withered prosperity

Back in the wide corridor, Yan Hai turned his gaze back to A Ying.

"Why are you so afraid that I'll cut your hair?"

"Because once, father cut off all my hair." Ah Ying curled her lips: "It's very ugly, my mother is very sad, she hugged me and cried all the time."

"Really?" Yan Hai followed suit and asked, "Is your father treating you badly?"

"Father?" Ah Ying thought for a while and asked him, "What's wrong?"

"Cut off your hair, bleed your blood, and make your mother sad. Are these all good?"

Ah Ying shook her head, and then added: "It's just ugly without hair."

At this time, they finally stopped.

"Aniang!" Ah Ying pushed open the door and ran in happily.

Just like an ordinary child returning home, looking for his mother.

Just her mother...

Yan Hai stepped into the door with one foot, and then paused for a moment before taking the second step.

This place is the same as Ah Ying's yard as a whole, but there are no pavilions.

There is nothing here.

The luminous stone above the high dome exudes a dim light.

Below it was an open space, surrounded by icy boulders on three sides.

Only in the central position, put a huge cage.

A bird cage made of cast iron.

Although this birdcage-like thing contains a bed, a dressing table, and many things that would be found in an ordinary bedroom.

But that doesn't change the fact that it's a cage.

"Mother!" Ah Ying happily ran towards the cage.

This is different from what Yan Hai imagined, but it seems reasonable.

He followed behind, his eyes followed Ah Ying, focusing on the high place in the cage.

He saw "Yue Linghan".

After he was sure that the person here would not be someone else, he was shaken at this moment, because the "Yue Linghan" who appeared in front of his eyes might not be called a "human" anymore.

Butterfly-like wings grow from the back, no "human" will look like this!

"Yue Linghan" sat on a high place on a vine who didn't know whether it was a decoration or a real one, with huge butterfly wings growing from his back, looking down at him from top to bottom.

This scene can only be seen in the most absurd dreams.

But Yan Hai knew that this was not a dream, nor was it caused by illusion.

What you see is reality.

He approached slowly step by step, carefully observing inch by inch.

After so many years, both his and Yue Liuyi's appearances have changed with time, but "Yue Linghan" has not.

She and Yan Hai didn't change much in their memory, they still looked like a slender girl, but their complexion was abnormally pale, and the color of their hair and eyes became very light.Apart from this change, she looks exactly the same as when she separated more than ten years ago.

And those wings...

This pair of huge butterfly wings, which were taller than "Yue Linghan"'s entire body, gently folded and closed behind "Yue Linghan", shining a shimmering light.

"Aniang! Are you feeling better?" Ah Ying had already run to Yue Linghan, looking up at her: "I brought my brother to see you."

"Yue Linghan" didn't pay any attention to Ah Ying, ever since Yan Hai came into her line of sight, her eyes were always fixed on Yan Hai, never leaving for a moment.

Yan Hai stopped a little further away from the cage, and tentatively called out: "Yue Linghan?"

"Yue Linghan" finally reacted, she jumped down from a height and landed at the bottom of the cage.

The pair of wings spread out behind her and successfully let her fall to the ground lightly, but they also pulled the chains on her body, making a clattering sound.

Yan Hai narrowed his eyes, looked at the two iron chains hidden behind his clothes, and guessed whether they were worn on the root of the butterfly wings or on the lute bone.

"Yue Linghan" tilted her head, and was also looking at him through the iron fence, but her eyes and expressions were very penetrating.

"She doesn't have sanity?" Yan Hai looked at her for a while, then turned to ask Ah Ying. "Is she crazy or stupid?"

"My mother is just sick." Ah Ying quickly retorted: "When she was sick, she didn't know anyone, but as long as she recovers, she will be fine."

"How can you get better?"

"Take the medicine and you will be fine!" Ah Ying pursed her mouth: "My mother was not good two days ago, and my father was very angry, and said that he would bring the medicine in a few days. As long as I take the medicine, my mother will be fine." It will be fine."

"Aniang, you have to be good." She turned to "Yue Linghan" in the cage and said, "I'll tell him again after two days when daddy's anger subsides."

However, Yue Linghan didn't seem to hear her at all, and stared at Yan Hai with his eyes motionless.

"How long has she been like this?" Yan Hai compared his back to Ah Ying, meaning the wings. "Has she always had that? Or did she suddenly have it one day?"

"My mother is a fairy in the sky." Ah Ying said with pride in her tone. "Daddy said that all the fairies in the sky have wings."

Yan Hai frowned, feeling that the situation was much more difficult than he expected.

He circled the cage once.

A Ying walked around in circles with him, and "Yue Linghan" in the cage followed suit.

There are entrances and exits, but without a key, you can't open them... Yan Hai pulled the iron bars on the cage, thinking that there might be other hard materials inlaid inside, which couldn't be broken by brute force.

"Brother, what are you doing?"

He turned his head and looked at Ah Ying who was puzzled.

"Isn't your mother very pitiful for locking her up like this?" He tentatively said, "Maybe she will recover after she comes out."

"Impossible! My mother is very good like this." Ah Ying told him as a matter of course: "My father said, we must take good care of my mother, otherwise she will fly away and return to the sky, and I will never have a mother again." .”