Chapter 1029 — A Shocking Wish
The Blossom Guardian · Page 1 of 2
Yes, everyone has dreams in childhood... only, as the years pass, those dreams gradually wither away...
What had his own dream been, back then?
A farmwife? A mountain spring? A little plot of land?
Yes, Wei Zhao's dream in the beginning had been very simple. As a child, living with the old man, he had never imagined that he would grow up to be an assassin, nor had he ever imagined what kind of life he would one day lead...
Back then he had assumed he would be like the other village children around him—like Ergoudan, say—planting fields and gathering mountain produce with him to support a family...
But later, once Wei Zhao came to understand things, he began carrying out all sorts of missions, some simple, some complicated... and after that he knew even less where his own dream lay.
That rootless, drifting existence was the whole of his life. Now and then, when he had a moment of leisure, sitting back in the old hometown chatting and shooting the breeze with Ergoudan counted as the most relaxed hours of his life.
As the years wore on, he grew up, and Ergoudan grew up too.
His own fate had been changed by the old man, and he was destined never to become a farmer; while Ergoudan's fate had been changed because of him, and he too was destined never to become an ordinary farmer... and yet was bound to remain in the old hometown as a farmer!
Thinking of Ergoudan, Wei Zhao found he rather missed him. It had been a while since he had seen him, and he wondered whether the spring plowing was finished yet. It ought to be about done by now, surely? He would find a moment to call him and have him come over to Songshan City...
And so the life Wei Zhao led now could be called the most leisurely stretch of time he had known apart from his childhood—food and drink and beautiful women, and though dangers lay thick and crises lurked on every side, Wei Zhao savored it like sweet honey.
Even so, Wei Zhao still felt his own life was better than Feng Xiaoxiao's! For though his fate was rootless and uncertain, he had a friend in Ergoudan. Ergoudan might be a bit dim, a bit reckless in what he did, but he suited Wei Zhao's taste just fine.
At least he was a man of true feeling: whatever Wei Zhao told him, he would only chuckle and never breathe a word of it to anyone else.
So Wei Zhao had never kept the experiences of these years hidden from Ergoudan, and Ergoudan was a most faithful listener.
Wei Zhao shook his head and suddenly remembered that his time was short—class was already over, and here he was reading Feng Xiaoxiao's wishes, and he had actually let his mind wander!
Not daring to dawdle, Wei Zhao hastily photographed this wish of Feng Xiaoxiao's for the record, shut it, and went on to read the next one.
"I want to fall in love too, to have a boyfriend who cares for me and looks after me. Seeing other people stroll beneath the flowers and the moon, I'm so envious... But I can't do that to someone else! I'm going to die, and my love would be heartbroken!"
This wish, however, came in two parts: the passage above had been written on a date two years earlier, and beneath this wish there was now another annotation! Its date, though, was very recent!
"I've decided—I'm going to fall in love with Wei Zhao! Who told him to pee on me and set off firecrackers on my backside? I'll have my revenge! I'll make him fall in love with me, and then I'll die right in front of him and break his heart! Go for it, Xiaoxiao!"
Wei Zhao broke out in a sweat reading this. No way? He had felt for some time that something was off about Feng Xiaoxiao—the shift from hostility toward him to liking him had been a bit too fast, hadn't it? He checked the date of the annotation: it was exactly the day Feng Xiaoxiao's attitude toward him had changed...
Only, beneath this annotation there was yet another one, and when Wei Zhao read it he could not help but give a sigh!
"So this is what love feels like? It's wonderful. I do so hope I can go on living..."