927 The Snow Had Just Turned Clear; The Moon Had Just Risen (2/2)

No one responded to her. The pale gold bracelet on her wrist that brimmed with light and color was equally responseless.

She let out a small smile and took a sip of the liquor in the calabash.

The liquor had a slightly bitter and astringent taste in the mouth.

She had been extremely busy in this year and something—busy practicing, busy studying, busy refining medicine, busy creating, and busy inventing. Her days spun restlessly like a never stopping spinning-top.

She had grown accustomed to reticence, so no one suspected anything about what she felt. She carried on with her life as usual with an everyday vibrancy and vitality, so no one knew that what she had in mind was growing heavier by the day, threatening to break itself loose...

And it is only when everyone has fallen asleep that she permits herself to indulge in the thoughts of him here.

She hugged her knees and thought. So this is what the sense of longing feels like, as though something is gnawing at heart. Anytime she gets slightly lost in concentration her head would be full of thoughts of him...

She raised her hand and knocked at the bracelet on her wrist: ”Celestial Master Zuo, where in the world have you run to? You could have at least sent me a letter telling me that you’re safe! You’ve once said that you would marry me when I’m 18, are you only going to meet me when I reach that age?!”

Naturally, the bracelet would not reply to her. She let out a slight sigh again and took another sip of liquor.

Because of his breaking of their promise, she had gone around everywhere for half a year trying to catch wind of his news. It was also helpless enough that Celestial Master Zuo had a too elusive and secretive presence; there was nobody who knew anything about his whereabouts at all. Even 四使 seemed to have vanished without a trace.

To the common person, this was all too normal for someone like Celestial Master Zuo.

Never mind a year and a half. His longest record of going missing was five years! At that time everyone had thought that Celestial Master Zuo had met some sort of sudden calamity, but no one expected him to be back nonchalantly after five years…

Therefore, no one paid much heed to his disappearance this time around. In the whole wide world, Gu Xijiu was probably the only person who grew worried at his absence…