Extraits

"This friend..." Shen Qiao spoke with extreme effort. Yu Shengyan moved closer to listen. "There is only darkness before my eyes. Perhaps I cannot see..."

Yu Shengyan was shocked. Shen Qiao hadn't woken up an idiot, instead he'd woken up blind?

Shen Qiao finally opened his eyes and said calmly, “The reason I am betrayed over and over again is not because I am too naive, but because I believe that kindness exists in this world. Without fools like me, where would Sect Master Yan find your pleasure?”

“This isn’t to atone for any crime, much less is it for anything as ridiculous as guilt. There’s no need to think that you are indebted to me, or even mistakenly believe that this is something it’s not. That would only make me sick.”

“All that I’ve ever done was for myself and no one else. I have never regret a thing, and this is no different.”

How could he expect that nothing would change? Shen Qiao, even from the start, had never gone according to the way Yan Wushi had planned him to. Instead, he had walked a completely different path all together.

He was still human after all. He also felt hurt when injured, and distressed when running into predicaments. But he always believed that there was hope ahead of him, and he was always willing to face everything with an optimistic attitude.

Break completely, then start anew —— it sounded so easy and simple, but for him, it was an arduous journey of half a lifetime, where he crossed over the abyss separating life and death and climbed back up, little by little, from the bottom of that lofty cliff like a ghost.

For the ideal that I hold dear to my heart, I’d not regret dying a thousand times.

I lost to Kunye that day and henceforth fell to the bottom of my life. No matter how many reasons and excuses I have, he is a hurdle in my life, a monster inside me that I must face. It is the place where I fell, so I must learn to pick myself up again from the same spot.

Everyone liked beautiful people, and Yan Wushi was no exception. Even though he had no particularly tender feelings toward the fair, it didn’t prevent him from enjoying the sight of one. He started teasing the person immediately.

“Make that smile again.”

Shen Qiao: “…”