539 Imprudent! (2/2)

Now, she met another person who seemed quite close to Chen Xiu as he called her Sister Xiu intimately with ease. So, it made her very curious to know the answer.

Han Bohai took a minute before he replied, ”Sister Xiu was... imprudent!”

”Huh?” Ying was dumbfounded. She didn't expect this reply. She had only heard people praising Chen Xiu. It was her first time hearing something so absurd. So, it took her a moment to react. ”Are you sure we are talking about the same person? That Goddess Xiu known as the graceful and peerless beauty was actually imprudent? Have you lost your mind?”

Han Bohai chuckled and shook his head, ”I'm being very honest. No one knew Sister Xiu better than me. I stayed with her for over four years. And I really can't find another way to best describe her.”

”What about her smile lighting up the dark night?”

Han Bohai gave her a sad smile as he answered, ”What's the point when she never felt happy in her heart?”

”What about her being honest, funny, and reassuring?”

Han Bohai sighed, ”I don't where you heard that but it's all true in some way. However, what's the point when she was never honest with herself? She couldn't even reassure herself!”

”Then what about her being a strong and kind woman?”

Seeing her agitation, he held her hand and patted it saying, ”That's also true. She was the strongest, kindest, and the purest person I ever knew. But what's the point when people used that same kindness against her?”

Ying was really feeling disturbed as she murmured the last sentence, ”Then was she really like a rose? Beautiful to see but fragile to touch?”

Han Bohai thought about this sentence for a moment before nodding, ”I believe that's another way to describe her.”

”Then why did you call her imprudent?”

”What else should I call her? If she wasn't foolish, she wouldn't have blindly trusted others' facade of goodwill.”

”Is that foolishness of hers that killed her?”

Han Bohai licked his dry lips as he started again, ”Yes!” He took a pause before adding, ”Sister Xiu was in fact just a very simple girl. Even her dreams were very simple. The only problem of hers was that she was naive enough to believe in the goodness of this world.” He looked at Ying and smiled as he went on, ”But I can't blame her for that foolishness either. Because it was her naivety in the first place that made me want to know her better. I also wanted to stay close to see whether she was an angel or a devil in the skin of an angel.”

”What did you find?” Ying was hugging a throw pillow as she listened to him attentively. Oddly, she felt like she was listening to a story that was getting her emotions to stir up.

Han Bohai placed his hand on her head as he answered, ”In the end, she was neither an angel nor a devil. She was just a normal human. Someone who grew up in the darkness of this world but was left untainted from that darkness because of how brightly she shined. However, just like any other human, she was also eventually hurt by this world.”

His eyes felt hot and turned his eyes away from her to look around as he mumbled, ”If miracles do happen, I only wish for her to come back.”