Chapter 1448: The Secret Exposed
A sudden tenderness would sometimes surface in Zhao Yuqing.
He possessed a sharp tongue but a soft heart. Though he never offered gentle words to anyone's face, he could not help but let them slip when it was occasionally brought up.
He was a walking contradiction.
Just as he had said himself, he had once been caught in the rain.
Long ago, when he first stepped onto the immortal path, his heart had swelled with dreams of the future and Immortals. Then it had all shattered. Everything morphed into falsehood and faded into the past. Even now, the memory carried a sharp sting.
Perhaps this was why Zhao Yuqing cared so deeply for Jiu Fengchun.
They shared the same inescapable fate.
"Then your search for this Sea Spirit Gold is for..."
"To leave him a way out," Zhao Yuqing said. "Back when I was starting out, no matter how difficult things got, there was no one standing behind me. That despair was what truly agonized me—a pain worse than death."