Li Dong slled the smoke and the fire burning in the air mixed with his blood and skin.
"AHHHHHHH!!!"
He found himself engulfed in flas, the fire reaching every part of his body, burning his skin and lting his blood.
"Stop…stooooopp!! Pains…burning…"
He flapped his arm towards Bojing urgently and desperately, begging him to save him.
"Bojing…please save …I don't…want to die…please forgive …"
The flas reached higher and higher matching the pitch of his screams and cries. Being burned alive was one of the most excruciating deaths one could ever suffer. On top of that, Li Dong was beaten so badly that he couldn't walk or run around to find any source of water, not that Bojing would have let him find it anyway.
He could only flail his body miserably as the flas burned him, the sll of charred skin seeping into the air. Lying helpless on the floor, he could only bear the fire leading him to his death slowly and gradually.
In his final monts, he could only regret and lant on his actions that led him to his doom. He thought he had won by destroying the Lu clan. His mortal enemy that separated him from Bojing's mother.
But the last descendant had risen to make him pay the price of his vicious and heinous cris that he had committed over the years.
His screams turned dimr and lower until they completely stopped. The base was filled with silence and the only sound of Li Dong burning in flas reverberated in the air.
Bojing had tortured him just like how he had experinted countless innocent people and snatched their lives.
He made him breathe his last in a fire just like how Li Dong had forced that brutal death upon his clan.
Bojing got his revenge. He avenged his family and his mother. With a blank gaze, he watched Li Dong's body turn into ashes, a feeling of satisfaction and contentnt enveloping his heart but at sa ti, a lancholy filled his chest.
The light in Bojing's eyes gradually returned, signalling that he was coming out of his dangerous and violent state. His senses returned but with an emptiness in them.
His whole clan…His mother was gone. He never t his family. He was never going to et them.
He already knew of this fact. But sohow today, he didn't know why but his heart missed them.
His clan…Where he was born…
He didn't know what the mbers of his family looked like. He wished he could et them just once.
A long ti later, Li Dong was finally turned into dust. Bojing stood the whole ti, staring at his burning body.
Suddenly, he felt a soft hand on his shoulder. Bojing ever so slowly turned and slightly widened his eyes.
Lihua silently stood beside him, her gaze and expression solemn.
He stared at her and his eyes teared up. "Y-you….you are okay…"
She slowly nodded.
Bojing threw a quick glance at her from her head to toe. It felt like a long ti since they t.
Big drops of tears plopped from his eyes, and he shook hard. "I-I am sorry…I failed to protect you…I didn't want to leave you a-alone-"
"Ssh," she hushed. "I just ca here, and you are already blaming yourself. Didn't I tell you not to ever do that?"
Seeing Lihua after a long ti made the dam within Bojing burst. His tears spilled out rapidly, and he hugged her. He only thanked God that Lihua and her child were fine and safe.
"H-How are you here? Aren't you at…"
The mories before and during Bojing flipped were a little hazy.
Lihua softly said, "I will tell you later. Forget about . How are you? I…ca to know about your mother…" her eyes got hazy. She still couldn't believe that Bojing's mother would have suffered so much at Li Dong's hands and had a painful death.
The burning sll was making her nauseous, but she wanted to be at Bojing's side. He quickly pulled her arm. "Y-you shouldn't be here. You will fall sick here…"
Lihua purses her lips. "Why are you thinking about when you are in pain?"
"Be-because…" he trembled. "I have a-already lost my one family…" his voice was feeble with no strength in it. "I don't want to lose anybody else precious to …"
Lihua stiffened.
"I want to s-see you and your child safe. It's my job to protect you," he sniffled and wiped his cheeks. "I will d-do it until the end."
Her eyes teared up even more. She jumped to hug him and broke down. Bojing turned pale. "A-are you okay?"
"I-I am not. Bojing, you always have by your side, okay? You have got a big family! And I-I am proud of you. You took revenge from Li Dong. You avenged your family. Now, their souls will be finally resting in peace."
Bojing shook. Thinking of how his family died and his mother gave up her life for him welled an incredible sadness within him.
Really…? Are you finally at peace now? I-I am sorry for making you wait for so long…
Bojing cried harder and harder, the loss of his family and clan hitting him violently and crushing his heart into pieces.
He missed them. He missed them terribly. He hugged Lihua back and buried his head in her shoulder.
Mingshen's guards who were patrolling outside, too couldn't help but find their eyes getting misty.
One of the guards gruffly said, "Idiot. Wipe your tears! If Boss sees you like this, you are gonna be so dead."
"Tell that to yourself first! Look how your whole face is wet. Boss will straightaway make you his research subject!"
They argued and bickered as they cried.
A few monts later, Bojing withdrew and suddenly felt a shiver on his neck. "I-I am sorry! I shouldn't have hugged you…" he cried. "Mr. Jiang will kill if he sees …I didn't do it on purpose!"
Lihua stared at him and chuckled, tears pooling in her eyes even more.
"He won't kill you, Bojing…He cannot…at least for soti…" she whispered weakly.
Bojing blinked. "I don't understand."
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