Chapter 199 : To be lovers, but not campanion.

She stopped breathing and his eyes seemed more clear in the rain than it ever did in the daylight, his eyes were piercing her soft gaze, she waited for him to say something that will shatter her hope but his next words left her breathless.

"You are right, I do not want to part with you even though our fates are not tied," He said.

Hong Liu stands there in the storm, ethereal in that moment and disbelief of what she is hearing.

"Then why...you....?"

"Stay away from you for three hundred years? Didn't bother to even visit you once told you that my reason for not accepting you is fate? Our ill-fated love will bring the end of the universe, I can't put that on you, I can't ask you to love me, give yourself to me when I can't do anything about it. I am selfish, Little Red... I want you when I am not allowed to do so, and I let you want me when I shouldn't have, I am such a cold shameless bastard...." He held her face and caressed her cheeks tenderly.