Chapter 45 The Teasing Voice
This realization struck like the final thunderbolt and shattered me completely.
I could no longer stand.
My body slid down the table edge and collapsed to the floor.
Tears poured out without warning.
They were not the tears of Crown Prince Xiao Heng.
Nor the tears of the Northern Border heir.
They were simply the tears of an ordinary man who had just realized he had lost the one he loved.
Silent yet carrying world-destroying grief.
Hei Yu and the others looked at me exchanged glances then silently lowered their heads and stepped back.
The entire room held only my suppressed broken breathing.
It was over.
Everything was over.
He was dead.
What meaning did my belated awakening still have?
This cold palace this endless strife what meaning did any of it have?
I had not even... had the chance to tell him...
Just as I drowned in despair and crushing grief—
"Cough... cough cough... Crying so ugly... Are you regretting... not agreeing to marry me sooner?"
A voice weak to the extreme yet carrying that familiar teasing tone came from the doorway.