Chapter 193 - Those Gates (1/2)

In the end, Qiu Ling picked Jing Yi up and carried him away from that place without a word of explanation. The scene they happened upon next made him clench his teeth, though. Why was his inner self littered with the corpses of people he had killed?

Qiu Ling stopped regardless. At least, this seemed less conspicuous than the one before. Jing Yi glanced up at his face first when he was let down onto the ground and only then took a look around. He couldn't say that he wasn't surprised at what he saw. They were actually in front of a battlefield.

He took in a sharp breath and silently grabbed Qiu Ling's hand. Then, the two of them stared ahead, both not knowing what to say.

Jing Yi didn't understand what this was about. He could only surmise that Qiu Ling might have fought in a war before. After all, he was already an immortal. Who knew how long he had actually lived? If he saw people in danger, he naturally would have lent his assistance. But he probably felt bad since so many people had still lost their lives here.

Qiu Ling's thoughts were going in a completely different direction. He understood fully well what this in front of them was and why it was inside his inner self. He didn't like it any more than that dead woman from before, though.

Finally, Jing Yi couldn't take it any longer. ”Qiu Ling … What's this?”

The battle that made me king. Naturally, he couldn't say this, so he just sighed.

Jing Yi felt like this sigh was a confirmation of his thoughts. He patted Qiu Ling's back and gave him a smile when he looked down. ”I'm here with you.”

Qiu Ling nodded. ”That's right. You're here with me.” He hugged Jing Yi to his chest and smiled with satisfaction.

Honestly, too many bad things had happened in his life. Even he himself thought so. But if that wasn't the case, then he never would have met Jing He. He never would have fallen in love this much and would have missed out on that feeling of happiness. In the end, all this crap had probably been worth it.

Qiu Ling looked at the battlefield, his gaze landing accurately on the face of that hateful bastard. Back then, he hadn't understood why that man had been smiling at him like that. Only later when he had already been crowned and things had calmed down in the dragon realm did he finally hear that Jin Ling had similarly taken the throne of the demon realm. Ugh, he had actually helped that bastard to become king. He really wanted to slap himself.

Well, there was nothing that could be done about it. He had already killed the old king and there wouldn't have been any other way considering that the lives of all those people of their dragon race had been at stake. This was once again something he would do all the same if he got another chance.

He really couldn't understand why his inner self would want to trap him here. For every decision he had made in his life, he could say in good conscience that he would make them exactly like that again. So … What was this all about? Was he supposed to change his views or something?

He looked at the small person in his arms and a gentle smile lit his features up. These things … though he did them he felt like they weren't really his fault. All of that had begun before he had even been born. Why should he feel bad about it? Why should he even care about it?

Jing Yi looked up at that moment and caught his gaze. ”How do you feel?”

”Like all of this is pointless.”

”How so?”

Qiu Ling sighed. ”Even if there were some regrets, it couldn't be changed anyway. So what's there to be hung up about? Wouldn't it be better to look forward?”

”But you wouldn't be here if you could do that, would you? Something must be holding you back or else you never would have been trapped here.”

Qiu Ling caressed Jing Yi's cheek, silently gazing at those eyes that reminded him so much of Jing He's even though this was another reincarnation of his. ”But what if that is also something that can't be changed?”