I devoted three years to my master, Xie Linyuan, the Kunlun Immortal Chief. He personally stripped me of my immortal bones, snapped the Qinglang hairpin I had spent three months carving as a token of my love, then struck me into the wilderness to be fed to demonic beasts.
When I opened my eyes again, I was back at the apprenticeship ceremony.
He was holding that Qinglang hairpin, ready to take me as his sole direct disciple.
In my previous life, I knelt to accept the hairpin and loved him for three years, only to end up without even a body to bury.
In this life, I stepped back three paces, bowed, and said each word clearly:
“Disciple is too dull-witted to be worthy of becoming the Immortal Chief’s disciple. I beg you to let me leave the mountain.”
All of Kunlun laughed at me for being crazy. I could have become the Immortal Chief’s direct disciple, but instead insisted on chopping wood and sweeping floors in the woodshed.
Only Xie Linyuan’s eyes turned red. His fist clenched around the broken hairpin, blood streaming down his hand, and his voice shook beyond recognition.
“A-Wan, I was wrong. I’ve waited a hundred years for you.”
A heart that comes too late is worth less than a blade of grass.
I severed my feelings, abandoned the path to immortality, and returned to the mortal world. I would tend to the ordinary comforts of life and live once for myself.
But he went mad. He gave up his position as Immortal Chief, knelt until his knees were ruined in the bamboo grove, and gambled a century of immortal life to atone in his madness, begging only for me to look back once.
But the Qinglang hairpin was broken, and my heart had died too.
Someone asked if I still hated him. I rubbed the vanished scar where my immortal bones had been stripped from my collarbone and answered quietly:
“I don’t hate him, but I won’t forgive him either.”
He just doesn’t know that some debts can never be repaid, even with an entire life.
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