Why didn't I realize it sooner?
Why am I only starting to regret now?
It's too late, he's always too late.
Pei Yunmeng lowered his voice, "If you like it, once you get better, I'll give you a sachet, okay?"
Lu Tong did not answer.
She was very thin, like a snowflake, heavy yet fluttering, resting on his back, her breath weak, now showing a docility she never had before.
Yet, he would rather she still be as she was when they first met, fierce and smart, cunningly playing everyone around her. At least then, she was alive, like a fire, not like now, when that fire was slowly burning out, leaving just embers that were about to be extinguished.
Lu Tong tilted her head, her lips gently pressed against his ear, tender, warm, and light, mumbling a couple of words.
Pei Yunmeng looked back, her voice very light, drowned out by the wind and snow in an instant, not clear to him.
"What did you say?"
Lu Tong turned her head away.
