Chapter 230 - Cui
Mary Jackson smiled after she ended her call with Kale. "He didn't co to see Kale." She told Jiang Ce. "But, so soldiers saw he did co to the palace, but he's with… Rayver." She said.
Jiang Ce sharply inhaled. "Coincidence! It must be a coincidence!" he told her. "They have always been civil to each other, and nothing more than that! You have to trust Huo Jinghua!" he said.
"I trust him." Mary Jackson said. "However, do you think his mories returned?" she asked. "Both of them?" she added.
Jiang Ce opened his mouth to speak, but no words ca out. "iying…" he could only say her na.
"I guess Rayver's mories returned first." She said as if talking to herself and Jiang Ce wasn't there. "3 years ago, he was injured in the battle against the Tuwis. It was said his head was hit. It must be it. His mories must have returned that ti." She said. "However, just as he had recovered and rembered Jinghua, the person he had kept in his heart for a long ti, but forgotten the na and the face, Jinghua had married ." She looked at Jiang Ce whose eyes are filled with pity and pain for her. "I am the one who broke them apart. However, if you'd ask I regretted it, I'll answer 'no'. what I regret is that I had witnessed their fate intertwined."
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"You… you - !" Huo Jinghua stuttered as he pointed at Rayver Quinn crouching on the ground. "Pft - !" he finally can't hold back his laughter. "Hahahahahaha! So childish! Hahahahahaha!" he laughed as he held his stomach. "What are you doing there acting like a child? I didn't know general Quinn is so childish!" he said as he looked at the other with teasing eyes.
Rayver Quinn just coldly looked at him before he rose from the ground.
"So, this is general Quinn's pasti?" Huo Jinghua grinned as he watched Rayver Quinn walking at him, wearing a calm expression like he didn't do that shaful act earlier.
"You didn't rember anything earlier?" Rayver Quinn asked.
Huo Jinghua's brows just raised. "What should I rember?" he asked, his eyes turning crescents as he raised his head to et Rayver Quinn's gaze for the first ti. As they stared at each other, he realized sothing in the past.
Every ti they'd et each other, or crossed paths, it was always Rayver Quinn who would leave first, his back looking like he was defeated. Because they were 'opposing' parties, and that the other was taller, they never et each other's gaze as they talked. Even in military etings, they never glanced at each other.
This is just in his perspective, but he had an inkling feeling that, every ti Rayver Quinn leaves, maybe he wanted for him to follow him like today. Maybe as he never t the other's gaze, the other lowers his head to et his, even if he never lowered himself before.
But now, as Huo Jinghua looked at that familiar green eyes, as evergreen as the forest, he could see the other's emotions, and now he didn't miss that disappointnt that flashed in the other's eyes that the other quickly hid, hiding his emotions once again.
Rayver Quinn reluctantly looked away. Now that he can directly see the other's eyes, and very close, yet he had to withdrew his gaze first, even if he doesn't want to, to hide his emotions and then leave.
However, Huo Jinghua saw his intention to leave and he definitely wouldn't let the other escape. "What should I rember?" he asked again since the other didn't answer him earlier.
"Nothing." Rayver Quinn quickly answered and he coughed when he felt sothing clogged in his throat.
"Really nothing?" Huo Jinghua asked. Before Rayver Quinn could answer, he added. "Fine, then." He said as he looked at his light brain with his gaze hooded when he saw Mary Jackson's ssage along with an attachnt. "I guess I should hit my head to forget you again and never ever rember you this ti – " he said and turned.
However, before he could walk away, his arm was grabbed. "Don't leave." Rayver Quinn spoke with a hoarse voice.
"Why shouldn't I leave? Wasn't it you who left first?" Huo Jinghua asked, his voice laced with pain. He finally let out all the emotions he felt that ti when Rayver Quinn ran away.
That day, it was only one day… no, even less than a day the ti he spent with him – a stranger. They were even just kids that ti. However, he really liked him. Twelve years old is the age where feelings started to bud.
The first ti he saw him, it was only a pity. The first ti he saw his face after he personally washed his dirty body, he beca attracted to him. When he saw his eyes and their gazes t, his soul was hooked. He likes him. He really liked him. However, the other left him without a warning. He tried to look for him, but he disappeared like a smoke – without a trace. He didn't believe he was just his dream. He was real. Yet, the years after that, he didn't see him again.
He lost his first love in that winter.
"You woke up! I'm the one who saved you! My na is Jinghua. You can just call Joshua. That's the English na my parents gave . What's your na?" a child of the sa age as him asked, his voice full of enthusiasm and his eyes were bright like the stars as they stared at him with a fully concentrated gaze, making him feel he was the only person in his eyes.
"Qui…" he felt his throat itched so his words were interrupted.
"'Cui'?" Huo Jinghua's eyes brightened. "So your na is also Chinese! Though you looked like a foreigner… well, just call 'Jinghua', then! I like my Chinese na more!" he told him.
Huo Jinghua pulled his arm from Rayver Quinn's grasp as he activated his ch and left. Rayver Quinn stared at the familiar ch rising in the sky. He raised his hand as if to reach it, only for him to lower his hand and touched his face when he felt sothing wet hit it.
It was Huo Jinghua's tear.
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