Chapter 628 - 314: I’ll Lead You_1
The trip this time was delightful. The autumn air was crisp, and the temperature was just right. When the sun was low, Qian Yixiu would take Mingming and Jingjing to frolic on the deck. With the House of Animals adding to the fun, laughter was non-stop.
Pan Yue usually wouldn’t leave her cabin, not because she feared someone bad would harm her, but because she was unaccustomed to the vast and boundless sky without walls to enclose her. She disliked the endless expanse of the heavens and waters, which made her feel insecure.
She looked out through the window of the cabin. The autumn in the North was rich in color, with the shores either red or golden, seldom green. As they traveled south, the greenery became more abundant, and the canal water seemed clearer. Flocks of geese flew southward, in groups and lines, calling "gaga" as they swept across the boundless sky.
"Boundless and endless, vast territories..." she muttered silently to herself. She didn’t like these words, nor the feeling they evoked.
Suddenly, an image of a tall earth wall appeared in her mind. Some parts had fissured due to its age and others were leaning slightly. Every spring and summer, the vines climbing the wall would burst into large, beautiful rosebuds.
That wall was wonderful; it shielded her from all calamities, from all the bad people who wished her harm.
As the image of the wall became clearer, another scene emerged in her mind: sitting in a run-down courtyard with the gate tightly closed, sometimes propped shut with a pole. Even though she was eager to see if the wildflowers outside had bloomed or wilted, she only dared to peek through the crack in the door...
Qian Manjiang knocked on the cabin door, but receiving no response, he pushed it open. This room was where Pan Yue and Qian Yixiu lived; Qian Manjiang could only come during the day to chat with Pan Yue. Forgetting what happened after her amnesia, Pan Yue tried to accept everyone and everything, but she still couldn’t accept the intimacy with Qian Manjiang. Just the thought of the romantic scenes from her dreams made her blush unbearably. Therefore, even when Qian Manjiang came in to talk, he had to keep a certain distance.
Qian Manjiang had no choice but to wait, to hope she would gradually remember the past and slowly accept him.
Qian Manjiang entered the cabin and saw Pan Yue sitting motionless by the bed, looking out the window.
"Yueyue," he called out softly.