Romance Of Flame And Ice - Chapter 364

“But that is what Huo Qiang said, you made him try to convince me. I might be dumb because I have been in confinement for so many years but you made me know what love is and I love Bohai, he also loves me so please stop trying to make me leave him…” she held Huo Ying’s hand but she watched the pleading expression on her face fade into a deep frown.

Huo Ying brushed her hands off the aggressively and gripped her shoulders as she turned her body around to face the tablet.

“Sister…”

“Don’t call me your sister, look at them very clearly!” she shouted, Huo Lan shivered at her voice.

“The reason there is a barrier around the tablets is that father was afraid the restless spirits from the battle will wreak havoc so he cast a barrier to protect the tablets, there are over one thousand tablets here but these are not all the people who died during the battle,”

She aggressively turned her body to face her.

“Mother lost her father to sect leader Lin and many of her sworn brothers and sister, all the guardian’s parents died during the battle so tell me, do you think they will be able to accept your feeling to Bohai?” she was staring right into her scarlet orbs.

Huo Lan shook her head, she is not willing to listen to anyone who wants to make her leave Bohai.

“No, the wind sect must have done all this but Bohai is not the same, he protected me,” she sounded really desperate.

Now she blames herself, if she hadn’t accommodated her willfulness when she told her about Bohai and even helped her realise she loves him then Huo Lan wouldn’t be this obstinate.

She let go of her shoulder.

“If you don’t renounce him then you will stay here forever, away from your family and friends,”

“I will accept it,”

“Even if you are hurting everyone including our mother?”

She pondered on it then met her gaze to give her a firm answer thinking Huo Ying is just trying to threaten her using their mother.

“Yes,” she firmly answered.

Her heart sank, she couldn’t believe her sister would say something like that.

“How could you say that?”

She landed a slap across her face with her chest heaving up and down. Huo Lan held her face in shock.

She doesn’t feel even a tinge of guilt for slapping her sister, she deserves it…no, she deserves hundreds of it.

No matter how much she loves someone, she would never risk her family getting hurt because of her but Huo Lan just casually said it without giving it much thought as she would.

“Sister…” she muttered with tears pooling in her eyes.

She released her pent up breath then moved a step closer to her.

“If you won’t renounce him then I will just kill him,” she threatened then turned around to leave but she soon felt a magnetic force pull her back, she was shocked when she came face to face with Huo Lan who has her hand around her neck.

“I will never let you hurt him,” she hissed

Her scarlet orbs turned very bright and her hair started fluttering.

Huo Ying scrunched her eyes in disbelief that her sister would strangle her because of Bohai, now she realises that it is not just love but an obsession that might have been mistaken for love.

Except for her family, the first person to smile at her, care for her, give her a taste of freedom, not afraid of her….Bohai.

That is why she is scared of losing him, she should have known.

“Huo Lan…” she struggled to speak because of her grip tightening around her neck and her body being lifted up the ground. “You are hurting me”

A drop of tear streamed down from Huo Ying’s cheeks then landed on her hand, then she regained her senses. She quickly removed her hand from her neck causing her to fall to the ground.

She gasped for breath then she started coughing while rubbing her neck to ease the pain.

She took a step back.

“I am sorry…I didn’t mean to-”

Instead of listening to her, she stood up from the ground then left the hall, she could see the worried expression on Huo Qiang’s face as soon as he saw Huo Ying before the door closed.

“Are you alright?” Huo Qiang asked when he noticed she is holding her neck but she doesn’t want the disciples guarding the memorial hall to find out so she just nodded at them then they left.

He could hear her ragged breathing as they walked towards her chambers where he hurriedly closed the door before anyone sees him entering alone with her. He sat her down on her bed but she still has her hand around her neck.

“Let me see,” he touched her hand but she flinched. She didn’t want anyone to see it for fear that Huo Lan might be feared again.

“Huo Ying…”

If there is anyone she trusts not to escalates the matter then it has to be him, she slowly removed her hand from her neck. The red line around her neck is clearly visible because of the strength she used in strangling her, the type you would get from a burn.

He frowned deeply, taking his seat beside her.

“She did this to you?”

She nodded.

“But she didn’t mean to, I think we are the same. We both hurt people when we are enraged,”

He gently tilted her neck to get a good look at it.

“You are not the same because you never hurt those close to you. I need to tell the sect madam about this,” he stood up from the bed but she quickly held his hand before he storms out.

“No one must find out about this,”

What was he thinking? of course she will never let anyone know even if she is killed by her someday, someone who has been obsessing over having her sister back by her side will never let her go for the second time, he thought.

He took his seat again and titled her neck, if she wraps something around it then it will attract suspicion but she also can’t leave it out.

He removed his hand the stood up again but she suddenly started laughing so he turned back to see why she is laughing.

“How coincidental, I was just telling Huo Lan about you stealing pills from the alchemist for me but you are about to do it again,”

His expression turned into that of a thief caught red-handed, he is a man of principles but everything disappears as long as it concerns her. She even knows when he is about to do something bad without him telling her.

“My sister-in-law might think bad of me if you tell her things like that,”

“My sister is not the same as Huo Mei, she won’t care about this,” she responded jokingly using Huo Mei who always nags when she finds out they did something wrong.

“If you are bringing Huo Mei into this then you must have told her a lot,” he shook his head playfully then he left to get her the medicine, a better term for stealing.

He soon returned, faster than she thought he would and he sneaked in just like before.

He sat beside her then he gently helped her apply the cream to her neck.

“The Alchemist just made this and if he finds out it is missing then we might get in trouble so you had better use the excuse of being sick because you have been kneeling to stay in your room for some days,”

She hummed in agreement.

He finished applying the cream then he placed the bottle on her bedside.

“Why did she hurt you all of a sudden?”

“I threatened to kill Bohai,” the thought of it still angers her, that she would choose Bohai over her own family.

She sighed.

“That is where you went wrong and you are the cause of this problem, if you didn’t let her know she is in love with Bohai then she wouldn’t be so obstinate,” he placed the hair resting on her back on her shoulder.

“I was too excited to know my sister has fallen in love that I failed to think properly but if I still trusted Bohai to treat her sincerely then I would have supported her this time,”

“What if I was the one?”

She turned to him.

“If you betray me one day I might forgive you but if it affects my family and the sect then I will surely break off our relationship but I know you will never betray me or do anything to harm the sect,”

He smiled at her answer, others might sugarcoat it but she will never do that.. She is firm on making these decisions just like her mother.