Beauty Feng Vol. 2

Chapter 124: Go

Melo has something to say: The 'Persia' in this story isn't historically accurate. I only based it on their culture and forgot to think of a new name lmao

"Hang on tight!"

It was another eventful night. She could hear Xiao Hao's voice among the roars of flames eating the house they had been living in for months.

She was a grown woman but was forced to be nestled in Xiao Hao's arms like she was a child again.

In the dead of the night, they were tipped off about an attack that was to come. But it was still earlier than expected and the perpetrators were now hot on their heels.

Long Xu Le was suddenly taken back to the nights she spent on the battlefield. Everything smelled like a mixture of soot, horse manure and iron. The air was humid, making her cheeks, hair and back damp from all the movement.

Madam Lian worked day and night to heal her eyes but there were still times that her vision would black out. Like this moment.

She heard her master talking to Xiao Hao once that it was the effect of all the things that happened in her life. And if there would be a time that she could heal from the wounds of her heart, maybe her eyes would open themselves to the world once again.

Xu Le didn't want to believe it.

Why would a physical injury be affected by the things in her mind? But deep inside, she knew maybe there was a truth to her master's words.

After all, she was someone who was supposed to have died years ago but here she was.

Still fighting to live.

Fighting.

Had she been really fighting these past few months? It felt like she was just accepting death that was yet to come.

As a matter of fact, she couldn't care less now if the Persian princes captured and killed her.

But what would happen to Xiao Hao? To Madam Lian? And all the other soldiers who were waiting for her to come back?

There were explosions and shouting in the distance.

It wasn't a surprise that the Persians were able to produce these things. Adrina was the one who gave her the idea to make some using the resources available in Suliang.

Long Xu Le felt the rough fabric of Xiao Hao's clothes. This was the person who silently stood behind her as her father through all these years.

He knew every sin she committed but still supported her. Because that was the only way Xu Le and Sangyu could survive and gain power.

Not far from them, she could hear Madam Lian's movements. She knew her master so well that she could pick up the sound of the latter's pace. A feat that no one in the jianghu could do.

This was the woman who fostered her and taught her how to navigate the world as a woman. Madam Lian gave her the space to grow and find her footing in a male-dominated world. The older lady showed her how to be in touch with her soft nature to be strong.

And even if Long Xu Le acted manly, Madam Lian didn't hate her for it. The jianghu veteran knew it was her way to live as a female King.

And her soldiers... there was only one fate that awaited them if she fell.

To be caught hiding in a foreign nation, nothing good would happen to them.

Something seemed to have snapped inside her mind while thinking of these things. She couldn't give up yet.