Chapter 209 - 207: He Wants to Safely Reach Shen Yinning’s Side
So easy to deceive...
Lu Ying clearly read her lips.
It turns out that tonight’s rendezvous had been a deception from beginning to end.
She had never intended to reconcile with him, to restore what was broken, never intended to prepare a New Year’s gift for him, nor had she wanted to walk together at the Lantern Festival and share a bowl of glutinous rice dumplings.
She had lured him here to kill him.
Firelight reflected off Lu Ying’s cold and desolate face.
His eyes were reddened as he gazed at the girl sitting in the palm of the Bodhisattva’s hand.
Under the blaze of the lanterns, her scarlet red cloak and crow-black tresses danced boldly in the cold wind, even the arcs of their movements exuded seduction and charm, like a masterpiece inked by an intoxicated artist—a beauty too extraordinary to belong to the mortal realm amid the sea of lantern lights.
Behind her, the towering Lamp Sea Bodhisattva emanated a compassion that transcended worldly sorrows.
She sat in the Bodhisattva’s flower-holding palm, like a mischievous fox who had done something wicked yet coquettishly sought shelter under the Buddhist emissary’s protection.
Delicate, spirited, stunning.
She had been his cherished treasure for the entire year, pampered and spoiled beyond measure. Every rare item he could procure—the money shop’s token, the emerald-encrusted jewelry, the finest silks and rarest Shu brocades—he had delivered to her without exception.