Chapter 109: Touch the Heart 2

Changyi nodded, "Then I am indeed something special."

Ji Yunhe laughed and said, "And never humbled about it."

"So... um..." A weak voice came from the side, and only then did Ji Yunhe notice someone else was here. Qu Xiaoxing looked as awkward as he could be.

"Should I... should I leave you two alone?"

"You should," Changyi said.

"However, I still have to go back, so don't go far. Wait for me for a bit." Qu Xiaoxing was instantly relieved and ran away.

"You asked Qu Xiaoxing to bring you here?"

"Mhm. I promised you I wouldn't use magic."

Ji Yunhe felt all warm and fuzzy again. She stood on tiptoes and reached up to touch Changyi's head.

"My big-tailed fish is such a good boy." Changyi smiled quietly until she withdrew her hand.

"I can only stay for a while. There are still many things to deal with in the city."

"I will try to take care of business here as fast as I can. Don't come again tomorrow. It's better to rest if you have the time to spare," Ji Yunhe said.

"It's better to see you." Ji Yunhe laughed.

"Big-tailed fish, you are sweet talking me."

"It's just the truth."

Ji Yunhe held his hand and walked under the moonlight. Then the sound of a child crying was heard outside the gate, and her joy of seeing Changyi was instantly diluted.

Seeing her frown, he asked, "Are things here not going smoothly?" Ji Yunhe shook her head.

"Setting the boundary is not a problem, the men picked by Lin Haoqing are very helpful… It's just that there are too many refugees accumulating at the border. There's already criminal activity going on. Plus with the weather warming up, contagious diseases running rampant are also very worrying."

Changyi pondered for a moment.

"It all happened so suddenly, the rules and conditions for accepting people into the pass can use further refinement. I will give priority to this matter in the morning."

Ji Yunhe looked at the back of his hand. The previous frostbite had made his skin dry and tinted his complexion with an abnormal blue. She stroked it gently.

"Big-tailed fish, you've had it way too rough." But he smiled.

"I'm very strong, it's not rough."

Suddenly, Changyi's body stiffened. Ji Yunhe was startled and looked up at him. The coldness on his lips intensified and his face started to frost over.\n\n

"Changyi!?" Ji Yunhe was greatly alarmed, but she did not dare to blindly use her fox fire.

"Qu Xiaoxing!" she shouted out.

Qu Xiaoxing immediately ran over from a short distance away. After seeing Changyi's condition, he unsteadily took out a bottle of medicine and poured a couple of black pills into his hand.

"Here, Kongming said to give these to him when he's looking like this."

Ji Yunhe grabbed the pills and fed them to Changyi. After a while, the stiffness in his body eased. She lit some black fox fire to help warm him and melt away the frost on his face. He closed his eyes and rested against Ji Yunhe.

"Why is he like this? What did Kongming say?" Ji Yunhe asked the nervous Qu Xiaoxing.

"Be honest, don't hide anything from me."

"Just… he used magic too excessively..."

"But he didn't cast any spells today?"

"Right… but from before..."

"Before? Didn't he already heal from that? I was in a coma for a day after being brought back from the capital, what happened to him at that time? Luo Jinsang told me he was not doing very well, how exactly is he not well?" Seeing the jiaoren was still resting with his eyes closed, Qu Xiaoxing finally found the courage to open up.

"The root cause is over exhaustion... His magic originates from water, and the chill inside his body isn't going away, so… he's slowly freezing into ice…"

Ji Yunhe frowned, "What do you mean by ice?

"Everything in his body, blood and bones, is turning into ice..." She looked at Changyi inside her arms.

Qu Xiaoxing sighed, "He... he wouldn't let us tell you..."

"Why not..." Ji Yunhe felt lost.

"Will he die...?"

"Will be frozen..."

Frozen? By the coldness inside his own body and turn into a piece of ice? Like when he sealed her under the frozen lake?

"How do we save him?"

"Kong… Kongming doesn't know... yet..." Qu Xiaoxing sighed again.

"In fact, no one wanted him to come here tonight, but he insisted on it… He said time is precious and he wanted to make the most of it. He already took the medicine before leaving the city… but didn't expect..."

Ji Yunhe closed her eyes. How could she not understand what Changyi was thinking, she understood it all too well. Now with the end in sight, everything took on a different meaning.