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Chapter 8 - Painfull Illusion

It didn't take long for An Jia Li to realize what she saw. White and silver clothes with a charming face like a full moon was indeed not an exaggeration to describe Li Xi's figure. Her figure was so radiant. Even so, An Jia Li also did not forget the visual of the figure of the emperor Feng which was also equally charming.

The two of them were like cold snow that the Sun greeted in the morning, and the cold nights in the summer. Of course the first analogy is for the figure of Li Xi and the second is for the emperor Feng.

"That motif... a white peacock motif embroidered with Pearl silk. And the only one wearing such a motif is imperial Li!" An Jia Li was still shocked because she couldn't believe she was able to see the figure of Emperor Li Xi of the Li Empire in person.

"Is he the one whose love is one sided?! The Li Xi emperor who was rejected by Xiang Lian character!" thought An Jia Li who was completely unaware of what he was thinking. In fact he was also quite evil actually because he had forgotten to reject Li Xi and preferred Fengying at that time. but of course no one dared to answer the question when asked why Xiang Lian chose Fengying.

No one knows the true love story between these three characters, but it's a different story if you've read Chunyin's novel entitled 'True Love From the Heart'. Anyone will be allowed to have an opinion!.

A few seconds later, after An Jia Li realized the presence of Chunyin, whom he knew the character of the emperor Li Xi, An Jia Li remembered the snippet from the next chapter. It was the scene where Xiang Lian met Emperor Feng back at the jade lake, however ....

"There shouldn't be any emperor Li Xi here... what happened?" An Jia Li's mind was confused again because again there was a piece of the novel that he seemed to have missed or did the piece of the novel's story have now developed because of a small change he made during the tea scene the previous morning?. Has her made the story in the novel experience a butterfly effect? May be. But An Jia Li still doesn't realize one thing, namely that she herself has changed the story of her life.

Instead of thinking about why the emperor Li Xi was there, An Jia Li preferred to remember something he had forgotten, namely the reason Emperor Feng was here now. In the novel, Xiang Lian and Emperor Feng happen to meet again because the emperor is apparently looking for something – a very valuable object.

"Wait a minute. What's he looking for?" thought An Jia Li as she restarted her quest to remember the next sentence in the novel. Her brain instantly seemed to have turned into a detection machine just because it was searching for the name of the thing Emperor Feng was looking for. Until a beep sounded and An Jia Li finally found what Emperor Feng was looking for.

With a happy face like her had just found a treasure, An Jia Li was left speechless after she just said, "ah. I remember!. That thing is..."

An Jia Li no longer continued her words as she felt suffocated and started coughing like she was choking on smoke. Her felt like something was pressing on his chest so he couldn't breathe. But not only An Jia Li. Apparently the two men who had just noticed something strange were also experiencing what An Jia Li was feeling right now.

The appearance of a mist along with a strange energy made the three people very surprised, especially Chunyin of course as the only person who knows everything that will happen in life in the novel he made, or you could say as the only person who has memories of his past life. when her lover remembers nothing, and Jiang Yi is a new person in that life who knows nothing.

The wind was still blowing gently, but the thin fog that had appeared earlier slowly became thicker until the wind no longer felt its gust as if it couldn't penetrate the fog, and anyone who was in the fog would not be able to feel the caress of the wind anymore.

Not only the appearance of the fog made An Jia Li make a face that implied her fear, but also the strange aura that came with the fog was so strong that it held An Jia Li's breath that she seemed to be in an empty room. Lack of oxygen makes humans can hallucinate, and that's how An Jia Li slowly felt. Dizziness and shortness of breath hit him until her saw strange things.

The illusory image of a gigantic dragon appeared right in front of An Jia Li.

Of course, An Jia Li's hallucinations were also triggered by his mind, which previously recalled a scene in the novel, where when the fog appeared there was a shadow that pulled Xiang Lian's character into the lake where a dragon was waiting for him.

As a result, it was the shadow of the huge dragon that An Jia Li saw at this time. And what happened to Xiang Lian's character is so real that it happened to him now because what he saw was not just an illusion. The black shadow of the giant dragon grabbed An Jia Li and tried to drag her into the middle of the lake of unknown depth.

Chunyin moved quickly when the shadow started to ensnare An Jia Li, especially since she knew the upcoming events would drag An Jia Li over.

Before the shadow pulled An Jia Li completely, Chunyin used her strength to reach An Jia Li but, instead of saving An Jia Li they both pulled the shadow together into the lake. And by reflex, Chunyin immediately opened the array to create a protective wall for them to breathe underwater.

And how shocked Chunyin was when she realized she couldn't open the protective array for them so she and An Jia Li had to hold their breath once they got into the water. But on the other side. An Jia Li was actually confused with herself when a strange feeling welled up in her chest. He wondered why his heart was beating so fast when Li Xi's character hugged him?

Strange. Even though he didn't know Li Xi, but the strange feeling that arose when he was embraced by Li Xi's character was very clear to him.

"Impossible!"

An Jia Li was a little surprised to realize the feeling he knew, but her firmly denied the feeling that he should have left a long time ago.

Fall in love. An Jia Li was again troubled by that feeling. Moreover, he fell in love with someone who was nothing more than a fantasy novel character.

For An Jia Li, the feeling of love is an illusion and a fantasy that hurts when brought into reality.

Back again to Chunyin who was also fussing with his own head about how he should help An Jia Li?. Chunyin really didn't want him to have to repeat the rescue scene by kissing An Jia Li with the lips of that bastard Li Xi which was now his body. After all, Chunyin was also in a conscious state right now so she was embarrassed to touch An Jia Li's lips, unlike her previous life where she kissed An Jia Li reflexively because of panic An Jia Li couldn't breathe, while the strange shadow kept pulling them firmly inside. dark lake.

No different from the current Chunyin. Even now An Jia Li was blushing. His cheeks felt hot as he recalled the scene in the lake. Honestly, An Jia Li didn't want to read the scene that was quite romantic, but her eyes wanted to keep seeing every word in the chapter where Xiang Lian's character and Fengying's character kissed to share temporary oxygen.

An Jia Li screamed in silence as she imagined it, especially now that she experienced the scene herself, even though the one with her at this time was the character Li Xi who was also known to be a childhood friend of Xiang Lian's character.

An Jia Li also wondered, would that scene still happen for a while even though the characters were different? After all, how could the scene be any different? Why was Emperor Li Xi helping him and not Emperor Fengying?

"Miss Xiang...help me"

A faint voice made An Jia Li slightly startled until she realized that she was not at all short of breath due to lack of oxygen or unable to breathe underwater. An Jia Li reflexively turned her head to look for the source of the voice, but as soon as she turned her face upwards, she saw Li Xi's face that looked pained.

An Jia Li's chest suddenly felt sore as if all the organs in her ribs were being squeezed very hard. An Jia Li didn't know what had happened to her. His confusion grew, but on the other hand he also felt that if he had ever seen such a suffering face, it made him very sad.

No one can see, An Jia Li's tears that have flowed mixed with the water of the jade lake so that the legend seems to come true about the jade lake which is the tears of sadness from someone who can't be with his lover.

There are only question words in An Jia Li now like, why does he feel sad and miss someone?.

Of course for An Jia Li it was strange because he never felt he had someone he deserved to miss. Even if it was about her husband Jiang Yi, she wasn't sure because her marriage to Jiang Yi was not based on love at all.

Cold, empty, sad, angry, lonely, afraid.

Various feelings were now mixed within An Jia Li.

Li Xi was nothing more than a fictional character, but why did her feelings for Li Xi feel so real?

Chunyin's embrace of An Jia Li at this time made An Jia Li lose herself even more.

Strange and familiar, near and far, real or just a dream?, An Jia Li didn't know which one was true anymore. Only one thing her knew was so real if there was a voice that had been calling him.

"Where did that sound come from?" An Jia Li thought, who knows how long she will continue to have many questions without any answers.