45. The Snow Monster in the Shilian Tower (1)

Snow was the most fragile and purest thing. It was easy to be contaminated by humanity, but it was hard to support humanity. But everything had its bottom line. Once you crossed the bottom line, snow became the carrier. The snow all over the place stood for the resentment all over the place. It was no wonder that the condensed snow was so hard to melt.

"Accumulated white snow laid on the top of the mountain..." The beautiful voice was empty and sad. And the girl in red had a very beautiful but pale face like snow, her clothes floating in the wind. "In my dream, the Arctic snowed. I wonder longingly if we've been in love. You always hold my left hand. I always remember when I miss you. I've laughed and cried for you for unknown reasons. And I've been so worried that I might miss you. What was on my mind when we broke up, sometimes it was the heartbeat, and sometimes it was the silence..." The lyrics were so sad as if it had been sung for somebody else or herself.

Just like a vigorous jade dragon that could fly, it was so majestic and beautiful and went straight up into the sky. It changed with the rain and the sun. In the dawn, its lights were reflected on the mountains. In the sunset, it was like a beautiful girl standing in the sunset glow.

The girl seemed to know that someone was looking for her, so she showed up with her long and black hair reaching her legs. She wore blood-red clothes and had pale skin. She was the only siren in the world due to her beauty.

When the dean found the girl, she had already become a monster, more specifically, the Snow Monster in the world. She created a lot of illusions of herself because she was so afraid of loneliness. She was the only one whom she could rely on, so she created so many illusions of herself. But they were all herself and thought the same way. How could they accompany her?

About now, she danced with red clothes on. And she sat in the snowfield to play the Chinese harp. Both she and the harp were extremely beautiful.

The scene was so beautiful and didn't seem like in the real world or among mortals. He, a spiritual cultivator who cultivated immortality, was attracted. He was kind of lost all of a sudden! Luckily, he finally got his deity back. He pinched himself hard, and he finally became conscious again.

He didn't know the reasons and what happened. What were the reasons to make a person change so completely? He only showed up once in front of her, but she remembered him instantly. Maybe he was the reason for her changes.

He infused the spiritual energy into her body in order to help her, but he didn't expect to take her into the abyss.

The Snow Monster looked back gently and smiled charmingly at him after the song, "It's you, why are you here? You finally come back!"

"You, know me? No, you remember me?" The dean was surprised. Though he knew it in his mind, he couldn't help asking.

"Of course! That day, you looked at me from a distance and stood on the other side of the mountain. Haha! I was lying in that cage. I was kissed by the water. I could feel it, so I looked at you! The water became warmer and softer and I even gained power in my hands!" The Snow Monster paused for a while and smiled happily, "You are an immortal!"

"How come you ended up like this?" The two chatted like old friends for years. The dean was curious but tried not to attribute it to fate!

"You think I want to turn into this? I don't know either." She smiled so kindly, "But I hate, I hate it so much." "Don't you want to know what I hate? Hehe. I don't know. I... But... I, you know?" She seemed to have lost her mind and started to murmur with her hair floating without wind. The snow became harder, "Mr. Chai and I are not childhood sweethearts, and we eloped…" She became choked because of crying, "How could they, how could they... How could they separate us! Separate us?"

"So, so you become like this?" The dean couldn't believe it. He started to cultivate immortality since he was little. Even though he knew it was a sad romantic story with a couple of devoted man and woman, he couldn't imagine that someone would turn into this just because of love.

"Not at all. If I turned into this out of that reason, it would be too easy and I would be sorry for being a Snow Monster!"

The woman seemed to be so open to express her feelings. It was rare.

He happened to have time and she would like to tell. So, a woman in red and a Taoist priest sat silently here in front of each other in the snow and in this world.

She recalled her memory when Sun Yiming opened a shop for the boss who passed this place a long time ago. And the jackal she referred to was the young son of the Chai family, a local official family, named Chai Jin.

The young child of Chai family was good at both literature and martial arts, but he didn't have the intention to become an official or do anything big. He only wanted to live a romantic and easy life. His family had the money to support him, so they allowed him to do so. His family spoiled him and let him do whatever he liked.

But things started to change after the arrival of the woman in red. Her name was Ran Xia. She was one of the four top stars in the Flowery House.

Her dance amazed the whole city. In this rich little village, she was famous as a courtesan. The procuress was so happy that she laughed from ear to ear.

At that time, the Chai family was the local dignitary here. Chai Jin became her customer, so the procuress welcomed him affably. Chai Jin called her name smartly, Ran Xia! Ran Xia!

She was only a dancer. She knew her ending because she had witnessed the fickleness of human nature after she followed the procuress since she was little. She would inevitably be admired and then tossed away by those who paid tons of money.

She was dressed beautifully, but she shivered from the inside. She prayed that she could have a free night and nobody would choose her, but unfortunately, it was impossible.

She sat under the red veil and touched her red satin quilt and the red mattress. She looked at the beautiful peach blossoms in the vase with drawings of mandarin ducks standing on the short nightstand under the window. The flowers were curly and extremely enchanting. But the real peach blossoms were not that pretty; it was just a way to earn money for the brothel. The red fragrance, namely, the fragrance that arouses sexual desires, was injected into the pistils. Some water was sprinkled on the flower as a catalyst.

She couldn't flee at all when the procuress had done all these. What else could she say now? She could only pray that the customer was not some greasy middle-aged man. Hehe! But now this was her most essential requirement.

So, when the door was pushed open, her heart almost jumped out of her throat. But the one who entered was not a fat guy whom she was afraid of.

Instead, he was a good-looking young man. He was extremely handsome. The panic in her eyes gradually turned into a surprise.

"Well. Hahaha. You see, Mr. Chai. You see, Ran Xia was so shy. Please be gentle with her."

"Okay. You can leave." Mr. Chai was so generous and he waved his fingers slightly. The procuress got the sign and smiled. She greeted him with one hand on the other and retreated.

"Ran Xia. Your name?" He twitched his lips and smiled charmingly.

And she fell for his smile.

"The sunset and the lonely wild ducks fly together; the autumn water and the sky share the same color. Such a verse depicts well your heart-warming name, beauty Ran!"

"The heart-warming beauty" was his definition for her name. She had no idea that the character "Xia" could be interpreted this way. She was so happy and remembered the sentence for a long time.

This young gentleman liked spending time with her day and night more often. At the very beginning, he was only here occasionally and then stayed here overnight.

The family didn't care about it at first, but later they thought their young son became obsessed with this prostitute.

The family couldn't allow him to marry a prostitute for sure! A prostitute!

The young gentleman knew it but didn't want to say it. They both knew that they loved each other but they didn't want to say it clearly.

Until one day, the young gentleman held Ran Xia's hand and said, "I want to marry you, Xia!"

She was surprised, but she hid her panic away immediately. She couldn't believe it because she still had her bottom line in her mind.

She couldn't believe it. She had witnessed different kinds of love stories since she was little in this secular world where humans' minds could be easily unveiled. Love stories were solely based on wealth and beauty. Once they were gone, the so-called love disappeared at once.

Two who chanted vows of eternal love could swear the hell out of you shortly.

She liked this kind of love, but she wouldn't fall for it. She knew she would finally lose her beauty due to old age, and her Mr. Chai would marry a wife and have children. Married with a woman from the same social rank and they would respect each other and lead a happy life ever after.

"You are the only one to accompany me when I study. And you are the only one who can read with me at night." Mr. Chai seemed to have read Ran Xia's thoughts and he held her hands firmly and said.

"Okay." Ran Xia smiled brightly, but the brightness was filled with standards and alienation. " Mr. Chai, please don't be upset. What about me dancing for you?"

"Okay." Chai Jin smiled stiffly. He drank but didn't know what was on his mind.

Her dance was so brilliant, but he was indifferent. "Only beauties can accompany me when I study. There're so many beauties. But most of them can only be a lover who can't marry." She knew she would never marry anyone for her entire life. But when he told her to marry him, she was really happy. But she knew her own bottom line. Why would she even try something that she could never own. It was not her personality to do things that she wasn't allowed to.