Chapter 76
Mei Chengyu saw Yu Sui lowering her head again and again, struggling to wipe her face, so he simply took matters into his own hands. Gently gripping her sleeve, he wiped the tear tracks from her cheeks.
At the same time, he said, "A few months ago, you nearly died in the Outer City, and you didn't cry like this."
He spoke casually, giving no hint of what he meant.
But Yu Sui's heart quivered.
Mei Chengyu truly hadn't meant anything by it. He was still figuring out how to cheer her up and distract her from the searing pain of the lightning fire.
Yu Sui lowered her head and said in a slightly nasal voice, "Because no one came to save me in the Outer City."
Her voice trembled. Mei Chengyu's warm fingertip brushed away the tears at the corner of her eye, gently pressing the moisture against her skin.
Earlier, while dodging around the stone cave, Yu Sui had stumbled and bumped into things, leaving plenty of red marks on her fair, delicate skin, now smudged with dirt. Using the tears on his fingertip, Mei Chengyu wiped the dust from her face.
"From now on, someone will come to save you," he said.
Yu Sui remembered how Gu Gan had used the Death by a Thousand Cuts technique on Mei Chengyu in the Outer City last time. It hadn't killed him, and Senior Martial Brother had fought back, but his hands had still been flayed until they were a bloody mess. They were still wrapped in white Medicated Cloth, with only the tips of his healed fingers showing.
Though she had no wounds this time, she felt as if she shared his pain. Yu Sui's gaze followed Mei Chengyu's hands. Once, she'd seen them as long,