Chapter 98: I Just Don't 2

He collected his thoughts but answered her previous question, "Sea lingzhi can be considered as consuming heat for life. That is why it can cure the fire inside you. But now with the recurrence, it is difficult to eliminate with a single plant. You will need to recuperate here for a few days."

"I remember you telling me not to use my power, and I was careful about it too… I don't understand how my dream was…"

The dream she had in the wooden hut flashed through her mind.

She now remembered and knew the woman who spoke to her in the dream was Ning Xiyu, the one who had taught the Grand Master.

But…

Ji Yunhe frowned, "... Too many things in my head... I can't remember why I used my power in the dream." She looked at Changyi apologetically.

"I am sorry for the trouble."

Changyi sat up and said, "It's no trouble."

Compared to her being dead and her body burned by lava, this current situation was so much more preferable. Ji Yunhe fell silent again. If she remembered correctly, she had never told Changyi the truth about her betrayal...

The only people who knew were Lin Haoqing, Princess Shunde, and people from the Grand Master's house. Another person who knew was the monk determined to make Changyi forget about her, Kongming. None of them would run over to Changyi and tell him this useless stuff after her death.

So that made Changyi's actions right now very intriguing. Come to think of it, the way he treated her even before she remembered everything...

"Changyi..." she finally asked him, "why did you say you don't hate me?" Her question was too direct. In this confined space, Changyi could not avoid it.

"I just don't," he said.

"There is no reason." His answer was also very direct. Ji Yunhe was baffled and sat up too.

"I betrayed you."

"Mhm."

"Stabbed you."

"Yes."

"I pushed you off a cliff, the monk said you almost died. You spent six years in the north, planning and fighting just to get back at me."

"That's right."

"..." She was silent for a moment.

"And you are saying you don't hate me?" The eyes staring at Changyi slowly began to quiver in the darkness. She lowered her head and did not know what else to say.

"Changyi, are you stupid?"

This big-tailed fish... after so many trials and tribulations over the years, he was still so kind and sincere.

"Why are you so good?" Ji Yunhe asked him.

"How do you still have such a kind heart? This way..."

She looked down at his hands that had been injured by his own magic dealing with the lava. They were covered in cuts and scratches. She gently held his hands and tears fell.

"People will bully you..."

For the first time, Changyi saw her cry. And it seemed as if she was crying for him.

But he did not feel he was as good as she said, nor was he that kind… He had come so close to losing himself. When he finally turned around, it was not because of the good in him, but because Ji Yunhe had come back. Even though he had not known it was her and she had forgotten their past, she still pulled him back. Changyi wiped away the tears on her face.

"I'm very powerful," he said.

"Remember, you were once beaten by me too." Speaking of this matter, Ji Yunhe broke into laughter.

"Only you can make beating a woman sound so justified."

The corners of his lips also curled up. After so many years, at the bottom of the sea far away from the human world, they finally looked at each other with a smile.