Maître de l'ambiguïté - Chapitre 89
"Xiao Ci!"
Murong Yin's voice came through!
Murong Ci collapsed in grief. She turned to look at Murong Yin, who was being wheeled in, tears streaming down her crazed eyes. "...Thirteenth Brother...I beg you...don't stop me..."
Murong Yin stared intently at her.
She gripped the dagger tightly, embraced Hua Chen, and let out a long, heart-wrenching sob, "I'm going to find Hua Chen. He'll be waiting for me on the road to the underworld, his soul will be there..."
We will die together, our vows will never waver.
That's what they agreed on, so why did he lie to her?!
He sacrificed his life to save hers!
In the dark stone cave, Murong Ci tightly embraced the dead Hua Chen, burying her face deeply in his cold chest, trembling all over, letting out desperate, heart-wrenching cries...
When she was fifteen, Hua Chen, dressed in red, stood in front of her holding a flower spear, his eyes filled with a bright, clear smile like a lake, and his face full of childlike pride.
"Sister Xiaoci, once I've mastered martial arts, I won't let anyone bully you anymore."
...
When he was twelve, his face flushed, he stammered in front of her, "I...I will marry Sister Xiaoci when I master martial arts, I...I promised Thirteenth Brother..."
...
At eighteen, in the dungeon, his pained and desperate gaze, through the disheveled hair that obscured his face, was fixed on her coldly smiling face, and his voice suddenly trembled with bitterness.
"There was a woman who was always bullied and insulted. I promised her that I would rise to the rank of Grand General and make her a glamorous Grand General's wife... so that she would never be bullied again in her life..."
Murong Ci lifted her head from his embrace.
She gripped the blade tightly, gazing at his face, which had been dead for some time, tears streaming down her face onto his cold cheeks.
"Hua Chen, wait for me. I'll go with you to the Yellow Springs and the River of Oblivion, to die together!"
She said this to him softly.
You can't die!
Inside the stone cave, a resolute yet sorrowful voice suddenly rang out. Murong Yin gazed intently at Murong Ci, who was determined to die, his eyes filled with tears of grief.
"If you die! Hua Chen's gruesome death will be worthless!!"
Murong Ci froze!
She suddenly hugged Hua Chen's mangled body tightly, the sharp knife in her hand trembling, tears streaming down her face.
She closed her eyes tightly, avoiding Murong Yin's gaze. "I didn't know he would be lonely walking the road to the underworld alone. Let me go and keep him company, let me go—"
"Others may not know, but you—you cannot fail to understand why Hua Chen wanted to die, what was the point of his reckless actions?!"
Don't say those things to me—
Murong Ci suddenly opened her eyes, her gaze filled with desperate sorrow and fear, and screamed frantically, "Don't tell me! I don't want to hear it!!"
"You must listen! Unless you want him to die with his eyes wide open!!" Murong Yin burst into tears. He knew she was heartbroken, but he still insisted on continuing.
"In this world, anyone can give up their own life, anyone can choose not to live, but you cannot die. You, Murong Ci, have no right to choose death! You must live..."
Murong Ci trembled all over.
She held Hua Chen's body, her eyes filled with overwhelming grief. Her mind was in turmoil; all she wanted was to die with Hua Chen, for that would be her final release.
"Thirteenth Brother..."
She looked at Murong Yin, her face streaked with tears, just like the pitiful and sorrowful little girl who was always bullied and insulted.
"Thirteenth Brother, please..."
Please, please don't continue.
Please, please let me go with him!
"Survive..."
Murong Yin's voice choked with sobs, his grief mingling with the hot tears streaming from his eyes. He gazed intently at the sorrowful and desperate Murong Ci, and spoke each word carefully.
"Your life, Murong Ci, was bought with Hua Chen's death. For Hua Chen's sake, you—must—live—up!"
For Huachen...
I must survive...
She understands, she understands everything!
Pain and sorrow overwhelmed everything in an instant, coming in like a tidal wave and completely engulfing her!
Tears streaming down her face, Murong Ci tightly held Hua Chen's mangled body in her arms with her one intact hand. His body was so cold, so very cold, that the cold seeped into her heart.
He gave his life for hers!
He wanted her to live!