275 They Do Not Have Honor (1/2)
”Su Ming.”
The girl in white walked towards Su Ming through the sky with a smile that revealed her canines. There was a ribbon underneath her feet. That ribbon floated about, causing the girl to look as if she was walking on thin air as she walked towards the platform before Su Ming.
Her gentle voice sounded as if it had traveled through the passages of time when it fell into Su Ming’s ears. It awakened the sorrow that was hidden deep within his memories and the promise he did not manage to fulfill that year.
At that moment, because of the wind, the snow from the sky was lifted and flew in between Su Ming and the girl. The snow covered their sight as if it wanted to obscure their vision, but as the snow blew past them, their vision was cleared up once again.
”Su Ming, do you remember me..?”
The girl in white bit down on her lower lip, and there was wildness within her bright eyes. She approached him with light footsteps and slowly came to stand before him. The faint and refreshing fragrance from her body was carried by the wind to Su Ming and wafted into his nose, then right into the deepest parts of the memories in his soul.
Under the illumination of sunlight, the crystals on the girl’s forehead let out a brilliant light. It shone into Su Ming’s eyes and similarly seeped into that spot where he had buried all his memories.
She had her hair tied up with two braids by her ears. The few locks of hair that were lifted up when she approached him touched Su Ming’s face.
”Why didn’t you come find me..?” the girl asked softly. Her gentle voice echoed in his ears.
Su Ming trembled and stared blankly at the girl. Grief appeared in his eyes.
”Su Ming, do you remember me? Do you remember my name..? Do you remember how we first met..?” The girl’s soft words cut into Su Ming’s heart.
”I remember…” he mumbled.
He lifted his right hand, touched the girl’s black locks, removed the red string and tied it up for her again, then put the braids by her ears behind her shoulders before taking off the crystals on her forehead and changing the location where they were placed.
Once he was done, calmness appeared in Su Ming’s eyes and he spoke slowly, ”You only look more like her this way.”
When Su Ming finished speaking, the girl immediately frowned. The disgust on her face was difficult to hide away. She took a few steps back, as if the act of Su Ming touching her hair itself was difficult for her to accept.
”If you can become her and make me look at you like her… then when you leave, you will have completed the task Si Ma Xin arranged for you,” Su Ming said calmly.
He cast a glance at the girl and turned around to walk towards Zi Che, who was looking at them from the distance.
Bai Su stomped her feet. It could be said that she had made detailed preparations all for the sake of shocking Su Ming this morning. In fact, she had also practiced all the ambiguous words, including her expressions when she spoke, multiple times carefully.
Before she came this morning, she had even practiced before the ice mirror. Back then, the moment she started practicing, she had a feeling that she had turned into another person. It was as if a stranger’s soul had gathered in her body and changed all her actions.
She knew deeply that the instant she first appeared as the person in his memories and stood for the first time before Su Ming with this look was her best chance.
In fact, if she caught this chance, then there was a high possibility that there wouldno longer be any need for her to do anything else.
When she saw Su Ming’s dazed look, she had been pleased with herself, and when she noticed the grief in his eyes, it caused her to be even more pleased with the detailed preparations she had done the night before.
Yet things did not go according to her plans. Su Ming’s last words and actions made Bai Su understand that all her preparations to meet him in this appearance had failed.
Su Ming walked up to Zi Che. As Zi Che looked at him respectfully, Su Ming gave him an order.
”I need an object that is not too big but is very heavy. The heavier, the better. Can you find something like this for me?”
Zi Che was silent for a moment before he nodded his head.
”Master, I know a type of ice. It’s called Drowned Ice. It’s said that this ice will never melt and each piece of it is about the size of a fist. It weighs the same as a mountain rock about the size of a human.”
”Bring back as many as you can, the more the better.”
Su Ming lifted his right hand and threw a plate into Zi Che’s hand.
Zi Che looked at the plate and a strange look appeared on his face. The plate was considered to be a sacred item to him before he came to the ninth summit. Yet the more he knew, especially when he learned that this item was something Su Ming had borrowed from Hu Zi, the more he became perturbed.
He took the plate and wrapped his fist in his palm toward Su Ming before turning into a long arc and going off.
Once Zi Che left, Su Ming walked down the mountain path that led to Hu Zi’s cave. Bai Su stomped her feet once again. When she saw Su Ming ignoring her, she took a few brisk steps forward and caught up to him.
”Hey, didn’t you say you’ll teach me how to draw!”
”What do you want to draw?” Su Ming did not stop and his voice came out at a moderate pace.
”Slow down! I want to draw myself!”
Bai Su took another few quick steps forward and only then did she manage to walk beside Su Ming. It was clear that she did not want to walk behind him. Even if the ice on the mountain stairs was slippery, she still wanted to walk at the same pace as Su Ming.
”It’s easy drawing yourself. Position yourself before the ice and draw yourself while looking at the reflection on the ice.” Su Ming’s voice still retained its mild tone and did not surge with any sort of emotion.
”Then… Then what’s the point of me looking for you?!”