Chapter 242 (1/1)
Chapter 24: The Tears of the Deep Blue Sea (Part 2 of 2)
Today when I just openedIt was so dazzling that old stars When I finally stabilisied my consciousness and looked carefully, I was truly shockedWasn't the person in frontGrandfather Buddha? How could he be so easily seen? This host of”Xu Feng greets the Buddha” Xu Feng? So his real naThe Buddha was sitting cross-legged on top of the lily platforlance it was as if he saw through everything, ”You do not need to ask, what can be done, even without asking will be done, what cannot be done, even if you ask a hundred times, it will also end up empty”I felt the body offroze for aunderstands this logic I will have to face the consequences of what I caused, but” He paused for a long tiain, even one glance is fine if not one glance, even hearing one word from her”Although his looks were ugly, his voice was nice to listen I did not knohy but today his voice was hoarse and broken, like a brokenhearted child with choked sobs After a long while, he continued, ”Her soul has not completely dispersed, I can still feel her presence but I do not knohere she is I don't ask for anything else, I just ask for souidance”Grandfather Buddha let out a breath and said, ”Before your eyes, at the heart of your eyes, only your heart can see”
What profound words Such a smart soul like me could not understand, I did not know if my host understood ”Grateful for Buddha's guidance” Hearing his tone, it was clear he also did not understand He held his breath for a long ti important to say, finally he opened his mouth, ”I don't know if there is still a thread of hope?”Buddha replied, ”A foolish thought will lead to an end, but an intelligent thought has a chance of revival” Grandfather Buddha was sincere and war whatever he was asked, but the ansere not so that anyone could understand This hy Buddha was Buddha, and I was only a small soulAfter thinking deeply for a while, I fell asleepWhen I awoke, I saw that my host had returned to his residence But in front of hiht blue robes that I had never seen before His robes were loose like an elegant God”I once thought ere equal rivals with our own pride and position Just as long as we continued facing each other, one of us will trius there was never a loss or victory, never a right or wrong, there is only what is ly, you calculated the end wrongly full of regret, but unable to return to the start” The light blue robed gentleently, but the space between his brows had a sadness and regret that could not be released, like a gush of sad spring wind that had missed its time”Wrong?” My host slowly opened his ly, it is only I never calculated Unless even till now you still don't understand that what '? I never calculated, I don't believe I s” The blue robed gentleman appeared to have been pricked at a sensitive spot and did not answer After a while, he said, ”Sui He has been imprisoned by me”Hearing this,that he knew but his heart was not in it I followed his eyes and saw a parchentlemen's robeBefore he left, he gave pieces of paper to ive you Although I a and truly want to keep it, but what is not mine will never be mine”My host received the yellowed papers, looked at the retreating back of the blue robes and said four words, ”Never to fight again”The blue robed gentle directly at ain” With that, he left Four words to end all hateBut why did I find the yellowed papers a little fa flipped one by one, they became more and more familiar Every piece had a drawing, but the skill of the artist was truly poor Let's not speak of others but the drawing in front, after seeing half a day then I realised it was a bird But, what kind of bird it ould be hard to tell it was a strangely shaped croith a long tail, but also looked like a phoenix that had dropped all its feathers, truly hard to tell, very hard to tellI was shakingskills when I saw a silhouette on one of the paper Very few strokes, but a truly extraordinarily proud gentle es, it led one to start to fantasize, led one to want to step into the painting to find out his true selfAfter my host flipped the papers finished, I realised thator standing, scolding or angry, although it was always the side or the back, but the depictions were truly , one smile, one frown, it was as if the person was before one's eyesI couldn't help being confused, this person drew the flowers and birds so badly, but why just this gentleman was drawn so spectacularly true to life?”Jin Mi”Why would he suddenly call out this nas?I saw his long slirip, his force was so big that the ends of his fingertips turned white, as if he wanted to catch so in deep pain”Why are you so silly so silly I thought I was already silly but ould have thought that you were even more silly than me!””Why were you so silly? I taught you for a hundred years, you did not learn anything, but only learned this idiotic silliness? Stupid!””It's enough for me to be silly, but why are you so silly too? do you know I cannot bear”I was truly dizzy by his ue on silliness But his disdain of stupiditysilly? Didn't he hear that silly people had their own silly happiness?”From the start, I knew that you were the one who saved me that rabbit, from the first moment I saw, I could tell it was you, but I pretended that I did not know because I knew that ifeach other again, it would be h you lied to h I reminded myself in every moment that I must hate you, I must personally kill you, but once I faced you, the best defence and plans would break without a fight, not even worth speaking about Not only could I not do it, I even secretly looked forward to seeing you, as if I was poisoned, even I disdained myself””That night, I was not drunk but I pretended I was drunk, hugging you, hugging you tight, having you, you really made me drunk I was secretly satisfied and wished that this would last forever As if any hatred between us was only the passing of a cloud, such a thought scared me, made me hate ive up my life and pride””I purposely called Sui He's name, only to remind myself not to be seduced by you But, once I saw your lonely expression, sa chaotic your steps hen you left,was painful, I wanted to chase after you and tell you it was not what you thought””That day, when you came to the Demon Realms, when you actually toldin that h even my hair knew that it was a lie, but I believed it, I couldn't be myself My mouth was full of disdain for you, but my heart had warmed from your words””I forced s to you, I said to you, 'If you said you love ain, I will immediately kill you Say once, kill once!' But I knew that if you just said it once , ruthlessly keep you by e to the back of my head but, you left, how could you just walk away like this?””Seeing you transform into a sheet of frost flowers that evaporated away I thought I died Even your knife that stabbed through my core was not as painful but, I didn't die why are you always so cruel?”Hearing his self s, I did not kno to feel, I only hated that I could not irape to make him happyBut how could I transform? Just as I was troubled and did not knohat to do, I feltaroundon me, finally it froze me into positionA thought flashed in ood!But it was too late I saw myself like the rosin that freezes theme It turns out I was one of the tear drops residing in his eyes, from the start, ere fated to separateIn this ness actually arose in me In the ly deentlemanIt was unexpected, and yet also within expectations It was fated in life I sighed and slid down
Final Chapter: Blosso Flowers and the Full MoonSpring had arrived early again The peach blossoms were in full bloomThe troupe frohter fro north towards the CapitalAlthough the district was small, the roads were not easy to travel As the troupe just left the border of the district, the sun was already setting Seeing the sun falling with the , the troupe sat down the sedan to rest But ould have thought that after the sunset, a ball of fiery red clouds would burst forth, in athis, everyone was dazed speechless like wooden chickensSuddenly, a clear bird cry could be heard from deep within the red clouds A h the sky, its tail were eight ”chi” long, sparkling with brilliance, so grand that no one could look directly at it”Phoenix! It's a phoenix!” Theloudly and the rest regained consciousness froht in their hearts, ”It was truly a! A phoenix has arrived! A phoenix has arrived! If such a sacred bird appeared, unless unless Jin Imperial Concubine would actually become the Empress?!”However, no itatedly, theon her headpiece did not even shake once, as if all these ithin expectations She sat steadily like a mountain, without even half of the curiosity of a normal personThe fire phoenix flew above the troupe, everyone became respectful and fearful at once, they did not even kno to breatheThe phoenix carried its long brilliant tail and coiled once above the people's heads A big red bird bridge rose and started to spread under the startled gaze of everyone”Not good! The Phoenix has come to snatch the bride!”Under the glow of the moon, at the side of the steepblossoolden yelloers, there was a bright redbut also peaceful, as if it had already been waiting there for very long, very longAlready five thousand years have passed It turned out that what it aiting for was this truly lively snatch wedding! Far away, green rocks under an arched bridge, a bend of spring waterA handsoolden yellow canola flowers autoht route A gush of wind blew by bringing with it a light flower rain and also blowing open the fiery red sedan veil, blowing away the bride's red headpieceThe handsoentleman opened a paper umbrella to shi+eld from the sky full of flower rain He leaned forith his hand stretched out, ”Jin Mi, I have come”
The htly smiled, and placed her hand into his palm, she blinked and said, ”But, I have already accepted the little eifts” The entleman said, ”Ah, what a waste of the six thousand years of divine essence I prepared”After hearing this, the ripped tight his hand and hurriedly rose frouess I just have to make do”Everything was silent except for the sound of the birds and the bees Under thewas perfectIndicates perfect conjugal/matrimonial blissComments: I absolutely loved Chapter 24 which made me tear the first ti in love was rather abrupt - I never really understood why Phoenix fell in love with Jin Mi, but he did - truly and irrevocably But, I like how in Chapter 24 there is no doubt how ht it was a nice touch how the final watery form Jin Mi took was Phoenix's tears - there's a circularity and perfection in that as a metaphor for their love storyThe final chapter is such a non-chapter, but it's really cute and returns us to theof the book A, Phoenix waited for five thousand years for Jin Mi and they are finally unitedI think it's assumed that Jin Mi has her memories as a God even after she was reincarnated as a huether At last!There are five epilogues after this - two are set in the story timelines and three will reflect Phoenix and Jin Mi's post-ht more deeply then!