Xi Yue shook her head and said, "You don't need to apologize to me. Even if there is no truth, you have your position and I have mine. I never meant to blame you."
"What about the master?!" Zhuque suddenly raised his voice, "Miss Xiyue, you can forgive my rudeness, why can't you forgive the master's unintentional mistake? Can't you give him and yourself another chance?"
Xi Yue's expression suddenly turned cold. She turned her face away and whispered, "Of course you are different from him."
To her, Suzaku was just a stranger. Being deceived and offended was just a momentary anger.
But Ji Mingyu was the person she loved wholeheartedly and trusted with all her heart. The deception from the person she trusted the most was the most unbearable heart-wrenching pain.
Zhuque bit his lip and grasped the armrest of the chair tightly. After a long while, he seemed to have made up his mind and said, "What if I tell you that it was not his own intention for the master to go through the tribulation of the clone and even to be branded with such a mark in his soul to find the person who carries the origin of wood?"
Xi Yue was startled and frowned slightly, "What do you mean by that?"
Zhuque took a deep breath, his face slowly calmed down, his eyes full of determination, "The master asked Qinglong and the others to swear not to tell you even if they die, but I think that would be too unfair to the master."
"Thousands of years ago, the Flowing Marrow Ice Prison in the master's body broke out, and his cultivation, which was about to break through, was swallowed up bit by bit by the cold poison. The second priest of the Divine Realm came up with such a method of splitting his body to experience the tribulation, and let him reincarnate to find the origin of wood."
"But the master was unwilling at that time. First, because the Divine Realm and Siam were unstable at that time. The master had been asleep for twenty years. Not to mention the Siamese government, even the person who was plotting against the master behind the scenes might have intervened in Siam."
"Another reason is that the master has never been interested in women. Before meeting Miss Xiyue, the master had never been polite to any woman, let alone had any feelings for her. The master would never bother to do something like going through hardships to deceive a woman's feelings, even if the result would be death."
Xi Yue opened her mouth and murmured after a long while: "Then..."
Tears welled up in Zhuque's eyes. "Later, Qinglong and the others couldn't bear to see the master really lose most of his cultivation and life to the Flowing Marrow Ice Prison, so they joined forces with the second priest of the Divine Realm, made the master fall into a coma, carved a mark in his soul, and sent his clone to experience the tribulation. I was still young at that time, and Qinglong and the others didn't want me to bear the master's wrath, so they didn't tell me. Therefore, every time the master experienced the tribulation, Qinglong and the others were always by his side, but I couldn't accompany him."
"After the first life training, the master was very angry and severely punished Qinglong and others. I didn't know the reason at that time, but now I know it clearly. But the first life, the second life... many lives have passed, and the master has never been moved, and has not found someone with the origin of wood. The master, Qinglong and others have almost forgotten that there is such a soul imprint. But I didn't expect that this time the master would meet someone he really loves!"
Zhuque stood up, slowly knelt down in front of Xiyue, and said with tears in his eyes: "Miss Xiyue, I know how painful it is to be deceived and used by the person you trust and love deeply, but please believe me, the master really didn't mean it, and his feelings for you are real, the sun and the moon can testify to it!" (To be continued)