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Chap 769

Chapter 769: As solemn as him

Han Yunxi hid in the carriage while flipping and looking over Long Feiye’s letter multiple times. She even checked the inside lining of the envelope, but found nothing but blank space everywhere. There wasn’t a hint of ink.

What does this mean?

This should be the first time Long Feiye was writing her a letter. Or rather, the first time he was replying to her own. And yet it was empty. 

Maybe he’s bad at expressing himself so he simply wrote nothing? If that was the case, then she was truly disappointed. Perhaps Han Yunxi was overthinking things, but she had a foreboding feeling about the whole thing. Replying with an empty letter didn’t seem like Long Feiye’s style. Judging from his personality, he would have written something like “I’ve received the letter” even if he was terrible at expressing himself.

Or maybe she was just overthinking things. Perhaps he wanted to give her a surprise and this was just the first step, Han Yunxi comforted herself. Under these circumstances, Han Yunxi decided to chase away all of her romantic notions with...shame! Meanwhile, she wrote two more letters of her own to Long Feiye, one to describe their progress on the road and ask about his injuries, the other with the same message as before: Long Feiye, I miss you.

Everyone got into their disguises. Gu Qishao refused to be a shadow guard, so they went with the original plan. Han Yunxi was a sickly young Miss from a rich family, while Gu Beiyue’s handsome face now sported full whiskers as he played her older brother. Gu Qishao used a human skin mask to be their guard and carriage driver. Chu Xifeng and Xu Donglin simply followed them in the dark with the rest of the shadow guards. After climbing over the mountain, they had a single hot meal in town before continuing their trip.

By nightfall, they stopped to sleep in the open. Gu Beiyue secretly received another of Long Feiye’s confidential letters, which contained a single pill--the Phoenix Breath[1] from the sword sect master. Although it couldn’t heal Gu Beiyue completely, it could restore twenty to thirty percent of his inner energy within a short period of time. Whether it’d be twenty or thirty in the end was all up to Gu Beiyue’s own efforts. 

The contents of the letter were brief and only explained how the pill worked and things to take note of during cultivation. Besides that, there were no other details. Long Feiye didn’t even explain where he’d gotten the pill, or why he gave it to Gu Beiyue. The total words didn’t amount to more than two lines, yet Gu Beiyue studied them for a long time as if in a trance. His thoughts were unclear. 

What exciting developments! He only knew that he had lost his internal energy forever, and had despaired of even recovering! Although he remained calm on the surface, he had spent countless nights simply sitting there blankly until he accepted this reality. 

Now, hope was born from that despair!

He had practiced bitterly since his youth to bear the weight of the shadow arts still remembered by his grandfather and parents. He had shouldered the mission of protecting the West Qin imperial heir and the woman he kept hidden in the deepest depths of his heart. Finally, he could recover his skills again! He would have another chance to truly stand on his own legs. And yet…

And yet, there wasn’t a single spark of joy or excitement in his eyes. Instead, they fell into deep thought. It was a pity Han Yunxi wasn’t there to see him. Otherwise, she would definitely find that Gu Beiyue’s heavy gaze was very, very similar to Long Feiye’s. 

What did such a gaze mean?

Gu Beiyue destroyed every single one of Long Feiye’s letters after reading them over, but this one he folded up carefully and hid it in his sleeve. Meanwhile, he took the pill without hesitation.