Chapter 74 — Two
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Her voice, as she spoke now, seemed to come from very far away. "So it turns out that even in the darkness—even when I thought I was about to die—I could find someone to lean on."
Zhang Qingyue's heart was moved, but he did not know what to say.
A hand like polished jade reached over; Bili gently took his hand, and from her soft skin a faint warmth flowed into him.
From her bosom she drew a handkerchief and gently wiped away the smudges left on his sleeve from when he had cleaned the bamboo for her.
"From the time I was small, I don't know how many people curried favor with me, how many rare treasures they gave me—and yet..." She lifted her head and looked into Zhang Qingyue's eyes, and said softly, "Even if all the treasures under heaven were laid before me, not one of them would be worth this sleeve of yours, that you dirtied wiping the bamboo for me."
In that moment, every sound in the world fell away.
There was only the gentle light in this beautiful girl's eyes, gathered about him.
How many years from now, when you look back on the past, will you still remember that once, long ago, someone whispered the secrets of her heart to you?
Those words, feverish with the innocence of youth—do you still remember them?
Like a vow carved deep into the heart, that neither death nor forgetting can undo!
Did you open your arms and gather the one you loved into your embrace?
At some unknowable moment, there in that gentle stillness, he opened his arms and held the beautiful girl beside him close.