Chapter 191 - 181: Lantern Night; Penny for a Wandering Soul
Book 4: White-Clothed Calamity
MXTX Author Notes: This book is set in the past timeline; this is about the first banishment after
the fall of XianLe. Follows after Book 2. Not too long~
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Xie Lian jolted awake in horror.
His body was drenched in cold sweat from the scare and he shot up from his rest, burying his face in his hands.
The reason he was woken from shock was because of a dream. Within the dream, both his father and mother hung themselves and committed suicide. He saw it, but there was no joy nor grief, no tears to flow, and he woodenly prepared to prepare himself another white silk band. Just as he was sticking his head into the knot, he saw below there was a white clad man wearing the crying-smile mask jeering at him, and his heart jolted, the knot tightened, and a crushing suffocation came. Then he woke up.
It was already daylight outside the window, and from the exterior came a voice, "Your Highness! Are you awake?"
Xie Lian answered offhandedly, "I'm awake!"
It was only after having violently panted for a good while did he realize that he wasn't sitting on a futon, instead it was a sheet of straw mat under his body. Although it was layered with many batches of hay, extraordinarily soft, but to him it still wasn't quite comfortable. Even now he still wasn't used to such simple and crude bedding.
The one who called for him just now was Feng Xin. He went out early in the morning and had just brought back food, and was still urging Xie Lian from the outside to go take his meal. Xie Lian acknowledged him and crawled up.