Chapter 469 – Those Stricken by the Sorrow of Parting (1/2)

Chapter 469 - Those Stricken by the Sorrow of Parting

Translated by: Hypersheep325

Edited by: Michyrr

Luoluo assuredly had no idea what the gift Chen Changsheng spoke of was, but this did not stop her mood improving a little—her teacher would especially give her a gift! This indicated that in Teacher's heart, she was more important than Tang Thirty-Six, Xuanyuan Po and Zhexiu added together! In Teacher's heart, there was no way that she was just a student…right?

Thinking of the Heavenly Tome Monoliths in the Garden of Zhou, Chen Changsheng remembered that very important matter and asked Luoluo what she had found from her inquiries. In the past few days, he had also asked the priests of the Li Palace to help him check, but there was no news from them. He could only place his final hopes upon her.

Luoluo lowered her head, indicating that she did not want to say it.

Chen Changsheng felt his lips were somewhat dry. With a hoarse voice, he asked, ”There's no news from the Elf race?”

Luoluo raised her head, confronting his questioning and apprehensive gaze. Biting her lip, she mustered her courage and said, ”The elves that remain on the continent all live scattered across the plains. It's very difficult to completely confirm, but there is one thing that can be confirmed. There is no girl of Teacher's description that left the Garden of Zhou.”

Chen Changsheng gazed at the fish in the lake, for a long time saying nothing.

Luoluo was rather sad, but she still managed a smile on her petite face. ”Teacher, don't panic. I'll have someone go check again.”

Chen Changsheng did not hear her words. He mumbled to himself, ”I clearly saw her fly into the mountains on top of the Great Peng. The Mountainside Whispering Wood wasn't far, even if she was heavily injured…”

And then, he fell silent.

She was not able to leave the Garden of Zhou.

She could not leave through the same method as he had.

She was probably still within the Garden of Zhou.

Perhaps she was still alive, but it was even more likely that she was already dead.

This was the end.

If life was like the moment when we first met, when she was quietly sleeping on the pile of reeds, how fine it was, because there would always be a time when she would awaken.

Chen Changsheng was heartbroken. This was the first time he had genuinely experienced this sort of feeling. Although there were a few occasions when he thought of the possibility that the girl was no more and felt this feeling, that was just grass under a stone, still not able to tear through the hard surface and reveal itself. Although when he went to the Tong Palace and walked before the Black Dragon, he had also felt this sort of feeling, that was also just a parting. It was completely different from now.

He was parting from this world. The world was parting from him.

It was probably this sort of difference.

And then he remembered, he had promised her that he would do something.

”In two days, I will go to the Divine General of the East's Estate to end the engagement.”

Luoluo was rather surprised. Raising her head, she thought to herself, after Teacher entered the capital, he's already gone to the Divine General's estate to end the engagement twice, but failed both times. Last time, Xu Shiji declared that if he still wanted to end the engagement, he should do it in front of Xu Yourong…in a few days, Xu Yourong will return to the capital. Teacher, why are you in such a rush? Why not wait a little longer?

”I promised her…to end the engagement.”

Chen Changsheng stared at the fish in the lake, his eyes unblinking. ”Since I've confirmed she's no longer here, I even more have to do it. And I have to do it quickly, or else I'm afraid she'll think I was deceiving her.”

Luoluo sat in the carriage, looking out the window at the walls of the academy, her face somewhat pale.

No one could understand just how much courage it had taken to deliver that news to Chen Changsheng.

Because she clearly understood that, given Chen Changsheng's temperament, the moment she gave him the news, there would be no more hope for herself.

As expected, Chen Changsheng quickly resolved to go to the Divine General of the East's Estate to end the engagement.

That fiancée of his had no more hope.

Let alone she who was just his student.

Outside the carriage, Jin Yulu seemed to have vaguely sensed something and sighed.

It was this gentle and pitying sigh that caused Luoluo to cry.

She drew down the curtain and sobbed in sadness. She thought to herself, none of you understand anything.

Those who had departed would always be more important in the hearts of others.

Those who had departed forever would possess an unimpeachable and eternal position in the hearts of others.

She understood this principle. At the age of five, after her beloved grandmother went to her eternal rest in the Red River, she understood.

She knew that she would never be able to defeat that girl who she had never even met, because that girl had already departed.

Or perhaps, only through parting could one really be remembered.

Luoluo raised her head, wiped the tears off her face, and raised the curtains once more. She gazed at the gradually receding trees of the Orthodox Academy.

She knew that the time had come for her to depart.

Teacher, I will definitely make you remember me.

She stubbornly thought.

Tang Thirty-Six noticed that Chen Changsheng's mood today was somewhat off. He asked, ”Are you okay?”