Volume 2 Chapter 4 (1/2)
Book 2: The Infinite Heart
Chapter 4 – Beauty at the Lake Heart
In ers flicked, and a piece of broadleaf grass she had picked previously was shot out, brushi+ng past the water surface With a flip of her body, Fuyao swept past like an eagle shearing the waves, and the tip of her foot had already landed on the broadleaf grass
With such a cold day, only an idiot would actually go for a dive
Fuyao’s foot stood on the leaf tip as she ss As she expected, behind the fake mountain was hidden beautiful scenery Before she could only see a corner of the pond water, but now she could see it was actually a quite large man-made lake The lake water was clear blue like jade and reflected the exquisite, strangely-shaped rocks in the surroundings Large swaths of sweet-sht red, pink, and white, inter pure wintersweets, and tender and delicate azaleas Vibrantly colorful and gorgeous, the scene drew in one’s eyes
While in the heart of the lake there was a pavilion of white jade that connected with e corridors Upon careful inspection, those corridors were actually constructed with bamboo that were supported on top of the blue ripples It was unkno that quiet and beautiful pure blue color could be reen ba a very clean and soothing visual feeling
Wind brushed past The lake water folded with layers of elegant ripples, while froolden chimes sounded without end The white silk drapes in the pavilion were lifted up by the wind, layer upon layer like a dreaure inside the curtains, as currently playing a zither with their head lowered The sound of the zither was clear and s of jade pearls rolled and fell into the heart of the lake, yet it was not known from which beauty’s hands these sounds came from
Meng Fuyao took in a breath, her chest i air, interrance She couldn’t help but mumble a little “So enjoyable!”
Frorass, and her person also neared the pavilion at the heart of the lake step by step Halfway there she suddenly paused She felt that there see air
That kind of killing intent was formless and traceless, yet was omnipresent at the same time It seemed to be hidden in plant life, hidden in the wind and moon; it followed the flowers and trees as they waved, followed as the wind blew and thelittle by little
This place was clearly silent besides the zither’s sounds, there were no other sounds at all…
Meng Fuyao’s thoughts paused here all of a sudden Right! Why was there no other sounds at all besides the zither? Where did the world’s natural sounds all go? Where did the wind blowing and grass o?
She swiftly flew up, yet her thoughts were a little sluggish Her whole body’s senses spread outward, detecting that the surrounding killing intent was dispersed everywhere; only the person in the pavilion in front had no strange feeling, and they were the only gap in the midst of the ominous aura
This one, she thought, must be the Crown Prince’s beautiful concubine who didn’t know anydidn’t have anyone in sight, it seemed like there was an ancient array set up; since she had stuap Meng Fuyao made up her mind and directly shot forward