"Are you sure?!" Xiao Jinsen asked.
What’s there to be unsure about?!
Is there still hope that Xiao Jinxing will change his mind?!
For him.
He can give up Bai Mowan for the sake of the whole world.
But he will absolutely not give up Bai Mowan for her.
She said, "Xiao Jinxing, you don’t need to feel guilty."
Xiao Jinxing’s eyes were red-rimd, staring intently at Ye Qichi.
Looking at her, appearing calmly as if clouds were lightheartedly parting.
The evening breeze brushed her hair, as if blending with the night at the border.
So aesthetic, yet so ethereal.
Xiao Jinsen heard Ye Qichi’s words and scoffed with cold mockery.
"Ye Qichi, just how deeply are you in love with Xiao Jinxing to utter such words?!"
"To not love is to not hate," Ye Qichi candidly said, "Without feelings, how can there be hurt?"
"Is that so?"
"Naturally."
Xiao Jinsen gave another cold laugh.
"Xiao Jinxing, I am not dying for you, nor am I dying for your Bai Mowan, but only for the realm and the common people." Ye Qichi smiled fearlessly; her smile on her face, like the brightest star in the night sky at the border, brilliant and charming.
She continued, "The Prince just said it correctly, Daxuan Kingdom cannot be without a ruler for even a day. And the only person who qualifies to be the Emperor and can ensure the nation’s prosperity, is you!"
Xiao Jinxing just looked at Ye Qichi.
Looking at her smile that was always lifted at the corners, so beautiful, so distant.
His heart felt as if it were riddled with thousands of holes.
His tightly clenched hand, withholding its bulging veins, exposing the blue sinews.
He actually wished more.
That Ye Qichi would hate him.
Even if she scolded him a few tis, it would be better.
She shouldn’t be so calm, so composed, ti and again, being abandoned by him...
"This is the last ti," Ye Qichi said.
Her tone was light and mild.
Just like the evening wind at that mont, so gentle, yet so cold.
Xiao Jinxing couldn’t stop the blood choking up.
Finally, after Ye Qichi’s words, he unexpectedly spat it out.
This is the last ti.
There won’t be a next ti.
There won’t be a future.
No more being hurt by him, being abandoned by him!
Ye Qichi didn’t look much at Xiao Jinxing’s expression, nor did she care much about him spitting blood.
There would naturally be guilt.
But she, truly didn’t care for it.
Her sacrifice, although perhaps compelled by circumstances.
But she preferred to attribute her sacrifice to greatness.
Allowing her to find solace in her spirit at the last mont.
"Prince, it’s enough," Ye Qichi still said in an indifferent voice.
Her aning was, she had said all she wanted to say.
Xiao Jinsen slightly nodded.
He indeed admired, Ye Qichi’s detachnt.
Before the face of life and death, to be so fearless.
It rather made him seem sowhat, cowardly.
Yes.
People always fear death.
He also fears it.
But Ye Qichi’s attitude made him vaguely feel, that death might not necessarily be sothing unbearable.
He walked directly towards Ye Qichi.
Ye Qichi was originally detained by his trusted aides.
At this mont, he had detained Ye Qichi himself.
Xiao Jinxing watched Xiao Jinsen’s action, the hand holding the Treasure Sword faintly moved.
"Will you regret, dying here?" Xiao Jinsen asked Ye Qichi.
He brought her to the edge of the city wall.
A re leap would lead to being shattered to pieces.
"Not regretful." Ye Qichi shook her head.
She never belonged to this world.
Wherever she dies, it’s all the sa.
She actually has no hotown.
"Would you regret dying with ?" Xiao Jinsen asked.
"Not regretful either." Ye Qichi replied.
After all, already dead, what does it matter who accompanies her.
"Ye Qichi, why didn’t I et you sooner..." Xiao Jinsen suddenly murmured.
Ye Qichi frowned.
"Perhaps if I t you earlier, everything would have changed." Xiao Jinsen said, sounding sowhat sorrowful.
This was the first ti Ye Qichi heard such emotions from Xiao Jinsen.
She had seen his brutality, cruelty, terror, anger, and even regret.
But she has never thought of him as a sad person.
From a young age, he had his goals, for which he would resort to any ans, even heartlessly.
He does not allow any other emotions to burden his ambitions!
So he would not let himself feel sorrow, pain, or allow himself to beco vulnerable.
"Forget it." Xiao Jinsen suddenly laughed.
Just like that, he quickly covered all his emotions.
He always felt that he was heartless by nature, suddenly being sentintal didn’t suit him.
He turned his head to look at Xiao Jinxing again.
Looking at his bloodshot eyes.
Probably, his heart ached to the extre.
He said, "Xiao Jinxing, I hope you can hold your kingdom’s beauty and be forever happy!"
As the words fell.
Xiao Jinsen embraced Ye Qichi and jumped off.
The night was dark, yet there seed to be a dazzling bright light.
Two silhouettes.
One black, one white, just like that, they fell from the high city wall.
The wind made their clothes flutter in the air.
The two silhouettes just like that, plumted between heaven and earth.
"Prince!"
"Brother Xing!"
Suddenly a frantic voice ca from atop the city wall.
Another silhouette, at the mont Xiao Jinsen and Ye Qichi jumped down, leaped down frantically and rapidly.
Xiao Jinxing reached out and forcefully grabbed Ye Qichi’s hand.
Ye Qichi’s slender body fell along with Xiao Jinsen in his embrace.
In a daze, she saw Xiao Jinxing.
Seeing his face full of panic and fear, seeing him extend his hand, trying to pull her back.
She slightly smiled.
Her hand gently lifted.
The blue scarf slipped from her hand.
Fluttering in mid-air.
Xiao Jinxing’s fingers, and Ye Qichi’s fingers, seed to touch for a mont.
The next mont, what Xiao Jinxing caught in his hand, was only that blue scarf...
Ye Qichi, growing farther and farther from him.
He just watched as Ye Qichi crazily plumted before him.
Tears in the wind, a complete ss.
He just helplessly watched everything before him grow more and more blurry...
He just watched as Ye Qichi disappeared from sight.
"Bang!"
Below the city wall, a violent noise erupted.
The sound of a body crashing to the ground.
It echoed through the sky, piercingly painful to the heart.
At the critical mont, Xiao Jinxing was violently grabbed by his ankle by the little aide beside him.
He exerted all his strength to stop the Prince from the reckless act of trying to save the Princess.
He knew how much pain the Prince was in.
He knew that perhaps dying with the Princess right now would have been relief.
But.
The Prince’s life was exchanged for by the Princess’s own life.
The Prince should not fail all the good the Princess has done.
He should not fail the Princess’s tragic sacrifice.
At this mont, tears also filled the aide’s eyes.
His vision was filled with the Princess’s smiling face, all the flavors of the marvelous als she made, and her selfless rescuing of others on the battlefield.
He will never see her again...
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