The Story Of Dusk

Meanwhile Qi Xunyi stared at the lifeless woman on the bed, he felt like there was someone who had stabbed him right in his heart as he was having difficulty to breath. He felt her pain and her sorrow, and the worse from it, he knew that what he felt for her right now was wrong, totally wrong. Something that he had to admit.

"Qianru…" Qi Xunyi called out her name as he sat down at the edge of her bed, he stretched out his hand and tucked a strand of her hair behind her ear. "Prince Xiao Jun will come back soon… you don"t need to worry about it. Now, all you need to do is getting well." He said in very soft voice, the sound that even surprised him. Before this, he never knew that he could talk in that way.

Qianru didn"t answer him, but her eyes shifted toward the door, only then Qi Xunyi realized there was someone was standing there.

"Master Ye." Qi Xunyi greeted Ye Xiu, who was staring at both of them with suspicious eyes. "Princess Xiao has just woken up, I will get something for her to eat." He said in low voice as he got up and walked away.

"Call also Jinse or Lin Xinyang." Ye Xiu ordered in cold tone. "In the future, you don"t need to accompany her anymore, it is not appropriate for both of you." It was a warning.

"I know." Qi Xunyi replied curtly as he walked past Ye Xiu without even spared him a glance. He knew and he didn"t need someone else to remind him about this, it only made him more upset.

Ye Xiu stared at the close door where Qi Xunyi"s figure disappeared, afterward he walked toward Qianru"s bed.

"How are you feeling now?" He asked in tone like a father who talked to his daughter. "Do you feel uncomfortable somewhere?"

Qianru gradually looked at Ye Xiu"s face as she moved her hand toward her chest.

Ye Xiu"s brows knitted tightly when he asked. "You feel pain on your chest?" He took her wrist and checked her pulse.

There was nothing abnormal with her, except she was in very weak condition, but it was much better than her situation days before. "Does it feel like stabbing pain? Or …" Before Ye Xiu finished his line of question, Qianru had opened her mouth and replied.

"I feel nothing." She said impa.s.sively. Her round big eyes stared at Ye Xiu as if she was pleading. "I feel empty… what should I do?"

At this point, Ye Xiu would understand if she cried herself out, but there was not even a single tear from her eyes. She was indeed feeling nothing.

"Rest well Qianru." Ye Xiu patted Qianru"s shoulder as he didn"t know what the right words to say. "You will need your strength to face this situation."

Qianru kept staring at Ye Xiu, but there was nothing in her eyes.

"Every bad situation will pa.s.s, once it pa.s.sed, in the future you will see that everything that you have been through will be worth it." Ye Xiu tried to make Qianru"s saw in different view.

"There is no future for me to see." Qianru replied as she turned her body and closed her eyes, didn"t want to continue this kind of conversation, not with Ye Xiu or anyone else, she wanted to be alone.

Ye Xiu didn"t have a bunch of beautiful word, thus he couldn"t make Qianru to listen to him nor he could keep this conversation.

"Rest well my child." Ye Xiu patted Qianru"s head as got up and walked toward the door, leaving the broken soul alone inside the room.

She needed time to heal and for that, she needed time to be alone.

*** 

On the tenth day, Qianru was getting better physically but not mentally.

She spent all of her time inside the room, staring at the window as if she was looking at the place far away behind the horizon.

The only words that she asked was "Jun", that single name was the most frequent word that Qianru would utter every time someone asked her question or tried to make a small conversation with her.

And every time also Qianru had to hear the same answer, a disappointed one.

Ye Xiu and Ye Bai had been trying to get more information about what had happened to Xiao Jun and Mo Qin Yi, whether their rescue mission was a success or fail, but still they couldn"t find even single news from the Capital city of Rockstone Kingdom about their whereabouts.

Today was another rainy afternoon and Qianru had been sitting beside the window with warm cloak draped on her shoulder and like usual, she was staring at the distance place until the last dropped of the rain fell on the ground and the sun appeared behind the cloudy sky.

Suddenly her line of sight was blocked by something colorful and smell very sweet.

Qianru knitted her brows as she raised her head to look at Qi Xunyi, who was standing outside the window while holding a bunch of flowers.

"For you…" Qi Xunyi said with faint smile grazed his lips. He stretched out his hand through the window to give the flowers for her.

He had tried to avoid her these past few days since she gained her consciousness, but it was a hard thing to do as he watched how depress she was, even not a single smile appeared on her lips, and this fact bothered him.

Qianru didn"t accept the flower immediately, she even didn"t want to spend another time near Qi Xunyi as she stood up and left the window.

Seeing Qianru"s reaction, Qi Xunyi didn"t get angry and left the flowers on the window sill and walked away.

He, sincerely, wanted to cheer her up and since Xiao Jun wasn"t there to do the job, he would do it until he returned.

That was what he thought.