“These flowers are blooming beautifully.” He reached out to touch a white chrysanthemum. Bright red liquid dripped from his wrist onto the white flower, startlingly. The chrysanthemum was too red in the sunlight, blood dripping intermittently between the flower stems, unbearable to witness.
All the strength in my body seemed to be drained in an instant, tearing my heart.
“It was him. By what right…” My voice was hoarse, my body continuously stepping back.
e cruel… I said I would find the last medicinal catalyst to dissolve his blood and then lead him to death, but he was unwilling. He has already endured to his limit.” Shui Ruohan continued smiling, as if the wound on his wrist didn’t exist.
“I’ll take you to a doctor.” I didn’t want to see his heartbreaking smile anymore. I reached out to support him, but he collapsed weakly among the flowers. I knelt down with him. He lay lightly in my arms, a satisfied smile at the corner of his mouth. I uneasily caressed his increasingly pale face. “It’s my fault…”
“This is my only way out.” His hand lay casually among the flowers, blood gradually spreading.
“How did it become like this? Does Liu Yu want to do more?” Would he rather die without the antidote than let Shui Ruohan live?
“Listen.” He tilted his pale face, his bleeding hand difficultly rising to caress my face. “No matter whether you can recover your memories or not, don’t go against the Prince. He’s more terrifying than you imagine. There’s nothing in the world he can’t obtain, nothing he can’t do.”
A bloody smell seeped into my nose, my face feeling wet…
“How can I repay Ruohan’s kindness? I can’t…” I lowered my head, closing my eyes and forcing back the tears about to surge out.
He saw through my small action and laughed, “I like seeing your uninhibited smile.”
I blinked my moist eyes, pulling at the corner of my mouth, but found I had no strength to raise a smile. “Ruohan, did you love me in my memory before I lost it?”
“There’s a portrait of my beloved in the bundle.” He laughed like a mischievous cat, more gentle than the breeze.
