Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
“The sword was right at my throat. But because I’d decided to tell a lie, the mistress of the sword would fall head over heels in love…”
A classic line from an ancient manuscript popped into Xu Que’s mind.
At this moment, this was the scene that he was living through. Zixia Fairy’s sword was at his throat. Her murderous aura seemed beyond description.
Xu Que didn’t want to lie again. The history between Zixia Fairy and him, those decades of life in the Illusory Realm, couldn’t be resolved with a lie.
Not to mention that the lie would be exposed sooner or later. At that time, Zixia Fairy’s reaction would be even more horrible than it was going to be now.
Xu Que couldn’t afford dealing with the consequences of the lie, so…he decided to be sincere for once in his life.
“I…” Xu Que opened his mouth and started to speak.
But as the first word escaped his mouth, he was coldly interrupted by Zixia Fairy.
“If you mention that name again, I’ll definitely kill you. You’re not qualified to mention that name, and you’re definitely not him.”
She spoke coldly, her tone still flat, but it produced a heart-palpitating chill.
Xu Que shook his head and said, “I know you can’t accept it, but, unfortunately, it’s true.”
“I said it isn’t true, so it isn’t,” Zixia Fairy replied in an ice-cold voice, while removing her sword from his throat and turning around.
A light breeze blew past and her black hair became slightly tousled. In the sun, her profile was exquisite, utterly captivating.
Xu Que smiled and said, “Sometimes, the facts are not the most important things. What you thought of as the truth may necessarily have been all lies. I didn’t hide my identity deliberately at that time. You are full of hatred toward me. But, at least during the decades spent in the Illusory Realm, and now, I am sincere…”
“Shut up!”
Zixia Fairy again interrupted Xu Que’s words. Her cold gaze swept over Xu Que, full of hate.
It was a very explicit hate. She didn’t hide it. It was obvious that she even wished she could kill Xu Que.
“I will say it again. You aren’t him, and you’re not good enough to be him. I’ll spare your worthless life just to let you know that you’re not even qualified to be killed by me,” Zixia Fairy said this in a low voice with an indifferent expression.
BOOM!
Xu Que stood rooted to the ground. A mighty wind roared through his head, and he didn’t know what to think.
He opened his mouth in great dismay, seemingly caught off guard by Zixia Fairy’s tough performance, which he’d obviously not anticipated.
Originally, he’d thought that when Zixia Fairy had returned to this place and was even willing to see him, it was to give him a chance to explain and apologize.
But now, he suddenly found himself being slapped in the face. Zixia Fairy’s words, including all the looks that she had given him, were undoubtedly meant to give him a hard slap and strike at his heart.
“WOW!”
Finally, Xu Que let out a deep breath, nodded, and answered in the same low voice, “I get it now.”
These four short words were full of bitterness, loneliness, and even disappointment.
But he forced a smile onto his face and looked around, as if to admire the surrounding landscape.
After taking a few deep breaths, he smiled and exclaimed, “Things have remained the same, but people have changed. Although I haven’t been here for decades, I didn’t expect that the changes in this place would be quite so large. The mountains are higher, the water is clearer, and the restrictions of the past have also disappeared. Cultivators of any realms can now visit here. It’s only a pity…that such a change is not a good one.”
Xu Que looked at Zixia Fairy, who was regarding him with a bored look and no expression, and took out a folded piece of paper and handed it over to her.
“My friend has entrusted me to bring this to you. It’s up to you whether you read it or not, throw it away or burn it…”
Xu Que hadn’t finished speaking when he heard a WHOOSH sound.
The tip of Zixia Fairy’s sword flashed several times in front of him. The paper in his hand was instantly cut into confetti and fluttered away with the wind until it hit the ground. It flew past Xu Que’s eyes like a snow flurry.
The snow wasn’t real, obviously, but Xu Que’s heart became cold nonetheless.
He smiled bitterly, laughing at himself somewhat.
“I’m sorry to have bothered you.”
He faced her and slowly took a bow. Then he turned around and strode away.
…..
In this vast wilderness, his figure gradually became blurry.
Xu Que walked away determinedly, taking with him his last bit of self-blame and bitterness, and left the Five Elements Mountain.
In the bright sunlight, the view of him from the back appeared desolate, like a loser who had lost hope, forlorn and lonely. It was a pitiful sight.
Zixia Fairy stood where she was indifferently. She didn’t see him off and didn’t acknowledge his leaving.
Until Xu Que had completely disappeared and even a trace of his presence had dispersed, only then did Zixia Fairy move a little bit.
She waved her hands, and the broken confetti on the ground gathered together in an instant. The pieces reassembled in the air to form a complete piece of paper before it landed on her palm.
A few lines were written on the paper.
“A sincere love was in front of me once, but I didn’t cherish it. It wasn’t until I lost it that I was full of regret, but it was too late. The most painful thing in the world can’t be compared to this.
If God could give me a chance to do it again, I would say three words to that woman: I love you.”
POW!
A drop of water that looked like a crystal abruptly landed on the paper and soaked into a few of the words.
The sky was still clear, but the eyes of Zixia Fairy were moist as tears rolled down her cheeks.
“Well…”
At this time, an awkward voice suddenly rang out in front of Zixia Fairy.
“Excuse me, I forgot to ask you just now… It’s a small… Hey, why are you crying?” Xu Que had returned and was looking at Zixia Fairy with surprise.
Zixia Fairy was struck dumb and stood frozen in place.
The atmosphere became charged with emotion and got incredibly quiet.
SWISH!
Almost immediately, Zixia Fairy’s face turned red, full of fury and humiliation. She was flushed with anger and embarrassment. She threw the paper at Xu Que with vehemence, turned her back to him, and coldly said, “Take it back to your friend.”
“Well, all right,” Xu Que said, as he took the paper. He was stunned.
He’d come back to ask Zixia Fairy if she had any news about Xiao Rou and Madam Ya.
But he absolutely didn’t expect that when he came back, he would encounter this scene. Zixia Fairy had actually restored the original appearance of the paper that she’d cut up, and she’d even shed tears.
“That… I wanted to ask…,” Xu Que repeated as he lifted his hand awkwardly to scratch the back of his head.
“Get out of here!”
Zixia Fairy unexpectedly cut off Xu Que’s question with an angry rebuke.
Her face was still flushed, and she angrily stared at Xu Que with a murderous aura. Although she wasn’t as cold as she had been before, it was easy to see that her shame had really turned into anger at this time.
After all, if this were to happen to any ordinary person, to be intruded upon under such circumstances, that person was bound to be embarrassed also.
Moreover, the embarrassed person this time was Zixia Fairy.
However, Xu Que was also annoyed at this moment.
“I’ve already apologized and left. I didn’t mean to come back and see you cry. How was I to anticipate that you would cry?
“It was wrong of me to deceive you. Everything was my fault. But with your attitude, I’m sorry to say that I, the Act-Tough Saint, am not going to play along.”
Xu Que’s expression also became chilly. With a dark expression in his eyes, he also seemed completely indifferent at this moment.
Without expression, he swept his gaze toward Zixia Fairy, immediately turned around in a pique, and marched out to leave.
“This relationship was wrong to start with.
“I shouldn’t have tied the Red Rope of Marriage at the time.
“I shouldn’t have broken into the Illusory Realm.”
None of what happened should have happened!
SWISH!
At this time, Xu Que, who was taking large strides forward, suddenly slowed his pace. He looked startled.
He turned his head around only to see a fair, slender hand tightly holding onto his clothes, and the owner of the slender hand, Zixia Fairy, facing him with a flushed face and her head bowed.
