Repairing the Past

Chapter 73

Airland, eight months later.

The sun above the horizon is cloudless. The view from end to end is only a white landscape with small grains, frozen and cold.

The figure of the female with cinnamon brown eyes, dressed thickly in a long coat of wolf fur, gazed far away at an old abandoned mansion.

The door creaked, creating a foreign sensation as soon as it burst into it.

“We're finally here.” The woman muttered to herself. I don't know who he calls the word, 'we'. There was no one with him back then in the old and weathered Chu residence.

Chu Yao walked slowly, down every hallway of the residence. It was as if he was nostalgic for the memories of the past, where he and his family did a lot of busyness in various places in the vast mansion.

His fingers danced little in every area that had been piled up by snowflakes. The red corners of the lips bring a smile.

“Why run around like that? I'll just stand here from earlier.” A-Wei ran over, almost slipping down on the slippery floor as she approached Chu Yao.

“I look for mistress everywhere. Turns out the madam is here.” The plain man replied with a dull breath.

Chu Yao chuckled softly, “What am I really going to go to? Isn't it during our time at Airland, only this place I haven't been to.”

A-Wei was silent for a moment, then scratched her non-itchy head, “I was only confused for a moment. I'm afraid something happened to the lady. If you'll get to know.”

A-Wei's words stopped. He suddenly had a grim face and apologized, “I should have thought before I spoke. Im sorry. I deserve to be in the law!”

“It's okay, A-Wei.” Reply Chu Yao with a shady look of an eye, “..You like that even reminds me of him.”

Chu turned his face and let the snow water his entire five senses. He sought tranquility in the middle of a long winter. However, until that moment, the calmness did not get.

“Have it, you better come with me. Let's look at that place full of memories together.” The bodyguard nodded obediently. Following Chu Yao's footsteps slowly.

Memory chips began to gather as soon as Chu Yao and A-Wei opened the cold pavilion gate. They walked without talking to each other. Circulating the view from one place to another in turn.

“Almost same. No change is so meaningful other than the atmosphere.” Chu Yao muttered as she brushed the neatly closed door of the room.

He began to notice a new strange. The condition of the room he had used was so well maintained and free from dust.

“Someone cleaned this place before.” Say A-Wei who has started exploring around the room.

“Do you not want to praise me?” Chirps Ye Zuan while bringing a plate of snacks, “At least you can say thank you.”

Chu Yao snorted and sat down on the chair that was already available. He had guessed that it was Ye Zuan who had been guarding the place for him.

“You're too greedy. Didn't you get a lot of thanks since you ascended the throne.” Sindir Chu Yao casually to the new emperor of Airland.

Ye Zuan pursed his lips and poured the tea that Lu Jin had brought him a few minutes ago, “It was different. So different! You can't equalize it.”

“A rarity if you get a thank you from empress Alorra.” Ye Zuan added in a slightly joking tone.

Chu Yao pouted a smile, those “Status are only temporary. For the sake of completing all the tasks that Mo Yan left behind. If he has opened his eyes and fully realized, then I will relinquish all this responsibility to the prime minister Alorra.”

Ye Zuan was silent for a moment. He swallowed the saliva and patted the back of Chu Yao's hand gently, “I'm sure one day Mo Yan will return to his original state.”

Ye Zuan could not choose the right words to comfort the woman. Since the last battle that took place at the border, the emperor Alorra had never opened his eyes. The man was wounded by the sword of Long Jin Mao. And his old illness made the condition of the young man's body worse. Mo Yan was in a coma since eight months ago.

Chu Yao smiled wryly, “I always have hope that she will soon be human. Even though I don't know when that day will come, I still believe it.”

Ye Zuan responded to Chu Yao's spirit with a light pat on the top of the female's head. Then sipped some warm tea in front of him. The Airland Emperor paused. It was as if he was slipping deep into his mind. That silent situation made Chu Yao take the initiative to ask first.

“What are you thinking?”

Ye Zuan smiled and replied, “Nothing. Just a flash of the past just flashed through my brain.”

Chu Yao locked her mouth by looking at the snowflakes that were falling alternately from the sky. He was grateful that Ye Zuan and Mo Yan had cooperated with each other in the war eight months ago. If Ye Zuan did not tell how they devised a strategy to cripple Long Jin Mao's power, perhaps until now Chu would never know the truth.

“I was quite surprised when I found out you two had planned the death of Long Jin Mao in this war before.” Said Chu Yao who looked disrespectful when mentioning the name of the previous Airland emperor without the slightest title.

Ye Zuan grinned indifferently, he replied very casually, “Actually I do not want to join forces with the emperor Alorra. I never had the impression that the youngest leader was Mo Yan.”

“I was stunned when I met him. Although it looks more closed off, Mo Yan still treats me like he used to. It does not stay away but does not also narrow the distance.”

Ye Zuan again poured tea in his empty cup, “...He stays that way. Not much talking. In just a few times the explanation he gave, I immediately agreed to everything. I don't know what kind of magic he gave me back then. However, the injuries Mo Yan received were indeed beyond estimation and it was also not in the plans we had already compiled.”

Ye Zuan's sigh made a small steam and momentarily gave a faint effect to his handsome figure, “But everything is over. The two countries are at peace with each other. According to the wishes of everyone.”

No one needs to worry anymore about Long Jin Mao's authoritarian rule. All grudges have been met. The manipulative Emperor of Airland has died. The queen died, hanging herself when she heard her husband had been killed on the battlefield.

Although it looked indifferent, actually Ye Zuan and Chu Yao still felt a sense of sadness. After all, as bad as Long Jin Mao was, the old man was still their real father.

Merely, the arrogant emperor's lunge was indeed beyond reason. Neither Ye Zuan nor Chu Yao had the ability to prevent resentment and hurt towards him.

“My time is up to relax with you. It's time to go back.” Said Chu Yao as she got up from her seat and walked towards the door.

“Go. Let me know if little Mo Yan has been born, yes.” Reply Ye Zuan with a seductive smile.

Chu Yao did not give an answer. He just smiled and nodded his face while giving a soft elution in his enlarged stomach.

A month after the war was over, Chu Yao was startled by the good news from Fu Bai. She did not expect that her unhealthy body condition at that time was an early symptom of her pregnancy. Fu Bai was astonished, with the situation and circumstances still unstable, the fetus was still developing strongly.

“When you have fought, rode horses and even done other rough activities, but the seed remains. My God, he's so strong.” Fu Bai said with a complicated face.

Chu Yao herself did not believe Fu Bai's words. But all his doubts instantly disappeared once the court physician confirmed the poison master's hypothesis with great seriousness. And in just some time, all the early symptoms appear as if they are giving justification to the two people's words.

Chu Yao again sighed deeply. He saluted the Airland emperor and then went with A-Wei across every passage in the residence.

In front of the gate were available two carriages and two figures that seemed to be waiting for Chu Yao. Chu Zhan and Chu Ling. Chu Yao walked up to them. Doing a little stale to decipher the awkwardness that exists.

“I heard you're going back to Alorra today.” Chu Zhan said as he handed over some boxes of cookies and sweets to A-Wei.

“True. I've been here long enough. All the work is done and it's a good time to come back. Fu Bai will definitely terrorize me if I am late from the day I promised.” Chuckle Chu Yao.

“Then, Be careful on the road. The weather in winter is very dangerous. You should be home after the season is over. I'm afraid you and your son will get hypothermia on this long journey.”

Chu again chuckled, this time a red tinge adorned his cheek, “you need not worry, this child is as strong as his father. I think he even felt happy to be brought to see the scenery along the way.”

Chu Zhan relented, although his anxiety was still evident. He did not want to make Chu Yao bothered with his worries. She smiles and invites A-Wei away and lets her sisters chat for the next few minutes.

“I just want to drop you off.” Chu Ling replied as she turned her gaze towards the carriage.

“You don't have to feel weird, because I feel like my actions are not like myself. “ Said Chu Ling who realized the look on Chu Yao's face was full of astonishment.

“To be honest I still feel annoyed at you. But I am not a narrow-minded person. I know Zhao Ming De is guilty. He deserves to be punished. I realized that the feelings between the three of us could not be forced. I was too na’if towards my love for her and she was too focused on her feelings, thus causing her to act impulsively with an excessive obsession towards you.”

Chu Yao silently listened to Chu Ling's words. The woman was shocked by the change in attitude of her sister who looked more mature. Chu Ling's thoughts were no longer filled with stratagems. It seemed, the prison sentence that Zhao Ming De had obtained had opened his eyes.

“I don't want to live in the past. Right now only Chu Zhan and you are still my family. Even though I know that you are not my real big brother, I will still consider you to be the infuriating Chu Yao. So don't ever dream that I'll call you princess or empress Alorra.”

Chu Yao chuckled at Chu Ling's words. Although it sounded a little rude but Chu Yao knew that the woman was persuading her to make up, “Alright.. I've forgiven you.. I honestly don't want to be called that by you. I don't know why my hair immediately bristles imagining it.”

Chu Ling's face reddened, scowling but she also looked pleased. He pretended to be indifferent and said with origin, “Laughter to your satisfaction..”.

The woman turned around and waved, “Our business has been resolved. Come back safely. Don't make yourself tired. I still want to see the fusion of your face and that Mo Yan was born into the world.”

Chu Yao smiled and let her two brothers disappear. He ordered A-Wei to prepare and leave Airland immediately.

The train started to walk. Comb each place slowly. A-Wei tried to drive the carriage with great caution. He even paved their way so that the young mistress could enjoy the trip.

Along the road they passed there was only a stretch of white snow.

Chu Yao again wrote down a letter, which was somehow the number of times, to the man who was still lying unconscious there.

The woman scratched the word in a sheet of paper, telling a lot of things. Troublesome to severe problems. All he poured out in the words of phrases full of grooves and rhythms of longing. Although he had sent so many letters, there was not a single reply from the flat-faced man.

Chu Yao did not mind it. Although all those traces had never been read by Mo Yan, he would still continue to inform him.

Day by day passed. The long journey stopped at the end.

Alorras..

With all his memories, he re-chalked the various flavors in Chu Yao's heart. He was nostalgic for all the life he had been through there.

Chu Yao was still staring blankly at the activities of the people along the way. His mind drifted somewhere. Create a vacuum in every second that time has rolled.

The gate of the emperor's private residence was visible from a distance. The row of soldiers standing guard bowed respectfully as the carriage that Chu Yao rode past them.

If Chu Yao used to feel uncomfortable with the situation of that place being so tight and not free, this time she actually enjoyed it a lot.

After all that place was Mo Yan's home. Where there was Mo Yan was where Chu Yao would feel a sense of security. Only in that place could Chu Yao find the figure she longed for.

Not at Airland, or anywhere!

“Thank you A-Wei.” Said Chu Yao as the young man helped her get off the carriage.

Chu Yao looked far ahead. Fu Bai, Fu Rong and Sheng Xin had stood up to welcome his arrival before the door of the emperor's private pavilion. Shaking her head, the two-bodied woman smiled in bitterness.

'What do you expect, Chu Yao?' it was in his heart, as if he was having a dialogue with himself.

'If he had been conscious, he would have been standing there. Welcoming your return with her warm smile.'

'Can you not be greedy? It will only make you feel more prolonged pain.’

Chu Yao bit her lips and took a deep breath to neutralize her feeling that was starting to weaken. He was trying to toughen up.

“Why does your face look so sad? Aren't you happy that we're the only ones waiting for you here?” Sindir Fu Bai when Chu Yao was already approaching.

Sheng Xin smirked and exchanged glances with Fu Rong, “So being disappointed too, when I missed you so much but you didn't miss us.”

“Not so, I did miss you guys but..” Chu Yao's eyes suddenly fogged up. He lowered his head and covered his face with both hands. His shoulders were going up and down uncontrollably.

“I miss him..” Isak Chu Yao with a trembling voice. The fortress of stubbornness he had built instantly collapsed instantly.

“I miss Mo Yan..”

The cry of Chu Yao broke. Everyone is silent. Nothing could give such composure to that stubborn woman other than the man she had mentioned.

Chu Yao's grief-stricken groaning made her unable to control herself. He's really tired. Feeling confused. Everything in him is no longer resolved.

Suddenly someone gave her a hug from behind. Making Chu Yao's sorrowful cry come to a halt for a moment.

“I've read all the letters you sent..” Whisper the mysterious figure quietly around Chu Yao's neck.

“How about we go to Airland, together. Are you ready?”

Chu Yao grabbed the hand that was hugging her. Clutching the man's fingers firmly and crying again as they pleased. The silvery-white gibboned man raised the tip of his lips, making a warm smile behind Chu Yao's fierce body tremors.

“Welcome.. My wife and child.. I miss you guys.” Mo Yan said as he gave a kiss on Chu Yao's flushed cheek.

“I miss.”

“I miss you so much.”

Chu Yao turned around and frontally thrust into the long-cherished man's embrace.

He no longer held back from looking strong. The woman let her whole feeling overflow. Feeling all his ownership towards Mo Yan.

“Do not do so again!” Raung Chu Yao's. He even dealt a spoiled blow on Mo Yan's wide and fielded back.

“I won't wait for you a second time!”

“I'm scared.. You won't open your eyes again... I'm afraid..”

Mo Yan chuckled while still furrowing his brows. He endured Chu Yao's annoyed punch while continuing to tighten his embrace.

“Good.. I pledge.. I won't worry you anymore.”

The young man cupped Chu Yao's face and gave a deep kiss on her lips. Making the breath of the two men hunt each other in longing.

“All is over. We will live a quiet and happy life as we want.”

--TAMAT ---