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Chapter 7 - Jade Lake

When An Jia Li arrived at the jade lake, he was so mesmerized by its beauty. The lake was blue and shimmering, literally like a jade in a lake – filling it. So it's not wrong if everyone calls it a jade lake.

The wind blew gently after that, bringing back feelings for An Jia Li, about something she shouldn't forget but she should forget – for whatever reason, the important thing is for An Jia Li who doesn't have any memories of her past as Xiang Lian. Now he can only feel the strange feeling that surrounds the recesses of his heart without remembering anything.

It's like looking for flowers in a thick pile of snow. Besides being a little impossible to find a flower growing in a pile of snow, maybe your hands had frozen before finding the flower.

It was what An Jia Li felt at this moment to deal with the feelings that had accumulated in her and a memory that was like a flower in her pile of memories.

He tried to dig, but the strange feeling that had accumulated prevented him from reaching the flower of her memory. His chest felt tight and sore at the same time. What he felt he did not know. And the memories contained within he could not reach.

Suddenly An Jia Li didn't seem to know who she really was for a while before something caught her mind that was blank like it had just been reset to be filled with the thing that distracted her earlier. It was something sparkling in the middle of the lake, but that sparkling thing was not a sparkle like the one he had seen before on the surface of the lake due to the sun. The flash of light seemed to be calling An Jia Li.

An Jia Li walked step by step towards the bridge. Her continued to walk slowly towards the source of light that beckoned him with its beautiful golden radiance.

"Miss Xiang"

Such was the sound that An Jia Li heard from within the jade lake. The water muffled voice called An Jia Li by her real name – Xiang Lian.

"Watch out!"

As if apart from the magic that hypnotized An Jia Li. Another voice had brought An Jia Li to her senses. Her then fell right over the bridge. One step away, An Jia Li should have fallen into the lake if someone hadn't screamed shockingly.

Ah. Not. Not one person, but two people. Yes, two men shouted at the same time after seeing An Jia Li walking in a strange manner.

The two men were like heaven and earth that would have fused to collide if it were not for An Jia Li. A person on the right side was dressed in dark, while a man on the left side was dressed in silver white. Yin and Yang have now met to take their respective destiny.

The two men immediately looked at each other after shouting at the same time to warn An Jia Li who was just sitting there frozen with her heart almost stopping from being so shocked. Her was still shocked because her almost fell into the deep lake.

Meanwhile the two men who were giving each other confused looks had now turned to each other glaring at each other coldly, they had even pulled swords from each other's scabbards. The two of them also did not forget to take their stances to be on standby if someone attacked first between them, but in fact both of them just remained silent in place. Especially for the man in white and silver – he stared in bewilderment and surprise at the figure of the man in black.

"You. You...!?" a man in a white and silver shirt with a peacock print looks awkward. But he didn't see anything wrong. A reflection of himself appeared in front of him.

It was no different from the man in black who also looked at the man in white with a question mark. He was awkward, confused, and curious. All of these feelings emerged after his body seemed to react and move on its own as soon as he saw the man in white and silver. There was a feeling of hatred in that body's memory towards the person in front of him, so he wondered, who is that man?, why did I draw the sword?, why do I feel like I hate him?.

A sight that would make all the generals' hearts drop if they saw the that two humans. They were two handsome young emperors of the two empires. Of course no one doesn't know them.

That man in black – he was the Feng emperor who was none other than Jiang Yi. And the man in white and silver – he was the emperor Li Xi who was none other than Chunyin who was leaving his job to change the scene in his novel.

For now only Chunyin knew of all the scenes in her self-made novel, or perhaps every scene in her life where she was reborn as emperor Li Xi. He knew that this time there was a moment he would never forget.

But because of meeting Jiang Yi. Chunyin's mind was distracted for a moment. It was like meeting with himself from the past now. In his mind he thought and made a question, is he really facing himself right now?, because the expression on the face of Emperor Feng in front of him showed hatred towards him. Chunyin more than knows that in the past she hated Li Xi, the bastard who killed her lover, Xiang Lian.

The two of them were now silent, lost in their own thoughts until no one remembered the condition of the servant girl who was still sitting shaking on the edge of the bridge. An Jia Li hoped that someone would pull her away from there now.

However, An Jia Li herself was also lost in her thoughts. He no longer paid attention to the two men there. He just watched himself shaking and asked, why? It felt like a bad memory had just passed through him with the speed of the wind blowing that her could only feel it. A feeling where her was very scared.

An Jia Li wondered while remembering her previous life as An Jia Li. Does her have a trauma to water or water depths such as thalassophobia?, or even because her has drowned to the point that he has such trauma?. Again An Jia Li couldn't get an answer to her own question.

In the midst of the silence the wind blew, and Jiang Yi seemed to get a big hit on his head so that he had to rest on the sword that he hastily plunged into the ground, otherwise he would fall to the ground and ruin his handsome face. A flash of memory also hit Jiang Yi apparently, but unfortunately Jiang Yi also had the same fate as An Jia Li because he didn't know what memories entered his head so quickly and so much as if he was in the sea to withstand the strong water pressure. Dizziness was the first thing Jiang Yi felt after the blow of the faint memory. Sweat dripped down his body as if he had been hit by a raindrop.

Jiang Yi wonders what has happened to him?, what kind of foreign feeling is surrounding him now?. What was clear was that the unfamiliar feeling was not like the feeling he had from Emperor Feng's memories but a new feeling but felt like it had been so long. It was Jiang Yi's memory who seemed to have the same fate as An Jia Li.

Something in the jade lake had attracted An Jia Li and Jiang Yi's memories to slowly surface.

After the time passed for one incense stick. It was a long time, but for those who were on the edge of the deserted jade lake, time seemed meaningless. They let time pass to come and go without disturbing their minds. Not a word came out so the wind finally chose to speak first. It blows again gently to greet the leaves in the spring, and they respond to the wind's greeting with its soothing rustle.

Apparently the wind also did not forget to greet the two handsome men there. One was Chunyin with a gentle friendly face but still quite cold for some reason, while the other was Jiang Yi who had a stern face that was cold but extremely gentle. fate seems to have made another mistake by putting on the wrong face and character for being opposites.

The two men's clothes fluttered, but Chunyin's silver-white clothes stood out even more. He was like an immortal from the sky who had just come down to earth to sow snow. Her attire was very elegant with a silver motif of a white peacock from the moon.

In contrast to the two high-status men who seemed to be fine even in a storm, An Jia Li was already disturbed by the caress of the wind on her face and hair. The caress of the wind was so gentle that it shook An Jia Li's fear of leaving. It was also the gust of wind that made An Jia Li turn to see who had shouted at her earlier.

The two humans who were carved out of exquisite jade instantly rendered An Jia Li speechless. Of course her was surprised to see that Emperor Feng was there, but An Jia Li was even more mesmerized by the figure before Jiang Yi who was made of pure jade carving. The facial features of the emperor Li Xi's face were indeed the face of many women's dream lovers.

If only An Jia Li realized now, she would definitely wonder. Why did Xiang Lian choose Emperor Feng over Emperor Li Xi?.

Again, the answer he will get may be only one, namely Love.

Because love, everything that looks beautiful can look bad and vice versa. But true love does not see both. There is nothing beautiful and bad. True love sees it perfectly without gaps.

True love can't even be compared to the most beautiful jade in the world.