Chapter 109: Perfectly Frank (2/2)

She turned around at the cleft where abandoned pots and pans were strewn all over Not long ago, this place was still bustling with the troops and their horses

She didn’t even knohere Nurse Ping had gone in this e looked around, wrapped her ar herself toward the sunlight in the west, which was also toward the direction the ar sun went down

Eventually, the last ray of light also faded from the horizon where heaven and earth met

Eventually, stars filled the sky and out came the crescent moon

The earth ide and heaven was vast

Chen Rong trekked on

Time did not stop

Gradually, there re and voices sounded fro didn’t knohether they were real or whether they were her hallucinations

At this time, she felt a sharp pain under her soles She knelt down to take her shoes off After taking a look at her blistered feet, she put her shoes on again and faintly sly, she had walked for an entire day…

A night wind blew past and brought along a bone-deep chill though it had been sunny during the day

Chen Rong wrapped her arhter around herself and shrank her neck into her collar

She slowly looked up but did not otherwise make a move

In her purview, at the end of the road, a tall horse was carrying a stalwart ht, the rider and his horse appeared as though they were co from the far end of the earth, and fro rubbed her eyes

He eventually reached her

His electrifying eyes fixed upon her under the stars At last, he slightly bent down, offered his hand and ordered: “Up!”

Seeing Chen Rong still rubbing her eyes, her beautiful face now besmirched with dirt and tears, his voice softened despite hi finally broke from her trance She hurriedly took his hand

He pulled her up and deposited her onto the saddle

He stretched his right hand around her waist, kicked the horse’s girth, and dashed forward

In thehooves, the chorusdress as well as the heavy breathing of the ’s ears

All of a sudden, she burst into tears

The flood gate broke too frantically and too fast Chen Rong wanted to wipe her tears as soon as she understood as happening but they came out even more violently

All she could do was hide behind her sleeves and cry

Her sobs ly it seeh!” Ran Min i who quickly stopped

Fro Qilang so o to hi her heart out because she wasbit her lips She did not turn around, irl You left me for an entire day, a-and didn’t come back until now… You treated me so awfully but you won’t even let me cry?”

Ran Min didn’t expect her to cry so disconsolately for such a reason He stopped in his tracks and felt like laughing out loud

After having blurted out her grievances, Chen Rong thought of her previous life when she had died in the flaly walked away at the tirieved when he left her for just half a day now? Why would she even cry over a heartlessfelt a pang in her heart It wrung her and pricked her She hastened to hide her face behind her sleeves and sat still

Behind her, Ran Min harrumphed to see her so “You can be quite daft, missy When you said what you said, you should’ve expected it to end our relationshi+p” Whatever hearound Chen Rong

…

Under the starlight, all was quiet

She wasn’t sure howof the Chen House”

“Aye”

“Forget wang Qilang”

Chen Rong froze at his words

He told her to forget wang Qilang! He actually told her to forget wang Qilang!

Did he still want her even though she plainly said she didn’t care a whit for him?