Chapter 523: The Thousand-Year Late I Love You
"Hold back, you mustn’t let him leave in unrest, hold back!"
It took immense effort for her to suppress the overwhelming emotions.
Xia Weibao took two steps forward and slowly extended her hand, caressing the edge of the Jade Coffin.
When she saw the two skeletons inside, tears nearly spilled from her eyes.
But she forced them back vehemently.
So forcibly restrained that her facial muscles trembled in agitation.
She opened her mouth but could not utter a sound.
After taking a couple of deep breaths, she gradually regained composure.
"Your Majesty, your concubine has come to see you..."
"Your Majesty, won’t you rise and take a look at your concubine?"
"You promised to be together lifetime after lifetime. I am still alive; how can you lie here?"
"Can you... talk with your concubine again? I miss you so much..."
I really do miss you, so very much.
A thousand years, I dare not imagine that he has indeed been dead for a thousand years.
Unbelievable, that I’ve only just realized my feelings, yet what I face are but bones.
This garment, it’s the one we wore on our wedding.
Xia Weibao’s nose tingled with sourness as she blinked rapidly, pushing the tears that threatened to burst forth back.
Her hands trembling, she reached out to touch the red garment on the man.
"Your Majesty, there is one thing your concubine has owed you for a thousand years."
As Xia Weibao spoke, she closed her eyes in pain, "I love you."
No longer able to hold back, tears quietly streamed down.
This "I love you" came a thousand years too late.
I wish he could have heard it himself.
But alas, he will never hear it.
On the walls of the Jade Coffin were inscriptions of their shared moments, so vivid, so detailed, that even the act of painting eyebrows in the boudoir was included.
Looking at the bashful eyes and eyebrows depicting herself on the coffin, it was clearly an expression reserved for the one she loved dearly.
Without truly loving this man, how could one exhibit such a state of bliss typical of a contented young lady?
I was so foolish, really so foolish.
So obtuse, to have only understood my feelings a thousand years later.
She leaned her head against the Jade Coffin, her hand stroking the jade-carved images.
He carved these by his own hand, didn’t he?
What was he feeling when he carved them?
After sitting for a while, Xia Weibao felt dizzy and had the urge to vomit.
She knew it was definitely the effect of the corpse’s poison.
In an ancient tomb of a thousand years, there were too many unclean things and the air of decay.
Hastily, she took out a pill and swallowed it, which made her feel somewhat better.
Rising along the side of the Jade Coffin, she gazed at the two lying corpses within.
She picked up the comb and began gently brushing her hair.
Once again, tears uncooperatively trickled down.
She didn’t want to cry, not in front of him.
But the tears would not stop.
He would never... comb her hair again.
Lu Hualiang had waited outside for a long time, but there was no sound from inside.
He grew worried.
After all, this was the Ancient Tomb that had not seen daylight for at least a thousand years; the air inside was not clean.
Even the archaeologists had to wear gas masks, and yet she had entered without any protective gear.
Staying too long could be dangerous.
However, she seemed not to want anyone to disturb her.
After waiting a while and still not seeing Xia Weibao emerge, Lu Hualiang could wait no longer and rushed inside.
To his horror, he found the place empty and felt a chill run through his hands and feet.
He dared not shout, given that the artifacts in here were ancient and many had weathered away.
A loud voice could shatter them.
So he searched anxiously inside.
Finally, behind the Jade Coffin, he found the numb-looking Xia Weibao.
At that moment, she was shedding silent tears, holding a comb, mechanically running it through her hair over and over again.
Lu Hualiang heaved a sigh of relief, "You... don’t seem to have..." anything wrong.
As he spoke, he caught a glimpse of the two people inside the Jade Coffin, and a sudden pain stabbed his brain.