章 2026: She Cried (6)

"I can't...," Fujiwara replied.

Dongfang Liuyun's face was filled with bitterness. "Then, you don't have to persuade me. I know what I'm doing."

"No matter how difficult the situation is, it can't be an excuse to stop moving forward. Qi Lei once told me that, so don't worry. I won't give up on myself," Dongfang Liuyun said calmly.

"Sometimes, humans are like that, when someone's still around, you don't cherish every moment you have together. When they're gone, or like now, when there's no news of them, you'd feel like you weren't sensible before, and you didn't get it. With no news of him, my heart feels empty, as if something is missing."

"I've been thinking about it for a while now. Without him around, my life has been pretty boring. I was guarding that empty room by myself every night, but suddenly I felt afraid. I don't even know how I'd been doing on my own all this while before this."