Chapter 159 A Fleeting Dream
Ten years have passed in the blink of an eye; the past has vanished before we could even discern its true nature.
Feng Yi looked at Ting Yu with an indescribable tenderness filled with apology and regret.
He never intended to disturb her and her brother's lives... and had even prepared never to appear again.
But why now of all times...?
The blood quickly stained Feng Yi's chest, more glaring than Ting Yu's wedding dress.
"Ayi!"
After a moment of stunned silence, Feng Yi let out a heart-wrenching wail! He scrambled forward, trying to catch his brother's limp body, but a figure was faster than him!
The world of listening to the rain shattered completely at that moment.
She knelt in the pool of blood, her hand trembling as she reached out to touch Feng Yi's cold cheek.
At that moment, all sounds and colors faded away, leaving only the pale yet still handsome face before him and the scalding liquid flowing continuously from his chest.
After a decade of searching, we finally met, but it was the last time we would see each other.
The overwhelming sense of absurdity and the excruciating pain felt like countless cold, sharp blades were slowly tearing her apart.
As the truth was revealed, Rongxing, now free, immediately spoke, "Huali, he..."
Before she could finish speaking, Hua Li had already rushed to Feng Yi's side, shouting, "The cycle of life and death, the essence!"
"The cycle of flourishing and decay, the essence!"
"The cycle of flourishing and decay..."
All healing power was blocked by an invisible barrier when it reached Feng Yi; no one could change what happened a thousand years ago...
Tingyu's lips trembled, her voice broken and incoherent, "Why...why...did you let him..."
She couldn't continue; overwhelming grief choked her.
Feng Yi's lips parted slightly, and blood dripped down his pale chin onto the cuff of Tingyu's wedding dress, blooming into small, dark flowers.
He looked at her, "It was me... who wouldn't let him... tell..." The difficult syllables between his teeth sounded like the final note of a broken string...
The unspoken words stuck in his throat, eventually turning into a very soft sigh that dissipated in the wind.
"No--!!!!"
As Huali suddenly turned her head, Tingyu's desperate wail pierced through the entire wedding hall!
What grand wedding! What gratitude! What misunderstanding! What love and hate!
Everything becomes utterly ridiculous at this moment!
She lost him! She completely lost the person she truly wanted!
The moment she finally recognized him! The moment she finally found him, keeping her childhood promise!
He died in her arms!
She died on the wedding dress she had draped over someone else's shoulders!
The extreme pain and absurdity made Tingyu vomit blood.
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On the other side.
As Feng Yi witnessed all of this, he felt dizzy and as if a thousand arrows were piercing his heart!
His eyes were bloodshot, and all he could see was his brother's cold body, his lover's desperate screams, the devastated wedding hall, and—the lies that had been completely exposed.
So that's how it is... so that you can tell the difference between people who are truly hidden in your heart with just one glance.
If... if he had never been moved...
Feng Yi suddenly clenched the front of his clothes, the immense grief and pain causing him to arch his back.
It was him! It was all because he craved warmth that didn't belong to him; he dragged everything into an abyss of no return!
"Tingyu...Tingyu, look at me!" Feng Yi knelt before Tingyu, his voice hoarse and desperate. "It was my fault! It's all my fault! You can hit me, scold me, kill me, please...look at me!"
She seemed oblivious to the rain. She stubbornly clung to Feng Yi's body, her eyes vacant. All her murmured words were memories of Feng Yi from the past ten years.
He didn't even glance at Feng Yi, who was kneeling before him.
Feng Yi's blood-stained fingers froze, a chill spreading throughout his entire body.
He watched Tingyu holding her brother's body, heartbroken yet satisfied, thinking of her unwavering love for her brother until death, and then seeing her complete indifference and resentment towards him.
The immense pain and unrequited love coiled around Feng Yi's heart like a venomous snake, becoming the last straw that broke the camel's back.
A twisted, resentful obsession erupted like a volcano!
"Why?!" Feng Yi suddenly stood up, roaring like a madman at Ting Yu, at Feng Yi, and at this cruel fate!
"Everything was done with you!!"
"I was the one you met on the bridge in the rain! I was the one who released the river lanterns with you! I was the one who taught you swordsmanship! I was the one who shared romantic moments with you under the flowers and moon! I was the one who married you today! I was the one who shielded you from the attack and almost died!!"
His voice was filled with bitter resentment, and he suddenly pointed at Feng Yi, "He only saved you twice! But do you know that it was me who saved the entire village's lives at Wangcai Mountain! It was also me who sent him to find you..."
"Every little thing! Every day and night! The person who knows you, accompanies you, and has experienced all the joys and sorrows, is me, Feng Yi!"
"Why don't you love me? Why is he all you see and think about?!"
Feng Yi rushed over, his trembling fingers forcibly turning Ting Yu's face, forcing her empty eyes to look at him, his voice almost pleading.
"Can't you love me... even... even just a little bit?"
"Please..."
"Look at me! Look at everything I've done for you! Look at me!!!"
His desperate cries and twisted possessive roars echoed in the wedding hall!
Tingyu slowly raised her eyes amidst the desperate questioning, her gaze as empty as a deep well, filled with a deathly despair.
The next moment, before anyone could react, she suddenly pulled out her hairpin and plunged it into her own throat without hesitation!
"Ah Yu!!!"
"Listen to the rain!!!"
Several panicked cries rang out in succession, and Huali lunged forward but was pushed away by a force.
Hot blood splattered onto Feng Yi's outstretched hand, and his world completely collapsed!
Love, hate, regret, pain, and resentment surge forth!
The soaring obsession stirred up the winds and clouds, and the Reincarnation Sundial hidden in the core of the Feng Mansion emitted a powerful spiritual energy at this moment, instantly forming a profound connection with Feng Yi.
Immediately afterwards, a secret realm, centered on his endless obsession and based on the fragments of his memories shared with Tingyu, was formed with a roar!
Life's affairs flow like water, and in the end, it's all just a fleeting dream.
The moment the four fragments of the secret realm came together, the illusion collapsed in an instant!
Huali was forced back by the flood, and when she looked up again, she was back under the huge cherry blossom tree by the wilderness.
As far as the eye can see, withered yellow grass lies flat, the outline of distant mountains is hazy, and the air is still filled with the silent smell of dust and decaying time.
Rongxing exclaimed, "Eh? You're...you're back?"
Huali suddenly looked up at the mottled, ancient stone door, and quickly ran over, "Crimson Lotus Flowing Fire..."
The sound stopped abruptly—
The tightly closed door slowly and silently opened.
Before the densely packed scrolls and manuscripts, the faint figure on the stone steps looked up. "The past is cleared up. Now, can you answer me—"
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