A Phoenix Rising - An Untamed Story (Book 1 In Series)
41 parts Complete Mature"Lan Zhan? Do you know? When you finally decide 'this is it; I'm done', your whole world starts to get really quiet. I could hear the blood pumping through my veins louder than the battle going on around me. I could hear each tear drop as it fell off my face onto my clothes or the ground. Each beat of my heart. Each breath in and out.. A countdown of sorts, I guess.
"The oddest things run into your mind, too. I wanted to see my mom again. Just see her smiling at me once more. I wanted one more taste of Shijie's soup. One more playful fight with Jiang Cheng. One more hug from A'Yuan. One more argument with Wen Qing. I wanted to know what you looked like when you smiled. I just wanted to live in peace, and they wanted to kill me for that unforgivable sin. How is wanting to live a crime punishable by death?
"And I felt this raw, burning anger at what never was and now never would be. I had never even kissed anyone! Never had anyone tell me I was enough. Just me as myself was good enough. Never found out if I was in love...."
My thoughts on what happens after the TV show The Untamed ends.
A marriage, someone's not dead, and the Yiling Patriarch rises.