Chapter 9 - The Confrontation
"There are wars that men do not see.
Because they play in silence, between two women who read each other without touching each other. "
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It's been a long time.
Too long.
And that morning, in the icy calm of the laboratory, Jinlian finally crossed the door.
Silent. Perfumed. Precise like a needle.
In front of her, Yuèyao didn't even look up. His hands continued to grind a rare root. The air embalmed the bile and concentration.
But Jinlian spoke. Sharp.
- "So it's true... You have become my uncle's favourite. "
She smiles. False.
- "Congratulations. "
Yuèyao didn't answer.
She poured a few drops of slow poison into a bowl of obsidian.
Then, slowly:
- "Do you want something? "
Jinlian approached a step closer.
- "Just observe. "
Then, without waiting:
- "It's strange.
The same woman who said: "I will shine, even if fate does not want
Not",
Ended up sleeping with a prince to get privileges. "A silence.
- "What an irony. "
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Yuèyao stopped. Just a moment.
Jinlian continued, with a soft voice, but full of venom:
- "Ahhh... Men are all the same.
He thinks you really love him. "
- "My uncle, this romantic idiot, thinks he's special.
But it's not him. It's his title, his power. As always. "
She was still getting closer.
- "We never love someone for whom he is.
Only for what it represents.
His power. His status. His beauty. "
A breath.
- "This is the truth behind love.
A staging. A useful illusion. "
Yuèyao finally looked up.
Cold. Dark. Calm.
And said slowly:
— "Choose your words well."
Jinlian smiled, but a slight shiver ran through his fingers.
Yuèyao resumed:
- "You can insult me. It's not important. "
One step.
- "But if you insult Liyan again..."
A sparkle in his eyes. -"...so there, Jinlian, you will understand why even poisons are afraid of me. "
A silence fell.
Burning. Tense.
Jinlian, the look is then she says I came only to say hello so to porcher times
Yuèyao resumed his work. As if nothing had happened.
But in the air...
Something had changed.
The war, silent, had just begun.
The end of Chapter 9