Chapter 101: Fallen in Love (1/2)
Chapter 101: Fallen in Love
Chen Rong huddled inside the cleft and like Old Shang, did notof battlefields, they could sense a difference in the air, particularly the hoofbeats that were causing the insects to cease chirping and the beasts to cease howling It wasthem feel a dreadful chill
Afraid to speak, afraid toforced her eyes to stay open as she motionlessly stared out into the darkness
They had stuffed the horse’s mouth with a piece of cloth Only that way could they keep their hiding place fro discovered
All of a sudden, a series of footsteps sounded, eerily approaching the turned pale Have the bandits found us? It was unlikely, but her heart was in such a knot that she had no way to think
The footsteps were getting closer and closer
They were indeed co to the cleft
Beads of sweat condensed on Chen Rong’s forehead Old Shang leaned back toward her, shakily saying: “M- our way”
His voice was filled with distress
Chen Rong wanted to contradict hi faster toward the cleft
Weblanched as white as a sheet
At this point, Old Shang hoarsely said to her, “Miss, letbut an old man ould die sooner or later His , and more importantly, she was a beautiful maiden No matter whose hands she fell into, she would either die or live a living death
With this thought, he gained courage and, in a short tier
Without waiting for Chen Rong’s answer, he jue and dashed outside
In a flash, he had gotten to the cleft’s entrance
Poking his head out to look, he saw a tall, strapping figure, blurry though it was, about a hundred paces away The flickering torch behind hilytoward the cleft’s entrance Some distance from him was the indistinct darkness where it appeared as if nu to a the exit If they drove out, they would be falling straight into their trap
Old Shang clenched his teeth, turned and whispered to Chen Rong: “Take care, miss!” Then he strode out
His footsteps pounded on the ground as he ran away fro his flight Sure enough, the tallHe snapped his head up to bark: “Who’s there?” He spoke with a huilance onlydeliberately ran up the hill, causing rolling rocks to ruht
As expected, the ave chase
He is chasing, and there are no cohorts behind hiht, Old Shang’s heart lightened as he began to frantically run ahead Behind hiht caused him to move clu away fro once Old Shang left
With her right hand holding the whip and her left hand holding her hairpin, she kept her eyes wide open and unblinkingly stared into the dark
It was very quiet The only thing she heard was the sprinting steps going farther and farther fro the held her breath, slowly clie, and tentatively walked out
Starlight sparsely dotted overhead so that Heaven and Earth were not subed in total darkness
Step by step, she moved to the cleft’s entrance
She stepped on soht herself by propping the whip’s handle on the ground
She slowly pull herself up, and then froze
In the bleak night, a white figure appeared at the cleft’s entrance
The ht?
She almost screahtened, the white figure spoke His voice eet and light, and ?”
wang Hong! Translated by the ha!
So this hat a man in despair would feel when he saw a ray of hope, when he found joy within his grief
Her legs gave out as she slid to the ground, shakily asking: “wang Hong?”
“It is I” Translated by the haant and light She didn’t need to look at hi to her in his serene way, s’s eyes instantaneously turned red She chokingly ran to him
She ran desperately In the blink of an eye, she had gotten before him She was so astonished and overco else She just flew into his ar began to cry “Why did it take you so long?” she trehtly beat his chest with her sain: “Why did it take you so long, why did it take you so long?”
All of her happiness, relief, and e tears and one single line: “Why did it take you so long?”
Chen Rong hadn’t known that she was looking forward to his rescue thisstretched his ar was as war The are and steady They were the stronghold she had longed for, had azed at from her confines, but had never dared to wish for herself
Like soed hiht for far too long She burried her face in the crook of his neck and, as she felt his war Hong…” again and again, she sobbed
Under the stars, wang Hong seemed to be startled by her passionate calls Sohtened around her
Chen Rong dabbed her tears on his collar, her soft and fragrant lips occasional grazing his pulses as she sobbed “wang Hong, wang Hong, wang Hong……” Gradually, her sobbing reduced into stillness
At this ti reached out to carry her
He hadn’t appeared to be that strong, but he was holding her quite effortlessly
He carried her forward two steps and gently deposited her in the carriage
Chen Rong clutched his sleeve,you”
“I won’t go,” he gently assured her In the dark, his eyes glea down at her, he held out his hand to wipe her tears
When his slender hand ertips brushed across her lips After ly said, “You are here, where would I go?”
Chen Rong calrasp on his clothes
wang Hong alsoonto hi her face in his chest Her arms wound around hi Hong lifted her up and gently placed her on his lap Then, he languidly leaned back against the seat
Now hugging Chen Rong in a ers brushed across her cheek to wipe her tears “There’s nothing to be afraid of any hummed She buried her face in his arms “Now that you’re here, I’m not afraid”
With her arms wrapped around his waist, she lay still in his e fro Hong hummed Translated by the ham ster master
Like a chatterbox that had been opened, Chen Rong went on to talk: “There were nine of thee was stuck in the ht I was done for” She sounded terrified
wang Hong stroked her hair, coht now”
Both his action and words were sih to take away the panic fro’s voice and she calmed down on the whole
She hid in his ar, I killed him with my own hands I cracked the whip and broke his neck He had bled soontoin detail
wang Hong gently coh her hair, lowered his head and very softly said, “Stop thinking about it They deserved to die”
Again, his silad you’re here,” she , I used to think there was no one who cared about lad you’re here”
Her voice drew long, and so did her affection
wang Hong gazed down His extraordinarily starry eyes quietly watched the exhausted Chen Rong finally closing her eyes in ease
…
So suddenly screa, you have to go save Old Shang!”
wang Hong stroked her hair, softly shushi+ng her: “Sleep, he’ll be fine”
His tone and voice had a strange calht sonorous breathing slowly followed
She had slipped into a slu cold wind blew through the curtain, insects chirped around them, and beasts roared fro to do with the had blossoe He held her as she lay in his ar…
When the stars in the sky had becoave a start and widened her eyes screa! Old Shang!”