☆, Part 8
Chu Jiang gently clamped his slender fingers together, and the blade of the sword stopped a millimetre from his forehead.
Chu Jiang said slowly, ‘You and Hualing…indeed have some connection from a past life. It’s not that I won’t tell you, it’s just that the time isn’t right. The heavens’ will cannot be spoken of.”
Jiang Yu looked at him for a while, and said indifferently, ’Why should I believe you?’
Chu Jiang shrugged his shoulders: ‘Even if you kill me now, it won’t help. As I said, when the time comes, you will naturally know. You have been by her side the whole time, so why rush things?’
Jiang Yu sheathed his sword: ‘You can go now.’
Chu Jiang rested one hand on a nearby wooden table and rested his chin on his hand casually. ‘I came to visit Hua Ling, but as soon as I arrived, you two encountered that incident. I haven’t even had a chance to speak with her, and you’re already telling me to leave?’
Jiang Yu said coldly, ‘I’ll let her know you came. You’re always busy with official business, and now that you’ve seen her, you can go.’
No matter what Chu Jiang Zhengdao said, a white-clad man suddenly appeared in the room out of thin air. He walked a few steps to Chu Jiang and knelt down on one knee: ‘Your Highness.’
Chu Jiang raised an eyebrow: ‘What is it?’
The white-clad man bowed: ‘It is…about the young master. Please return quickly, Your Highness.’
Chu Jiang frowned: ‘I know. You go back first, I’ll be there shortly.’
‘Yes.’ The white-clad man stood up, bowed again, and then, just as he had come silently, took two steps back, turned into a wisp of smoke, and disappeared without a sound.
Chu Jiang felt for a paper crane in his bosom and handed it to Jiang Yu: “Give this to Hua Ling. Tell her that in the future, if there is an urgent matter, she can use this to summon me.”
Jiang Yu took the paper crane indifferently and put it in his sleeve.
Chu Jiang paused for a moment and said, ‘I’m leaving. You…take good care of your host.’
Jiang Yu said, ‘You don’t need to tell me that.’
Chu Jiang laughed, waved his long sleeve, and disappeared.
Jiang Yu went upstairs.
Hua Ling was still asleep.