A carefree soldier king in the city

Chapter 587 I am Tianyue

Another "I'm sorry" came, but now, it sounded like a thorn in his side.

He frowned slightly, then said to Yuan Qiu and the others, "Sanpao, Fatty, you go do other things, I'll come find you later."

Ma Sanpao and the others nodded, understanding what Chao Bufan meant, and then left together.

Chao Bufan smiled slightly, then said, "Linglong, I just want to ask you one question: Did you ever love me?"

"I, I..." she stammered, then glanced at Kuai Zhengliang, before lowering her head and falling silent.

Seeing this, he nodded, then sighed softly and said, "Linglong, do you know? Actually, I knew from the beginning that you were lying to me, that you were using me. But because I truly loved you, I was willing to be deceived by you. Even when you gave me the poisoned wine, I was willing to keep being deceived by you."

"I'm sorry," Linglong said softly.

"You don't need to apologize to me, because it was all my own choice." Chao Bufan smiled bitterly and said, "I have no other request now, I just want to ask one question: did you ever love me?"

"What a joke! Who do you think you are?" Kuai Zhenliang suddenly forgot his predicament and roared, "Linglong and I have been childhood sweethearts, inseparable since we were little. Tell me, would she love you? Don't be delusional..."

"Shut up!" Chao Bufan shouted angrily, "Do you even have the right to speak here?"

"You..." Kuai Zhengliang choked, then roared, "Kid, do you know who my father is?"

Ma Sanpao suddenly stepped forward and said angrily, "You surnamed Kuai, don't think we don't know which beast your father is. If you don't want to die, you'd better shut up. Otherwise, I'll send you to hell right now."

"You bastards!" Kuai Zhengliang roared, "You'd better let me go, or I'll wipe out your whole family."

"Snapped!"

Chao Bufan raised his hand and slapped her across the face, saying, "I'm only letting you live a little longer because of Linglong. If you don't know what's good for you and dare to say another word, I'll send you to hell right now."

The sudden slap stunned Kuai Zhenliang. When he came to his senses, he immediately realized that these guys in front of him were no pushovers, so he had no choice but to swallow his anger and remain silent. However, he had no intention of letting them go and vowed to wipe out their entire family.

Chao Bufan stared at Linglong and asked again, "Linglong, did you ever love me?"

Linglong's eyes were full of tears, but she didn't immediately answer Chao Bufan's question. After a moment, she said softly, "I'm sorry."

Chao Bufan nodded and said, "I understand. Since you never loved me at all, why do you feel heartache?"

Yes, if you don't love someone, why feel heartache?

He once asked himself, "Who in this world is truly my love in this life?" Under the blue sky, with its melancholy and the vast emptiness of a dreamlike realm beyond the clouds, who could understand my loneliness? Who could comprehend my solitude? He once clutched his aching heart tightly, wondering if that love-wielding knife would eventually return to the Stone of Love from Three Lifetimes. The smile of his beloved had now become a bleeding rose.

He said: "Then let this bleeding rose bloom until it withers away on the ashes of the graveyard!"

Little did he know that, under the influence of gravity, that single tear quietly slid down, falling onto the soil and flowing into the distance.

He asked the ages, who among the time trampled by horses' hooves...

I will bury myself. Under the swirling, stormy sky, among all the men in the world, I am probably the most heartbroken! Because I have exhausted all the vitality of my life, just to win a smile from her.

I even thought that from then on I could only silently recite that passage from the Book of Songs: "The reeds are green, the white dew is like frost. The one I long for is on the other side of the water. I trace my steps back upstream to find her, but the road is difficult and long. I follow the current downstream to find her, and she seems to be in the middle of the water. The reeds are lush, the white dew has not yet dried. The one I long for is on the bank of the water. I trace my steps back upstream to find her, but the road is difficult and steep. I follow the current downstream to find her, and she seems to be on a sandbar in the water. The reeds are abundant, the white dew has not yet ceased. The one I long for is on the edge of the water. I trace my steps back upstream to find her, but the road is difficult and winding. I follow the current downstream to find her, and she seems to be on a small island in the water."

Now that they have finally met again, he asked her, "Did you ever love me?" But she did not give him the answer he wanted. He finally realized that it was all wishful thinking on his part, and that she had never loved him.

So he smiled again and said, "Linglong, do you know? The beginning of a relationship is always a preordained fate in life. Otherwise, why would I have met you in this vast sea of ​​people, and fallen for you? I'm willing to silently wait for you, asking for nothing in return, because every smile, every gesture of yours is deeply etched in my mind, impossible to forget. I thought you would tell me that you once loved me, even just a little, but..."

"I'm sorry, I lied to you, it was me..." Linglong said, crying.

Chao Bufan interrupted her, laughing, "You didn't wrong me, you didn't lie to me, everything was of my own free will. I deserve it, I'm just a fool, I'm just a bastard. Linglong, do you know how my father died? He died because of me, and yet I willingly drank that cup of poison for you. Fortunately, heaven took pity on me and let me live. Linglong, I swore an oath before my father's memorial tablet yesterday that I would avenge him, that I would bring the head of my enemy to appease his spirit in heaven. So, I want you to witness with your own eyes how I avenge my father."

"Don't do anything foolish, you can't win," Linglong said anxiously.

"Is that so?" Chao Bufan sneered and said, "Linglong, do you know? If... if you had answered me just now that you were even slightly better than me, perhaps I would have considered letting your husband go. Unfortunately, you have disappointed me too much."

Linglong suddenly calmed down and said, "Tianyue, I know it's all my fault. I'm sorry to you, I'm sorry to your father. But you have to understand, that's how the martial world is. It's either you die or I die. I did this out of desperation. I hope you understand."

“I know, that’s why I’m not blaming you,” Chao Bufan said.

“Tianyue,” Linglong said, “leave here quickly before anyone notices you, otherwise…”

Kuai Zhengliang suddenly frowned, because he suddenly remembered who the person in front of him was. He quickly interrupted Linglong and said, "You are Tianyue?"

Chao Bufan nodded and smiled, "That's right, I am Tianyue."