Parting from you at dawn

  I saw Uncle Ah, and was pulled back by reality. I got up and hugged Uncle Ah tightly, and he held me close, "It's okay, it's okay."

  I calmed down for a long time beside Uncle Ah, and only then did I remember that I was still in the coffin. The person lying in the coffin was Liu Xi Jun. I said to Uncle Ah, "Uncle Ah, look."

  Following Uncle Ah's puzzled gaze, I lowered my head to look at the corpse lying in the coffin and suddenly let out a scream as it rolled out of the coffin.

  Uncle helped me up and asked what was wrong with me?

  Looking again at the coffin, the corpse was still lying down, without any signs of getting up. This sleep was truly a two-thousand-year slumber. Everything from before seemed like an illusion. I forced my eyes open and turned to look at Uncle.

  "Pointing at the corpse, 'Uncle, it's not like that. The corpse just got up a moment ago. It really isn't like that.'"

  I'm afraid Uncle won't believe me, even though I haven't told him that the corpse spoke to me. I just want to confirm the relationship between Uncle and Liu Xiujun.

  The uncle took a glance at the female corpse in the coffin, her face so peaceful as if she was sleeping soundly.

  I looked up at Uncle, his eyes were getting hazy, the corners of his mouth twitched, and in the end, he didn't say anything. Seeing Uncle like this, my heart ached. The way Uncle looked at Liu Xijun was indeed the exchange between lovers.

  Leaning against the coffin, I retreated weakly. Four years ago when Uncle and Anling got married, I didn't feel such heart-wrenching pain. But now, Uncle is facing a dead person with no chance of survival, his emotional expression was like a sharp knife stabbing me from the inside, cutting off my flesh bit by bit.

  There was a moment when I was glad that Liu Xi Jun was dead, only then could Uncle not be with her, and I could stay by his side at ease.

  Such a thought flashed through my mind, I raised my hand and gave myself a slap in the face, such a despicable idea...

  Uncle turned around and looked at me, holding my hand in his. His eyes were filled with emotion as he gazed at me, "What's wrong, Ah Li? What's wrong?"

  Uncle's eyes were filled with emotion, perhaps it was just the lingering gaze from looking at Liu Xiujun's eyes earlier. Uncle couldn't possibly have a loving gaze for me.

  Thinking of this, I became more and more afraid that Uncle would get married. When I grew up, I wouldn't have any reason to stay by Uncle's side. My nose twitched, hot tears rolled in, and I buried my face in Uncle's shoulder and wept.

  "Uncle was puzzled, 'A Li, what's wrong? Are you too scared?'"

  He gently patted my back, and the sobbing gradually subsided. I stiffened, and Uncle looked at me with a slight frown, not understanding what was going on.

  I wasn't afraid, nor was I crying too hard, but because I saw the coffin that Ahn Oh had been gradually approaching, with the decay slowly growing larger and larger, until I saw the wooden plank on the left side of the coffin fall off onto the earthen platform behind Ah Shu.

  Ahui turned around and held me in his arms, I felt Ah Shu's heartbeat, such a comfortable feeling.

  As the coffin slowly fell, and then weathered away, Liu Xi's body was still peacefully sleeping inside, as if everything had nothing to do with her. Another wisp of green smoke appeared, and I saw Ano's body slowly disappearing. The two Han Dynasty guards on either side gradually weathered away, becoming a wisp of green smoke that lingered above the head of Liu Xi's coffin.

  Uncle closed his eyes and took a deep breath, with a helpless expression.

  Her white jade-like arm became transparent, followed by her body, and finally her face... Liu Xijun was also gradually weathering away with the coffin, like fluorescent powder dispersing in the air.

  Why is it so?

  Has everything here been destroyed since Uncle and I came?

  "Goodbye, goodbye, farewell!" A gentle voice came from the air, I looked around, except for Uncle and the bald stone wall, there was nothing.

  But I knew it was Liu Xiujun speaking to me again without letting Uncle hear.

  I finally know why Uncle Liu gave me the name Junli, Liu Xijun, farewell...

  I thought that after everything had settled down here, I could leave with Uncle Ah, but what I didn't expect was that this high platform almost took my life.