Destined to be Alone

There was a swift shuffling sound inside, the chair bumped against the floor as if someone had stood up abruptly. Ji Lingxi asked in a trembling voice, "Who is it?"

"It's me," Yun Yang answered.

The door opened with a creak.

Ji Lingxi's slim figure appeared by the door, her eyes watched Yun Yang, filled with sorrow and fatigue, as well as an increasingly familiar feeling of fright and loss. Meeting her gaze, Yun Yang felt his heart clench.

Recalling the young lady he had met in Tiantang City back then, how triumphant and youthful she was, yet she had become a mere shadow of her true self.

It had only been slightly more than a year.

First, her family had gifted her away like a chess piece, basically selling her; so that she could successfully escape her ill fate. She had also received the shocking news of her brother's death whom she had been searching for all this time.