Chapter 916 - Care to Explain? (1/2)
Jing Yi sat down at the table and watched Qiu Ling do the same. The more closely he looked, the more he felt that Qiu Ling seemed depressed. Alright, something was obviously wrong.
He sighed and reached over, grabbing Qiu Ling's hand. ”So what is the matter? You're obviously not being your normal self.”
Qiu Ling looked up and shook his head. ”Everything's alright. I have no idea what you're talking about.”
Jing Yi didn't respond and just continued to look at Qiu Ling. If he still couldn't tell whether or not something was up with him even after living together for several years, then he would need to be the most useless person to ever live in the mortal realm.
Qiu Ling tensed up and finally had to look away. Jing He had never looked at him like this. If he didn't want to talk about something, Jing He would instead help him change the subject. But Jing Yi had the bad habit of wanting to get behind things and would continue to ask. That was … hard to deal with. ”It's really nothing.”
”If it's nothing, then why are you making such a huge deal about it? It's not like you. Qiu Ling, just tell me the truth. How bad can it be?”
Qiu Ling sighed and closed his eyes. ”I don't even know what to say. You probably think that it's stupid.”
”Even if I would think that, it's also lovable to be a fool sometimes. So just go ahead.” He squeezed Qiu Ling's hand and gave a smile. Anyway, he just wanted to know what was wrong. It was nothing more than that. And with everything they had been through already, he didn't think that it was asking too much. Qiu Ling should trust him that much.
Qiu Ling opened his eyes again and looked at him with a pained expression. ”I just feel like things will go wrong.”
”Go wrong?” Did he mean that he didn't believe that senior martial brother Nian would be able to pull things off with Shen Qiang? Then why had he even suggested doing this?
Qiu Ling shook his head as if he could imagine what Jing Yi was thinking. ”I mean with us. Just think about it: How often did something happen here and we were the ones who had to suffer from it? We couldn't get married because of some task the Yun Zou Sect gave us, we were separated when they called us over to that Leyuan region, then you were kidnapped on these very sect grounds, and we were attacked almost as soon as we came back. And now something like this happened.
”If we get involved again, won't we be the ones to get into trouble this time as well? I don't want that. I don't want you to be in danger.” He turned his hand around, interlacing his fingers with Jing Yi's. ”I want you to be safe and sound and preferably in eyeshot where I can make sure that that is the case. That is all I want. Nothing more, nothing less. Is that really asking too much?”
Jing Yi's gaze softened. So it was not that Qiu Ling didn't want to help but that he was afraid. That was something he could understand very well. After everything that had happened, it would be strange if he wasn't the least bit wary. ”It's not. I also don't think that it's silly. You're just worried about me, about us. That's nothing bad.”