Chapter 169 Treasures We Dare Not Touch
At the bottom of the Valley of Broken Souls, the night wind was like a knife.
Without the warmth of that broad chest, the biting cold quickly penetrated her blood-stained clothes, eroding Tang Li's already weakened body.
"Hmm..."
Tang Li frowned and let out a very soft murmur from her unconscious state.
It's so cold, like I've been thrown into an ice cave.
Before her consciousness had fully returned, her body's instincts had already reacted. She subconsciously reached out and groped through the soft wolf fur, trying to find that familiar, burning "heat source".
"Your Highness..."
Her hand moved through the air, her fingertips touching only the cold air and falling snowflakes.
It's empty; there's nothing around me.
Tang Li felt a sudden panic, and the last bit of sleepiness vanished instantly. She endured the tearing pain in her left arm and the discomfort as if her internal organs were shifting, and struggled to prop herself up.
"Pei Yunjing?"
She opened her eyes, her vision still a little blurry, and anxiously searched around.
Then, her gaze settled on the snow just a few steps away from her.
There, a black figure was kneeling.
The pale moonlight shone on him, making him appear as if he were covered in frost and snow.
He lowered his head, his back bent into a defeated arc, and the despair and deathly stillness that emanated from his very bones made Tang Li's heart clench violently.
"Your Highness!"
Ignoring her injuries, Tang Li tried to crawl toward him.
However, in the instant she moved...
Pei Yunjing, kneeling there, trembled violently like a cat whose tail had been stepped on.
He heard her voice, the voice he longed for most at that moment, yet also dared not hear.
"Don't move!"
Pei Yunjing suddenly raised his head, his bloodshot eyes filled with terror.
Seeing that Tang Li wanted to approach him, he subconsciously wanted to get up and help her; it was an instinct ingrained in his bones.
However, when his gaze fell upon his blood-stained hands, his movements froze in mid-air.
These hands... are dirty.
Those hands had just been holding the sword and almost killed her.
"Don't come any closer..."
Pei Yunjing reacted as if electrocuted, abruptly putting his hands behind his back and hiding them tightly under his black robe, as if they were two sinful hands.
He staggered back half a step, increasing the distance between them.
"Please... don't come any closer."
His voice was hoarse and harsh, each word sounding like he had swallowed a handful of coarse sand, grinding his throat until it bled:
"Stay away from me."
"I will... hurt you."
Tang Li was stunned. Looking at the man in front of her, who was curled up in a ball with a look of resistance in his eyes, tears welled up in her eyes.
He was afraid.
That god of death is actually afraid of her?
No, he was afraid of himself.
"Pei Yunjing, look carefully, I am Tang Li."
Tang Li's eyes were red, and instead of listening to him, she moved even more resolutely toward him:
"I've been injured, I've bled. But I'm fine now, I'm not dead!"
"I know."
Pei Yunjing closed his eyes in pain, unable to bear looking at the bloodstain on her face:
"But... I'm the one who hurt him."
He reopened his eyes and his gaze fell on Tang Li.
What a look that was!
Gone is the domineering nature of the past, gone is the arrogance of yesteryear, and gone is the confidence to control everything.
At this moment, Pei Yunjing, looking at her, was like a death row inmate who had committed a heinous crime and was awaiting final judgment.
Humility, fear, and caution.
He was like a stray dog abandoned by its owner, longing for warmth but afraid that the mud on his body would soil his owner's skirt.
He was afraid to hear the word "monster" from her.
He was afraid to see the resentment in her eyes.
He was even more afraid... that she would say, "I don't want you anymore."
"Tangli..."
Pei Yunjing's Adam's apple bobbed, and his voice was so soft it seemed a gust of wind could dissipate it:
"I can't control myself."
"I'm a madman."
"Stay away from me... okay?"
He was begging her to stay away from him, this source of danger.
Tang Li felt her heart breaking when she saw his humble and pathetic appearance.
"not good."
Tangli sniffed and, with all her might, stood up from the snow wolf's back.
She staggered, step by step, toward the "prisoner" kneeling in the snow.
“Pei Yunjing, listen carefully.”
As she walked, tears streaming down her face, she laughed and cursed:
"Since you've injured me, do you think you can just kneel down and call it a day? Or do you think you can push me away?"
"dream!"
"You'll have to apologize to me for the rest of your life!"
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