Chapter 183 - Ming Woke Up (2) (1/2)

He summoned his strength to stand up but to no avail. So, he could only express his thoughts through words.

”Do you believe I am that kind of person? But I have done those despicable things to you. Do you still want me after what I've done?”

But no reply came. He hoped to hear her telling him she wanted him back or for her to say what he wanted to hear most, that she loved him too. However, to his dismay, she stopped speaking. He didn't know she couldn't hear him.

”I guess this is it. You really don't want me anymore.”

With Xinyi, it was the point in time where the river spirit scowled at Xinyi's hesitation to tell Ming what she truly felt. But Tubli didn't say a word, letting her only sense his disappointments. As a great being who had lived in the eons of time, he understood these two went through a lot in their relationship and the best solution for them was to admit their true feelings for each other.

After her soul searching, Xinyi wholeheartedly spoke. ”Ming, I want you to know that I really, really miss you. I want to see you smiling back at me again with those nice dimples of yours. I don't mind that you're arrogant and a fool sometimes, just come back to me. I think that's a common trait of great leaders.” She pouted. ”I don't know why I'm telling you this but please, come back to me. Please, please come back.”

Her reservations had entirely left her. Her chest puffed up, and she yelled. ”Don't leave me when we newly get along. I only started to know you. Please, please don't die. The truth is, I think…” She bit her lower lip and spoke with a soft tone of voice. ”I think… I'm falling in love with the arrogant you.”

She laughed to herself hearing she said 'the arrogant you'.

”Sorry for calling you arrogant but I really think of you that way. The river spirit wanted me to be honest with my feelings, so here I am telling you what I truly think of you. Yes, I think you're overbearing and arrogant, but you are also gentle and sweet… and caring. A devoted man to his cause. A man willing to die for his family and comrades, and... for me.”

She recalled what Shijian said that Ming saved her; that was why he got the poison. Tears fell, and she didn't care and let it keep on falling.

Xinyi sniffed before yelling again. ”You love me, right? I want to hear that from your mouth now, so wake up, you jerk. Don't leave me with those words. Don't leave me hanging like this. Wake up. Let your arrogance beat death now. And be arrogant again when you wake up. I don't mind at all. Say those words with your smiling face, not in your dying moments. So, come back.”

She shook his body and tightly clutched her warm hands on his icy hands again as she laid her head down on his chest. ”Please, please come back and tell me again that you love me.” Tears continue to fall on his bare chest.

The water rose again and drenched both of them.

With Ming, he clearly heard those words, making his joy soaring inside him.

”Yes, I'm a jerk, but just you wait. I will come back and tell you how much I love you.” He said as tears of joy streamed down his muddy face.

He struggled hard, but his so-called body wouldn't move at all.

”Move, don't make her wait, you idiot.” He told himself. ”She is now telling you she loves you too, so get up.”

He wrestled with all his might, summoning every ounce of strength in him. ”Get uuuuup.” He yelled but his body remained immobile.

Then he heard a male voice. ”Command the winds, wind Chiangda. Listen. That is not your true body. In fact, that place is your inner self where your essence lives. Try sensing your wife's healing essence is still inside you. Use it with your wind essence. Summon your power essence to revolve inside your true body.”

”Who are you?” Ming said.

”Stop asking. Just listen to me if you really desire to see your wife again and correct your mistakes.”

With those words, confidence burst out all the guilts and shame in him. Ming nodded inwardly and gazed at the raging tornado. ”Bring me up.”

With that command, a gust of wind swooped down from the tornado and brought him to his feet.

His mind searched for Xinyi's healing essence inside him. He saw a bluish light in his chest glowing brightly, but had that calm and assuring presence beside his transparent wind essence.

He let his wind surround the bluish light while thinking of her. His wind essence transformed into an opened palm. The bluish light, which seemed to have life, also transformed into a hand clasping the waiting transparent hand.