Chapter 64 - 64. never again... (1/2)

At night that day...

She had just fallen asleep moments ago when her brows furrowed and she started mumbling incoherent things.

It wasn't hard to guess....she was having a dream, probably a bad one or maybe a nightmare.

In it she was always in the shadows as she gazed at the little prince, who loved to stroll in the gardens in his soft-golden palatial robes or just sit in a huge library reading...it was mesmerizing and she was always there, standing guard in the shadows.

The next second the beautiful scene changed into an inferno and the supposedly healthy and good-looking boy had now become emaciated and looked very unhealthy...he was lying in her embrace, unmoving.....his soul was no longer there.

He won't be opening his eyes ever again....he wasn't breathing...he was dead...

A sense of dread passed through her body, as she was drenched in cold sweat in an instant...

As if she was unable to save him, as if it was something under her control but before she knew it she had lost the helm... she couldn't protect the only being she dared attach to and loved in her lifetime.

She was too scared...it felt like it was her fault....everything felt surreal...she was trembling.

The feeling was heart-wrenching and felt like someone was using dozens of pins to poke at her unguarded heart, one prick at a time, all over her heart....it made her mind go numb as her eyes lost its lights.

No!!

She couldn't let that happen again!!...

Even she didn't know why she added an 'again'.

This time she'll protect him....definitely...till the world's end....nobody could harm him, he should always be that pure soul like in the dream, unblemished and white, never red.

She was awakened due to the increase in her temperature and heart rate, everything felt so real, as if, she was present there as if, she had suffered through that hell of losing her Xuan.

She hurriedly got out of her bed and with frantic steps, ran to his room which was just in front of her own.

Her heart-rate which had increased to an abnormal high finally calmed down when she finally saw her Xuanxuan quietly sleeping, his breathing calm.

'As surreal as it may seem, it was just a nightmare. Qin Meilin, something even close to that future should be deemed impossible, you'll make that what it all was, a nightmare! Calm down!', she disciplined her heart and set a goal where that sort of future should not be possible even in parallel worlds.

After this day, she became aware of a certain fact....and it was that, what Xuan meant to her could not be described by words. He was 'not a part' of her life but her lifeline itself.

Lossing him was not even an option, she became aware of the fact that the day he came, he poisoned her with himself, it was a poison which will definitely be life-threatening in the future but she also didn't need its cure.

He was the hope in her life that drives her will to live.....he can't leave her, ever!!