Ghostly Masked Prince Xiao

“In the future I will be obedient, okay?”

“I will properly learn martial arts from Earth Spirit.”

“Whatever you say I will go do it, okay?”

One word and one sentence at a time that penetrated deep into the heart.

As she said one sentence after another, she became more choked with sobs.

Saying up to here, Chu Qing-Yan hugged Xiao Xu, and with a ‘sob’ sound, cried out loud.

Why must they go through so much torment?

Why, with so many roads in life, must he always be compelled to choose the most difficult one?

Why was it so hard to want to live an average and dull life?

“Big Block of Ice, you are too foolish. Why must you put governing the country and helping the people in your own heart? Our human heart is just this small and tiny, to the extent that if you put two or three people in, it would seem crowded. But you still forcefully support it, don’t you feel very tired?”

“I know the hardship and pain in your heart. From childhood till now, you have never experienced real affection. But you shouldn’t always think about your father the emperor and mother the empress. They repeatedly weighed you down, yet couldn’t see your goodness. You are the one trying very hard and enduring silently everytime.”

“But grandpa emperor, my dad, my mom and I are all your close relatives. If other people don’t want us, then we don’t want them either. Isn’t there a saying like this? Today you refuse to acknowledge me, then tomorrow I will make it impossible for you to climb up the social ladder. Don’t use other people’s faults to punish yourself.”

“Just putting in a portion of duty, a portion of effort is enough. Don’t let yourself be too tired.”

Time gradually passed, and the vitality of the person under her seemed to also drain away gradually.

Chu Qing-Yan cried until she was hoarse, and she became more panic-stricken.

What to do? What ought I to do for you?

The voice could be heard intermittently coming from inside the room. Earth Spirit and the several people that had been standing for a long time outside seemed to have become tree stumps from standing there. Cold wind blew past their bodies, but they didn’t feel the cold.

“Why did everything become like this?” Fire Spirit bit his teeth, both eyes were red through and through.

He recalled that at that time when they had just left the capital, although their hearts were a bit sullen, but because they thought that once they left the capital that was a cage, it would also be a kind of freedom for master, they suppressed any traces of complaint.

But how were they to know that in several short months, they would land in such a predicament? Some of their comrades died, some were wounded, while their master’s life hung on by a thread.

“In fact, I should have guessed it earlier.” Earth Spirit closed his eyes and said in self-blame. “Along the way, although master was resisting the enemy, but the tactics he used weren’t as diligent as before. At that time, I thought it was because master was too tired from dealing with official business and failed to pay sufficient attention to being calculated against. Now recalling it, I finally realized that at that time, master already had plans of never returning.”

“Why didn’t you say something? Why didn’t you stop him?” Fire Spirit rushed up and grabbed Earth Spirit by his collar. His eye sockets were about to tear open as he said.

Earth Spirit had both hands hanging at the sides, his expression full of pain as he said. “I also hate myself right now, why didn’t I discover it earlier? Then maybe this situation wouldn’t have happened.”

But at that time master had already made his decision, even if he had said something, would it have been useful?

“What are the two of you doing? Master is inside between life and death, while you guys are here causing internal strife? If master were to know, how are you guys to account for this to master?” Wood Spirit separated the two, he was already physically and emotionally exhausted, so seeing this scene, his heart felt even more unwell. He couldn’t help but reprimand them by saying this.

“If master were to know, even if he asked me to go receive my punishment in the penalty office I’ll be very much willing!” Fire Spirit smashed his hand on top of a tree trunk, as if he wanted to dig a hole in it!

Once he said this, both Earth Spirit and Wood Spirit became silent.

They suddenly felt that in front of the Grim Reaper, all the manpower and physical resources were all useless.

There wasn’t much left of the two hour time limit. Chu Qing-Yan laid on his chest, both eyes empty. What she ought to say, she had already said it. But it didn’t get a bit of the desired result.

She knew that once he made a decision, it would be very hard to alter. But this habit was very bad! At least it’s very bad right now!

What should she do?

She had the feeling of being forced into desperate straits with no road to walk.

Suddenly she recalled the past. Whenever she wanted to do something and make Big Block of Ice to change his mind, she would always pull herself into the water.

As a result, she gathered close to his ear and said in a soft voice. “Big Block of Ice, it’s alright. It doesn’t matter if you don’t want to stay behind. I will go with you. I was being too foolish. Since you don’t like this world, then I will accompany you to be reincarnated. Why forcefully make you stay behind, right? Going to other places and walking around is also good. As long as I’m by your side, it’s fine. In anycase, without you, life wouldn’t have any meaning.”

When she finished speaking, her hand that gripped his suddenly felt him gripping back.

Chu Qing-Yan almost cried because of this action of his.

But she still couldn’t lower her guard, she had to add more fire to his thoughts.

“You gripping my hand so tightly, is it because you are worried I will get lost? No problem, you walk a bit slower, I’ll follow a little bit later! I just found out from Older Sister Yan-Luo that there is a herb that after one eats it, the person would die in their dreams without pain or feeling. You wait a bit, I’ll go now to get it from her!”

Chu Qing-Yan struck the posture of getting up, but the hand that firmly captured hers suddenly pulled her, and her entire person fell and stuck to his body. But she cleverly avoided his wound. Only that she just so happened to press close to his chest. Just now his heart was so weak that she couldn’t hear it beating, now it’s rhythm had become regular.

Her heart rejoiced and eyes brimmed with tears from excitement.

“Big Block of Ice, is it because you don’t want to leave?”

The person quietly lying there didn’t answer her. What answered her was his heartbeat that became steadier and steadier.

“Fire Spirit, Earth Spirit, you guys quickly go and call Older Sister Yan-Luo! His Highness’s breathing has recovered!”

The people waiting outside hearing this, stared blankly, following which they reacted very quickly. They loudly agreed and quickly went to call the person.

In the corridor, Cheng Yan-Luo leaned against a pillar, lazily looking at the tip of the mountain.

Sha Feng saw her and walked over. “Senior Sister, weren’t you tired? What are you thinking of that you haven’t gone to rest yet?”

“I’m thinking of how to control the poison in Xiao Xu’s body.” Cheng Yan-Luo yawned before replying unhurriedly.

“What’s the use of you thinking of this. That guy may not be able to stick it out!” Sha Feng shook his head and laughed at her for doing useless work.

Cheng Yan-Luo used one hand to prop up her chin and swept away the tiredness from just now. Her eyes were full of interest. “No, I feel that little lady will pull him to a stop at the critical moment in front of the gates to the underworld.”

“How can you be sure?” Sha Feng was somewhat surprised.

“Relying on.” Cheng Yan-Luo paused and smiled craftly. “A woman’s intuition.”

A woman’s intuition? What kind of ghost is that?

Sha Feng expression showed that he really couldn’t understand it.

And just at this time, Fire Spirit’s anxious footsteps got closer from afar. Once he saw Cheng Yan-Luo, he immediately rushed over. “Miss Cheng, my family’s master has already recovered his consciousness!”

Hearing this, Sha Feng’s chin almost dropped down.

Cheng Yan-Luo smiled, not at all surprised. Her hand reached out to lightly tap her temple, then said to Sha Feng. “Did you see, this is a woman’s intuition.”

Before Sha Feng could return to his senses, he heard Senior Sister’s tone that carried traces of laughter.

“Little Ten, you can boil the medicine again!”

“Yes!” The Little Ten replied loudly.