Chapter 477 - A Confession (1/2)

As the couple continued cuddling while watching the sea of stars and talking of random things, a shooting star fell.

Xiong Zhi saw it.

She tugged Linfeng's sleeve.

”A shooting star. Let's make a wish.”

She immediately closed her eyes and put her hands together.

'I will marry Linfeng and live with him until we are one hundred twenty-three. Oh, plus healthy children and grandchildren. The more the merrier.'

'I will marry Linfeng, live with him until we are one hundred twenty-three, and have healthy…'

Xiong Zhi continued to pray seriously.

Linfeng: …His serious and cool CEO girlfriend believed in things like this?

”Are you done making your wish?” the woman suddenly asked, still with her eyes closed.

Linfeng fought a chuckle and put his hands together as well, mimicking her, but his eyes stayed on her.

The slender yet shapely figure of a woman under the starry night sky was glamorous. Her lips were swollen by his kissing, but they were tightly pursed right now like she was praying hard. Her brows were locked in seriousness.

What was she wishing so hard about?

”Done?”

Xiong Zhi asked again, her eyes flickered, about to open.

Linfeng closed his eyes and wished.

He had grown up and no longer believed in things like this, because by experience, he knew that one must make his wish happen with his own hands.

Still, seeing how she prayed so seriously, he suddenly felt that there was nothing wrong with it at all. It was not like it would cause any harm.

But if ever there was a force out there that might make these wishes come true…

”I wish that I can always make Xiong Zhi happy and safe, for the rest of my life.'”

”…You should not speak your wish out loud,” Xiong Zhi chided with heated cheeks.

”Oh, I said it out loud? Sorry. I will make another one,” he unashamedly chuckled.

'That's my first wish. My second wish, please let me marry her and heal the wounds in her heart.'

”Done?”

Xiong Zhi asked when Linfeng opened his eyes.

”Done,” Linfeng smiled.

”Your wish. Is it similar to the one earlier?”

”Hmmm… Who knows? Only the stars would know.”

He looked up at the stars acting like a mysterious person.

Xiong Zhi lightly poked him on the waist, but there was a smile in her eyes.

”It's unexpected. Who would have thought Her Majesty, the heiress of the Xiong Empire, actually believe in this stuff?” Linfeng teased her.

There was a pause, before Xiong Zhi looked up at the night sky.

Her eyes seemed as if it was filled with stars.

”In that, past I didn't. But ever since that dream…” Xiong Zhi trailed off.

She felt the eyes of the man focused on her face.

She smiled wryly. ”I realized that there are mysterious and miraculous things in this world.”

In the past, she had never believed in things like superstitions or mystical creatures such as angels or witches.

However, ever since she had met that woman that exactly look-alike of Lu Yin Ze's grandmother in a place and time she could not comprehend, she started believing in supernatural things and miracles.

What could explain her time-traveling or her rebirth?

She was sure of one thing, that life clearly happened and she was given a second chance to fight for her fate.

Linfeng stayed quiet, waiting for her to continue.

Xiong Zhi looked at him.

”Would you believe if I say that, that there is one wish of mine, which should have been impossible to happen, but actually came true?”

”…Something impossible came true?”

”Yes, it did.”

The desperate wish for a second chance, to return back to when Linfeng was still alive, and love him back with all her heart.

…And it was granted.

She could feel her eyes slowly warming up.

She blinked the wetness away.

The girl who stood in a desolate mansion, who cried for help, and who sat soullessly under the rain… was now sitting under the sea of stars with her beloved, smiling happily.

The wind was cold, but she only felt warmth.

She was truly grateful.

Xiong Zhi held Linfeng's hand.

”Actually… There, there really is something I want to tell you, all this time.”

Her eyes looked down at the interlinked hands.

Linfeng swallowed.

He sensed that the air had changed.

He knew that Xiong Zhi was probably talking about the earlier interrupted confession.

It seemed that she had decided.

Would she be able to tell him until the end?

He squeezed her hand gently to give her strength.

A period of silence passed.

The wind blew coldly while the stars above shimmered.

Xiong Zhi finally spoke.

”I had…a very long dream.”

”It was a bad dream. A really… terrible nightmare.”