339 Ice That Refuses to Mel (1/2)
Yun Yang wiped away the pile of snow on the cenotaph and sat down, cross-legged.
”I have been thinking long and hard for a while now.”
”Sister Yue, was this your plan all along? To pretend as if you were dead, to cover your name and to escape? You fed me so many amazing things before you left… Sister Yue, if you were going to die, why did you put in so much thought?”
”I can't believe that you left, just like this.”
” That has been on my mind for many days. The more I think, the more doubts emerged. Sister Yue, you didn’t die after all, did you?”
”Fifth brother, do you know about this?”
”No matter what, I can finally rest assured. All this while, my heart, and hope have been dangling and hanging on a thread. Even though I knew that it wouldn't help much, I can't but remain so.”
”Soon enough, the entire Residence of Yun might no longer exist...”
”It seems like young ninth has to open a new path again ...”
Yun Yang’s face was bitter, ”The mighty Nine Supremes, renowned and influential! Fifth brother, do you know that I always feel that you all aren't really dead ... instead, you all have been looking up on me... but how can you be so cruel, to look at me being alone and shouldering all the burdens?”
”Oh, how I wish that you all really did watch over me, looking down from somewhere, encouraging me to persist and continue on, instead of being dead... In that case, I will definitely turn against all of you when we meet and to demand a total calculation for how much you all have put me through. ”
”Initially I thought I had been planning well for the matter pertaining to Lei Dongtian. However, in the end, I have gotten the Residence of Yun involved. No matter how flawless the plan is, it all goes awry when it is executed! Well, how can the reality always suit one’s wishes? I'll just let bygones be bygones. However, the development so far is still within the plan. I have been preparing to deal with the matter. However, the issue has taken many twists and turns, and in the end, the Residence of Yun will inevitably be exposed... ”
”After this incident and a thorough check is made, it is impossible for the Four Seasons Tower to miss out the fact that I am the current Supreme Wind...”
”The danger and uncertainty of the future are becoming increasingly set in stone.”
”However, no matter how hard it is, I'll carry on and persist until the day we meet!”
”That day will come... that day will definitely arrive!”
...
Ji Lingxi and Yue Rulan were standing in front of the window, watching Yun Yang, who was sitting quietly on the snowy ground.
Both of the ladies felt a strange feeling surge through their hearts as they gazed upon the peaceful scene.
Despite being in this worldly realm, Yun Yang gave them an impression that he was standing above the clouds, lonely, dreary and desolate.
He was a piece of ice that refused to melt, isolated from the rest of the world and discouraging strangers from coming near.
There were so many precious and valuable emotions in this world, yet none of them seemed to relate to this Young Master Yun that was sitting before them!
He seemed to have rejected and refused all goodness and warmth, turning away everything and anything that could soften his heart.
He had always portrayed a bearing that was elegant and gentle. However, his kind of gentleness and elegance was sterile and cold, a behavior that most people would find hard to approach and harder to accept.
Just like now.
He was sitting alone on the snow ground, radiating a strong sense of resistance and contrast.
Resisting everything and anything that came close to him.
He would rather remain lonely and desolate.
”Why?” whispered Yue Rulan as her fine brows creased in puzzlement.
”Why?” Yue Rulan frowned as she murmured the question in a low voice.
Ji Lingxi felt her heart aching.
She wished to get closer to him, yet he had been too stubborn to allow her to do so. Rejecting her advances again and again, with great determination. Every time she felt as if their gap had been narrowed, Yun Yang would always actively, consciously or unconsciously, widen the distance again, back to a frigid state.
Yun Yang finally stood up.
He smiled forlornly, and a mist of warm breath left his lips.
Within the freezing cold and snowy atmosphere, the long breath was like a white dragon, rushing out of his mouth and slowly fading away.
It seemed like he had exhaled all the warmth that he had received from this world. His spine remained straight as a sword, his body stiff and upright.
After standing quietly in that position for a while, he then turned around and walked towards her direction.
…
”Elder cousin Yun?” Upon looking at Yun Yang's expression, Ji Lingxi felt the pangs of fear and anxiety.
The panic was not for herself, but for Yun Yang. The Yun Yang she was looking at now was no longer the one that she had spent days, mornings and nights with. He seemed to have donned a layer of icy armor, and swathed a cloak of cold reticence about himself.
It was yet another layer of aloofness.
Ji Lingxi could sense from her heart that Yun Yang was growing increasingly distant, and this made her extremely anxious.
Yun Yang seemed like a lonely cloud above the sky, drifting away from the worldly realm, floating higher and higher while becoming more and more elusive, to the point that it was beyond reach.
”There is nothing to worry about.” Yun Yang beamed gently, ”I have brought along some valuables for the both of you.”
”What kind of valuables?” asked Ji Lingxi with an aching heart as she stared into Yun Yang's eyes.
You wish to remain like this?
Won't your heart feel tired?
So much pain, endless stress, and so many other burdens.
All of these have been placed on you, weighing down your heart.