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"why is that?"

Ganyu was full of doubts. She didn't dare to speculate on human emotions, nor did she understand the complexity of them. She just frowned curiously.

Jiang Jing gently tucked the hair scattered on her cheeks behind her ears, trying to remain calm, and slowly said:

"Since Cook has told you so much, I would like to tell you my true thoughts in full here..."

"I have been here all the time."

The sunlight outside was gradually fading, and shining on the woman in the white dress made her figure look even more desolate. Gan Yu nodded slightly and responded in a gentle tone.

When Jiang Jing heard this, it seemed that there were waves in her heart. She took a deep breath and turned her gaze from Ganyu to the other items in the pavilion.

She tried hard to suppress her emotions that were about to burst. Her voice was deliberately strong but also revealed fragility: "I understand that Cook has fought for me for so many years and finally gained a foothold. But the rules of the Fatui are so strict. If I follow him to Winter Solstice, will his efforts be in vain? Can he still maintain his position?"

"I don't want to ruin his years of hard work because of my appearance. Even if there is only a slight possibility, I can't let him take this risk." "However, I am also the champion of Jiuluan Pavilion... Lord Ganyu, do you know how long I have been on this stage?"

"As far as I know, it has been eight years." Ganyu replied softly, with a hint of respect in her tone, although in her concept of time, it was just a blink of an eye.

Jiang Jing smiled bitterly and continued, "That's right, Master Ganyu. For our industry, especially for me, singing opera has become my destiny since I was a child. Since I was nine years old, I have been practicing constantly and fighting with myself countless times, which made me become the opera champion standing in front of the audience today."

"Indeed." Ganyu replied in a low voice. She could sense the persistence from the scattered books. "If I leave, Miss Yunjin cannot replace me. That's why I not only have dreams, but also responsibilities in Liyue."

"But if I accept Cook's pursuit and still choose to stay in Liyue, he will give up everything and return to Winter Solstice because of me. Is this really good for him?"

She paused, looked at the silent Ganyu, and smiled bitterly: "The Fatui are not welcome in Liyue. Even if he takes off his mask, even if I accept him, he may still be ostracized. In this way, it will be difficult for him to return to his hometown. For his duty, for his future..."

"I love him too much. I am afraid of the future and even more afraid of the present. So I can only choose to do this... deliberately distance myself from him and make him despair of me so that he will let go."

As Jiang Jing continued to pour out her heart, Ganyu noticed that her smile became more and more forced. In the end, even Jiang Jing herself could hardly suppress the pain in her heart. Tears kept falling, drop by drop, onto the ground.

The rainbow light in Ganyu's eyes became brighter and brighter. She looked at Jiang Jing, who was broken by tears. The girl's tear-soaked face reflected the afterglow of the setting sun, looking particularly sad and beautiful.

Jiang Jing's tears instantly soaked her face. She tried to force a smile between her tears, her voice mixed with laughter and tears: "But I just can't help loving him, so much so that... I even turned a blind eye to his tears."

"Therefore, Lord Ganyu, I beg you not to reveal this to him... Please tell him that I have completely given up! Yes, I really have given up!"

"If only I had never met you, if only we could be together! But now... all my hopes are gone."

She collapsed emotionally and sat down weakly on the ground. Her white dress was stained with tears and dust, as if it had become an insurmountable obstacle, trapping her forever in this magnificent pavilion.

Gan Yu looked at Jiang Jing in front of her, her lips trembling, but she was speechless. When she finally left Jiuluan Pavilion, the decision in her heart was already unclear.

Faced with Jiang Jing's request, Gan Yu could no longer make a decision as easily as she did with Kukgar. As she walked on the road, her thoughts were in a mess.

Ganyu looked up at the sky. The afterglow of the setting sun dyed the sky red, shining into her eyes and illuminating the closed pavilion.

In the pavilion, Jiang Jing, wearing a white dress, lay on the dusty ground, stretching her hands weakly toward the sky, desperately trying to touch the sunset that seemed to be about to disappear, but made people tearful.

"Ajing, look at the red clouds in the sky and the blue sea. They are so beautiful..."

"Silly Cook, can you still see such scenery when you return to Winter Solstice?"

"Ha! I'll take you to the winter and show you the white snow there."

"Okay, I'll wait for you to take me there. I've never seen snow in my life. I've always lived by the sea."

"Remember, Ajing, this is our agreement! We will not change it for a hundred years."

"No problem, we have a deal."

Jiang Jing vaguely recalled the summer many years ago when she and Cook were still children, hiding in the trees and looking at the red and blue sky and ocean in the distance.

"Cook, do you remember? You once promised to take me to see the snow. Now so many years have passed, but I seem to..." [can no longer see]

Jiang Jing's hands dropped weakly, she closed her eyes, and the tears on her face looked like white snow falling in summer.

Her heart was filled with sorrow.

Even the fairyland as crystal clear as colored glass could not leave any trace in her heart.

Walking in the scorching summer breeze, Ganyu's steps seemed aimless, and her eyes were cast empty into the distance.

She stopped from time to time, as if searching for something, but always kept moving forward, as if driven by an invisible force.

When she came to the bay again, she found that Kukgar was no longer on the harbor. Just like that, she lost the person she was looking for, and an inexplicable sense of loss came over her.

Walking to the small stone pillar, she sat down heavily.

In the morning she was here accepting a painful commission, but now, she seemed to have become another character.

The words of Kukgar and Jiang Jing echoed in her mind. The obsessions from the Snow Country and the sufferings in the opera all formed a heavy burden in her heart. She put her hands on her chest and closed her eyes, but the more she tried to calm down, the more turbulent the waves in her heart became.

Behind the two completely different emotions of Kukgar's persistence and Jiang Jing's helplessness are deep differences in region and standpoint. Gan Yu tried hard to find the gap between the two, but found that the more she thought about it, the more painful it became.

Especially when she realized that Kuk'gar forced Jiang Jing to make a choice because of her [duty], and Jiang Jing also chose to retreat because of her [duty] in Liyue, Ganyu felt the pressure in her heart even greater.

"Just like the situation between Su Chen and me..." She whispered to herself and let out a breath.

[Hmm?] Is that Paimon's voice? Ganyu turned around quickly and saw a white figure circling around a blond boy who was looking down.

"Travel..." A warm feeling surged in her heart and she quickly stood up, but was suddenly interrupted by a call.

"Lord Ganyu, I finally found you!" "Are you... Huixin?" Ganyu recognized the visitor at a glance. It was Huixin, the daughter of Tianshu Star Tianshu. Despite this, her brows furrowed slightly.

Hui Xin, however, did not seem to notice Gan Yu's distress. Instead, she said in a relaxed tone, "Oh, I finally found you, Master Gan Yu. Master Ning Guang has called an emergency meeting at Yue Hai Pavilion. All the Seven Stars are already there, waiting for you."

"All seven stars... are here?" Ganyu repeated Huixin's words, her tone full of surprise and uncertainty.

"Well, they are all here."

Huixin's words echoed in the air, but Ganyu's eyes gradually became dim, immersed in her own thoughts.

Hui Xin noticed the change in Gan Yu's expression and asked with a hint of concern: "Lord Gan Yu, you seem to be worried about something?"

Ganyu shook her head slightly, her voice almost whispering: "No, it's nothing serious..."

She clenched her hands into fists behind her back, and finally relaxed them, leaving deep marks on her palms.

She tried to hide her disappointment and said firmly, "Since all the Seven Stars are here, I should go too."

As Qixing's secretary, Ganyu knew she couldn't stay out of it. "Hui Xin, let's go now."

"Okay, Lord Ganyu." Huixin replied, quickening her pace.

Ganyu turned her head and looked at Su Chen who was walking towards her not far away.

Her heart was full of contradictions - she longed to get closer, but had to choose to stay away.

Looking at Huixin's back, she sighed deeply, suppressed the desire in her heart, and took heavy steps.

Su Chen lowered his head and didn't notice Gan Yu's departure at all. He had been looking for the lost chain all day, and his heart was filled with anxiety.

"Don't worry, Su Chen, we'll look for it slowly." Paimeng tried to comfort him, but Su Chen just responded casually.

Just as they stepped onto the harbor board, a voice suddenly came from behind them: "Su Chen!"

Su Chen turned around slowly and saw the familiar face. She was holding a purple pendant in her hand, which was shining charmingly in the sunset.

"Su Chen, is this your pendant? I've been looking for it all day." There was a hint of pride in her voice.

Su Chen wanted to respond immediately, but swallowed the words back. He looked at her quietly, the amethyst pendant matching her smile in the sunset.

She admired the necklace and exclaimed: "This necklace is so beautiful. The deep purple color shows maturity and vitality..."

Listening to her praise for the chain, Su Chen suddenly asked, "Why are you here?"

The summer morning mist had not yet completely dissipated, and the sunlight was soft and hazy. In Liyue's Moon Sea Pavilion, a quiet atmosphere quietly permeated.

"Ganyu, have you heard? A new batch of diplomatic envoys from the Fatui will soon arrive in Liyue." Su Chen casually brought up this topic while tidying up the bookshelf.

Ganyu responded softly from behind the desk: "Yeah."

"Also, the cover-up incident of Jiuluan Pavilion last night has finally come to light. Now, the reputation of that opera pavilion has been greatly damaged."

Su Chen closed the bookcase, turned to look at Gan Yu, and found that she was still concentrating on her work with her head down.

Su Chen leaned against the bookshelf, a hint of dissatisfaction in his voice: "The Pavilion Master is still insisting that he is innocent and claims that someone is hiding the truth."

Ganyu answered gently, but her eyes did not leave the document in her hand: "The facts are now in front of us, there is no need for us to say more."

Su Chen's eyes flashed with self-mockery, and he said in a deep voice: "Do you remember? We once listened to a play there together."

The relationship between the two seems to always maintain a certain distance and they are unable to completely open their hearts.

Su Chen's heart was struggling in this vague boundary.

Gan Yu stopped what she was doing and nodded gently: "Remember."

With a beauty like this, every place is a paradise on earth.

Su Chen smiled: "Yes, you were wearing a white dress that day, I still remember..."

Before he could finish his words, Ganyu's words interrupted his recollection: "But, I don't remember it clearly anymore."

Su Chen's smile froze, and then he said with a wry smile: "Yeah, me too, actually I can't remember clearly."

He silently swallowed the words in his heart, the pain in his heart was like a needle. The atmosphere fell into silence, Su Chen slowly turned around, his voice echoed in Yuehai Pavilion: "Ganyu, if one day, I can no longer work here... will you blame me?"

Gan Yu finally raised her head and watched Su Chen's back gradually blur in the sunlight: "I have always been grateful to you, but Su Chen, you..."

"That's enough... By the way, Ganyu, if I get married to someone in a week... will you come to my wedding?"

Su Chen turned his head half way, and there seemed to be a last glimmer of expectation in his eyes.

……

Chapter 240: Eyebrows curved and twisted, rainbow eyes frowned more than Xizi appeared

At sunset on Tianheng Mountain, the twilight is like melted words, soft and profound.

Ganyu and Su Chen walked slowly along the narrow mountain road. The surrounding area was overgrown with weeds and extremely quiet.

Night gradually fell, casting a dark hue over the two of them and everything around them.

Their steps were hesitant, but they seemed to move forward slowly in tacit understanding. The muddy and silent footsteps beneath their feet were intertwined with the laughter of Liyue Harbor in the distance.

Finally we reached the top of the mountain. Although the scenery was not as bright as in the early morning, the coldness and loneliness in the air was even stronger.

Standing on the top of the mountain, the scenery of Liyue is in full view, but a trace of sadness flashed in Ganyu's purple eyes.

She forced herself to keep smiling, with her arms outstretched as if embracing the setting sun. "Today is such a festive day, Su Chen, I'm sorry to bother you, but you are clearly the star of the show today."

Gan Yu turned around, leaving behind a trace of a sad smile. "Hmm..." Su Chen stood a few steps away from her, looking away, not daring to look directly at her smile.

He remained silent, and the atmosphere fell into silence again. Ganyu turned around again and said with a smile: "Having said that, thanks to you, I witnessed such a grand wedding. That beautiful bride must be very happy today too? After all... the groom is you."

Ganyu suppressed the pain in her heart and forced a smile.

"Ganyu..." Su Chen's voice was low. His blue eyes were once the dream that Ganyu pursued. Even though they were covered with dust, they were still full of desire.

However, they were once too far apart, but now they are too close, so close that their true feelings have become blurred.

Looking at the silent Su Chen, Gan Yu felt a pang of heartache, as if someone was holding her heart tightly, but she couldn't bear to let go.

Her eyes gradually became moist and she quickly turned around to hide her tears.

"Su Chen, do you know? Ever since you left for Mondstadt, everyone in Yuehai Pavilion has been saying..."

"I don't know." Su Chen's voice was low.

At the end of sunset, only the afterglow of the sunset covered everything.

Su Chen stepped forward and stood side by side with Ganyu. "They were all saying, 'That blond kid stole Lady Ganyu's heart and ignored it!' Everyone was thinking about how to teach you a lesson, but they forgot about it first."

“…” Su Chen was speechless and turned his head away, trying to hide his feelings.

At sunset on Tianheng Mountain, the twilight melts into a soft glow.

Ganyu and Su Chen strolled along the path, their steps slow and heavy, as if every step carried deep emotions.

The world around them gradually lost its vitality in the dusk, and the two seemed to be surrounded by this silence.

The words seemed to be swallowed up by the night, leaving only the tacit understanding and unspoken feeling between each other.

They stood quietly on the top of the mountain, facing the gradually darkening sky.

Ganyu turned to Su Chen, smiling with a hint of sadness: "We used to be a good match, didn't we?"

Su Chen's voice was filled with a hint of regret: "Yes, from the very beginning, we were so similar..."

Their eyes revealed nostalgia for the past and helplessness about the future.

A series of "ifs" and "maybes" echoed in their minds, but in the end they were just futile wishes.

Gan Yu smiled, with the light of sunset flashing in her eyes: "Su Chen, if we have the chance to do it again, will we still be together?"