Chapter 1288
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Chapter 1288 I Beg You…
[“…The morning dew in the garden is as heavy as usual. I must get up every morning to carefully sweep the stone path in front of the house, otherwise the frost that forms can easily make people slip.”]
[“Although this bit of frost is nothing for us, during these days without you, I found a lively and adorable maid to accompany me in trimming the flowers and plants. Her name is Aphelia, a beautiful name, isn’t it? When you return and meet her, you will surely like her too.”]
[“The green vines we planted with our own hands have already grown dozens of meters high. Like a large blanket, they cover the eaves of our wooden cabin, appearing like an emerald in the sea of flowers, extremely beautiful.”]
[“Oh yes, Aphelia and I built a small wooden platform in the garden. In the future, you can recite poetry and sing songs surrounded by clusters of flowers, which will certainly be a wonderfully beautiful scene.”]
[“It has been so very long since I heard your voice. When you return, I want to see you wearing your most gorgeous dress, with the flower crown I wove for you, standing in the blooming sea of golden bract flowers, singing the poems you wrote for me as a reunion gift…”]
[“…When will you come back?”]
…
“I’m back… I’m back! Eden!”
Bragi, holding the scale-backed chrysanthemum, ran like a madman across the messy stone path, arriving before the wooden cabin standing under the thunder clouds.
The decayed wooden cabin was covered with moss, looking from a distance like a deep green monster teetering on ruins. Cold wind gusted through the half-open dilapidated wooden door, making low moaning sounds.
Creeeeak—!
Dressed in formal attire, Bragi reached out his hand and slowly pushed open the old wooden door, producing a teeth-grinding sound.
Large broken holes were scattered across the cabin’s roof. The dim daylight penetrated through the thick thunder clouds, like several gray beams falling into the deathly silent wooden cabin. A tattered cyan satin ribbon was caught in the jagged cracks of the roof, dancing wildly with the whimpering cold wind.
Bragi stared blankly at the scene before him, stiffly lifting one foot, but nearly creating a large hole in the ground.
The wooden cabin, unmaintained for a hundred years, had already rotted beyond repair. Even with Bragi’s lightest footsteps, it continuously emitted creaking groans.
“Eden… Eden!” Bragi’s cracked lips parted slightly as he called softly, as if afraid of disturbing someone. “Where are you… Eden?”
He kept pushing open old wooden doors, walking into one room after another. Apart from furniture covered in dust and moss, nothing else entered Bragi’s sight.
After searching almost all the rooms, Bragi slowly moved to the door of the final bedroom.
He extended a trembling hand and placed it on the surface of the cracked wooden door…
“Bragi!”
An anxious voice came from behind. Lin Qiye and Si Xiaonan descended from the sky, landing outside the wooden cabin.
Lin Qiye saw Bragi standing alone in the dilapidated wooden cabin, dressed formally, and paused momentarily before speaking again: “Bragi…”
Creeeeak—!
The last wooden door in front of Bragi slowly opened.
Amidst endless gray and white, a splash of bright gold appeared before his eyes.
Bragi’s pupils contracted slightly.
The bone-chilling wind passed through the large holes in the walls, whimpering as it entered the bedroom. On the moss-covered wooden floor, golden bract flowers bloomed brilliantly, swaying by themselves in the desolate cold wind.
Several petals were carried up by the wind, gently falling on Bragi’s cheeks, like a delicate palm, lightly wiping away those two streams of scalding hot tears.
“Eden…” Bragi stood before this room full of golden bract flowers, as if struck by lightning.
After who knows how long, he finally came back to his senses and suddenly turned around. His bloodshot eyes stared fixedly at Lin Qiye behind him:
“Where is my wife Eden… where is she? Why has this place become like this… this is different from what she said in her letters… this is not the same, Lin Qiye!!”
He ran to Lin Qiye like a madman, amid piercing creaking sounds, grabbed his shoulders with both hands, and shook him forcefully:
“I just wrote to her yesterday… why has this place become like this today?!
Where is she?
My wife Eden, where is she?! You must know, right?!
Lin Qiye… Director Lin! Director Lin… I beg you! I really beg you… tell me! Where is my wife?!”
Bragi’s roars gradually became covered by sobs. Finally, his eyes looking at Lin Qiye were full of pain and pleading.
Lin Qiye’s expression was extremely complex. He silently looked at Bragi’s painful expression, and after a long time, he finally spoke hoarsely:
“Bragi, there are some things I’ve always wanted to find the right opportunity to tell you…”
In the deathly silent, dilapidated wooden cabin, Lin Qiye gradually revealed the truth about Eden. Bragi’s expression changed from shock to confusion, and then he stood there like a statue.
He stood before the room full of golden bract flowers, lowered his head blankly, and raised one hand to gently place it on the right side of his chest.
“She… she’s already dead?” Bragi murmured mechanically. “She gave her heart to me… and died herself?”
“She is not dead. Her heart still beats within you, and her soul remains with you,” Lin Qiye said seriously.
“No… impossible, this is impossible!” Bragi suddenly stepped back twice, widened his bloodshot eyes, and shouted, “She couldn’t have died… she clearly said that even after giving some to other deities, there were still two youth fruit left! One for each of us, why would she give me her heart!”
“The mist is more terrifying than you imagine… one fruit couldn’t save your life.”
Bragi stood motionless.
His lips trembled incessantly, his eyes full of struggle. He painfully held his head with both hands, shaking it vigorously, as if trying to get rid of something.
“No… it’s all fake… this is all fake!
This isn’t our garden at all! Eden is still waiting for me at home… I know, this is a dream… this must be a dream!
Haha, I knew it, how could I leave the hospital so quickly… my dream hasn’t ended yet! When I wake up, I’ll definitely still be in my ward…
After I wake up, I’ll take my medicine on time, rest well as the director instructed… when I get better, I can really leave the hospital, and I can reunite with Eden! It must be so!”
As Bragi spoke, he suddenly burst into laughter, then darted past Lin Qiye, rushing rapidly toward the outside of the wooden cabin!
“Bragi!” Lin Qiye’s eyes narrowed as he turned to chase after him.
Bragi’s figure had just rushed out of the wooden cabin when he halted in place.
At the end of the desolate garden, three figures were rapidly approaching.
