Chapter 26 (1/2)

Ice Fantasy Chapter 26 – First Wife Li Jing

When Li Jing was 130 years old that time, I went back to snow fog forest. I saw the adult Li Jing at the entrance of the forest and she was standing on the unicorn. Snow was falling slowly down and I looked at her like time had reversed - the first time when I saw Li Luo at the end of the long street like the beautiful cherry blossom flower.

I walked over and Li Jing came down from the unicorn, kneeling before me with both hands crossed before her chest. She looked up at me; even though she wasn’t speaking, I seemed to hear her voice in the air like what Li Luo said several hundreds years ago. “My king, I’m here to bring you home…”

I went over to hug her and started crying like a little kid. “Li Luo, I miss you so much.”

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Li Jing became my wife, the queen of Ren Xue Cheng. On the day of our marriage, the entire city was bathing in happiness. I had seen too much deaths and killing, and when this kind of happiness came so suddenly at me, I felt so lost and fl.u.s.tered.

I stared at the firmament outside of the window; I couldn’t help but to wonder whether fate was playing a joke on me. I didn’t mind sinking further into this current state of life even if it was just an hallucination.

The happiness that I have been wis.h.i.+ng for has begun to materialize, my heart was crying in happiness.

But something still bothered me because Li Jing has the same sorrow in her eyes just like Jian Tong. Maybe the several hundreds years of waiting has been too long and it almost made them want to give up waiting.

Both Li Jing and Jian Tong were by my side, because Jian Tong was from the sea palace; her spiritual power was outstanding, so she would always help with the matters relating to the city and I was impressed by her way of handling things. I would always see her tired figuring running around, reading all the dreams that the astrologers had given her and she would always tell me what’s happening within the kingdom and I would tell her what she supposed to do after that.

There were a few times when I saw Jian Tong sleeping in my palace, my heart hurt when I saw her exhausted self. Everytime I would carry her back to her palace, and then I would stay to watch her sleep. I had once told her not to tire herself so much but she just smiled at me. That bright smile was just like Lan Sang’s suns.h.i.+ne smile. “My king, I’m not tired. It’s a bliss to me to be able to help you in managing the kingdom.”

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And Li Jing has been the one giving me all the tender loving care.

Everytime I went back to my palace, I would always see Li Jing standing at the door, waiting for me with a red lantern in her hand. I saw her hair flying in the wind; her face looked so gentle and peaceful and I seemed to hear her voice in the wind. “My king, please follow me home…”

Every night seeing Li Jing holding the lantern, waiting for me, I would tell myself no matter how tired I was, there’s still Li Jing waiting for me back at the palace. This tiny action of hers was good enough to make me feel warm. That weak light in the dark allowed me to know the way home, making me know that there’s someone waiting for me at home.

I told Li Jing not to wait for me in the wind, as that made my heart ached but she just shook her head with a smile every time. And then she buried her head into my chest; I could smell the scent of her hair.

It seemed like I have gotten the happiness I wanted but was it true that I wouldn’t feel regretted?

I looked at the sky, forgetting to speak.

Deep down my heart, there’s still someone that I have been thinking about the most but he has yet to appear in my life. Li Jing and Jian Tong were aware about it - I have been waiting for my brother’s news but he seemed to have disappeared from this world. Or was this a joke that Yuan Ji played on me?

Everytime I looked at the sky, s.h.i.+’s face would appear in the sky and when the snow sleet bird cried and flew past the sky, I would always hear s.h.i.+’s voice. “Ge, how have you been? Are you happy? I miss you…”

One night, I struggled to wake up from a dream and then I started crying. I hugged Li Jing and cried because I suddenly realized that I may not be able to see my brother anymore.

Suddenly, I thought of Yuan Ji’s words: the revived person would become what that person wanted to become in the past life.

If s.h.i.+ still wanted to become my brother, it would mean I wouldn’t be able to see him anymore. Because my parents had already gone to the snow mountain, it was impossible to give birth at that place.

That night I kept sitting in the dark; everything related to s.h.i.+ came gus.h.i.+ng out once again. Those that had buried down in the heart came gus.h.i.+ng out like blood from the wound.

Li Jing just sat by my side, not saying anything. Her hair fell on my shoulders as she wrapped her arms around my waist. “Li Jing, I miss s.h.i.+ a lot.”