Guan Shining ran out of the courtyard and kept running, far, far away, until he finally stopped in a secluded corner by a wall, leaned against it, and slid down to sit on the ground.
He had told She that he would never lie to her.
Never, absolutely never.
But only when he truly arrived at Yuehuang Island, when he was facing that venomous Long Yujin, did he realize how simple those days he'd once lived on Guan Mountain Island had been, did he realize that in this world there really was so much Blood and cruelty, so much scheming and vying, so much filth and disgrace.
Everything his father had once racked his brains to give him, now seemed like nothing but a dream.
But that dream shattered, and he was left with nothing; he went from the Guan Mountain Island young master who had whatever he wanted and whose word was law, to the Young Master Ning whom everyone on Yuehuang Island feared, yet he was utterly empty-handed.
Sister Jing was the only remaining goodness in his life.
