Chapter 101 – Reminiscing in Herb Garden (2/2)

After several autumn rains washed the sky of the capital clear, there were no artificial lights left besides the oil candle on the stone table of Herb Garden. The lamps of royal palace were also blocked by the dense forest so at this moment, the starlight seemed to got brighter than usual.

The starlight shone through the branches of the trees and landed on his face.

He raised his face and glanced at the starry sky. He reminisced about the old temple of Xi Ning Village and his senior, but the bright starlight made him squint his eyes.

Under the silver starlight, his eyebrows were still so clean.

He squinted his eyes and all the youth of him surfaced.

He was just as kind as usual, but a little cuter.

Just this moment, the middle aged woman switched her glare from the Herb Garden to him.

She looked at him quietly.

He was squinting his eyes so he didn’t notice her attention. He was reminiscing, thinking back to the past.

She was stumped while looking at him.

Her reminiscence had just finished.

She picked up her right hand and smoothly touched his face.

Chen Chang Sheng was surprised. His eyes opened widely and he looked at the middle aged woman.

He wasn’t used to bodily contact because he had no experience when he was little. Plus he didn’t know the woman; they had only met twice.

He instinctively wanted to back off, but then he saw the eyes of the woman.

The eyes were like a lake of stars. They contained complex feelings, but slowly the mood became sad and despair.

He didn’t want to leave so abruptly. This woman must have faced countless evil and dark things in her years at the royal palace.

Therefore, he stayed calm and let her palm move across his face even though it felt weird.

The woman’s hand was warm and thick. It slowly rub his face and Chen Chang Sheng’s body got stiff. Only after a long time did he relax again.

Suddenly, the middle aged woman squeezed his cheeks, just like an elder would do to a newborn infant.

Chen Chang Sheng couldn’t sit still anymore so he stood up. He back off two steps and bowed, “I need to go back.”

After saying this, he remembered that she was deaf and mute so he quickly gestured.

The middle aged woman saw his reaction and laughed loudly.

Of course, her laugh was silent. But a sense of pride and power was within her laugh. Everyone who saw it would know that she was laughing openly.

She didn’t wait for Chen Chang Sheng’s departure. The woman stood up and walked towards the depth of Herb Garden.

Chen Chang Sheng thought for a moment and followed up.

The nightly gale blew lightly, the leaves fell upon the stone table and swirled around the teapot and the teacup.

For twenty years, the teacup and the teapot had been used by its owner. No one knew how long it would be until the next time.

What surprised Chen Chang Sheng was that the middle aged woman didn’t go to Tradition Academy, rather she went straight into the depths of the Herb Garden. She arrived at the old and broken down palace wall. Looking at that old door, he then realized that her way was different from the path of Mo Yu.

The middle aged woman didn’t bother with him, nor did she mind him following. She took out the key and inserted it into the lock. After two clicks, the lock opened. The old wooden door was pushed open and she walked in.

Until this point, Chen Chang Sheng knew nothing dangerous would happen. He calmed his heart and relaxed the hand that was holding the handle tightly. He looked at the back of the woman and yelled lightly. He wanted to say something but the door unexpected shut quickly before his eyes.

She left just like this? He was stumped, but after realizing she couldn’t hear voices, Chen Chang Sheng was relieved.

The closed wooden door somehow seemed to be a part of the palace wall.

He looked at the door and was confused.

Were the things that happened tonight actually real?

Why were they so similar to the fairytales in the scrolls?

But the bittersweet taste of tea was still swirling around in his mouth.

That warm feeling of contact was still on his face.

He shook his head, turned around and left.

On the other side of the door exists a long hallway.

Around the hallway were moss and ivies, beneath the ivies were at least six types of traps and seals that could kill xiuxingists of the Starfusion stage.

The hallway was constructed with stone bricks.

The middle aged woman stepped upon the stone bricks and walked forward slowly. Her expression changed gradually.

Just after dozens of steps, a sense of immense power returned to her body.

That seemingly ordinary complexion became a great beauty.

Not the weak and soft kind of pretty, but the shiny and blinding type of radiance.

When she walked out of the hallway, the surroundings changed as well.

Under the night sky, the Royal Palace stood in eternity.