139 The Price (1/2)
At Yue Lao's words, Hui Yin's expression brightened.
Seeds of hope wormed its way into her heart, and as a gusty breeze blew her hair, the smile that curved her lips became so radiant that it flooded the world with a soft golden light. Doves flew out of ivory towers, angels descended from the heavens with their trumpets, and Yue Lao fell backwards as he shielded his eyes with his hands.
”Girl, stop! Your radiance is blinding me!”
But Hui Yin did not hear him. She seized his hands, and after clasping them in prayer, she said excitedly, ”Senior, you could help me? How?”
Yue Lao's white beard twitched, and his face turned solemn. ”You really want to know?”
”I want to know!”
”I don't think you want to know.”
”Senior, I want to know, I want to know!”
Glancing at the excited bunny wiggling her fluffy tail in front of him, Yue Lao could finally not resist her and said, ”Like I told you, to forge a new one, you need to break the old one.”
Hui Yin blinked at him owlishly. It was obvious that she didn't understand what he meant by that.
Yue Lao pinched the bridge of his nose. Slowly, he explained, ”You and that boy are bound by a red thread that I casted on you in your previous life. That is your 'old' gift. To replace it with a new thread binding you to another, you need to break the old one first.”
”Senior, I don't need a new one, just break the old one!”
Hui Yin gave a hard shake of her head. Red strings were too scary, she didn't want to entangle herself with another one in this lifetime, ah!
”Regardless of whether you want a new one or not, you need to break the old thread first, correct? I could help you, but there will be a high price.”
”A high price?”
Somehow, Hui Yin didn't think Yue Lao was talking about money.
”You need to catch the culprit.”
He said it blandly, like he was talking about an insignificant thing, but a shiver of apprehension crisped Hui Yin's skin. He couldn't possibly mean...
”You need to find the culprit threatening that boy.”
Like a balloon being poked by a sharp pin, Hui Yin's whole body deflated. How could she, with her meager resources and connections, find a person that Lu Shen himself was having some trouble to find? It was definitely mission impossible!
”Senior...”
Yue Lao shot her a look of disapproval, and Hui Yin swallowed back the rest of her words.
”It's that person who brought you and that boy together, and he was also the one who brought the two of you apart. It is imperative that you find him. Either in this lifetime or the previous one, that boy will never succeed on capturing him...”
Yue Lao felt deep pity in his heart. That boy in the future must have been still grieving. He thought he would be able to catch the culprit quick enough to go back to her, but that boy had truly overestimated himself. In the end, everything he did had came for naught...