Chapter 4326 — Meeting Again
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
"Ah, I see. This way, please." The waiter had presumably been given instructions beforehand; he nodded in understanding and led Wei Zhao up to a private room on the upper floor.
Only after the waiter had gone did Wei Zhao push the door open and step inside. The figures of two girls came into view—none other than Wang Xinyan and Huang Xiaotao.
He closed the door behind him. Across a space of two or three zhang, Wei Zhao and Wang Xinyan simply gazed at each other in silence. Neither spoke a word; time itself seemed to halt at that very moment.
After a long while, Wei Zhao and Wang Xinyan, as though their hearts were in perfect accord, moved toward each other at the same instant. The corner of Wei Zhao's mouth curved into a handsome arc, and then he opened his arms and abruptly swept Wang Xinyan into his embrace, holding her tight.
Huang Xiaotao stood by watching, and before she knew it her eyes had gone red—not from envy or jealousy, but from heartfelt joy for the two of them. Lovers they had been, yet after their transport to the Cloud Terrace Island they could only be parted at the ends of the earth; now at last they could hold each other once more. This single embrace of deep affection—how the two of them had yearned for it for a full year and more!
From the time they had met until now, she had not spent long in Wang Xinyan's company, yet in that brief time she had already come to know that Wang Xinyan, like Shangguan Lan'er, was a kind and very easy girl to get along with; and in some ways, Wang Xinyan's temperament was even more like her own, so that the two of them found more in common.
In truth, only a short while had passed since they met, and Wang Xinyan and Huang Xiaotao had already skipped past the stage of martial sisters and were simply calling each other sisters. After all, because of Wei Zhao, the two of them truly were sisters in the fullest sense—a bond even closer than that of disciples of the same sect.
With Huang Xiaotao as their witness, Wei Zhao and Wang Xinyan held each other tightly, as though each wished to fuse the other deep into their embrace, unwilling to part for the longest time. A year's separation and a thousand words unsaid—all of it was in that one embrace.
This scene lasted for the better part of an incense stick's burning before the two at last drew apart with reluctance, tears glistening in their eyes as they looked at each other and smiled.
"All right, you two, don't just stand there. Sit down and have some tea," Huang Xiaotao said with a smile from the side.
"Very well." Wei Zhao and Wang Xinyan exchanged a smile and then took their seats one after the other. Thereupon Wei Zhao, unable to restrain his curiosity, skipped straight past the usual inquiries about how each had fared and asked Wang Xinyan, "Tell me, how did you end up in the East Continent? And you even took the East Sea Divine Nun as your master—when I saw you go up there earlier, I was truly dumbstruck..."
"Little Sister Xiaotao has already told me all about it—said you were practically drooling..." Wang Xinyan laughed, covering her mouth with her hand, and then explained. "When I was transported up, I was in fact sent straight to the East Continent."
"What?" Wei Zhao was taken aback. He had assumed that since the East Continent was so transcendent, with so many experts gathered there, and since so many formidable cultivators from other Cloud Terrace Islands were not even qualified to go there, to say nothing of the multitudes transported up from the mortal realm—(To be continued) R655