Chapter 904: Have I Ever Asked Anything of You?
She never thought that the contract between them was dissolved by him voluntarily.
She always believed he was dead, and she fought desperately to live on, to live well, waiting thousands of years only to hear that the contract was dissolved by him voluntarily.
Why, why would it be like this?
She looked at Lianwu, her eyes stinging with bloodshot pain. She wanted to speak, to ask him why, but she couldn’t get the words out, not even a single word.
"Xue Ruo, from the moment I brought you back, have I ever asked you to do anything?" Lianwu looked at Bai Xueruo and continued to ask.
Bai Xueruo pressed her lips tightly together, still unable to utter a single word.
Have I ever asked you to do anything?
No, truly, no. He never asked her to do anything. Even in the demanding environment of the enforcers of the Divine Clan, he never asked her to do anything. He raised her like a child, telling her, "Xue Ruo, you must live well, living means being happy."
They lived at the cliff of Snow Mountain, surrounded by white snow everywhere. He didn’t come back often, but when he did, he always talked to her at length.
When he went on missions, he never took her along. Even when she became powerful and stood before him to tell him she could help, he refused.
He still said that as long as she lived well, it was enough. He brought her back not to make her do anything, but because he saw her lonely and pitiful, injured. He was a man who did many bad things, so it was rare for him to do a good deed, and she mustn’t go against his wishes.
He told her, "You must be kind, because only with kindness will you live happily."
If he ever had any demands of her, this might have been his only demand — he just wanted her to live well. That was all he ever asked of her.
Bai Xueruo bit her lip until it bled, but she still couldn’t utter a single word.
He always had this power, effortlessly dismantling all her efforts.
Bai Xueruo supported herself and knelt down, her head lowered, not daring to look up at him.
Because... he never demanded anything of her, and his only expectation, she didn’t fulfill.
"You don’t need to kneel to me, nor do you need to admit fault. I raised you for a time but never taught you to harm the innocent." Lianwu’s voice was cold and indifferent, piercing Bai Xueruo’s heart like sharp knives.
Bai Xueruo couldn’t even utter a single word of defense.
She knelt in the snow, her body trembling.
It was as if they were back to thousands of years ago, on the cliff where they had lived for a long time. He taught her martial arts cultivation, taught her the Five Elements Array Technique, taught her the Spirit Control Technique, even taught her to read and write, from when she was still unable to take human form, merely a little dragon; his teachings were always meticulous and heartfelt.
But in the end, her selfish love ruined all the years of his teachings.
He taught her so much, yet she used what he taught her to do the very thing he would never want her to do.
She wanted to argue, wanted to tell him about the hate and anguish she harbored in her heart over the thousands of years, believing he was dead, her love and hate becoming rootless driftwood, tortured like that, living a fate worse than death.