Xingtie: After my death, Liuying will understand love.

Chapter 617 That Warmth

The momentary extreme cold forever covered the top of the snow-capped mountain. The whistling snowflakes brushed against Sakura's cheek, but that cold face remained unchanged after who knows how long.

The cold eyes were like violet petals soaked in frost and snow. The transparent ice crystals reflected a misty haziness, and a dreamy luster like the aurora flowed between the pupils.

Those eyes seemed to reflect the entire world, yet there was always a layer of frost that would never melt away.

Compared to the cherry blossoms in An Ming's memory, the cherry blossoms today are still beautiful, but colder, as if they have lost hope in anyone or anything, making it impossible to see what they truly think in their hearts.

Even if you touch such cherry blossoms, you will only be frozen by the extreme cold. How can you feel the soul under the ice?

"cherry."

The blade of the sword, the same as Chisakura's, was still pressed against his throat, the hand holding the hilt was steady, which reminded Anming of the time when he and Sakura fought side by side in Izumo.

As the Imperial Sword User, Sakura is always so reliable and is a partner that you can truly trust with your life.

Until the sword was pointed at him.

"I'm here to see you."

From Luofu to Edo Star, across countless star fields, I finally met Sakura again in the vast universe.

It was very late, perhaps he was very late, but he finally stood here. Unlike the two simulated encounters, this moment they met in reality.

Sakura's trembling eyelashes were dotted with snowflakes that never melted, and her eyes never looked directly at An Ming even once from beginning to end.

Perhaps there is no need to ever pay attention. The speed of footsteps, the sound of breathing, and the frequency of heartbeat, even if you don't look, you can clearly know that the person coming is the most important person in your life.

Not just once, at this moment, this will be the third time we meet.

The hand that never trembled, at this moment, trembled slightly for a moment. Ying noticed it and immediately drew back the sword, not wanting the sword to hurt An Ming in the slightest.

"An...Ming," as if confirming, or as if asking himself, he finally got the answer that had already been determined in his heart.

If possible, I really want to go back to the moment when they first met. If it happened again, she would never miss it.

If it happened again, she would never...never put down those hands.

The long sword in her palm shattered quietly, turning into drifting snowflakes like snow and ice. Sakura finally looked at the person in front of her, the unchanging appearance, the familiar breath, and the accelerated heartbeat.

"why?"

Ying didn't ask An Ming the question, but asked herself.

Why couldn't she do it until this moment?

Maybe it's because we are always losing, or maybe no matter how hard we try, we can only watch the one we love disappear before our eyes again.

A moment of happiness cannot be retained in an instant, and eternity is left with only loneliness.

"Because someone taught me not to give up no matter how difficult the situation is."

An Ming held Ying's cold hand tightly, "So now, it's my turn to hold your hand."

It doesn't matter if you're confused. Liking someone is not something that can be done by one person alone. This time, he will be the one to hold Sakura's hand tightly.

In those two reincarnations, they never mentioned love, but they were always by each other's side.

That was a promise that spanned countless times. Even in a blink of an eye, even in a moment, it will not change until today, and the feelings at that time will never deteriorate.

If getting closer brings more pain, then let them bear the pain together until they fall in love at the end.

"This time I will be your shadow."

An Ming gently embraced Ying's cold body, ignoring the pain of being frozen by the frost, "Whether you can see me or not, I will not leave you."

"I..."

She still didn't understand why her heart was beating so violently.

I had clearly made up my mind long ago, and I had clearly prepared myself mentally for this moment countless times in advance, but the moment we met, nothing, whether it was a moment or eternity, could stop us.

Sakura thought she actually understood. Many times, before saying goodbye at Edo Star and when they met again at Izumo, every word and every moment they were alone was like watering the seeds, which would eventually bloom into gorgeous flowers.

Love.

It is so simple that it can be summed up in one word, yet so complicated that it takes both lifetimes to prove whether this feeling is true.

The snow-capped mountains were obviously so cold, but the moment An Ming hugged them, the world became warm, and the never-melting snow turned into gurgling streams and flowed down.

What is frozen is never the world, but Sakura's heart.

If Qianying is the key to the world, then Anming is the key to Ying. Even crossing ten thousand years is just a metaphor in front of them. The time they have crossed is much more than ten thousand years.

"An Ming."

Ying's snowflake-studded eyes stared at An Ming quietly, and she whispered the name she would never forget, "You know what? I want to bet the world on you."

"Sakura, I'm right here..."

"Do not."

The white index finger fell on An Ming's lips, and expression finally appeared on Ying's seemingly frozen cheek. That very faint smile was like the melting snow in spring, as stunning as an elf in the ice and snow.

"Sister——!" A girl's cry was suddenly heard. The little girl was running with difficulty on the snow that was deeper than her body, waving her hands with a flushed face.

"Fei?"

There was a flash of surprise in Ying's eyes. "Didn't you promise your sister to stay in the cabin?" There was a hint of severity in her cold tone.

An Ming caught the complex emotions that flashed across Ying's eyes. There seemed to be some secrets between her and Fei, but Fei was just a child after all, so she naturally wouldn't know more.

"I brought Fei here, Ying."

An Ming picked Fei up from the snow and said, "I want to talk to you about the time we were away... and the specific situation of Edo Star."

Sakura's eyes suddenly flashed with coldness and loss, and she whispered, "Really? But I don't want to know."

What's the meaning of time without her?

"Sister!" Fei broke free from An Ming's arms, holding Ying's right hand with her two small hands, her eyes sincere and pure, "Brother was talking about your name in his dream last night, didn't sister always mention brother to Fei?"

"Fei..." Ying's eyes drooped slightly, but she still held Fei's soft cheeks with both hands and said softly: "But brother no longer only has sister in his heart."

"But my sister also told me that if you like someone, you should say it out loud, otherwise you will only regret it!"

Fei looked serious. She forcibly took Ying's right hand, then pulled An Ming's left hand, and put the two hands together with great force.

Ying glanced at An Ming without leaving a trace, then quickly retracted her gaze, staring blankly at her hands that were put together.

It turns out that holding hands is such a warm thing...

Sakura had only seen holding hands with others, but she could never imagine what it would feel like, but now she knew.

In addition to being very warm, you can also feel the same pulse and beating heartbeat as the other person.

Sakura's eyelashes trembled slightly. This was clearly the encounter she had been looking forward to for so long, but why...why was it here.

If you like someone, you should say it out loud. Fei was right. Ying looked at An Ming and found that An Ming was also looking at her.

But she had already made up her mind to complete the last step no matter what.

Only in this way will I not lose him again.

Only in this way...can the ending be different from the last time.

Ying held An Ming's hand very tightly. She quietly tightened her five fingers and held An Ming's hand more firmly. The light of the orchid flowed through her wrist like the beating of blood.

This time, she would never watch An Ming leave again, even if she had to use all her talents to fill the crack of reincarnation.

"cherry?"

An Ming felt the warmth in his palm and also noticed the intense activity in Ying's heart.

Ying took five seconds to take a deep breath, then held An Ming's hand and gently pulled him into her arms, looking at An Ming who had not changed in her memory.

She had thought about this moment of encounter countless times, but when this moment really came, the only thing echoing in her ears was the increasingly intense heartbeat, and even breathing became a little difficult.

Everything else is fine, but only now... Sakura doesn't want to let go.

The cool touch was like a gurgling stream beside the snow. The kiss made An Ming wake up instantly. Everything in front of him seemed to be melting. The snow-capped mountains that had never changed actually began to melt.

"I won't let you go."

After a long time, their lips parted and Ying whispered softly in An Ming's ear, but the warmth on her lips could not cover up the chill in her chest.

The icy sword blade pierced through An Ming's chest at some point, and was instantly frozen without even blood flowing out.

"I won't leave."

How could An Ming not sense it? But he didn't want to escape again, so he looked straight into those violet eyes.

But this time, why did I see an inmeltable sadness in those eyes?

Sakura gently stroked the side of his face and whispered, "I know... I know, you are always so gentle, Edo is like this, and Izumo is the same."

It is this tenderness that leads to separation again and again.

The world is always bigger than An Ming. Between An Ming and the world, An Ming always chooses the world.

An Ming is Ying's whole world, so she is unwilling to continue making choices.

"Thank you for bringing Qianying back," Ying's lips were once again pressed against An Ming's lips. Her palm turned into an instant of extreme cold, and she pierced through An Ming's chest and took out the sword that originally belonged to her.

Thousand cherry blossoms.

It is the key to open the plane and also her final key.

An Ming still didn't close his eyes. He was no longer the man who would faint if poked casually as he was in Luofu. Instead, he stared into Ying's eyes.

"Huh...huh?"

Fei didn't know whether to look or not to look. The little girl blinked quickly in shock, not knowing whether she should separate her brother and sister or just let them hug each other tighter.

But why do you have to poke your brother's chest while kissing him? Is this also a way to express love?

It was not until the moment began to cover An Ming's entire body from his heart that Sakura finally revealed a hint of her true expression as she looked at An Ming who was gradually frozen in the eternal moment.

Sakura gently touched her lips, feeling the warmth remaining there, and a crystal teardrop rolled down the corner of her eye.

"Sister...why are you crying?" Fei didn't understand why happiness would make her cry, and why Sister Sakura looked so sad.

"Fei, I'm sorry, I'm sorry..."

Ying knelt in the snow and hugged Fei tightly, and her love began to spread along Fei's back.

The hand stroked Sakura's hair, and then broke the moment on Fei's body.

Ying raised her head and saw An Ming holding Fei back in his arms. He looked at the frozen wound on his chest and said with a smile: "Now I am no longer the brother who needs your protection, Ying."

Shanshan's domain is indeed very powerful. It is a domain that is only one step away from the throne and has power far beyond the authority of an ordinary emissary.

An Ming has no territory, and he never has. Neither Elio nor the company, nor even all the enemies he has fought with, know of his territory.

That's simply because he has no domain at all.

In other words, under the authority of the Word Spirit, no one's domain can fully take effect on An Ming.

If the domain is equivalent to a small world, then the Word Spirit will seize the will of all worlds.

He can listen to the voice of the world by closing his eyes. If the Qianying plane is really a reflection of Ying's soul, then this unchanging sadness...how can he ignore it?

An Ming wanted to hear Sakura's real voice, her inner voice.

He didn't believe or think that time would change Sakura, so there must be a past that he didn't know about. What happened after that memory?

After realizing that Setsuna couldn't trap An Ming at all, Ying pursed her lips tightly, with a complex and relieved look in her eyes, "You're already this tall."

The little brother in her memory has now grown into a very capable adult and no longer needs her protection.

"No matter how tall you are, you are still my sister," An Ming took Qianying from Ying's palm, "but I will be your sword."

"An Ming..."

A hazy mist flashed across Sakura's beautiful eyes, but the boy should have been listening to the sound of the melting snow in spring instead of being bound to her by Setsuna.

"For a long time, I wondered what the purpose of living was," Ying clenched the hilt of Qianying's sword in Anming's hand, "If living is just to witness your death again and again."

An Ming seldom saw Ying so excited. As cold as a cherry blossom, she tightly grasped the hilt of the sword. Veins that kept growing appeared in her pupils, like a giant tree in full bloom, or like ice crystal flowers blooming all over the ground.

"Why don't you understand?"

Even to this day, the fragments of that moment are still so clear. In those countless moments, only An Ming's smile in those two reincarnations made her feel how great it was to be alive.

If there is no warmth, what is the point of living until now?

What does the destruction of the universe have to do with her? The mission of the Star God Order is just a strange term to her. Ying just wants to protect the last warmth in her heart.

Compared to watching An Ming die, she has lived too long, so this price is nothing.

Before leaving every time, An Ming would always smile at her. They were clearly going to face death, so how could someone smile so easily?

Sakura didn’t understand before, but now she understands.

What does death mean to protect the one you love?

Now...it's her turn to be the fool who can die with a smile. After all, this is her fate that started because of An Ming, and it is also the beginning of her story with him.

I make up!!!