Chapter 913 - Please, Tell Me! (1/2)

While the three of them went to talk to the Elders, Nian Hong Fang stared at the herb in his hands in a daze. Several years … Several years had once again gone by. A bit more and Ma Zhi Wu would've been gone for a whole decade.

Would he ever see him again? Even if the Grandmaster's disciple took an interest in this now, there was no guarantee that anything would change. It could be that nothing would happen once again.

Shen Qiang looked at him, his heart hurting. He reached out, his lips parting to comfort him but in the end, his hands fell down once again and he looked at the ground with a pained expression.

He wanted to tell him. For at least the last two years, he had thought about it more and more often. He couldn't watch him suffer like this. He wanted to make him happy. Obviously, he wasn't able to do that by himself.

Originally, he had thought that maybe if his lover was gone long enough and if Nian Hong Fang had somebody else that showered him with affection, then his heart would be moved sooner or later. But he had been wrong. He had been completely wrong.

Nian Hong Fang was unwavering in his love for Ma Zhi Wu. Regardless of what happened, he would never give up. Not if he knew that his lover was still alive somewhere. And even though Shen Qiang was of the opinion that a demon had to be kept away from humans to make sure that they couldn't hurt them, he didn't think that somebody with mixed blood should just be killed.

It might be in their nature to do misdeeds but they were still living creatures. They didn't deserve to be slaughtered just like that. If the Chun Feng Sect started to do that, then that would be the difference between them and the demons they were hunting? That was something he wouldn't be able to condone.

Nian Hong Fang finally put down the herb and turned to Shen Qiang. ”Do you really not know anything? Shen Qiang, we've known each other for so long now. Can't you tell me already?”

Shen Qiang looked up, feeling torn once more. If he just told him a bit … But then again, the Sect Master had said that there were several demons in the Yun Zou Sect. If he told Nian Hong Fang, they might find out. And what then? The Chun Feng Sect might be in danger. Nian Hong Fang himself might be in danger. After all, he had spent a lot of time with him. The demons might think that he had tried to do something about them.

Shen Qiang sighed and shook his head. ”Don't ask me that, please. Even if I want to tell you, I can't.”

Nian Hong Fang's expression that hadn't held much hope in the first place fell further. This kind of desperation … Shen Qiang had trouble watching it.

”I don't want to hurt you.”

Nian Hong Fang shook his head. ”You don't want to hurt me? But I'm already hurting. I … I miss him. Shen Qiang, I miss him so much, my heart hurts every day. If you don't do anything, nothing changes about that. Can't you tell me anything? Just a bit so I don't feel as horrible?” Tears gathered in his eyes, making Shen Qiang awkwardly avert his gaze.

He could not watch this. Nian Hong Fang knew that he was well aware of where his lover was or even if he didn't know for sure, he at least had a hunch. But even so, he hadn't said anything. All these years, he just let Nian Hong Fang suffer. And a part of this was because of his own selfish desire. He couldn't say with a good conscience that all of it was just because he wanted to find out about the demons in the Yun Zou Sect.