“A few months, so what? Love is love. If two people have been together for years but feel like it’s the first day, what does that mean? A few months were enough to change everything for me, Yue Lianyi, and that’s enough.” Her gaze never left the figure on the recliner, hoping, waiting for the moment he would wake up, clinging to her last bit of will. “No! I won’t let you die!” Xiaotu shouted loudly. She admitted, Yue Lianyi’s words had truly moved her. Love is love! How freely she spoke of love. How could she bear to let such a woman fade away, especially when she was doing it for her own husband, her beloved… Xiaotu felt a pang of guilt…
With a flick of her wrist, cherry blossom petals flew out from her palm, fluttering down, filling the air with the scent of peaches mixed with cherry blossoms. The petals of cherry blossoms mixed with those of peach blossoms, making it impossible to distinguish one from the other… Glowing with a brilliant golden light, they scattered around Yue Lianyi, gradually merging into her body. Just as everyone felt amazed, thinking Yue Lianyi was saved, and the worry in their hearts eased, suddenly, Yue Lianyi raised her hands, using all her strength to push Xiaotu’s hands away. “It’s no use, don’t waste your energy on me, go check on him!” Her voice was intermittent, her gaze always on the man on the recliner. “Girl!” A familiar voice murmured, like music from heaven, full of tenderness and endless longing…
Everyone turned their heads to look at the recliner. Three thousand strands of hair flowed down his waist, clad in white, with an air of a banished immortal. His lazy, bewitching appearance stirred the deepest desires, his eyes like stars, full of deep affection, almost drowning one in them. “Baihua!” She turned her head, eyes filled with surprise, staring at him, her body moving towards him step by step, as if her legs were made of lead…
“He’s awake…” A smile bloomed at the corner of her eye, her weak voice full of joy. Her pale face was now suffused with a faint happiness, a slight sorrow; his eyes were truly beautiful… but the tenderness in them was not for her.
“In a flash, the peach blossoms fell, dancing in the air, petals falling like rain, swirling around Yue Lianyi, as if weeping… “Can he watch the sunrise with me once?” Her pale lips kept murmuring, so weak. “Yes!” Xiaotu stepped forward, gripping Yue Lianyi’s hands with trembling ones, a sense of profound sadness arising spontaneously. “Miss! You’ll be fine! You will!” Tears streamed down her face; her beloved Miss, her only family!
“Pinger, after I’m gone, Tianya Valley will be yours!” Her pale hand caressed Pinger’s face, feeling a reluctance to part. From childhood, Pinger had been by her side, their bond as close as sisters. “Are you okay?” She looked at Baihua, the man of unparalleled beauty, her heart filled with a tinge of sorrow. “Why? Why do this?” Baihua stared blankly at the blood line on his wrist, connecting to Yue Lianyi’s, and suddenly understood everything — “blood exchange”!
While in slumber, he always heard a woman’s gentle whispers by his ear, sometimes feeling the soft kiss on his forehead. He could feel her presence! Not Xiaotu! Who could it be? He wanted so much to open his eyes, to see clearly the person with the scent of peach blossoms. No one had expected their meeting would be a farewell of life and death! She had bet her life for his! How could he bear such love? Staring at the frail woman before him, her flower-like face wilting, her water-like eyes drying, her voice fading like the wind…
“Because, I like you.” Her faint voice was filled with deep affection, looking into his profound eyes without fear, revealing her feelings. She was a dying woman, unwilling to leave with regrets…
Baihua was stunned, gazing at Yue Lianyi, peach blossoms dancing through his hair… The girl, like a flower, leaned against the peach tree, a smile on her lips, surrounded by dancing peach blossoms. What a beautiful scene!
At that moment, Xiaotu quietly left, followed by the others, leaving the two alone…
“We, it’s impossible.” He turned away gently, avoiding those eyes full of expectation. In his heart, there was always her! He could never let go…
“Hehe, I know, my time is short, we are indeed impossible.” She clearly heard the sound of her heart breaking into pieces…
“Thank you! For your kindness to me, I have nothing to repay but in the next life! Lianyi, I will repay your affection, your love, your kindness!” Was he not cruel? Cutting off a woman’s love for him with his own hands! He understood how heavy her love was; it was love with her life! But he couldn’t do it, he couldn’t defy his own heart! He couldn’t love with his life…
Devote your life to love her! Because in your heart, there is such a person! Since it is an unequal love, let it remain unequal… “In the next life? If there’s a next life, I, Yue Lianyi, absolutely do not want to know you! Not at all!!” Her head drooped, tears blurred her vision, mingling with the swirling petals, carried away by the wind… That was a lament of sorrow, a dirge of love…
“If there’s a next life, I will surely find you! Find you, Yue Lianyi! To make amends!” Looking up at the blue sky, a bitter smile spread across his lips, finally realizing how heartless he had been… A heartless man?
As the sun set, the couple sat together in the peach blossom grove, their shadows elongated by the setting sun’s glow, stretching long, very long… Baihua walked over, gently embracing Yue Lianyi, both sitting under the peach tree, wiping away her tears, a hoarse voice sounded: “Fool!”
Not far away, Xiaotu sat on the phoenix’s back, watching them, an indescribable feeling of sadness overwhelming him, as if someone was tightly gripping his heart…
Everything was unspoken… The embraced couple watched the sunset, waiting for the sunrise… When the morning light bathed the earth, in the east, the slowly rising fireball ascended, painting the entire peach grove a bright red…
Under the peach tree, a pale face, closed beautiful eyes, hands hanging down, a faint mark on the forehead, all so natural, yes, she had passed away… in the arms of Baihua, in the arms of her beloved… No one knew if she departed happily, smoothly, or with full of resentment…!
“Lianyi, may you rest in peace… In the next life, I will follow you!” Overnight, he seemed to have aged significantly, the cold body in his arms reminding him! This woman died for him! Reminding him of his actions, his heartlessness…
“Miss!!” A pinkish-green figure rushed into the peach grove, a face crisscrossed with lines of sorrow, tightly grabbing her miss! Shaking the cold, stiff body with both hands, disbelief in her eyes!
“No! Miss, you can’t leave Pianer alone!”
“Miss, get up! Get up! Why did you do this? For this man! Was it worth it?” She cried and shouted frantically, pounding Baihua’s body! This man! He caused her miss to wither away! This heartless man!
