Chapter 16 (2/2)

I asked, not understanding, ”What's so funny about showing one's true self? What's on tail is very beautiful!”

Night lightly laughed, so light it dissolved into the wind

”When I was young I lived in the Tai Hu, my birth mother was an ordinary red silk koi, from the time I was born I ith h the sky was or hoas the sea, I did not knohy my mother, day after day, would cast spells onto ed the point between his brows, his eyes did not look at the tail that carried the ht

”As the days passed, I slowly realised er, and my head birthed a sudden protrusion Under my stomach, my talons started to form, what's more no matter how many spells my birth mother tried to cast, she was unable to hidered kois slowly started to distant theure and my pale white colour, they called me a 'demon', saw me as an inauspicious creature I hid at the corner of the lake, and looked in envy at their fiery red colour, their tails flipping carefree like silk ribbons, now I realised s of inferiority”

”Mother told ence can ht of hope, and trained day and night, only hoping that h level of cultivation in me respect When I cultivated into the for to show my true self, and I would choose to wear fiery red clothes Even when I transformed myself, I would only choose the appearance of an ordinary koi, I always thought by doing so I would grow closer to the appearance of an ordinary fish but now that I think of it, I was like a frog living at the bottoave a low, very low, smile

”One thousand years later, the heavenly soldiers caht me to the Heavenly Realms At that point, I realised thatIt turns out I was not a koi, I was only a white dragon that alanted to be a fish” He lowered his lids and closed his eyes, he said lightly as if he was only describing the clouds and the wind in the sky, ”Actually, to always be that disdained anddeep in the well may have also been a kind of happiness”

I quietly listened to this frag, ly, ”So the two of us are ! I was a fruit sprite for the last four thousand years that turned out to be a frost flower Howindeed!”

Night opened his eyes, his black pupils concentrated onentwining kiss, he said, ”I don't want much, I don't ask that you love me deeply I only ask that every day you like me a bit, a little bit, as the days become months, as the months become years, as the years become our lives Would you?”

He said, ”I do not mind if love is shallow, I only ask that love lasts a lifetime”

Love, what really is this object? This seemed harder to understand that mutual cultivation I fell into a state of confusion In the Liu Zi pond, it seemed that there still laid Phoenix as intoxicated drunk by the osmanthus wine

I decided to highlight for those who did not catch it - when Jin Mi fell asleep, the Nightmare Beast ate her dream (which presumably had shown Jin Mi's 'ht had seen this dreahtmare Beast and broke the porcelain plate, because he was preparing breakfast for Jin Mi

Night uses the proverb, <贻笑大方> which h

One of the three greatest lakes in China

My thoughts of the ”red” was that red is the colour Night had alanted to be, and isn't it most ironic that this is the colour that Phoenix owns?

Comment:

I love Chapter 16 Night who has always been the paragon of self control as opposed to Phoenix who appears in the royal hall with his sword dripping with fresh blood Even after he sees the girl he likes/loves in ”mutual cultivation” with Phoenix, he falls silent but never quite loses his control until he does, when he shows Jin Mi his true self As you know, Night hates to show anyone his true self - it is his legacy of shaust This sho ht

But, then Jin Mi tells hi tail that he has been hiding for oh so long And, then Night tells her his story and his confession Night is this intriguing ence, manipulation and yet self-abase for just a bit, a little bit more each day to last for a lifetime That is all his asks of Jin Mi