Journey to the End of the Night-Chapter 1384 - 882: Passing Through Each Other’s Hearts (Part 2)

"Perhaps while liking you, I also regarded you as a lifeline, a warm straw in my existence.

I cling to you, treating this attachment as a form of dependence and a means of survival, to the point where even I hadn’t realized it.

In this affection, I am weak and powerless, even hoping you would come to rescue me."

Yin Baishuang lowered her gaze briefly, and when she lifted her eyes again, the misty color was still present, but her face appeared more serene and clear, her bright eyes seemingly carrying a layer of light.

She said, "I’m perhaps incurably ill. Back then, in that small temple, when I saw you in the throes of the Netherworld Pill, I felt I couldn’t just let you be.

From that moment, I developed the desire to grasp the vastness of this life, and I must shower you with a galaxy of stars. So, whenever you need me to rescue you, I will definitely come."

"You don’t know how much I like you. I don’t blame you, but I want to tell you now..."

Yin Baishuang rested her chin on his shoulder and neck, pressing her body tightly against Baili An, shamelessly squeezing and sticking close with her chest to his back.

Through the chest, the clear thumping of a calm yet fierce heart was transmitted.

Each beat seemed desperate to blend into his very bones and blood, making him aware of the pain and cold deep within her soul.

"This heart is not to be trifled with lightly, because once this heart is surrendered, enamored with you, it is no longer my own.

I can give it, but I can’t take it back. If you abandon it, I can only hold onto this love mournfully. My heart is not big; it can only love one person for a lifetime."

"Two hundred years ago, our meeting was destined to be a firework without a conclusion, fleeting, but what I want to say is, for the grace of your appearance, it made me happy for many years."

It felt as if that year had come again.

The flowing water brushes the robe, reflecting the still image.

In the vastness of heaven and earth, amidst the desolation of all beings, there was a girl who said she would give her a view full of stars and rivers.

Baili An was right, she is a warm straw, and also a fiercely burning torch.

Illuminating a path for him in the boundless darkness, making it unforgettable for a lifetime.

After such a heart-stirring confession, Yin Baishuang did not feel relieved, but instead became more aggrieved and heartbroken.

"I always believe that if we can meet before the mountain, we will surely meet again after it.

You truly like me, but you truly don’t understand me. I truly adore you, but I truly don’t understand you.

Our acquaintance was too short, if we really count, the days we knew each other have not even exceeded seven days.

But you spent a full two years day and night with that lunatic Su Jing.

So you see, two hundred years later, with your drastically changed appearance, I couldn’t recognize you, yet she recognized you at a glance, keeping me in the dark, deceiving me so cruelly!"

Baili An laughed out loud, couldn’t help but turn his head to rub his cheek against her forehead: "Speaking of which, the first time we met at Kongcang Mountain, you stabbed me with a sword, didn’t you?"

He joked, "Is it that this appearance doesn’t please you, do you like the original one more?"

Yin Baishuang said, "It’s not that you have an appearance I like, but that I like all your appearances. But after Ying Xiu tormented it for two hundred years, thinking back now, your once handsome and beautiful brows and eyes really don’t have much to be nostalgic about.

At the time, when I stabbed you with a sword at Kongcang Mountain, thinking about it now, it really makes my heart feel so difficult.

Later, I even stayed on guard against you desperately, compromising and humbling myself for fear that you would take Shou away from me, how foolish I was really. Shou was originally yours, it was so close to you, why couldn’t I think of it then."

Baili An listened quietly to her finish speaking and softly said, "It’s not that you couldn’t think of it, but you didn’t dare to think, afraid of hollow joy, afraid that the presence of old friends in the mind would be fleeting and empty."

But in fact, it was that the presence of old friends in the mind leads two people to cross the river in the same boat.

The mist in Yin Baishuang’s eyes resembled a pool of rippling clear lake.

She laughed, the corner of her eyes slowly lifted, the whole person once again becoming spirited, just like the beautiful figure when they first met.

Brows and eyes as they were, the girl whose elegance remained unchanged said to him: "Upon first meeting, let’s get acquainted, Cangwu Palace, Yin Baishuang, this name I will only tell to friends I recognize. Sir, you are so handsome and pleasing, this young girl sees and finds joy, Sir may call me Little Shuang."

Seeing her smile, Baili An couldn’t help but smile along with her: "Having met with you for the first time, I am Baili An of the You Dynasty, courtesy name Zangjian. Being able to know and befriend you is a great fortune of my life. May we play zithers and enjoy music harmoniously. I have fine wine to delight guests with a joyful heart."

Yin Baishuang gently embraced him: "Now, we are considered freshly acquainted. You don’t understand me, I don’t blame you, I’ve always been very patient, I’ll teach you slowly."

To like someone takes only an instant, but to fully understand a person’s heart is not easy.

Just as Baili An would never know that the once passionate and fiery, stubborn, and bright girl.

Would one day become someone who drinks themselves long into oblivion, borrowing dreams to reminisce people of the past.

If not for the arrangement of time, how would Yin Baishuang know that the gentle, unassuming boy in her memory could carry out the vow of preferring a noble demise over living a dishonored life.

Fires everywhere fill the sky, and those long-sealed memories in their hearts seemed at this moment, to be carefully treasured by both, tacitly.

Recalling past events feels like a breeze through the heart, suddenly open and calm.

Just because they both knew, the unsullied freshness of the past couldn’t match now, and their association and departure are not up to them.