Ch1.20 - (II) Rebirth

The darkness engulfed Yan Chen, he looked at the endless blackness in front of him, and gradually doubted whether his eyes were opened or not.

Such unanswerable questions made him feel so depressed that he couldn’t breathe. He took a step forward, shouting Rong Jun’s name, while seeking a way out in the darkness.

When his eyes were about to be overwhelmed by the surrounding darkness, he suddenly caught a glimpse of a white shadow, his heart skipped a beat, and he quickly ran towards that place without thinking.

Getting closer and closer, he gasped in surprise, “Qingqing!” That is his peacock.

The white shadow in front of him seemed to tremble when he heard the sound. He stopped walking and turned his head to look behind him.

In an instant, fear was imprinted on that beautiful face, he turned his head quickly, staggered a bit, and touched his back, then fled there as if he was running away for his life.

“Qingqing!” Yan Chen became anxious when he saw him running away, and hurriedly chased after him, the only smear of white in the darkness that was surrouding him.

“Qingqing! Don’t leave me behind!” But when he was about to catch up, Rong Jun suddenly jumped up, and the corner of the clothes he touched turned into feathers.

He arrived at the spot where Rong Jun flew and clenched the feather that was falling down in the air, Rong Jun had already fled from his eyes to the sky.

He looked up at the white peacock in the sky with hope, he kept chasing after his figure, but the originally endless darkness suddenly had an end.

The figure of the white peacock gradually disappeared, and his world fell into darkness again.

Yan Chen clutched the feather in his hand, his steps gradually slowed down, and after taking several steps, he staggered and fell to the ground.

He propped up his body weakly, knelt on the ground with his head drooping, staring at the white feather in his hand in despair, “…I’m sorry, Qingqing… I’m sorry…I was wrong…” Holding the feather, he leaned over and rested his head on top, repeatedly admitting his mistake, waiting for Rong Jun to fly back to him.

But in the end, his white peacock did not fly back.

And he was then drowned in darkness.

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“Your Highness…” A burst of ethereal voice suddenly penetrated into Yan Chen’s ears, he could vaguely hear the voice, but couldn’t tell the direction it came from.

“Your Highness…” The voice became clearer and clearer.

“Your Highness.” Yan Chen suddenly opened his eyes, like a shipwreck struggling to emerge from the deep sea, panting with difficulty, continuously sucking in the air, intending to dispel the feeling of suffocation as soon as possible.

“Your Highness, are you alright? I saw something wrong with your expression, so I woke you up.” The middle-aged man dressed in a housekeeper’s attire took out a clean handkerchief and handed it to Yan Chen.

“Yun Xuan?” After seeing the face of the person who woke him up, Yan Chen couldn’t help being stunned for a moment, and didn’t take the handkerchief, just letting the cold sweat on his forehead slip down his temples.

Shouldn’t Yun Xuan be taking care of his elder brother in the palace? How could he appear in his own room?

However, he quickly put these questions at the back of his mind because he suddenly realized that there was a much more important thing he needed to ask the man,

“Where is Qingqing?!”

Yun Xuan looked at Yan Chen suspiciously, not knowing what to say.

“Where’s Rong Jun!?” Yan Chen yelled.

“You’re highness, pardon me for asking, but who is Rong Jun?” To say, Yan Chen was shocked, he was good at reading people’s expression, he was frightened and confused since he didn’t see any trace of lie in the man’s face, so he immediately lifted the quilt on his body, and was about to run out with bare feet.

“Your Highness, where are you going?” Yun Xuan grabbed Yan Chen who was about to run out of the room, and tried his best to hold him back.

“You can’t just run out like this, If you want to find someone, send someone else to look for that person, today is the day you start school, and if you are late on the first day, it may not have a good impact on you.”

“What study, I…” Yan Chen shook off Yun Xuan’s arm forcefully. He thought what he said was inexplicable, but he suddenly realized that the place he was currently in seemed to be his residence in the palace.

“How could I?” What’s happening why am I here?”

“You’re highness what are you talking about? You’ve been here all the time. Are you feeling unwell? Do you want to call the doctor to come and take a look at you?”

“Just…stop talking.” Yan Chen reached out his hand to stop Yun Xuan’s questions that popped up one after another.

He vaguely sensed that something was wrong, calmed down his thoughts a bit, and suddenly touched his neck, and found that there was no wound on it at all.

This realization made his pupils shrink suddenly, and he rushed into the bathroom and looked in the mirror.

No matter how hard he looked, there was no sign of injury on his neck. This is too strange, he clearly cut his own throat after Rong Jun committed suicide, so there should be no chance of him surviving.

Why is he standing here intact now?

“Yun Xuan!!!” Yun Xuan who was outside heard the shout and immediately walked in, “Your Highness.”

“The start of school you just said…” Yan Chen felt that when he said this, his mood was very delicate, “What school am I going to?

“Your highness, you’ll be studying at the Imperial Capital University.” Yun Xuan replied calmly.

Yan Chen froze for a moment, only then did he realize that his whole body in the mirror was quite younger.

Am I in the past?