Chapter 221: Chapter 201 The Mountain Has Trees and Grasses (Part 2) Chapter 221: Chapter 201 The Mountain Has Trees and Grasses (Part 2) Chu Yu’s footsteps were hurried as she rushed to Muxue Garden. Upon her arrival, Hua Cuo was walking out of the garden. They faced each other, their gazes clashing directly.
Hua Cuo looked at Chu Yu, an unnatural expression in his eyes. He opened his mouth as if wanting to say sothing, but in the end, he only uttered two words, “Princess.”
Chu Yu faintly sensed that sothing was amiss, but with Rong Zhi’s health weighing on her mind, she couldn’t be bothered to dwell on Hua Cuo’s behavior. She directly asked, “How is Rong Zhi?”
At her question, Hua Cuo’s expression beca even more unnatural: “Ah Zhi… he still hasn’t awakened.”
Chu Yu nodded, instructed Hua Cuo to keep an eye on Tian Rujing, then passed by him and headed inside. She traversed the deserted bamboo forest, asked the servant to wait outside after pushing open the door, and when she saw Rong Zhi in the bedroom, her face showed little sign of joy.
She didn’t ecstatically embrace Rong Zhi exclaiming, “You’re saved.”
She didn’t close the door to weep over her sorrows and frustrations, saying, “All of this was for you.”
She just stood by the bedside, standing quietly, silently gazing at Rong Zhi.
And Rong Zhi slept quietly, his breath as faint as a thread.
After a while, Chu Yu sat by the bed, turned, and studied Rong Zhi’s emaciated face. As before, seeing him unconscious, she experienced an unbelievable sense of absurdity: this man could fall, and indeed, he had fallen. After watching for a long ti, seemingly entranced, she suddenly softly called out, “Rong Zhi.”
She called several tis, Rong Zhi’s breathing remained faint, and Chu Yu sighed softly, saying, “Knowing you couldn’t possibly awaken… but perhaps this is for the best.” She smiled faintly, a sense of relief in her expression, “Perhaps many people know I like you, but I think that even you, who nearly knows everything, probably don’t realize the extent of my feelings for you.”
Her thoughts imrsed in her own reflections, she failed to detect that when she spoke of “the extent” of her feelings for him, Rong Zhi’s eyelashes quivered lightly, ever so slightly.
In this room filled with warmth, where a soft fragrant scent was mixed with a hint of fresh herbs, she spoke very slowly and softly, only audible to those close enough to hear distinctly: “Because of this realization, I only beca aware of it just now.”
“You probably can’t comprehend what I’ve given up.”
“If soone had told three days ago that I would push away the chance to return ho presented before , I would never have believed it.”
“Ah, right, you probably also don’t know where my ho is. I’ve always been afraid to tell anyone about it. It’s my biggest secret. Unless I die… no, even if I die, I would never speak of it.”
“I co from over one thousand five hundred years in the future, where many dynasties have co and gone since now. Although there’s severe pollution and life cos with its pressures, I still miss and care deeply for it. My family and friends are there, as is my past… Discovering I could go back, I was so delighted I almost went mad…”
Her voice was low as she spoke, her words haphazard and without coherence, saying whatever ca to mind as if she needed to vent the suppressed emotions within her all at once, unable to stop once she began.
It was her biggest secret, one she could tell no one. Alone in this isolated era, she rigorously guarded her origins, her bottom line. As lonely as it made her feel, she never ntioned it to anyone.
But with her emotions having fluctuated continuously these past days, she was finding it difficult to keep them under control. Without an outlet for these feelings, she feared she might succumb to ntal strain before anyone else. Speaking to Rong Zhi seed a good choice: with him unconscious, he couldn’t hear her words, yet she could relieve her heart of its burden.
It was like the fairy tale about the barber who saw that the king had donkey ears but couldn’t tell anyone. He could only run into the forest and shout into a tree hollow, “The king has donkey ears!”
“I am not from this world.”
“I co from one thousand five hundred years in the future.”
“I am not really Shan Yin’s Princess.”
“Heaven knows how she disappeared.”
“My na is not Liu Chuyu, my na is shorter by one character, my surna is Chu, and my given na is Yu.”
“The last ti you suddenly attacked and asked for my na, I really got tricked, but my na is only one character different from Shan Yin’s Princess… ha, you wouldn’t have guessed, right?”
Chu Yu treated the “unconscious” Rong Zhi as her own tree hollow, speaking secrets that she couldn’t share with anyone, until half an hour had passed. She finally stopped, took a long breath, feeling considerably lighter all over.
Although she really wanted to confide in soone, it was only when faced with soone unconscious that she could reveal her secrets without reservation.
After resting for a while, Chu Yu laughed at herself and said, “After this experience, Tian Rujing should be very wary of . It won’t be as easy as before to get the bracelet back, and even if I do manage to retrieve it, I might not be able to use it.”
She only said these things because she was certain that Rong Zhi couldn’t hear her. She did these things because she wanted to, not to gain or win anything from anyone, and she would never let anyone know how precious what she had given up was.
Her voice was low, filled with sadness, “I can’t go back, Rong Zhi, but I won’t regret it. This is a choice I made of my own free will… Why did I fall for you? In terms of looks, you’re not the handsost, in terms of sincerity, ten of you couldn’t compare to Huan Yuan, and it’s hard for to guess what you’re thinking…”
One could only say that falling for soone was completely beyond one’s control—neither reason nor self-interest could command it.
“…Even if it ans I am sowhat foolish and unlucky,” Chu Yu smiled lightly, feeling relaxed and at ease. She suddenly bent down and touched Rong Zhi’s brow with her lips, very gently and slowly.
The soft touch of her lips grazed his cold forehead, teasing with a fleeting intimacy. With just barely a touch, she imdiately withdrew.
Tian Rujing wasn’t a gossiper; he wouldn’t spread word of their deal, and conversely, as the other party in the transaction, she naturally kept silent as well.
It wasn’t that she couldn’t speak, it was that she didn’t want to. So things are left unsaid out of pride. No matter how much she liked him, she would never use the sacrifices she had made as a bargaining chip to beg for affection.
Chu Yu quickly got up and walked towards the door, hurried to see Tian Rujing to ask when they could start the rescue mission. Thus, as she turned and walked out, she didn’t even pause to glance back. If she had turned her head, she would have seen the supposedly unconscious Rong Zhi now with his eyes open, and in his usually calm and deep eyes was an unstoppable shock and astonishnt.
But she simply walked briskly out the door, not giving the room another look even as she turned back to close it.
And Rong Zhi, with his eyes open, just stared blankly upwards without making a sound to call out to her.
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