Chapter 810 - 749: Bygone Days

Chapter 810: Chapter 749: Bygone Days

Xia Wenjin felt a pang in her heart; the profound loneliness, sorrow, and bitterness in Ning Yujun’s eyes were impossible to hide.

Yes, for someone who is forever on one’s mind yet cannot be seen, just being alive is the greatest solace for both parties.

Who planted the Life-sharing Butterfly no longer matters.

But whether it was the master who planted it or the other person, their original intention was to share life, not death!

Thus, the Life-sharing Butterfly has turned purple; the other person is already gone, yet the master is merely tormented by illness without the threat of death.

Of course, Xia Wenjin was also certain that it wasn’t the master who planted it.

Because the master didn’t even know what it meant when the Life-sharing Butterfly changed color, nor did they know how to remove it.

Sometimes, ignorance truly is bliss.

Who is that person?

Xia Wenjin didn’t know, although she had her suspicions.

She leaned slightly forward and said to Ning Yujun, "Yes, as long as we’re alive, it’s fine! Even if we bear the same injuries, there will ultimately be a time when we meet!"

"I don’t want to see him!" Ning Yujun suddenly extended her intact left hand to cover her face.

Tears flowed from between her fingers, and her voice was hoarse and choked with sobs.

Xia Wenjin said nothing.

For those who have planted the Life-sharing Butterfly, it must be by mutual consent, agreeing to share their fates, endure sickness together, but the master said they didn’t want to see him.

Who knows what grievances exist between them; she, as the younger generation, is not involved and is completely unrelated.

Ning Yujun still covered her face. Perhaps she thought that covering her face would conceal her sorrow, but how could such sorrow be concealed?

Watching the silent tears streaming down Ning Yujun’s face, Xia Wenjin softly said, "If you don’t want to see him, then don’t."

Ning Yujun made no sound, but her tears slowly stopped. She removed her hand, her eyes slightly red, and looking at Xia Wenjin, she smiled with traces of shyness.

She looked around; this room wasn’t her usual room, merely a convenient place for surgery, chosen by Xia Wenjin. She struggled to sit up, and Xia Wenjin hurriedly assisted her.

Ning Yujun seemed oblivious to the pain in the crisscross wounds on her right arm. Perhaps, for her at that moment, recalling the past, remembering past individuals brought her more pain than the wounds ever could.

Her gaze shifted from the distance, falling onto Xia Wenjin. There was a certain envy in her eyes.

Xia Wenjin knew it wasn’t herself that Ning Yujun envied, but her age, where everything had yet to begin, where everything was still possible, while Ning Yujun’s heart was already worn, emotions faded, dreams distant. The person in her heart was better left unseen, and that lingering affection had become nothing more than a memory!

She wasn’t very old, in her forties, yet she seemed to have tasted the world’s vicissitudes, seen all its sorrows.

Having endured the changes of time and space, aside from Mount Wu, there were no clouds; beauty and sadness in the world had become part of her recollections.

Ning Yujun softly asked, "Miss Xia, do you have someone dear to you?"

Xia Wenjin smiled slightly, nodded openly, and said, "I do!"

"That’s wonderful!" Ning Yujun’s gentle gaze was like rippling water. Her voice was softer and clearer as she said, "It’s a beautiful thing. I hope everything goes as you wish, and you live happily!"

"I will," Xia Wenjin smiled. She tilted her head slightly upward, looking at Ning Yujun, and said, "Actually, whether or not I’m happy in the future doesn’t matter to me. But right now, as long as we are mutually dependent and in love, that’s enough. The world changes so much; no one knows what the future holds, yet what we’ve experienced together is all part of life’s beauty!"

Ning Yujun glanced at Xia Wenjin in surprise. Such a young girl, yet she spoke so transparently.

At that age, who hasn’t longed for forever? Who hasn’t believed that nothing and no one could separate two people in love?

But this young girl spoke of the uncertainty and changes in life.

Indeed, life changes so much; who can predict the future?

Had she been so perceptive at such a young age, maybe she wouldn’t have lived so bitterly over the years.

Ning Yujun softly said, "When I met him, I was about your age. What the heart thinks is eternal. But I didn’t expect that my family and his were arch-enemies. It’s quite cliché, isn’t it?" she said to Xia Wenjin, as though she were telling someone else’s story.