That icy lake that she loved to go boating on was thickening, and the red peonies around it began to bloom.

    He waited for a long time by himself. Sёar?h the n?vel_Fire.ηet website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

    The snowfall was getting heavier. It fell like fine pieces of jade that were covering his eyelashes, eyebrows, and hair.

    Just like that, the three men spent their days in loneliness and unbearableness.

    What they had gotten and lost made their hearts feel even more painful.

    …

    Ming Chen''s latter half of his life was always covered in dampness and darkness. His legs were limp, and there were many wounds that were not treated and had already festered and scabbed uglily on his skin.

    Yue Ran must not like it, he thought silently and mercilessly tore off all the scabs on his skin.

    He must destroy all that Yue Ran does not like.

    But one day, Ming Chen was released from his cell and thrown in front of three men, whom he recognized very familiarly. They were Rong Yu, Xia Zhan, and his youngest brother, Ming Ze.

    They do not look like they are in good condition. At least, in Ming Chen''s eyes, the three men looked much worse than they had in the past.

    In the end, the three men passed on the news to him that Yue Ran was dead.

    Ming Chen''s mind blanked, and his vision suddenly blacked out.

    Ming Ze slowly walked down the steps and lightly kicked Ming Chen''s bleeding and skinny body.

    In the end, Rong Yu only waved his hands to order the guards to place Ming Chen back in his cell. As for Ming Chen''s life and death, Rong Yu does not care about it anymore.

    Ming Chen died not long after. There was blood on his head and on the wall. It was said that he died by suicide.

    Ming Ze also suddenly disappeared one day, and his body was found black and charred. It was concluded that he had burned himself up.

    After all, without Yue Ran in the world, what was the point of living?

    He must suffer through the same pain as Yue Ran.

    He must die in the same way as Yue Ran.

    It does not take long for Xia Zhan to retire from his position, giving Rong Yu his military power. Xia Zhan had decided to travel all around the world.

    Yue Ran did once say that she wanted to travel all around the world, so he will fulfill her wish in her stead.

    Rong Yu was left all alone in the capital.

    He guarded Yue Ran''s unrecognizable body until he was old and his hair was white. That was when Rong Yu decided to burn her body into ashes.

    Yue Ran must not like it if she sees her own body all black and charred like Ming Ze''s. It was better to leave only ashes behind.

    Rong Yu was the only emperor in history who did not have any other woman than Yue Ran alone. He has always kept his body, like jade, away from other women who wanted to climb into his bed.

    The successor to his throne was an orphan whom he took in as his adopted son. He named his adopted son Rong Ran.

    When the country was peaceful, just like Yue Ran had always wanted to see, Rong Yu passed away in his sleep, hugging an urn that contained Yue Ran''s ashes in his arms.

    "I am going to find you now," were his last words.

    …

    "Ran Ran," a female voice said out loud. "Guess who has come here!"

    As soon as Yue Ran''s roommate opened the door to the dorm room, she looked ambiguously at Yue Ran.

    And Yue Ran, who was applying a sheet mask to her face, immediately tore it off when she heard her roommate''s words. She casually put on her fluffy rabbit slippers before running to the balcony of the dorm room to look at who was waiting for her downstairs.

    The young man downstairs in front of the dormitory building was dressed in a simple white cotton shirt and black trousers, but he still had that noble and cold feeling, as if he were an ice lotus growing on the topmost area of a snowy mountain.

    The young man was standing with a lowered head. Although Yue Ran could not see his face clearly from up above, the young man''s temperament and demeanor, followed by the appreciative glances cast by the people around him from time to time, showed his identity—Fu Chen.

    "A Chen!" Yue Ran said this happily and immediately ran downstairs without even changing out of her rabbit slippers.

    But just when Yue Ran was about to go out the door, she tentatively asked a girl on the innermost side of the room, who was studying hard, "Qian Qian, Fu Chen is here; do you want to go down with me to greet him too?"

    Qi Qian smiled reluctantly when she heard Yue Ran''s words. She pushed a pair of thick black glasses that were slipping down her nose up a little and said, "It is okay; he must have come to find you, so you can go yourself and I will just stay here."

    The girl''s voice was a little unstable as she said these.

    As soon as Qi Qian finished her words, one of the roommates could not help but interrupt: "Ran Ran, your prince charming only asked me to ask you to go down."

    Her sentence implied that Fu Chen did not ask anyone but Yue Ran to come down to see him.

    "Hmm." Yue Ran let out a hum. "Okay, then I will go down right now."

    Yue Ran smiled shyly. Her voice was soft and pleasant, like the sound of jade falling on a plate, as sweet as a slow, flowing melody.

    When Qi Qian looked up again, she could only see the ends of the fluttering white dress of Yue Ran, who had run out the door.

    Qi Qian could not help but tightly clench the pen in her hand. Her heart was numb with pain.

    Fu Chen was only two years older than her. And for her, Qi Qian, Fu Chen is her childhood sweetheart and also the object of her crush.

    Fu Chen has been excellent since he was a child. He has perfect grades, outstanding looks, and has always been liked by many girls. However, he has only ever been polite to others, except for those girls who like him. Even if they were to stand in front of him, he would just pretend not to see them and act as if they did not exist.

    In order to follow in Fu Chen''s footsteps, Qi Qian spent three years in high school studying hard from the early morning until late at night, every single day without rest, just so that she could go to the same university as him.

    Qi Qian thought that only this way would she have a chance to be with Fu Chen.

    This was because more than one person had told her before that she was the only girl who was special to Fu Chen and that she was the only girl that Fu Chen would treat differently.

    But Qi Qian did not expect that Fu Chen would fall in love with her roommate at first sight during the Mid-Autumn Festival in her freshman year.

    And this love at first sight could even be said to have been pushed by her.

    At that time, the Mid-Autumn Festival was a rare three-day vacation after the military training, and three of the four roommates planned to go home.

    However, since Yue Ran''s home is in the south and the university is in the north, if Yue Ran really did go home, it would be equivalent to crossing more than half of the country. It was just too far and time-consuming.

    "Are you all going back?" Yue Ran tilted her head to ask her three roommates.

    "Yes, are you not going back for this holiday?"

    The roommate who had just spoken could not help but look at Yue Ran, who was lazily sitting down on the bed with her legs swinging while packing her own luggage. She inwardly sighed.

    Why are they both—her and Yue Ran—human, but Yue Ran''s legs are so thin, so white, and so good-looking? How unfair!

    The roommate mentally bit on a handkerchief while wailing inside her mind.

    "My home is in the south. It is too far to go back, so I will just stay here," Yue Ran said.

    Maybe it was because Yue Ran was born in the south that she would speak in such a gentle and affectionate tone, which sounded like it would always contain love and coquetry.

    "What are you going to do then?" The other roommate asked. "Are you going to stay alone in the dormitory when we are all leaving?"

    "Hmm," Yue Ran hummed sadly. The girl''s delicate and beautiful brows frowned, and her smooth, slightly messy hair drooped with her mood. She looked like a sad and pitiful little kitten.

    "Or, Ran Ran, you can just go back with me," the voice of the fourth rommate sounded.

    After hesitating for a long time, Qi Qian finally said this sentence.

    Yue Ran was the first friend that she had made when she had just entered the university. Moreover, it would be lonely and too quiet to stay in the dormitory all alone.

    "My home is in the north, pretty close to the university," Qi Qian added, trying to convince Yue Ran to go back with her.