emotional damage
Yu Sui unsheathed his sword in a flash,
so fast that it burst into blazing flames,
the fire growing stronger with each rise in his fury.
Because Yu Sui's sword
was a mirror of his emotions.
Whatever he felt,
the blade reflected.
If he was calm, the sword would rest like a quiet lake.
But when he was angry
it turned into a volcano, burning with the wrath of a thousand suns.
His black aura was so intense,
that the trees nearby began to wither,
the water turned to vapor,
as though a second sun had risen before them.
Because Yu Sui wasn't just anyone
he was a dangerous demon.
And the first mark of a true demon?
The power to read minds.
He was hearing every thought inside Lao Duan's heart.
Just then, from a swirl of red smoke,
Wuzu appeared,
emerging with her sinister grace.
Her voice curled through the air like a spell:
"Master...
You always show mercy to this little chick…"
She turned her eyes toward Lao Duan.
"Give it up, little chick…
How long will you keep pretending to be the villain?"
Both Yu Sui and Wuzu were listening to Lao Duan's soul.
The poor boy was shattered like glass on the inside.
A broken stone can be mended,
a torn heart can be healed,
but once glass shatters
it cannot be restored.
The tears welling up in Lao Duan's eyes told the story of his unbearable sorrow.
Yu Sui knew him well.
He knew Lao Duan loved rabbits,
fed birds daily,
gave food to stray cats and dogs.
Even Mo Yan had seen the goodness in Lao Duan.
But all of that was buried
crushed beneath his desperate desire
to win the affection of his deceitful father.
Suddenly, Yu Sui heard a whisper from Lao Duan's heart:
"Forgive me…
Forgive me, Brother Yu…
I have no other way to prove myself."
Hearing this, both Wuzu and Yu Sui fell silent.
Yu Sui's sword cooled.
Tears began to stream from his eyes.
Because he, too, knew this pain.
The pain of loving someone so deeply
and never being loved in return.
He felt it every day,
in the silence of Mo Yan,
in the way he could never say what he truly felt.
In a moment of quiet resolve,
Yu Sui lifted his sword and struck a deep wound on his own shoulder.
So that Lin Chaoyuan would believe Lao Duan had defeated him.
When Lao Duan saw what Yu Sui had done
that he had injured himself just to protect him
something inside him finally broke apart completely.
He fell to his knees.
Collapsed in sobs.
Yu Sui and Wuzu walked up to him.
For the first time, someone had shown him mercy
and it was from the one he had come to kill.