Urban Divine Doctor Descends the Mountain

Chapter 571: Chapter 571: Past Events

Lin Dong looked at the breathtakingly beautiful woman in front of him, quietly listening as she recounted her past.

”I was born with a fever of fifty degrees. That year, my father unluckily succumbed to sickness and died. A fire also broke out in the village, so everyone there called me a calamity star.”

”They all said they wanted to burn me alive, but my mother protected me. It was because of her that I survived.”

”When I was three years old, my mother passed away. In that room, there was only me and my mother’s ice-cold corpse. I cried loudly, but nobody came to help me.”

”I don’t know how long I was alone in that room with my mother’s corpse. All I knew was that I could smell the stench coming from my mother’s body, I could see her becoming rotten...”

”Finally, someone came. It was the villagers. But they came to capture me, saying I was a calamity star that had brought misfortune to the village. I was to be sacrificed to the snake god to bless the village.”

”Without my mother’s protection, those people from the village threw me into the Snake Cavern behind the village, hoping the snakes would eat me.”

”At the time, even though I was young, I vividly remember being in a Snake Cavern crawling with poisonous snakes.”

”There were many snakes, winding around my body. They crawled beneath me, their bodies ice cold. I was very afraid, I was truly terrified.”

”I lay there, closing my eyes, waiting for death in the darkness...”

As she said this, her body trembled uncontrollably.

Lin Dong’s heart also clenched; he thought of himself.

He was eight years old when he lost his parents. But he was different, he had people in the village who cared for him. Granny had looked after him, many kind-hearted villagers had too.

But this girl in front of him had nobody.

She was only three when her parents died, completely unable to fend for herself. And the villagers around her were filled with malice, wishing for her death.

”What happened after that?” Lin Dong couldn’t help but ask.

”After that... I thought the snakes would eat me.”

”But they didn’t bite me, they didn’t eat me...”

”I don’t know how long I stayed in that dark Snake Cavern. All I knew was that one day, a man dressed in white cloth, carrying a sword, came and rescued me...”

”Many of those people in the village were my relatives. My own relatives, yet they threw me into a Snake Cavern full of poisonous snakes, wanting me dead.”

”But those snakes, filled with extreme poison, did not kill me.”

”I don’t understand why?”

As she spoke, a bitter expression appeared on her face.

Though it was long ago, it was still the demon in her heart.

Almost every night, she would dream about that situation and wake up from nightmares.

So she could only continuously practice with her sword to become stronger.

She thought that if her body became strong, she could resist everything.

But there are some things that can’t be withstood by physical strength alone.

Lin Dong felt deep empathy with what she said because they both had similar experiences; they had both lost their parents at a young age and understood the despair of a child left alone in the world.

He looked at the woman from Yinghua Country before him, filled with compassion.

Although their interactions were few, he could see the kindness and purity deep within her heart.

Those who have experienced darkness and still managed to maintain their kindness and purity deserve to be treated gently by the world.

He sighed, saying, ”I had no idea you went through all that.”

Qingye Piaoxue suddenly said, ”I don’t know why, but at this moment, I ended up telling you all this.”

”By the way... what’s your name? It seems I don’t even know your name.”

Qingye Piaoxue suddenly remembered this detail.

Lin Dong replied, ”My name is Lin Dong!”

”You... You’re Lin Dong?!” Qingye Piaoxue was taken aback.

Her mission to Dragon Country, apart from obtaining the Thousand Year Snow Lotus to cure her disease, also included a task from her teacher’s order: to kill a man named Lin Dong.

She never expected that the person she was supposed to kill was the man before her.

Lin Dong had already learned of her intention to kill him from those warriors from Yinghua Country, and now he couldn’t help but say:

”Yes, I am Lin Dong. The one you’re supposed to assassinate.”

”Now, you can complete your task.”

The sword in Qingye Piaoxue’s hand buzzed.

Now, she still had a bit of Inner Qi left.

Killing Lin Dong was still feasible.

Her sword reached Lin Dong’s neck, and he could feel its chilling touch.

”Pop––”

However, she did not strike.

She gave up.

”Forget it, we are both going to die anyway. Whether I kill you or not, what difference does it make?”

Qingye Piaoxue shook her head, the first time she had ever defied a mission from her teacher’s order.

Lin Dong guessed as much.

But being killed by her or waiting for death here didn’t make much of a difference to him.

At that moment, Qingye Piaoxue suddenly looked at Lin Dong and said through clenched teeth, ”Pervert, can you promise me one thing?”

”Oh? What is it?” Lin Dong asked.

”Die after me. I... I don’t want to be alone again, facing ice cold corpses, waiting for death!” Qingye Piaoxue said.

Lin Dong was taken aback, then nodded.

Afterward, she said something that stunned Lin Dong.

”If you want to live a few more days... you... you can eat me...”