Chapter 249 — Nine Tails
The Sword Questions the Heavens · Page 5 of 5
His hand clenched without his willing it, balling into a fist.
A thousand li away, the same lonely, silent deep of night.
High on Little Zhu Peak of Mount Canglan, the night wind howled and bamboo waves rustled in waves. Lu Xueling rose slowly from her sleeping couch; this night, for some reason, she simply could not sleep.
Tossing and turning—for whose sake?
She slipped lightly from the bed, and without putting on shoes walked barefoot, her soft white feet, across the floor. A coolness rose from the soles of her feet; the floor was cool as water. She went to the window and pushed it open, and the starlight that filled the sky, flowing like ripples on water, spilled in at once, lending yet more radiance to her peerless face.
Lu Xueling gazed quietly at the stars across the heavens, motionless.
On such a deep night, was the one far away also beneath the same starry sky?
Did that faint starlight fall upon him as well?
She gazed quietly at the starry sky and moved no more, as though she too were waiting for something.
The starlight was faint, yet it seemed eternal and unchanging, having seen all the vicissitudes of the world, seen through all grudges and passions, favors and hatreds.
Perhaps tomorrow would be better...
So she thought quietly in her heart.
And tomorrow—what would it be like?
No one knew.