Elemental Light Mage

Chapter 437: Where to Go

Fumina noticed Xi Yeming was in a bad mood and asked, "What's wrong with Lord Shengyi? You look so hesitant."

"Nothing, just a small matter." Xi Yeming, whose emotions were detected, immediately retracted his obvious expression and turned to talk to the two girls, "But you are so diligent but your eggs have turned black. Why don't you go wash them?"

"We'll go to the palace's bathhouse to wash up in a moment," Celonia said with wide eyes when talking about the bathhouse here. "Master Xi, you don't know how big the bathhouse here is. The bathing pool is even bigger than the flower bed at the door!"

Fumina also agreed: "Yes, yes, there are even lions with fish tails that can spray water from their mouths!"

"Uh... Really? That sounds interesting."

Although Xi Yeming responded to the two girls' sharing, he was still concerned about the queen's condition in his heart.

Angelina saw this forced attitude and she also doubted whether she was doing the right thing.

Xi Yeming is a fickle person. His miserable life has made his sensitive heart even worse. The legacy of the war has made him dare not trust others easily. In the end, all that is left is the struggle between his heart.

Now how to save the queen has become Xi Yeming's only concern.

"Don't worry," Angelina pointed out the uneasiness in Xi Yeming's heart, "What you can't do today, you may be able to do tomorrow, right?"

"How...did you know this?"

This sentence was extremely familiar to Xi Yeming. It was clearly what his adoptive mother Xi Yungeng had taught him, but now it came from Angelina's mouth.

“Who are you…?”

Angelina suddenly became so unfamiliar in Xi Yeming's eyes. She was clearly saying the truth that he had always remembered, but the barrier was the understanding between the two of them.

"What's wrong, Master Xi? Sister Anjie?"

Fumina and Seronia looked at the awkward atmosphere between the two in complete confusion. Knowing that it would be awkward if they continued to be there, they quietly slipped away and left the time to the two.

The gazes they exchanged had never been as unfamiliar as today. Xi Yeming could not decipher any meaning from Angelina's eyes, and he also had no idea whether the other party had drawn any conclusion from his gaze.

In just a few tens of seconds, Angelina showed a trace of sadness. She closed her eyes and said calmly: "I am just Angelina who was helped by you."

Then Angelina took a step and passed by Xi Yeming. He felt as if he had missed something and his inner uneasiness became even more restless.

The sky gradually darkened, and the original members of the princess's mansion entered the attic one after another to decorate their rooms, but Xi Yeming was the only one who did not show up.

When night fell and the moonlight illuminated the sky, Bai Huchi finally asked, "Strange, where is the prince?"

Binet recalled for a moment and said, "Father? He seems to be on the rooftop. I don't know what he is doing."

"Should we call Lord Shengyi back?" Fumina suggested.

"No, forget it," Binet shook his head and rejected the proposal, "He might be in a bad mood, so it's better not to disturb him."

Bina, who has followed Xi Yeming for the longest time, can more or less feel his father's thoughts. Even if he can't read his father's mind, he can still distinguish his joy, anger, sorrow and happiness.

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Xi Yeming sat on the tiles of the attic, staring up at the moon hanging in the sky, as quiet as a sculpture.

He had been here for several hours since the afternoon. During this time, he had done nothing and his brain had not been thinking about anything. He just stayed alone in the empty high-rise building.

If you look deeper, this is "escape".

But there was clearly no suffering, and there was no need to resolve any responsibility, but the feeling of uneasiness always lingered in Xi Yeming's heart.

Unable to escape, and unable to do anything, this is the true portrayal of Xi Yeming's life.

Having gone through many ups and downs, he still has never gotten used to "escaping".

When his companion died, he fled;

When the teacher died, he fled;

When his predecessor died, he escaped;

When his family died, he fled again.

He doesn't want to escape, so what can he do?

By the time you have the ability to change the outcome, it has already become a fixed result and cannot be changed.

Just because he took a look at the seriously ill queen today, Xi Yeming was so panicked that he didn't know what to do.

If one day in the future someone kneels in front of him and asks him to help the queen, will it be too late then?

Or maybe if you don't need others, you will become the one who regrets.

And Angelina.

The reason why he told her the principles his adoptive mother had taught him, coupled with that very similar face, made Xi Yeming even more uneasy.

Did I misunderstand her? Why did I feel so distressed? Was this the inevitable resonance of the goddess's body? Or...

In an instant, Xi Yeming seemed to be in a dark world. Compared with his former companions, he was the only one who stood still, while everyone else was covered in light and had their own direction.

The question of "what to do" troubled him deeply throughout his life, and it also bound his future like an indelible shadow.

The night wind blew across Xi Yeming's body, the coldness invaded his body temperature and also hurt his fragile heart.

"Hey, why are you here, junior?"

A greeting broke the silence maintained by Xi Yeming, and two different figures appeared on both sides of him at some point.

Hua Wan and Xi Leqiu sat on each side of Xi Yeming.

“Seniors and aunt, how did you...?” Xi Yeming was surprised by the sudden appearance of the two elders.

"How did you get in?" Hua Wan laughed proudly, "After all, I was once one of the Ten Saints. Your aunt is no ordinary person, right?"

Xi Leqiu asked: "You don't seem very happy, did something happen?"

Xi Yeming, who was speechless, did not want to share the matters about the Queen with his aunt. What's more, the identity of "aunt" came from his adoptive mother and had nothing to do with the Queen.

Xi Yeming didn't want to violate any taboos, nor did he want to cause any trouble to his aunt, so he deliberately made things difficult for her: "My aunt is obviously very powerful, why don't you just use echo magic to see for yourself what I'm thinking?"

"Hehe, if echo magic can make you smile, I'd be happy to help my little nephew."

Xi Leqiu's smiling face made Xi Yeming even more embarrassed. He clearly realized that his aunt came to comfort him, but he just didn't want to open his heart and talk to her.

It was as if an invisible shackle was entangled with his thoughts and the throat that wanted to cry for help, forcing his heart to take root in the darkness.