Untouchable Lovers-Chapter 276 - 253

Chapter 276: Chapter 253

Chapter 276 -253

Chu Yu’s hand was seized, and with a forceful tug, she lost her balance and toppled backward, but landed right into someone’s embrace.

Confronted with a sudden turn of events, she opened her mouth to scream but before she could make a sound, slightly cool fingers firmly covered her lips.

A robbery?

She struggled instinctively, only to find herself firmly restrained. The other person released her wrist and, in the next instant, wrapped an arm around her waist at lightning speed, also securing both of her arms within his embrace.

The surprising strength pressing on her waist and arms caused her pain, and Chu Yu was both panicked and regretful. If she had known this would happen, she wouldn’t have separated from Amman. In just a short moment, she didn’t expect to encounter a highwayman.

Realizing the other person’s strength was far beyond her ability to resist, Chu Yu immediately stopped struggling. If she tried to make noise now, she might attract the attention of Wang Yizhi and others on the boat, but it was more likely that she’d anger the person behind her and he might kill her to escape or something.

In her previous life, she often read news about people who were killed for resisting robbers, and Chu Yu didn’t think that practitioners from over a thousand years ago would be more civilized or merciful than those from a thousand years later.

All she could do now was hope that Amman would not find her and come looking, or that the person behind her was only after money and would let her go after taking what she had.

However, after waiting for a while, Chu Yu didn’t feel the man make any further moves. Once she calmed down, he also became quiet. Her body leaned against his chest, his arms around her waist, with no space between them.

Chu Yu was puzzled. She thought to herself that maybe he wasn’t a bandit as she had assumed. She glanced downwards with the corner of her eye and could barely make out the hazy silhouette of his pale hand, but due to the angle, she couldn’t see anything more.

What is he doing?

Chu Yu tentatively moved and realized her body was still tightly constrained. The person wasn’t trying to rob her yet didn’t seem to have any intention of letting her go either.

If she had the ability to speak, Chu Yu would have wanted to ask, “What exactly do you want to do?”

What exactly did he want to do?

Rong Zhi looked down at his hand and the person he held in his arms with a puzzled frown.

The body under his hand was frail, and with just a bit more force, he could end her life. Her existence had always been in his hands, and he could erase her from this world at any moment if he wished.

Rong Zhi frowned slightly, feeling troubled. He had come here just to see her off one last time, but unexpectedly, when he saw her walking towards the water, he couldn’t help but reach out and pull her into his arms.

He hadn’t planned to reveal himself, especially since he hadn’t disguised himself that day.

Rong Zhi didn’t know how to face Chu Yu with his original appearance, because if he were to remove his disguise, it would bring back memories of the past.

The discreet probing in the Princess Mansion, the sudden change in her expression and demeanor.

After that, everything changed.

Until the moment they parted on the snowy ground, he had witnessed the most radiant moment of this woman, and after that, he could no longer completely forget about her.

He had posed as Guan Canghai over the past year not because he was afraid of someone discovering his whereabouts, nor was it because he worried that Chu Yu would avoid him after finding out where he was—he could even imprison her if he wished.

He had the capability and the means to do so.

He posed as Guan Canghai simply because he wanted to try and see Chu Yu from another angle, to see her clearer, to understand what kind of person Chu Yu was.

He could face Chu Yu, but he was unwilling to face his Rong Zhi identity at the same time.

He was unwilling to confront Rong Zhi, unwilling to confront the Rong Zhi who had once been sincerely loved by Chu Yu, unwilling to confront the Rong Zhi whom Chu Yu had given up something extremely precious to save, unwilling to confront the Rong Zhi whom Chu Yu had clung to at the edge of a cliff, unwilling to confront the Rong Zhi whom, even knowing his heart was filled with treachery, Chu Yu still opened her arms to embrace with all her might.

If he met Chu Yu as Rong Zhi, this cognizance would emerge especially profoundly in his mind.

He was too rational and too clever, never doing anything without a return, insisting on taking what he had given, this was his instinct, as well as his creed. Therefore, he could not understand how there could be someone who would, so devoid of everything, smile and embrace the cold blade.

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In this delicate body of his servant, a strange soul from another world resided, a soul that burned with another kind of courage he lacked.

Rong Zhi never thought he lacked courage, but at this moment, appearing behind Chu Yu with his true appearance and embracing her, peeling off the disguise of Guan Canghai, he finally was willing to admit that if the roles were reversed, he would never have the courage to love someone without expecting anything in return, just as Chu Yu did.

In the moment of intense sorrow when she finally gave up the last chance to return to her original world, she had merely lightly kissed his forehead.

She was not a purely intense person. When she came to this world, she was cautious, too, fearful of death, occasionally troubling herself over others, getting herself into distress, because of some ambiguous embarrassments and shyness, all very ordinary… but that day, in the boundless snowy field, she let go so freely and decisively, which was extraordinary.

This past year, as Guan Canghai, he had been with her, and aside from repeatedly finding it hard to let go, wasn’t he also harboring another thought, hoping to dilute her presence through ordinary life?

But at that moment just now, an unprecedentedly clear thought suddenly emerged in his mind—

There is only one Chu Yu in the world.

The recklessness of not thinking things through and acting rashly had landed him in such an inextricable situation.

What should he do now?

Carry her away by force, or take advantage of her not yet realizing his identity and quietly leave?

He was silent, contemplating, and as time passed in this silence and contemplation, it flowed ever more gently and lengthily.

Caught off guard by a sudden attack and restrained without further action from the assailant, Chu Yu was quite baffled. But as time elapsed, she felt that the other person seemed to have no ill intent and gradually settled down. Having stood for a while, her legs began to numb, so she relaxed her body and leaned most of her weight against the person behind her.

And just at this moment, perhaps because Amman had been waiting for Chu Yu for a long time and did not find her, he told Wang Yizhi that he would come back to look for her. His voice traveled through the Willow Forest for a distance of tens of feet, reaching Rong Zhi’s ears. Then, soft footsteps began heading his way.

The sounds were too faint for Chu Yu to hear, but sooner or later Amman would pass nearby, and then they would be discovered.

Rong Zhi’s eyebrows furrowed slightly, without much thought he applied a little force with his hands, and his feet quickly retreated backward. His feet barely made a sound on the ground, light as though floating on clouds, yet as fast as a shooting star. He retreated several tens of steps in this manner before he stopped to listen intently.

After a while, Amman passed the spot where they had been standing. Without lingering, he continued on, not aware that Chu Yu had gone into the forest, thinking that she was still at the city gate.

Now that they were safe, Rong Zhi’s thoughts returned to Chu Yu. She appeared so quiet and compliant at this moment, her hair standing up revealing her earlobes like white jade. Looking up close, he suddenly remembered after they had declared their split, she wanted to cut her hair but accidentally snagged it on the sword. Her embarrassment and shyness merged together, even turning her ears red.

He stared at the base of her ear, his breath gently blowing over it, and soon saw her fair skin slowly tinting with a blush of red. The hostage-taker and the hostage, now seemed as though they were embracing and being embraced.

Intimately circling her body, intimately covering her lips.

Chu Yu suddenly felt extremely uncomfortable all over: The person behind her… could it be… intending… to violate her?