Chapter 527: Chapter 521: The Sky Clears Up Chapter 527: Chapter 521: The Sky Clears Up Just then, someone came to sit beside her.
It was Gu Ning.
“Uncle Gu, aren’t you going to scold me?”
Tang Yuxin had already come to a point of no return and had braced herself for the scolding, but it couldn’t really be her fault anyway.
How was she to know there was a trap awaiting them?
“Scold you for what?”
Gu Ning asked in response to Tang Yuxin.
“Are you scolding me for leading them over here and nearly losing our lives while providing them food?”
“Or are you scolding me for risking the treacherous snowstorm to fetch medicine for both of them?”
“Or perhaps scolding me for the potential fate of dying alongside us?”
Tang Yuxin fell silent.
The word `death` felt like an oppressive mountain on her heart, sometimes making it difficult for her to breathe.
She knew they could not die, but under such circumstances and in this atmosphere, she felt a tinge of fear.
“Will we die?” she turns and seriously asked Gu Ning, “But I trust that we won’t die.
We will definitely make it out.”
Gu Ning reached out to pat her head and pressed her hat down a bit.
“Yes, we won’t die,”
He stated, reassuring both Tang Yuxin and himself.
“Uncle Gu, I want to sleep.”
Tang Yuxin rubbed her eyes.
Sleeping here was quite a harsh punishment and the weather was dreadfully cold.
Setting aside the question of whether she could fall asleep, she feared if she were to oversleep and not wake up, or in other words: dying in her sleep.
“Go to sleep,” Gu Ning pat her head once more, “I am here, there’s nothing to fear.”
Tang Yuxin wasn’t scared, she was just too cold and didn’t dare to sleep because of it.
She found a spot for herself and lied down.
Suddenly, several warm spots of light fell on her face.
Unconsciously, she curled her body and gradually opened her sour eyes, only to discover a fire had been started beside her.
The flame wasn’t big, but it reflected on her face and radiated a comforting warmth.
At this moment, she longed for her own little bed.
How wonderful it would be to be able to sleep on it.
But, she felt she could rest peacefully now, mainly because of the small pile of fire beside her.
Even if it were only for half an hour, or even if it were merely half a spark.
Because a single spark can indeed start a prairie fire.
By the time Tang Yuxin reopened her eyes, the outside was already bright.
She was still cold, but it was bearable.
She sat up and realized she was covered by another military coat.
She was wearing a military coat as well and had slept in it.
So where did the additional one come from?
She held the coat to her nose and sniffed it.
There were no strange scents.
The familiar smell, hinting at a faintly mint-like scent was the only one present.
It was Gu Ning’s smell.
It’s rare for a man to possess such a clean scent.
Sometimes she recalled a song she once heard, titled “Scent”.
I miss your coat
I miss your white socks
And your scent
I long for your kiss
And the faint smell of tobacco on your fingers
Then she would always think to herself.
Isn’t a man’s scent supposed to smell like sweat, tobacco, or even bad breath?
She had perceived these smells in her previous life from Zhang Yong’an.
But in Gu Ning, she never detected any odors of those sorts.
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Gu Ning was clean, including his heart.
She stood up and embraced Gu Ning’s coat.
The coat was so large it could completely wrap her up.
The coat she wore was custom made to fit her.
But as tall as Gu Ning was, if she were to actually wear his coat, it would probably drag along the ground.
Armed with the coat, she stepped out of the tent.
Nobody was inside the tent, so she reasoned they must be outside.
Gu Ning, Shen Fei, and Yuxin could stay inside the tent, but they needed to gather firewood.
Otherwise, they might indeed freeze to death here.
As she stepped outside, her eyes were irritated by the intense glare of the white, bleak landscape.
After half a day, she finally opened her eyes, and was left stunned by the pristine and unblemished snowy world before her.
She also noticed a single shallow beam of golden sunlight shining on the snowy ground.
Lifting her face towards the light that touched her face, she closed her eyes once again.
It had been a long while since she had felt the sunlight on her skin.
Yes, that’s how it feels.
Warm.
Pulsing.
Tender.
Suddenly, the corners of her lips turned upwards, her smile growing wider and wider.
The sun is out, the sun is out!
She tossed the coat she was holding and ran outside, happily frolicking in the snow.
In a flash, the entrance of sunlight into their dreary hearts brought a shred of warmth into their lives and fueled their hope for survival.
A hand stretched out, picked up the coat from the ground, brushed the snow off and wore it.
“Uncle Gu…”
Tang Yuxin’s eyes sparkled as she ran over and pointed upwards.
“Look, the sky is clear, the sun is out.
If it stays sunny, we can take our leave.”
Gu Ning also smiled, like a sudden thaw in the midst of glaciers or a brief stunning display of an epiphyllum flower, he too gazed at the clear sky and the rising sun in the east.
The white snow and the sunlight, indeed, a beautiful combination.
“Let’s build a snowman.”
Tang Yuxin suddenly felt playful and grabbed Gu Ning’s hand to start building a snowman.
She hadn’t built a snowman in a long time.
In her previous life, she only watched others do so as she was burdened with housework.
In this life, she did not waste a single second.
She wanted to learn, grow, and excel.
When everything was settled, she found that she had not seen such heavy snowfall again.
This time, despite the difficult circumstances, she had the rare opportunity to witness such a major snowfall.
Therefore, the way one perceives things cannot be always black and white.
With the snow melting, it felt as if the entire sky was wrapped in silver.
As far as the eye could see, there were no other colors present, but it gave one the feeling of their heart expanding in response.
Just like the first time she saw the ocean.
Both were vast, both were grand.
She ran into the snowy field, unafraid of the cold, and began to gather snow, shaping it into snowballs.
Her lashes seemed to have collected a few snowflakes which melted as she blinked her eyes.
Under the sun, they began to refract a precious gleam of light.