Friend or Foe

"Wind blows, clouds drift, yet heaven does not move; water pushes the boat along, yet the bank does not shift; a knife cuts lotus roots, yet the threads remain unbroken; mountains stand high and waters run far, yet feelings do not part..."

The moment the four lines of song emerged, the chill filling the ship was swept away...

The smile curling Zhou Mei's lips flattened at once, and her breathing stopped in an instant...

She wanted to hear him sing!

That was only natural wherever one went beneath heaven.

Yet she had absolutely never expected that the song Lin Su sang for her would be such a Divine Melody! Yes, within the limits of her vocabulary, that was the only phrase capable of describing it.

The melody was so exquisitely beautiful, the complete opposite of Lonely Shadow on the Cold River just now.

The lyrics were so fresh and timeless that, in a single instant, they smoothed away the extreme shift in weather and pulled the northern land stretching ten thousand miles back into Misty Rain Jiangnan.

The wind began to blow—a spring breeze. Rain began to drift down—a spring rain.

Lin Su's singing continued...

"Rain falls soft, feelings linger true; how many stories lie within the heart? In misty March rain, Misty Rain Sings of Qu Prefecture; a hundred years of coincidence speak of wonder!"

On a distant little boat, Liu Tianyin quietly watched their great ship. Though she traveled farther away with every step, she still monitored everything aboard it.

When this song reached her ears, her gaze turned hazy.

She had heard Lin Su's compositions with her own ears.

She had not missed a single one of Lin Su's songs.

But hearing him sing in person was a first.

Just this once, and her heart was in