Gu Yun tightened his hold on him. When Chang Geng opened his eyes again, the bloody hue and double pupils in his eyes had faded. Suddenly, he turned over, his movement was somewhat clumsy, pressing the person he missed day and night into the soft and thin quilt. "Zi Xi, do you know what the Bone of Impurity is?"

Gu Yun was surprised.

"The Bone of Impurity is a kind of evil god and the oldest curse of barbarians. When their whole clan is destroyed, they will leave behind a pair of children and make them into the Bone of Impurity. In this way, the refined person will have unparalleled strength in the world, bringing bloody storms and ending the lives of their mortal enemies, no matter how powerful they may be."

Chang Geng laid on him, there was a slight tremor in his chest as he spoke, but his voice was as warm and gentle as ever, only with a little unspeakable hoarseness to it. "Before her death, Hu Ge Er had said to me, all my life, I will have only hatred, tyranny, and suspicion in my heart, I will be violent and homicidal. Everywhere I go, there shall be a storm of blood, I am doomed to drag everyone to a horrible death, no one will love me, no one will treat me with sincerity."

Gu Yun was frightened. He used to think that when Chang Geng was a teenager, his mind was too heavy with thoughts. There were innumerable twists and turns in it, making outsiders confused. But he did not know that behind those innumerable twists and turns, he was being weighed down by such a critical remark.

"But someone does love me, someone does treat me sincerely... Isn't that right? It was you who called me back just now." Chang Geng whispered, "She had never given me warmth for even a day, and I will never become what she had wished for me. Do you believe me? Zi Xi, as long as you say a word, even amongst a sea of flames or a mountain of swords, I will still charge ahead."

He was the prestigious Yan Wang, commanding the Grand Council, but whenever he was jolted awake from the nightmare that Xiu Niang had branded into his bone marrow, the one whom he could trust in and yearn for, in the end, was only one Gu Yun.

A person's weight was too heavy when pressed upon him, sometimes, he found that he was unable to carry it.