Chapter 111: Please Work Hard

  I don't know how long it's been since I stood in a place like this...

  The sky was dimly lit, and the surroundings were quiet. The only sound that could be heard was the wind blowing over the ground, light and soft. Su Yanran sat on the wall, separating the land, with Loranco on both sides.

  Whenever she gets hurt from fighting, whenever she feels annoyed, whenever she feels tired, she would sit in a very high place, looking at the world under her feet, listening to the sound of the wind, and smelling the fragrance of the green citrus, as if it were the soft clouds drifting across the sky... Sometimes she often wonders, what did she come to this world for? For Su Yan? For her parents? For herself? Lazy

  If it's for myself, why is it that every time I open my eyes, all I hear are other people's voices, other people's names.

  Every time I think this way, I suddenly feel very lonely and have no sense of support. It's as if living is for the sake of others, and being awake is also for the sake of others.

  I often have dreams, in which I am locked in a courtyard surrounded by blooming lilies. The sky is also out of reach, with only a transparent glass cover enclosing me inside. Sometimes I want to leave this courtyard, but find that my feet are tied with a chain, and no matter how hard I try, I cannot walk to the gate.

  In the dream, there was a boy wearing a white shirt standing at the door, as tall as Su Yan. Sometimes I suspected that it was Su Yan, but it didn't seem like him. He stood indifferently outside the glass cover, no matter how Su Xiang shouted, cried, or despaired, he wouldn't come in to unlock the chain for her.

  Like this, being imprisoned all the time, watching lilies wither and bloom, watching clouds fall down one by one outside the glass cover...

  This dream has haunted her for many years, and Su Yu even thought that such a person really existed, that someone was really trapped in the glass cover... Now thinking about it, maybe that's herself.

  I remember a story like this: In the United States, in a circus in California, there was a strange thing. An elephant was tied to a pillar with a very thin rope. Many onlookers thought that the elephant would break free and run away, so they told the manager that the rope was too thin and the elephant would escape. The manager smiled and said: "Don't worry, it won't happen." Because this elephant had been caught and tied to the pillar with this same rope when it was young. At first, it struggled desperately to break free, but at that time it was still small and didn't have enough strength to break the rope. It forgot that now it has grown up and has the power to break free, but it doesn't dare try again. So it is tightly tied there by a very thin rope. In fact, what's holding it back isn't the thin rope, but an invisible rope in its heart.

  And she, was she also tied up by an invisible rope, not daring to struggle again, not daring to resist... even if she knew that she had the ability to break free from this rope, and had the ability to escape from that glass cover.

  "Tomorrow's the day of the trial... you can't beat him." Suddenly a voice came from under the wall, Su Yu looked down and saw Cang Xuan standing below, his eyes hidden by the vines.

  Su Yanran didn't say much more, she just raised her head: "I will try my best."

  "You can't beat him, this kind of competition is meaningless." Cang Xi Yan Han felt helpless towards Su Yang Ran's stubbornness, he walked out from the shadows and grabbed her wrist: "If you want to be king, come to my faction, I can give you my position. You just want to seek shelter, no need to fight with him. He is just..."

  "He just wants to drive me away." Su Yanran directly picked up his words and then raised a smiling face: "I understand what you mean."

  She jumped down from the wall directly: "Do you know? Actually, I've always felt like I'm trapped in a transparent glass cover... I wanted to escape many times, but I didn't dare take a step. Now that I agreed to compete with Cang Tianyi, it's just to make a desperate attempt once. I want to escape from that place, I want to escape from this locked heart."

  So this time she seemed to have gone mad, she wanted to try and see if she could escape, she didn't want to be trapped like that big elephant by a small pillar, she wanted to break free from the rope and snap that pillar!

  But she hesitated... just like the person outside the glass cover, he was standing there... because he was standing, so she couldn't struggle, couldn't escape. If she had wings, she could only break them off, if she knew how to fly, she could only pretend to be very tired and unable to flap them.

  "Alright, it's already daylight, I'm going back." She shook her head, telling herself not to think too much, and withdrew her hand that had been held by the cold: "I will work hard, you should do the same."

  "What's the effort for?"

  "Strive to walk on the path you want to take, and keep walking."

  “……”

  Walk the path you want to walk. In fact, many people have such thoughts from time to time. From birth, everything is planned out, and once in primary school, countless courses follow you, with no freedom or space. The road under our feet has been paved solidly, without any falls or pain.

  But we walked and walked, yet gradually became tired.

  If at this time, a rugged little road suddenly appears on the side, you will be curious, and your line of sight will be attracted. Your footsteps gradually move away, wanting to walk towards that little road, wanting to try and see if there are any new and strange things inside. Will there be frogs, will there be flying dragonflies, or an old man with a bent back standing there, farming? Although it is rugged, it attracts you.

  You can walk, and perhaps on the many forks in the small road, there will be one that suits you, one that takes you to a brighter path. And that path is yours alone, one that you have pioneered.

  So she not only hopes that she can leave this glass cover and find her own way, but also hopes that the boy in front of her who keeps secrets for her can find his own way.

  From the day he broke free from his bodyguards and escaped, she had a feeling. He was similar to her, both trapped, both controlled, but he kept breaking free, while she stood still, afraid to leave. Because of this... Ah, please try to walk the path you want to take, keep walking.