Chapter 153 - 48: The Afflictions and Connections of Ten Years Ago (Part 2)
"Xiao Yi, I don’t like this place, this is where you first met Yue Jinghua, isn’t it?" Although she didn’t notice the bleakness in Fa Xiao Yi’s eyes, driven by a woman’s intuition, Lie Sisi raised her head and looked around.
The expression on Fa Xiao Yi’s face darkened, and beneath his sleeve, his hand clenched into a fist. He answered deliberately, word by word, "Yes... It was here that I met that little wretch and her despicable father."
Having said that, Fa Xiao Yi suddenly struck out with his palm, hitting an old cherry tree beside him, and a flurry of cherry blossoms fell to the ground.
In the same place, with the same people around, Yue Jinghua’s mind seemed to have grown a pair of tender, small hands, slowly piecing together the missing pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. Following Fa Xiao Yi’s cold narrative, her memory puzzle gradually revealed its full picture.
The Cherry Blossom Garden remains the Cherry Blossom Garden, only the green leaves of one tree had turned into pink cherry blossoms.
"Put me down," a handsome boy, not seeming human, was bound to a cherry tree by several eunuchs.
His clothes were stripped, hands tied behind his back, his emerald eyes filled with panic and anxiety.
During the cherry blossoms season, this boy, merely over ten years old and hung on the tree, became a bizarre sight in Little Shang Palace.
Not far from the cherry tree, a young man with a jade crown and several palace dancers were drinking and making merry.
With a smile, the young man said, "Look, my father’s most beloved Young Prince is begging for mercy. Won’t anyone of you go and save him?"