, what one would face if they wanted to be with her.
Yesterday, some of Qin Wuyou’s words were cruel, but Yun Che couldn’t help but admit that every word he said was an irrefutable fact. His abilities were too small, and he might be able to settle any manner of personal grudges, but with the royal family strife, which also involved two ponderous sects, if he were to forcefully get involved, he would be like reclaiming sand and dust, and he would be drowned without a trace in an instant.
“Senior Brother Yun, so you’re actually here.”
Lan Xueruo’s gentle voice resounded behind Yun Che, and with a subsequent gust of fragrant wind, Lan Xueruo had already leapt onto the roof of the pavilion and looked at him with a smile, “Just now I went to your residence to look for you, and found that you were not there. I didn’t expect that you would actually have the pleasure of enjoying the moon here, did you encounter something troubling?”
“Not really anything troubling.” Yun Che gazed ahead, “I’m just making a decision that could be a very important one in my life.”
Lan Xueruo sat down beside Yun Che, and after hesitating for a moment, she asked with some caution, “Senior Brother Yun, I heard that you received invitations from both the Crown Prince and the Third Prince at the same time, and that the time of the invitations were also exactly the same. Are you …… you hesitating whose invitation you should go to?”
Yun Che didn’t answer and asked instead, “Senior sister, who do you think I should agree to? One is the Crown Prince and the other is the Third Prince, neither seems to be something I can refuse.”
A deep complexity shifted across Lan Xueruo’s face as she hesitantly said, “I, I want to hear your decision. I …… don’t have the power to interfere in your affairs.”
“…… I’ve heard that the current Cangfeng imperial family is in turmoil and dark currents. The Emperor is currently bedridden and has a short life expectancy, and if he were to fall apart one day, all the storm clouds and undercurrents would erupt at once……. Senior sister, I want to know if you would like me to get involved in this royal family’s strife?” Yun Che asked with a bland face.
“No! Unwilling! I’m ten thousand times unwilling.” Lan Xueruo shook her head sharply, “Senior Brother Yun, I know that you’re not the type of person who has a lust for power, and you definitely won’t do that, right?”
“What if, I must interfere?” Yun Che said quietly.
Lan Xueruo’s body stiffened, and her large eyes looked at Yun Che with panic: “Why do you want to get involved? You are not clear about how dangerous and terrifying the storm clouds and undercurrents within the royal family are, once you get involved, you may never come out again. The complexities and dangers here are not something you can imagine. Senior Yun, you shouldn’t be someone who enjoys power lust and strife, what do you want to do? Do you really want to defect to the Crown Prince or the Third Prince?”
“You’re right, for power, I don’t have much s**t. For strife, I have even less interest. However, in this world, there are many things that one isn’t interested in and doesn’t do if they don’t like it.” Yun Che’s gaze turned to Lan Xueruo and looked at her with a pulsating look, “Senior Sister …… should I call you Senior Sister Xueruo, or …… Her Highness Princess Cang Yue?”
Lan Xueruo’s beautiful eyes widened all of a sudden, her eyes appeared momentarily turbulent and flustered, she lowered her head and stammered, “You …… you know all about it? Did Instructor Qin tell you? I …… really didn’t mean to hide it from you, I just …… just ……”
Yun Che didn’t wait for her to continue and whispered to himself, “At the first sight of you, I was convinced by your gentle elegance and pleasing appearance. Later on, when the Xiao Sect branch went on the rampage, you didn’t hesitate to save me even at the risk of being implicated, and after that, it was even more so that you went to the branch land alone and personally, and as a result, you went through the life and death escapades together with me……. Later on, when I came to this Cangfeng Imperial City and entered the Cangfeng Xuan Mansion, you have always meticulously arranged and taken care of everything for me. If it wasn’t for you, I would have already died under Xiao Zaihe’s hands, or maybe I don’t know where I am now, or maybe I would still be on the run, eating the wind and drinking the dew, where would I have this stable place to stay.”
“After doing so much for me, I thought it was you who had fallen in love with me, and I enjoyed every moment with you …… until yesterday, when I received the invitation letter, Instructor Qin told me everything, and I realized that the reason why you treated me especially well, the reason why you didn’t hesitate to go to the Xiao Sect branch in person, and the reason why you brought me to the Cangfeng Imperial City, it was because you saw my qualifications and potential, and in order to fulfill one of your father s wishes, to let me represent the royal family to participate in the Cangfeng Ranking Battle. The ones I thought about before were merely my self-interest ……”
Yun Che’s words carried a faint sense of loss and sadness, causing Lan Xueruo to be distraught for a moment, and his last words caused a stabbing pain in her heart, as she cried out in panic, “No …… it’s not! I did choose you because of my father, but I didn’t intentionally hide you all the time, much less try to take advantage of you. I’ve just been hoping to find a most suitable time before telling you everything. It’s because the longer I spend with you, the more I’m afraid …… I’m afraid that in case you find out about all this you’ll think that I’m cheating you and using you, and the reason why I’m afraid is because …… because… …”
“Elder sister ……” Yun Che interrupted her once again, his voice sad, “I want to …… have a good quiet moment ……”
As his voice fell, Yun Che had also slid down from the top of the pavilion and silently disappeared into the night.
“Senior Brother Yun …… Yun!!!”
Blue Xue Ruo moonlight was bright, reflecting the surrounding light, but Yun Che’s figure could no longer be found.
“It’s not like that, it’s really not like that …… I really didn’t mean to hide from you, much less want to use you ……” Lan Xueruo’s heart immediately fell as if into an abyss of ten thousand abysses, her body powerless crouched down, arms hugging her knees, whimpering and crying in pain.
When her father was seriously ill, she didn’t shed any tears, when the Imperial Family was caught in a calamity, she didn’t shed any tears, when Burning Heaven Sect Burning Jade City pressed her step by step, she didn’t shed any tears …… silently assuming and bearing everything, but at this moment, with Yun Che’s departure, she felt that her spiritual soul became empty all of a sudden as if she had lost some kind of something that was more important than her life, and her heart hurt as much as a needle cone. Like a needle and cone, tears ran wildly uncontrollably, helplessly like a fallen leaf abandoned by the world.
“Senior sister, your tears are too precious. Precious to the point that …… I can only exchange them with a lifetime.”
A soft, dream-like voice resounded in her ears, and she raised her head in an instant, and in a haze of tears, she saw Yun Che right in front of her, and he reached out his hand, gently rubbing her cheeks, wiping away a single crystalized teardrop.
“Senior Brother Yun, don’t …… leave me!”
These words with a deep sobbing tone were shouted out from Lan Xueruo’s mouth completely uncontrollably. Because, this was a voice that had long been buried deep within her heart for a long time, and even she herself did not realize it. The pain that had pierced her heart just now was like a sharp blade cutting through her soul and heart, allowing her deeply buried emotions to be completely released, and also allowing her to finally and completely understand what kind of emotion she already had towards this “Senior Brother Yun”.
She jumped into Yun Che’s arms and bawled her eyes out. She had never cried so freely, but with him by her side, leaning in her arms, she felt that everything did not need to be disguised anymore, everything did not need to be suppressed anymore, and the worries and pressure and pain and suffering and remorse that had been accumulated in her heart for a long time were all like a flood that broke through the dike, and raged uncontrollably.
“Elder sister, I’m sorry ……” Yun Che hugged her and said gently, “The words before were not my intention. I’ve known you for so long, so how could I not know how soft-hearted a girl you are, and how could you be willing to hide and use me. I said those words, because I am apprehensive and afraid …… I do not know whether I have really entered the heart of the teacher sister, because the teacher sister is so good, and noble princess, and I have no power, no power, low birth, in addition to full of self-esteem fervor and the heart of the teacher sister, there is nothing, so I am really very apprehensive and afraid …… I am very selfish, want to see whether senior sister will shed tears for me ……”
“A man who makes his woman shed tears is the most detestable man in the world …… Elder sister, forgive me for being capricious and selfish this time, okay? Your tears, I will treasure them in my heart, it will be a precious treasure imprinted in my heart for a lifetime, and it will also be my greatest motivation in the future.”
“It’s not your fault, you don’t need to say sorry to me …… It’s my fault, it’s all my fault, it’s me who hid it from you, it’s me who has been holding that kind of intention towards you ……” Lan Xueruo shook her head hard on Yun Che’s chest and shook her head vigorously, crying sadly: ”I always thought that my attachment thoughts towards you, and the urge to always want to have seen you, was because you had the hope that you could fulfill my father’s wish …… Until just now, when you disappeared from my side, I realized that it was me who had long been Can not leave you …… oooo …… don’t leave me, I don’t want the identity of the princess …… I also won’t let you go to participate in the Cangfeng qualifying battle again, I just want to …… you can stay by my side so that I can see you often …… don’t leave me ……”
Lan Xueruo finally completely and unreservedly spat out her heart. Yun Che smiled faintly as he hugged Lan Xueruo tightly and said softly, “My heart towards Senior Sister is just like Senior Sister’s towards me. Since our hearts are together, then all of our matters should also be shared. Senior sister’s affairs are also my affairs, if I can’t even satisfy a little bit of senior sister’s small heart’s desire, how do I deserve to get senior sister’s liking …… Cangfeng Ranking Battle, I will go, Cangfeng Royal Family’s turmoil, I will also be involved in it …… Senior sister don’t stop me for now, I Just now, I told senior sister that I’m making a very important decision in my life …… This is my decision.”
“Although, I am only a fledgling now. But, give me time, and I will always have the day when I give birth to my feathered wings. Please senior sister give me the chance to use my feathers to shield you from the wind and rain …… Even if the storm clouds are too big and I am unable to shield them, I can still take senior sister to spread my wings and fly away, leaving this place of storm clouds forever, and rediscovering the place that belongs to us. This is a right that I have because I like senior sister …… Even if it’s senior sister, I can’t take it away.”
Lan Xue Ruo didn’t say anything, the only thing she had was the sobbing voice that she tried to suppress and her violently trembling shoulders. The shoulder of the man she was snuggling up to was not broad, but it made her so warm and at ease, she felt like a floating duckweed drifting around, finally finding the warmest place to return to.
Two people nestled together sitting on top of the pavilion, together bathed in the moonlight. For a long time, the two did not speak, a tear, a speech and promise, the last layer of separation between them also completely faded, the heart is closely connected, listening to each other’s heart.
“Tomorrow, take me to your father, okay? Don’t forget, your man, is a miracle doctor, there is no disease he can’t cure.”
“Uhm ……” Lan Xueruo gently answered, crouching on Yun Che’s shoulder, her eyes lightly closed, the corners of her mouth slightly curved, the corners of her eyes with tears, floating and unrivaled.R1058