But ultimately, I couldn’t outrun him. He intercepted my running steps, embraced my shoulders, holding me tightly, continuously whispering in my ear: “I’m sorry, I’m sorry. It’s my fault. Everything is my doing!” His sorrowful voice repeatedly entered my ears, constantly blaming himself.
He buried my head in his embrace, holding me without reservation, forgetting everything that happened last night. If only none of this had occurred.
“Yanr, let’s leave together. Let’s live well! Without past entanglements, without willful arguments, we’ll live together happily!” He whispered in my ear, looking at me with hopeful, unwavering eyes.
Hearing his words, my heart felt warm and touched. But I could no longer be sure whether he pitied me or truly wanted to live together.
He looked at me in a daze, forcefully putting his arm around my shoulders, leaning close to my ear and softly laughing: “What’s wrong?
Let’s go! Cang Lian won’t give me a hard time, and he won’t give you a hard time either! After saying this, he adjusted the clothes he had draped over me and took me away.
I clearly saw a fleeting strange expression on Shui Zixi’s face when he was fixing my clothes.
“Let’s go! Do you remember the house I once lived in? We’ll live there!” He suddenly turned and said to me with a smile.
“I want to leave Cang Country, leave this place, I don’t want to see any familiar faces anymore! Let’s find a hidden paradise. There, we’ll plant it full of zihua flowers, just the two of us!” Suddenly, a garden full of zihua flowers flashed in my mind, and I said to Shui Zixi.
He listened to my words and was stunned for a moment, murmuring: “So you still remember that land once planted full of zihua flowers for you, so you still have a special fondness for zihua flowers. So you haven’t changed, only forgotten those deeply etched memories.” He said these inexplicable words in a low voice.
I looked at him uncomprehendingly.
