Chapter 316 - The One He Was Waiting For (1/2)

Jinde had no way of finding out how this half-finished painting had come about. He couldn't leave the house for fear of being spotted by Jin Ling and he didn't have any other means of contacting Zhangsun Xun Yi than to go over and ask him directly. Thus, he could only stay in that study and look at one painting after the other, the shock in his heart growing deeper and deeper.

He might not know who was living in this house, what his name was and how he looked like but he was certain that he knew exactly who he had been before. This person … was obviously the one he had waited for all this time.

Jinde lowered the last painting in his hand and looked at the dazzling light streaming through the window. Unknowingly, his eyes had long since teared up and by now one of those glittering tears hung on his lashes, trembling for a bit before finally sliding down his cheek and dripping onto his golden hair.

Soon enough, it was joined by another one until Jinde was unable to bear his blurry vision. He closed his eyes and curled up at the table, covering his face with his hands.

”Chun Yin,” he choked out, his whole body trembling with his sobs. ”Chun Yin …”

How long had he waited? How many millennia had gone by since the day he left the dragon realm after his so-called death? How many years had it been before that that he had actually seen him?

All the years that they had lost … Would they finally end? With Jian Heng dead and that demonic woman out of the picture … Would they have another chance? Could this love they had never been able to live finally have a chance to come to fruition?

Jinde's tears continued to stream down and for the longest time he wasn't able to calm down, his body racked by sobs until he could barely breathe.

He had strolled through this house long enough to know that it might be deserted right now but it hadn't been for long. Furthermore, just counting the scrolls of paper in that shelf even if he had only painted one a day it would still mean that he had been in the sect for quite a while now.

”Ah, Chun Yin, why are we always so unlucky?”

They had clearly been at the same place for a long time already but they still hadn't met. If not for Jin Ling appearing and him fleeing the special dimension in haste, he might never have found out that Chun Yin had already come. In the worst case, the person he had waited for might have ascended someday without them ever knowing they had closely passed by each other.