Chapter 77: To Ascend is Human; to Fall is Also Human 3
Hong Hong-Er whipped around, stuffed his face in Xie Lian's chest and wailed.
This wailing contained no words, utterly meaningless, and nothing like the sound of
sobbing but nevertheless hair-raisingly dreadful. Without looking at who it was, it would
sound like the desperate cries of a full grown man breaking down, or the struggling of a
small beast with its throat cut open by a knife, as if only by immediate death could he be
relieved. Anyone can make such a sound, it just shouldn't be coming from a child of ten
years. Everyone was shaken.
A moment later, Guoshi said, "I mean it. It's best to let go."
Feng Xin finally came to and yelled, "Your Highness! Let go! Be careful of..." But in the
end he didn't have the heart to continue.
"It's fine." Xie Lian said.