Xie Chen knew that Zhang Qiling and Heixiazi entered the Bronze Gate. Perhaps it was just such a coincidence that he just wandered to the Bronze Gate to grab something and met these two people.
In the darkness where they could not clearly see the way forward, Xie Chen saw them groping forward in the darkness. The space inside was between illusion and reality. There was no light, and neither the flashlight nor the torch could be ignited. There was only darkness.
Xie Chen saw their stumbling backs, stopped in place for a long time, and finally sighed softly, no one will stay in the past, Zhang Qiling, the black blind man, has such a heavy obsession with the past that it is like a shackle to trap him for his whole life.
After a long time, Zhang Qiling and Heixiazi found a little light. They ran towards the light, and their breath suddenly suffocated when they reached the place.
It was... a high platform, and a suspended white jade staircase led to the high platform. There was a figure on the high platform, with plain clothes and long hair, seeming to be overlooking the world. A little light was emitted from his hands.
"Thank you Chen!"
They were excited and joyful, and ran up to the high platform crazily. However, the moment they stood on the high platform, they were filled with joy and fell away.
"It's...a statue..." Zhang Qiling raised his hand and put it down in despair. He looked at the lifelike statue, and thousands of complicated emotions surged up in an instant.
His legs seemed to have lost all strength, and he just knelt under the statue and nestled himself against the statue's company.
The cold touch told him that this was just a statue, but even if it was a statue, he couldn't control his emotions, "...You don't want me anymore..."
The tone of voice full of grievance and helplessness echoed in the dead-like space, and the sadness made people cry.
The black blind man was no less sad than Zhang Qiling. Besides Xie Chen, the most important person in his life was Zhang Qiling. Seeing this man showing such a side, he knelt beside Zhang Qiling and cheered up to comfort him. His voice was low and hoarse: "Mute... don't be like this, he... doesn't want to see you like this."
Xie Chen has always been very kind to Zhang Qiling.
The Zhang family is in turmoil, the Wang family is watching, the nine gates are in trouble, and the superiors are spying on immortality...
Xie Chen pacified the Zhang family for Zhang Qiling, and buried all the Wang family for Zhang Qiling. The Nine Gates became a knife in Xie Chen's hand, and the superior was pulled down...
Regarding the matter of immortality, Xie Chen tried his best to protect the boring gourd-like young man.
Heixiazi thought that to Xie Chen, Zhang Qiling was just a little jerk. He suddenly smiled. To Xie Chen... he was actually a jerk as well.
As a father and a teacher, Mr. Xie Da deserves the title. He has always been at the forefront, leaving years of peace and quiet for those behind him.
But...in the end, he didn't want them anymore.
"The blind man...he always told me that one should live a free and easy life, and there is nothing that he cannot let go of...
But, I can't let go.
Really... can't let go. "Zhang Qiling's voice was like the misty wind, as if it would disperse in the next second.
The black blind man was silent, and he couldn't let go. Letting go was easy to talk about, but it was like...taking out the heart and bones. His heart was saved by Xie Chen, and his bones were reattached by Xie Chen.
After letting it go, is he still the same person?
The black blind man didn't know, he thought...if he hadn't met Xie Chen in that heavy snow, and died in that heavy snow, maybe he wouldn't have so many things he couldn't ask for in life, and he wouldn't have been tortured to the point of going crazy over the years.
The two of them were kneeling on the high platform, not noticing that a flash of fluorescent light on the statue split into two and penetrated into their heads from above.
Gradually, their eyelids became heavier and heavier, and they vaguely saw the scene of their first encounter with Xie Chen.
They were completely unconscious and breathing heavily.
Xie Chen came pacing from under the high platform. He looked at them nestling together and sighed softly: "Zhuang Zhou dreams of butterflies and Huang Liang dreams. I hope that after this experience, you will seek perfection and let go of your obsessions."
Did Zhuang Zhou dream of a butterfly, or did the butterfly transform Zhou Zhuang?
Xie Chen turned around and disappeared into the darkness.
