Chapter 76 — The Fourth Chapter
The Sword Questions the Heavens · Page 8 of 8
Shui Yue's voice grew gradually lower, as though she were seeing once more the past buried deep in memory. "Many years now... in the blink of an eye it will soon be a hundred years. In those days there was also a person, just like him, who committed a grave wrong. But we—we pleaded for him with no thought for anything else, and yet in the end..."
She turned slowly back, meeting the eyes of both Lu Xueqi and Wen Pei, and said softly, "That person's circumstances then were not the same as Zhang Qingyue's today, yet the situation was very close. But that person was, from first to last, the one your Sect Leader Uncle-Master hated most of all!"
Shui Yue spoke in a low voice, even with a trace of anguish. For the first time in her life, before her disciples, she let show a face of sorrow and hurt.