Chapter 333 The first mission is complete, turn around and leave.
She saw the moonlight flowing quietly through the mountain stream, like water, and saw the cherry blossoms blooming in full glory.
The two were seen embracing tightly, their breaths mingling.
The great demon's fingertips trembled slightly, yet he gently stroked Jingzhe's eyebrows and eyes, his gaze overflowing with love.
Jingzhe responded to his kiss, wrapping her arms around his neck in an almost seductive manner.
Under the moonlight, their clothes slipped down like feathers, revealing the young man's strong shoulders and the woman's delicate collarbone.
Skin to skin, warmth mingling.
Huali was startled and quickly closed her eyes.
...
In the following period, Ling's dependence on Jingzhe reached its peak.
But Huali keenly noticed that during certain moments of solitude, Jingzhe would often look at the stars on the cards.
And she wasn't with Ling all the time.
Where did Jingzhe go during those vanished days? Huali didn't need to guess; she already knew the answer.
Five cards, five luck cards.
Just as the bitterness in her heart intertwined with the foreseeable pain—
This day arrived without warning.
It was an evening when the setting sun was like melting gold.
The two had just calmed down a minor disturbance in the water vein's rules and returned to the courtyard.
Ling casually plucked a cherry blossom branch and handed it to Jingzhe, saying, "Jingzhe, look, these flowers are truly beautiful..."
"Ah Ling."
Jingzhe interrupted him and turned around.
The girl's face no longer held its usual warm smile; she stared at the five stars above the water-type card in her hand, her expression filled with an incomprehensible emptiness.
"The Awakening of Insects?" Ling was stunned. "How come..."
"I'm leaving."
Ling's hand, holding the flower branch, froze in mid-air, not understanding. "Go? Where to?"
"Leave here."
“My mission is complete.” Jingzhe looked at him. “So… I have to do something else.”
"..."
"A mission? What mission?"
"The stars are lit up."
"Do you remember what I told you? I came here to do something very important. Now that all the stars are lit, my mission is complete."
"You mean... all of that... was just a task for you?"
Empress Ling's tone was filled with disbelief, "For these stars?"
The overwhelming sense of absurdity made him feel as if he were in a dream.
Is Jingzhe (the solar term of the Spring Equinox) playing a joke on him?
But why...why is her expression so serious?
"Ling, I'm so glad to have met you. But our fate ends here."
Jingzhe stopped looking at his reddened eyes. The remaining four cards were also nearing the end.
No matter how well a story unfolds, it always comes to an end, and she can't delay any longer.
"No...no! You're lying to me!" The great demon, finally realizing what was happening, raised his head, his eyes bloodshot: "You said you liked me, was all of that a lie?"
"It's true."
Jingzhe easily dodged his outstretched hand, saying, "Even now, I still like you very much."
A glimmer of hope flashed in Ling's eyes, "Then we..."
"But that's all."
"A movie or a TV series, no matter how sweet the process is, always has an ending. Only when actors withdraw at the most appropriate time can they avoid getting trapped in a situation."
Jingzhe stroked the five stars on the card, "Now, it's time to get back on track."
Ling: "...On the right track?"
His voice trembled as he tried to find a trace of a joke in her eyes, but he only saw emptiness.
"TV series? Stars?" The great demon, who had lived for thousands of years, was now like a bewildered child, chanting a spell he didn't understand at all.
He looked up at the cherry blossom tree in full bloom and felt as if it were all a dream.
He once thought it was all real.
But now... what does it count for?
What is he anyway?
What are the sincerity, strength, and even the stars that he lit up with the fortune of heaven and earth that he gave without reservation?
Is it just one part of a "mission" that needs to be completed?
The feeling of utter absurdity gripped him.
"Oh......"
A very faint breath escaped from his throat, accompanied by a violent tremor.
It wasn't crying, nor was it laughing; rather, it was a chilling sound, a harbinger of some kind of emotional breakdown.
Immediately afterwards, more "hoho" sounds poured out uncontrollably, his shoulders began to shake violently, and his knuckles turned bluish-white from the force.
"Why?"
Under Huali's unbearable gaze, he finally roared, "Why?!"
Immense pain and a sense of betrayal washed over his pale face.
"You said you liked me... You said you'd see the flowers bloom... You promised!"
Every word he uttered seemed to come from the depths of his being, laced with blood and tears: "Was all of this a lie? Was it a lie from the very beginning?! All that companionship... was all that companionship fake?!"
"Answer me!!"
But all that remains is the resolute figure of Jingzhe departing.
Ling panicked completely.
He ran forward frantically, trying to grab the girl's hand, but all he grasped was a wisp of cold air.
"Why...how could this happen?"
Ling opened her eyes wide, tears streaming down her face and falling to the ground.
He frantically formed hand seals, but was ultimately a step too slow.
Jingzhe didn't even glance back, not even once!
"Why?"
"Why?!"
"If you had already predetermined the ending... if..."
A massive surge of spiritual energy erupted wildly within Ling's body!
The water elemental power that was once intimately connected with him has now become violent and desperate due to the impact of his master's extreme emotions.
The flood that bursts its banks backfires on itself.
"Ugh—"
The once free and unrestrained great demon now curled up in agony, its backlash tearing his meridians apart inch by inch and burning his soul.
Ling vomited a mouthful of blood and collapsed onto the cold ground, like a small animal that had suffered a fatal wound and was waiting for death to come.
Tears mingled with blood as they flowed, and all the stars in those clear eyes were taken away by the girl whose eyes held stars.
"Don't go..."
"Don't go...don't leave me...I've done something wrong, I can change..."
Huali turned her head away in unbearable pain, but the young man's heart-wrenching words still reached her ears without missing a single detail.
"Jingzhe... I gave you everything... I gave you everything... Why did you leave...?"
"..."
All the screams and pleas gradually faded away, turning into a deeper despair.
The great demon gazed at the withering crimson cherry blossoms above its head, a single tear of blood streaming from the corner of its eye.
After experiencing the grandest summer of his life, his moon fell completely.
Meanwhile, as the Awakening of Insects disappeared, Ao Bai, who had been silent all along, finally broke through the irresistible rules and followed after Hua Li with her consciousness.
Then, Karin glimpsed a broader, colder truth.
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