Chapter 46 (1/2)
Yan Qi was worried, super extra major worried
He was Qi Zimo’s close attendant that had been with his young master since he was 12 years of age.
At that time, his young master was only six years old. He was just a child, but he was so quiet that he did not really seem his age.
It was his young master who chose him, and saved him. He pulled him out of the mud and kept him by his side as his personal servant.
He would always be grateful, and he would never forget that scene: a beautiful child, like that of an angel, reached out to him with his hand. His skin was white and tender, as if he was shrouded in a pure, holy glow.
Unfortunately, his own hands were so thin, dark, and stained with both dirt and blood. It was such a sorry sight.
That sharp contrast made it hard for him to muster the courage to accept his hand, but that young child who was six years younger than him pulled him up strongly. It was only when he stood up that he saw those deep-colored eyes on his angelic face beneath the sunlight.
They carried with them a look of perseverance and appraisal that did not belong to a person of his age.
The child’s tender voice was so wonderful, like a beautiful lark, but the words that came out from his lips were pounded straight into his heart.
“Come with me, I will give you a new life.”
Without any hesitation, Yan Qi knelt down in front of him and made a pledge of allegiance to his new master.
He was sick of the feeling of being trampled in the mud, sick of the discrimination and contempt that they threw at him for his origins. He was born with a useless dimension no different from trash, and he had no way of changing it, but he would not admit defeat!
His master pulled him up, so he had to do his best to stand!
In the blink of an eye, four years had passed, and Yan Qi had always stayed by Qi Zimo’s side.
Qi Zimo was not hard to get along with, and neither would he make things hard for people. Yan Qi’s dimension had no uses at all, but he still found him all the coursebooks so that Yan Qi could study by himself, and he even made sure to include some self-defense techniques that Yan Qi could learn.
Many of them were things Yan Qi would never be able to come across in his life, so Qi Zimo’s generosity and care made him even more deeply loyal towards him.
Recently, however, Yan Qi was not sure what had happened, but he could deeply feel that something was wrong with his young master.
After he had been woken up on that night, his young master did not continue to sleep. For the entire rest of the night, he sat by the window and waited until the morning.
Everything went on as usual the next day, but he would still be sleepless when night came.
With the body of a child at only ten years old, how could he go through two days and two nights without rest? How could he hold up?
Yan Qi was so anxious that he paced in circles. He had tried to persuade him several times with a soft voice, but Qi Zimo would only look at him with eyes even deeper than they were in the past. Clearly, his appearance was as refined as that of an angel’s, but being stared at by him still made his chest feel numb.
Yan Qi did not even dare to meet his gaze straight on…
However, there was only a month left till the dimensional assessment would ensue. With how unstable the mental state of his young master was, it might end up affecting his whole life if any accidents were to happen during that period!
Yan Qi racked his brains on that issue, but the only thing he could do was to report the matter to the young master’s father. In any case, the dimensional assessment could not be delayed.
For every single person in the world, the day of their eleventh birthday was the day the path to their future was unfurled. They would either be met with sunny skies, or fall into the darkness.
Yan Qi could understand that pain more than anyone else, so how would he be willing to allow his young master to suffer through that?
Even so, the master of the house had already been away for two weeks. It was the grain harvesting season in his personal dimension, and it was the busiest times of his life. That was related to the food supply of more than half the population within the Qi family’s territory, no delays or mistakes could be allowed within this period.
How would the master of a household with so much work on his hands be able to care about what a menial attendant needed?
As for the madame of the house, Yan Qi would even try to cover up the matter, never mind telling her anything.
If the lady was to find out, he was afraid that things might end up even worse.
So, after being tormented by this matter for two days, his young master who had been silent for two days suddenly stood up on the third night, and yelled out three words.
Yan Qi was standing guard right outside, so he rushed in immediately. In that instant, he seemed to hear him say, “Where are you!”
But as soon as he came in, Qi Zimo turned abruptly to him and gave his order, “Get out!”
Yan Qi was stunned for a moment, then he tried to open his mouth to speak.
However, Qi Zimo eyed him coldly, and even the tone of his voice was lowered, “Yan Qi, keep watch outside the door, do not let anyone come close.”
Hearing this, Yan Qi’s heart was full of doubts, but he still obeyed his order.
Qi Zimo suppressed the tumbling emotions within his heart and waited quietly for the other party’s response.
He could not understand it, nor could he explain it, but he could not go back to sleep ever since waking up. Sleeping felt so strange to him, as if it was something he had never experienced for hundreds and thousands of years.
In his mind, he believed that he did not need to sleep, but his physical exhaustion was increasing by the day.
The incessant torment of being unable to sleep plagued him to no end, and he could not understand why he could not sleep. Clearly, his memories proved that he had always been able to sleep normally in the past.
No matter what though, his mind would always remind him: you can’t sleep, you don’t have to, if you fall asleep…everything will fall out of control.
Those emotions made him their prisoner, causing his mind to be tense all the time, further increasing the fatigue of his body.
He knew he needed sleep. If such a weak body was denied sleep, the consequences of it would be unimaginable.
Despite that, no number of reasons could convince him to sleep. The emptiness of his palm, the things he lost, the anger that came with it was like a raging flame running amok within his heart, that all put him in a state of irritation, so much so that he wanted to…destroy everything.
If all was broken, then all control would be lost. If all was destroyed, he would be able to keep by his side all those who left, who ran, and those who left his grasp. He could keep them in his palm once more, even if the only thing left was a pile of their scraps/residue, even if it no longer had vitality.
That was all fine, as long as he could obtain him again.
The wild beast in his heart was howling out for it, and it almost made him lose his mind.
That was until suddenly, he received a message that appeared in his mind out of nowhere. That strange and mysterious phenomenon was unable to trigger his sense of crisis, instead, his eyes were glued dead onto that sentence.
That name was so familiar that it felt as if it had been carved into his bones, and his emotions finally found an outlet. He hated that he could not hold that person in his hands through those words, and lock him into his embrace.
Almost without any hesitance, he yelled out, “Where are you!”
Tell me, and I’ll find you; then, I’ll never let you go.
Shi Qing stared dumbfoundedly at the three words that he had been sent. They were only three words, but the momentum was so huge, especially with the exclamation point at the end. It really allowed him to feel the burning rage boiling within the other party!
What the hell was this!
Didn’t his host lose his memories?
Where was his silly cute little bun? Why does this feel not too great?
Could the sealing of his memories have failed? But that’s not possible!
Shi Qing was slightly worried. It truly was no good to provoke a crazy person, but as he had already done so, it would be hard to run away and get himself out of this. He would still end up suffering when the time came.
After pondering for a long time, he decided not to be rash, and attempted another message, “I am studying in the Central District Dimensional School.”
In what almost seemed like a short second, he received a reply, “I can’t enter it.”