Repairing the Past

Chapter 22

Mo Yan returned down the road with the footsteps of the horse. Her senses increasingly sharpen to form a focus above normal. Not far away he saw some tall grass marks on one side and even short on the other.

He was very sure if in that place before there had been some horses resting and eating grass comfortably.

The young man came back down from his horse and combed the surroundings with great precision.

His eyes were tapering sharply and found some blood spots on a fairly large tree. Not far from the tree, he again found a trace of land that looks a little smooth compared to the surrounding land.

The scars on the ground were very similar to the former human bodies that had fallen. Moved with a helpless state as if his legs and hands had been blocked by something. Still in the same place, a red spot was plastered more and more clearly.

There was a pair of shoes next to the blood. Her deep enough scars had well described that weight and body shape in Mo Yan's brain. His memory returned to the figure of a riding man in the front row he had seen on the tree before.

'These footprints must have belonged to that big man's inner Mo Yan.

With agile movements he returned to riding the horse and darted far away from the place. He felt lucky enough to find several other blood spots along the way. Sometimes the drops of blood are on the ground, on a rock even between leaves and grass on the side of the road.

The wily woman had left a trail for him with blood coming from her wounds.

Mo Yan's feeling grew even more bitter. It tightened the bridle and accelerated quickly. The wind is opposite the direction of its destination. He did not pay attention to anything as long as the woman could return to his side. Anyhow.

Mo Yan further sharpened his instincts when capturing four figures riding not far away from him. He was very certain that the woman in the middle of it was Chu Yao.

Mo Yan's pupils instantly enlarged with a look of shock as the girl's body warped and fell to the side of the cliff. By reflex he threw both daggers and hit the two black-clothed men in front of him.

One of those who was alive tried to escape. He did not survive Mo Yan's sharp sword. The three black-clothed people who kidnapped Chu Yao had been killed horribly.

With a face almost resembling cotton, Mo Yan looked to the side of the cliff, looking for a female figure that had already filled his mind all along.

But there is empty, there are only steep cliffs and deep river water. Mo Yan's jaw hardened when it reflected the figure of Chu Yao who had sunk to the bottom. Without waiting he immediately jumped after the girl who had been in the dark place first.

Mo Yan opened his eyes and looked for the figure of Chu Yao despite still being in the water. It did not take long, the unconscious body of the woman he managed to find. Mo Yan grabbed the girl in his arms and carried the body out from within the river.

He laid Chu Yao's body on the riverbank and untied the hand and cloth in the girl's mouth. He checked Chu Yao's breathing with great precision. His face turned white again when he did not feel a breath on the finger that was placed near the lobe of the woman's nose.

The young man tried not to panic. He touched the girl's wrist and neck. Fear appeared in his stiff lips. The pulse of the woman was almost not felt.

Mo Yan swiftly pinched the helpless woman's nose, then clenched her lips and drew closer to Chu Yao's increasingly blue mouth.

The handsome man took a breath as usual then slowly blew into Chu Yao's oral cavity several times.

"Breathe! Please breathe!" Mo Yan said in a trembling voice. The fear increasingly seemed real on his pale face that was almost desperate.

He positioned his left palm under the right hand, then placed it on the woman's middle chest and put pressure about four to five centimeters.

"I beg... Please please... " Murm Mo Yan with a voice growing smirkier. His eyes are now glazed.

He went back to doing breathing and pumping the woman's heart. Time and time again. In the hope that the woman will respond as she expects.

But the little body remained motionless. Mo Yan grabbed that pretty face in his arms. His masculine body trembled violently. The pain enveloped his heart. Her cheeky lips still called out the name of the woman.

"Wakeup... Please please... Chu Yao's.." He cried over and over again with a trembling voice full of despair. Tears that he never shed during his life actually flow inundated his handsome face that was already very full of anxiety.

He clutched the girl's face tightly against her square chest and kissed the girl's crown with solemn tenderness. His eyes were filled with tears.

"Chu Yao's.. Don't be like this! If you want to punish me enough to give me physical injuries.. Whatever it is, I'll take it.. Didn't I ever complain to you? Whatever you do to me, I accept it without the slightest rebuttal..."

"... Please, don't punish me with this kind of feeling... This is really sick.. You really have tortured me... "

Mo Yan again rubbed the girl's face with a hand that was still trembling. Regret came back to him as he stared at the wounds on the face and hands that were getting colder.

"I'm sorry! I came late.. I'm sorry !!!"

Mo Yan was getting worse. His body increasingly bent over hugging the girl's body tightly. He grew sobbing in his sadness and regret. He swallowed the disappointment of his inability to protect the precious person in his life.

He blamed himself for the disaster suffered by the woman he loved so much.

He has long harbored his feelings and does not intend to tell anyone. He prefers to keep and protect his loved ones for life.

In fact, he did not care about his true identity as the successor of the kingdom of Alorra. He would rather continue to be with Chu Yao forever even if only as his personal bodyguard.

"I never ask for more, this time I will beg, even if you want me to prostrate then I will... Please, breathe.. Come back with me.."

Out of some miracle from where, Chu Yao suddenly choked and spewed out a lot of water on her chest. In just a few seconds, he fainted again. Mo Yan instantly fell silent. The man palpated the girl's breathing and reflexively hugged her with a smile.

"Thank God you heard me, I knew you wouldn't leave me alone.." Mo Yan said gratefully. He again kissed the woman's forehead gently, deftly carrying the girl in his carrier and looking for a safe shelter.

***

In the training camp..

General Chu and his eldest son, Chu Zhan, bowed respectfully to greet Eunuch Lu in the general's private tent. Eunuch Lu was a trusted eunuch of the emperor and this time his arrival brought a decree to be read in front of the two country fighters.

"Referring to the edict of the emperor. The great general Chu and the Lieutenant General, Chu Zhan, had high loyalty and fighting spirit in defending the country, virtuous and having won several wars regardless of soul and body, the emperor would allow them to return to the capital at any time they wished. Also, as a form of gratitude and pleasure, the emperor will be honored to award the marriage between Lieutenant General and daughter Chang Le in the next three months. Let's end."

"Please Lord General and young master rise up and accept the decree properly." Said eunuch Lu after he finished reciting the Imperial decree to them.

The people in the tent stood up again. General Chu respectfully accepted the decree with praise and thanks to the benevolence of the emperor.

Soon eunuch Lu resigned with his entourage to return to the capital. General Chu placed the decree into a wooden chest that was not so large and asked the child to keep it.

"Have. You should get some rest. Prepare all troops to return to the capital. As soon as." General's orders to Chu Zhan.

Chu Zhan accepted and kept the decree in his grasp. But he did not leave the place as the general's initial instructions.

"Say what you want to ask!" Said the general while taking off his armor one by one.

"No, I just didn't expect that the emperor would agree to father's request." Chu Zhan replied with slightly sweaty hands.

"The noble one will not be able to resist it. This is the compensation that his majesty has to pay for the sacrifices I've made all this time." Reply to the General in a slightly smaller voice.

"And remember my message, do as you have said! Let everything go according to plan. Never defect, the safety of our family will be guaranteed to the emperor if all goes according to plan." Add it in a slightly intimidating tone.

"I.. "

"Already! Go back to your tent. There's nothing more to talk about. It'll all stay the same. Rest now!"

General Chu called a bodyguard and asked the bodyguard to take the child back to his private tent.

There's nothing more they need to discuss. Everything is going as it should. In accordance with the plan.

Before long a shadow guard slipped in and saluted him.

"What information is there?" Ask the General in a relaxed sitting position on the couch.

The shadow guard lowered his head and immediately reported, "we lost track of the first lady as we headed towards Nian city and found her again with the eighth prince."

"Continue!" General Chu's orders with a serious face.

"We've lost track of the lady the last two days. Looks like the crown prince's men kidnapped her. But sir take it easy, Mo's bodyguards have tracked his trail. " Obviously the shadow guard.

"I understand. You can go. "

The shadow guard nodded and immediately left his master's private tent. The general was silent in his mind. He had indeed calculated the possibility of attacking the crown prince to his eldest daughter but his earlier events were quite unexpected.

Did the crown prince already know who Chu Yao really was so he had taken action earlier? Could it be that the empress had told the crown prince about the original event that had happened a few years ago?

The middle-aged man frowned and gave a small massage at that place. He took a long breath. The more the burden of his mind gets heavier. Is this a premonition of the end of the cold war that has occurred since a few years ago?