She had always thought that it was love at first sight. Until three years ago, her illness began to worsen and she fell into a coma. During that period of time, she had some strange dreams.
In her dreams, she was a pitch-black orchid plant standing alone at a hollow valley, staying isolated from the rest of the world.
No one could enter her world and there was no need for her to understand anyone else’s world. She could indulge in her own self-admiration and sing alone all day long.
Until one day, a snow-white butterfly flew into the valley.
It was spotlessly clean and white but extremely delicate. It was so weak that it could not endure the gentle wind which blew against it. It looked like it had been struck by wind and rain somewhere as half of its wings had been ripped apart.
Even so, that butterfly was still stubbornly flying upwards, refusing to yield or surrender.
When the butterfly flew over the orchid by coincidence, it lost its strength to fly any further and fell right into the orchid’s pistil.
The butterfly’s breathing gradually grew weaker and weaker. Slowly, it lost its memory. However, it was still persistently flapping its wings, trying to fly towards the sky.
At this moment, the orchid understood. She understood why the butterfly was injured. It was because this butterfly was too foolish, trying to fly above the sky with its fragile wings.
Its wings were torn by the howling wind.
“Silly butterfly, that place is the immortals’ world. You’re just a little butterfly. Why are you being so stubborn…?”
The orchid was speaking the flower language which the butterfly could not hear. Naturally, there was no way the orchid could change the butterfly’s mind.
The butterfly flapped its feeble wings again and again, but no matter how hard it tried, it still fell back to the pistil of the flower. Eventually, the orchid felt pained for it.
She did not understand why she would feel that way, but when she saw the butterfly’s expression while it was making its final struggle, she could not bear it anymore. She wanted to save this butterfly.
“Silly butterfly, pluck my pistil and you can recover your strength.”
“Silly butterfly, tear off my petals so that you can replace your wings.”
“Silly butterfly, you’re too weak and your body is not strong enough to withstand the howling wind. I’m willing to give you the gold qi of my life force to make your wings be as firm as iron and stones. You will then be able to withstand the howling wind…”
“Silly butterfly, why don’t you take a look at me…?”
That orchid secretly sprinkled the floral dew on the butterfly, patched her petals on its torn wings and passed the gold qi of her life force to the butterfly.
After that, that butterfly was no longer pure white. Half of it turned black because of the petal given by the orchid.
Her gold qi was not absorbed by her father’s Primordial Magnetic Force…
Instead, her gold qi was given to a butterfly in her previous life.
In the end, that butterfly recovered its power and became strong enough to fly into the sky. However, it never knew that there was an orchid that saved its life…
That orchid eventually withered day after day after losing the gold qi in her life force.
Until one day, a trace of remnant ashes from the butterfly drifted into the mortal world along with the blowing wind and fell on the orchid.
At that moment, the orchid’s heart was shattered, as if it was sobbing in sadness and eventually lost her final trace of life force.
“What a sad dream… Am I being too sentimental…?” Xu Qiuling sighed with emotions.
“That butterfly, where did it go…?” Xu Qiuling mumbled to herself while folding a message transmitting paper butterfly with her fingers.
She loves flowers, but she also had a bias for butterflies…
Perhaps she once had an unrequited love for a butterfly a very long time ago…
Xu Qiuling activated the boat, making it sail with an unimaginable speed. The cultivators coming to the island flew past her boat from above in rays of light but all of them were unable to sense the hidden aura of the boat.
She stood alone on the boat, drifting aimlessly on the sea like a vagrant.
However, she firmly believed that Ning Fan would come for her.
*Thud*
Amidst the gentle breeze, a young man dressed in white robes and draped with black cloak caught up with the boat following the tiny wisp of qi left by Xu Qiuling and landed on the stern.
He originally used to wear a set of white clothes. However, after following the path of devils, he symbolically draped a large black feathered cloak on his white robes.
The color of his outfit symbolized the interchanging kindness and evil…
“It’s not a trifling matter roaming the sea all by yourself!” Ning Fan frowned and scolded. Throughout the endless killing on his path, he knew how dangerous the Endless Sea was, especially at a lawless territory like this Pleasure Devil Sea.
In the past, Yuan Yao was ambushed at this place. Even though there was no action today and the cultivators from the Internal Endless Sea rarely came, it was still dangerous for Xu Qiuling to travel alone, even if she had a Treasure of Immortal Abode to protect herself.
At the very least, Xu Qiuling was ill and her body was weak. It was inappropriate for her to be exposed to the chilly wind.
After being scolded by Ning Fan, Xu Qiuling did not feel sad or angry but she laughed instead. It was because only people who were lonely could understand that having someone to scold you was actually bliss. Scolding, in other words, meant concern.
“I’m sorry… I was being reckless. But I believed that you will come for me!”