TFDC Chapter 116.2

Chapter 116.2 - Dead with no body to show

Just thinking about that possibility, she felt like her heart was dripping blood.

It hurt so much that she couldn’t control herself.

Lou Qingwu suddenly gripped her fists to control her emotions, to stop them from leaking out.

Feng Yege’s heart hurt for her but he knew, at this time, she didn’t need comforting words but calm.

She needed to unravel this knot at her heart by herself, or otherwise, no one else could help her.

But this Lou Qingwu, made his heart hurt.

He looked at her dazedly for a while before being unable to control himself, he spoke softly, “Do you still remember when we first met?”

Lou Qingwu’s body stiffened, after half a moment, softly replied, “I remember.”

That was probably the scene that she’d remember for the rest of her life.

At that time, she was only 6 years old.

Together with Lou Lianxin and her father, she’d gone to pay her respects to the old prince.

That was her first time entering the residence as her father held onto Lou Lianxin in front, her senior aide followed her behind them.

But the senior aide walked slower and slower, until in the end, she couldn’t see her father who was in front.

The senior aide had brought her to some place she didn’t recognise and then told her that she had something to attend to, to wait for her.

She waited for a long, so long that her legs were starting to go numb, but the senior aide didn’t come back.

Afterwards, she heard a faint zither sound and she followed that zither sound through a small winding path.

She followed it until she reached a hidden small pavilion inside a deep bamboo forest.

She curiously pushed the door and entered, pushing past the flying green bamboo until she saw a young boy with his head lowered over a zither.

His dark black hair hadn’t been tied up and was just draped over his white clothes.

The sunlight from above splashed over him, making him look as if he’d been painted with gold, resplendent like a deity.

She’d stood gaping at him, just dazedly, almost forgetting the time.

The zither sound was so pleasant to listen to but for some reason, it was also very melancholy and made people feel sorrowful.

Up until the song ended, did the handsome youth suddenly grip the still shuddering zither, the sharp zither strings piercing his ten fingers.

Blood dripped on the zither, the scene of destroyed flowers both beautiful and shocking.

Lou Qingwu didn’t know why she wasn’t scared at the time but she walked over to him …

Feng Yege seemed to be still drowning in his memories as his phoenix eyes were warm, “You were only so small back then but like a baby adult, you told me that if you bleed, you have to bandage it. In the end, you even gave me a butterfly knot. At the time, I was so dumbfounded, I didn't’t know that something so young and girly would appear on my hand.”

He didn’t think that the comfort from such a small girl would also suddenly be able to comfort the pain and hurt of his father-prince’s passing.

“Maybe it’s because I didn’t know better.” Lou Qingwu also laughed.

If she knew that the youth from then would become the youngest prince to be titled in Dongyu country, she wouldn’t have had the guts to do so.

“But at that time, it was the most carefree half day that I’d felt, after half a month of stifling pain. You should know, that my father wasn’t the emperor’s related brother, he wasn’t of royalty.”

“That, I know.”

“Back then, he had done something of merit for the previous emperor so he was able to receive a title, a title that would be inherited for generations and generations to come. But there’s something you might not know or maybe I should say, it’s a secret that the whole Dongyu country doesn’t know. I’m not actually my father’s son. My father-prince never married so how could he have me, this son?”

“En?” Lou Qingwu froze.

This was something that she hadn’t known.

But everyone in the capital thought that he was the old prince’s own son.

“No, I’m not … so do you understand? For me to lose my father like that, it was like I’d lost everything. I didn’t have a single relative and even though everyone treated me respectfully, that was only out of fear of my identity as the Night Prince. I was just like someone who had been forced outside, alone, lonely and in pain. So I can understand how you feel now, but,” Feng Yege spoke to here and turned to face her.

He looked at her solemnly, “But, junior sister, you have me now.”

Nine years ago, she’d barged into his life, dispelling the despair he’d felt in life.

Now, today, he was willing to be the single ray of light in her dark life.

Lou Qingwu froze, looking dazedly at Feng yege, her eyes slowly concentrating on him.

But the back of her hand was suddenly covered.

After a long time, she muttered, “Yes, I still have senior brother ..”

She wasn’t all by herself any more.

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TL note:

Feng Yege sounded like a psycho masochist when he was younger, what the hell baby LQW.

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