Chapter 1647 -1640: The Cruelty of the World

Yue Lian had always been calm, but now she was overwhelmed with fear.

Tears filled her eyes, “Emperor, Empress, my husband can’t wait much longer, I just want to beg the Emperor and Empress, even if there is only a sliver of hope…

Please, tell me how to wake my husband?”

Chu Yihan and Su Yingxue couldn’t be certain; they only voiced their guesses.

After persistent pleading from Yue Lian, Chu Yihan and Su Yingxue recounted their experiences in the dreamworld to Yue Lian.

Once you enter a dream, memories of life and death fade away, and everything before you is refreshingly unfamiliar.

That sense of being exiled into the unknown makes one feel lonely at heart. Fortunately, they entered the dream together and could trace each other, finding love and companionship.

The dream finally ended in bloodshed, tearing it apart.

They barely made it back to reality.

Zi Wei had been in the dream for so long…

Who could enter the dream with him, who could wake him, and who could steadfastly stand by him until the end, all were unknown factors.

They couldn’t recklessly risk someone else.

Yue Lian knew that Zi Wei’s dream had something to do with Su Yingxue.

She looked imploringly at Su Yingxue, but Su Yingxue remained silent, and Chu Yihan wouldn’t let her enter the dream to save Zi Wei either.

It was too dangerous.

One wrong step and Su Yingxue might lose her life as well.

Yue Lian covered her face in agony, tears streaming through her fingers.

Su Yingxue was troubled by her crying, “Don’t worry, we won’t let Zi Wei remain asleep like this. I will find the magic eyes again!”

Even if it means dealing with the Magic Eyes, she was determined to wake Zi Wei.

Yue Lian left, despondent and lost to the words of Su Yingxue and Chu Yihan.

She returned to Zi Wei’s side and lit a lamp for him.

In the lamplight, his sleeping face was peaceful, and the hint of purple at the corner of his eyes was inexplicably alluring.

Yue Lian remembered meeting him as a child, and her tears mingled with a smile, “Husband, the Qianji Sect is destroyed, and the Yue Family is just me now.

At that time, you could have ended my life with a sword, eradicating the roots for the Silver Moon Pavilion, but you didn’t…

Silver Moon Pavilion’s assassins could have easily killed me, a helpless little girl, but you took me from a pile of corpses and placed me in a cave.

Your face was stern and frightening to others, but in the end, you saved me.”

Everything she had now, the rebuilding of the Yue residence, the continuation of the Qianji Sect, was all thanks to Zi Wei’s unexpected kindness in saving her life.

She had been confused for years, always wanting to ask him, “Husband, with so many people in the Qianji Sect back then, why did you let only me go?”

She wanted to ask him the first time they met.

After marriage, she wanted to ask even more.

But he never gave her the chance to speak.

“Husband, no matter what the cost, I will wake you, I will save you.” In the candlelight, Yue Lian’s expression was resolute, and her eyes showed the sharpness of a bloody blade.

He still needed to tell her why he saved her back then.

Outside Yungui City, the Magic Eye was imprisoned in an elaborate iron cage.

The cage appeared ordinary but was laden with intricate mechanisms, so even a ferocious beast couldn’t escape its confines; any struggle would unleash countless steel needles to torment the captive, driving them to despair.

The Magic Eye did not struggle because he knew this was his bargain for freedom.

Yue Lian had freed him and made an exchange.

Once she entered the dream to save Zi Wei, she would release the Magic Eye and grant him freedom.

The Magic Eye listened as she recounted how Su Yingxue and Chu Yihan awakened, and while he desired freedom, he still mockingly advised Yue Lian, “Don’t think it’s so simple. Chu Yihan and Su Yingxue have loved each other for many years, forging the resilience to support each other until the end.

You…you and your husband probably don’t share such deep feelings, do you?”

The Magic Eye’s laughter was filled with sarcasm.

He had seen Silver Moon Pavilion’s top assassin and could tell right away that there was a woman deeply important to him.

But that woman was definitely not the one before him, the self-proclaimed wife of this man from the Qianji Sect.

“Whether he loves me or not, I don’t care, as long as I can wake him.” Yue Lian’s voice was deep and hoarse, yet resolute.

“Such a devoted woman, even if you don’t release me, I would still be willing to enter the dream for you.”

The Magic Eye chuckled hoarsely.

The world condemned the Magic Eyes as malevolent creatures, yet they were all deceived.

They didn’t know how many emperors in high places craved the eyes of the Magic Eyes, longing for them to lead them into dreams.

To escape the suffering of this mundane world and sink into the joy of the dream forever, never to awaken again.

Chu Yihan probably also didn’t know that his father, Chu Yuchen, was one of the emperors who desperately sought the people of the Magic Eyes.

“Ha.”

The Magic Eye seemed to kindly remind Yue Lian, “From what my ancestors said, there were people who tried to save others from dreams before, but those couples never woke up; they didn’t have the luck of Su Yingxue and Chu Yihan.”

Whether Yue Lian could awaken depended on her own fate.

Yue Lian prepared everything and instructed the steward that if she and Zi Wei couldn’t wake up, Su Yingxue must be sought to save Zi Wei.

She was willing to risk her life for him!

“Miss…” The old steward was already in tears.

But he couldn’t stop Yue Lian.

Standing before him, the Magic Eye gently removed his eye cover and gazed deeply at Yue Lian.

This gaze, perhaps, could help her retain her memories in the dream.

But what did his clansmen say again?

“Those gazed upon by you, even if alive, will eternally suffer and torment.”

“You are a pitiful woman.” The Magic Eye looked at Yue Lian, who had fallen to the ground in slumber, and sighed deeply.

Throughout his life, he only wished to leave the dark and damp underground to see the world’s light.

Yet, this world of light could not accommodate monsters like him.

This woman named Yue Lian was willing to risk her life to save her husband.

But she was not a woman cherished by her husband.

Such are the cruel realities of this world.

How sad it is, this world…

Yue Lian entered the dreamworld, and the Magic Eye’s piercing gaze allowed her to remain aware and not lose her memory.

She unexpectedly appeared in the imperial palace of the Great Cheng Dynasty and saw Su Yingxue accompanying the young Crown Prince flying a kite. The mother and son were very joyful; there was no Chu Yihan beside them, but a stalwart figure stood under the sun, holding a sword and guarding them.

“Husband!” Yue Lian was so excited that she ran toward Zi Wei.

But before she could take a few steps, a sword came whistling toward her. If she hadn’t dodged quickly, she would have fallen victim to Zi Wei’s blade!

“Zi Wei, stop!”

Su Yingxue’s gentle voice stopped Zi Wei.

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