Chapter 143 — Reluctance
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she gazed long and deep!
What feeling lay in that single look?
Then through the Yuyu Hall rang her voice, low yet resolute as iron, sharp as ice split and snow sundered:
"I will not!"
Far away.
Upon an unfamiliar hillside, a figure crouched in a dark corner suddenly shuddered.
The chorus of insects that had risen and fallen across the wild hills abruptly ceased.
The figure struggled slowly to its feet within the shadows, and as though sensing something, stood staring blankly into the distance.
A monkey's form leaped out from beside him and scrambled up onto his shoulder in a few quick bounds.
A long while later, his voice came out of the darkness:
"Xiaohui, why is my heart suddenly beating so fast..."