Chapter 613 She was a ghost who escaped by sheer luck.
"Hales..."
It was like a call that had traveled through time, tinged with the yellow hues of years.
The dying Hales struggled to open her eyes, and when she saw Wen Ni, she tried to smile, but she didn't have the strength to move her lips even slightly!
"elder sister……"
"Hales, Hales! How could it be you, how could it be you... I thought I would never see you again... I thought you died in that war." Wen Ni's tense emotions instantly poured out!
Her eyes were full of tears, which kept blurring her vision as she wiped them away. Gradually, she could no longer make out Halle's appearance. All that appeared before her eyes was the bright and carefree 16-year-old girl from her memories!
"I...I also thought I was going to die."
Hallece poured her last remaining strength into this long-awaited reunion, this heart-wrenching farewell. Her face was pale, her eyelashes drooped, and her unfocused eyes seemed to have returned to that hellish scene.
"The Sapeli soldiers charged forward and opened fire wildly. I watched helplessly as my comrades fell one by one around me. I was shot, but not in a vital spot. I bled and lay among the dead, enduring one dawn after another..."
At this point, Hallece took a deep breath, and after a long pause, she continued murmuring.
"After many twists and turns, I arrived in Myanmar and met Dawa. I was young and beautiful, so naturally Dawa kept me by his side and favored me, making me one of his wives... cough cough cough! I am very content. My country was destroyed, and I was displaced, but there were still people willing to take me in and give me a warm place to live... so that I wouldn't have to go hungry or cold..."
"Is this why you took a bullet for him?" Wen Ni's lips trembled, and tears finally fell.
“No…it’s different. This is his kindness to me.” Halle’s eyes softened with tenderness at the last moment. “What makes me willing to risk my life for him is my pure and true feelings for him.”
The word "true feelings"
Dawa, who was being held down by the soldiers, suddenly looked up.
He trembled in disbelief as he stared at Hallece lying in a pool of blood!
How could a woman in her prime, in the bloom of youth, possibly give her heart to a middle-aged general with graying temples?
He himself found it absurd.
But Wen Ni suddenly realized something!
It was because Hales' sixteen years had been so bitter that when someone was willing to give her a little bit of sweetness, she was willing to share everything she knew without reservation!
"elder sister……"
"I'm here, I'm here, don't be afraid!" Wen Ni knew that Hales was injured in the heart and no one could save her, so she could only use all her strength to hold her tightly, very tightly!
"I'm not afraid."
Hales was barely breathing, yet she wore a faint smile. Suddenly, she regained her strength, raised her fingertips, and reached out and grasped at the ethereal void in mid-air.
“I should have died in Bale back then, along with my family and compatriots… I am a ghost who escaped by sheer luck; God's mercy allowed me to steal these few years of peace and tranquility. I have wandered far enough; now, it is time for me to go home…”
"Hales, Hales!"
Amidst heart-wrenching cries, her fair and jade-like hand suddenly dropped, falling heavily to the ground and stained crimson with blood!
It looks like white doves are flapping their wings outside the window.
A foreign soul, finally free.
Dawa, who had just been shouting that he would die for his country, remained silent, prostrating himself on the ground like a clown!
Everyone watched this scene in silence, watching Wen Ni hold the sleeping Halley with her eyes closed and weep uncontrollably, refusing to let go for a long time!
A sense of sorrow lingered above the hall for an unknown period of time.
Wearing military green clothes and a cloak, Lu Jinye knelt on one knee in front of them, his eyes slightly red.
"Wen Ni," he called softly.
The tone was so soft, as if afraid of disturbing someone in their sleep.
“Lu Jinye…she’s the Halles I told you about.” Wen Ni finally looked up, revealing bloodshot eyes, tears still streaming down her face. Her voice trembled as she repeated, “She’s alive, look, she’s alive…”
"she……"
Lu Jinye looked down at Halley, whose face had lost all color and turned ashen.
No one understood better than him that for Wen Ni, Halles was an obsession, an obsession laden with the lives of millions of Bale citizens. Wen Ni had personally witnessed that massacre, yet she couldn't save a single Bale!
In her dream, it wasn't just Hallece standing alone on the smoke-filled land, shouting; it was countless faces—the faces of innocent people struggling to survive…
She prayed and knelt down more than once!
Just like right now, I desperately want them to come back to life...
After a long pause, Lu Jinye finally suppressed the heart-wrenching pain and said hoarsely, "Wen Ni, Hales said she wants to go home. We'll take her home together after we've settled everything here. Now, let me take her with me so she can get some sleep, okay?"
"She's asleep?" Wen Ni stared with tearful eyes, like a helpless little animal.
"Yes, she was too tired."
"Then you have to take good care of her for me."
"good."
Lu Jinye almost choked back a sob.
Behind her, Qin Yuan, who had been watching over her, quickly stepped forward and gently took Hallece into his arms!
Baron waited at the door, gently draping a clean cloak over Halle. His face was solemn and sorrowful.
Watching them take Hallece away, Wen Ni finally collapsed, exhausted, into Lu Jinye's arms.
The sky outside the window was already faintly tinged with the white of dawn.
She actually sat there holding Hallece all night.
Lu Jinye finished all his business without disturbing her, and quietly stayed by her side!
He only went to comfort her when he noticed her pale complexion.
"Lu Jinye, so many people have lost their way around me..." She nestled in his arms, slowly closing her eyes, as if she were talking in her sleep.
Her tears had dried up, leaving only the weariness after heart-wrenching pain.
"They'll never come back. I'll never see them again. But I miss them so much. Lu Jinye, please help me, what should I do?"
"They didn't lose them."
Icy cold tears fell onto Wen Ni's forehead.
Lu Jinye's voice was so hoarse it was unbelievable!
"They are living well in the place where you were together. They get up on time every day, eat on time, water a bunch of flowers, and read a book. It just so happens that when you went there, they were out too. But the feeling of their life is still there. They have never left. It's just that we can never see them again..."
Like two parallel worlds.
They are all walking along their own paths, but they will never meet again.
All they can do is live in the present moment, and one day, not long from now, when they wake up in bed again, they can smell the aroma of their mother's cooking, hear the sound of their grandfather playing chess, and see the honest smiles of their brothers and comrades-in-arms!
He slowly stood up; the person in his arms must be asleep. He looked down, watching her breathing gradually become steady, before finally moving his aching legs, carefully avoiding waking her, and went outside!
His eyes, no longer red, became even more determined.
Once everything here is over, we'll go home!
The khaki flags flying on the roof of the Burmese presidential palace were cut down, and the surrendered Burmese soldiers marched in formation below the white marble steps with their hands raised.
The anxious people lined up to receive supplies. When they received fresh food, rice, and flour, and saw Chinese soldiers in military green uniforms, tears finally welled up in their bewildered eyes!
It seems they won't perish like the Kingdom of Balai.
I won't become a war refugee like a rat crossing the street...
"How's the trial going?"
"Commander, that old bastard Dawa still refuses to reveal Li Shiyan's whereabouts!"
In the makeshift interrogation room, Lu Jinye stared coldly at the aged and weary old man behind the glass.
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