"My adoptive father taught me martial arts, taught me how to be a good person and the principles of martial arts, gave me a house to shelter me from the wind and rain, and gave me warm meals, just like this armor, it protects me. But the armor is not one with me after all, and there will be a day when I will take it off, just as there will be a day when I..."
She paused, unable to continue.
But thinking of all the courage she had mustered for this moment and the sleepless nights she had gone through, she finally decided to put an end to it all.
"Just like I will leave the Xiao Mansion and my adoptive father one day."
The air froze for a moment, and the dull pain in his heart made Xiao Nanhui unsure of how to express himself.
When she raised her head almost confusedly, she felt that Xiao Zhun's face in front of her was covered with a layer of fog and could not be seen clearly.
How she wished the person in front of her would say: No, you don’t have to leave, we will be together forever.
Yet she knew he wouldn't.
Xiao Zhun would never say this to her, because he would never make promises rashly about things he couldn't do.
She also knew that the moment she said these words, their relationship was doomed to become infinitely distant, and they would never be able to return to the close relationship they once had as both father and teacher.
She once coveted the warmth brought by intimacy and fantasized that intimacy could one day transform into the kind of feeling she wanted, but the answer that time brought her was cruel.
Now, she finally heard the answer with her own ears.
It was extremely clear and deafening, like a bell ringing in her heart.
That's it.
It's okay.
These things never belonged to her in the first place, and she could return to that wild and barren world.
She was meant to be in that world.
The moment she turned around, her tears rolled down, and then shattered into pieces in the cold wind, leaving no trace.
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