1314: A Thousand Peonies Bloom
Memory Scrap

“A-I am where this is?” Shuwan is shocked to find himself in a foreign place. “Didn't I just be at the bottom of the abyss? W-w-don't this be the afterlife?” Shuwan's mind began to fumble wildly. He doesn't know where he is now.

He was in a room that looked more like a room. “Whose room is this? The design is like the design of ancient times?” Shuwan surrounded the room, and was surprised to see a woman who looked so much like him sitting at his desk. This chick? Why is it so similar to me? Are we twins?

Shuwan walked up to the woman, “Hei, do you know where this is?” ask Shuwan. But the woman did not respond, and still focused on writing on paper. “Hey, did you hear me?” Shuwan made sure by trying to touch the woman's shoulder, and it turned out that he could not touch her. Shuwan's eyes widened, he shook. Am I really dead? Looks his eyes began to glaze over realizing the awkwardness on him.

“I'm sorry, Yin Lang. I can't keep our relationship. I just want you to stay alive.” Suddenly the woman said so, and shed tears.

Shuwan who saw it also became a piteous. “What is this? Why my heart hurts too. Who is this woman really? What does this have to do with me?”

The woman then inserts the letter she wrote at the foot of a letter-guiding eagle, and lets it fly to deliver the letter to its recipient.

After the incident, Shuwan suddenly moved. “Hah, where else am I now? It's really weird,” Shuwan is confused. Now he is on the river bank. He saw a young man in stature reading a letter. Shuwan also sees a female letter-delivery eagle that resembles him. “The cage! So, this young man is the recipient?”

“Shu’er, forgive me who is also helpless. If I were a powerful person, I would be able to make you happy. But I'm just an ordinary soldier. How could I possibly be worthy of standing with you? Shu’er, there is no other way for me, other than to let you go. Hopefully in the next life we can unite without but,” said the young man with tears dripping profusely. Shuwan felt sorry to see it.

“Are they lovers? What caused the two of them to end up like this? Shu’er.... Could it be a girl name similar to me earlier?” Shuwan sighed. His heart was confused not a bitch. Shuwan has not finished his confusion, again he moved out of nowhere. “Where else is this? It really feels like being in a movie. Is this a hidden magical power?” Shuwan.

Apparently Shuwan returned to the room where the woman who looked like him. The woman was sitting quietly at her study table, until someone knocked on her door. 

“Shu’er... Unlock door. It's dad.”

“After dad.” The woman walked to the door and opened it. “What's up, Dad? Why does your face look so cold?”

“My daughter, your wedding will be held in two days.”

“A-what? Why is it advancing so fast? Shouldn't it be two more weeks?”

“This is for your own good, Shu’er. Dad just doesn't want you to keep in touch with that Yin Lang guy. Ugh..”

“A-father...” Suddenly Shu’er's father fell down with a hand that squeezed his left chest. Shu’er who witnessed it panicked. “What happened to you dad?” Shu’er cried so badly.

Shuwan who saw the scene could only fall silent. There's nothing he can do right now. Of course until it is all over, and the mystery in his dream is revealed.

After taking the father to his room, Shu’er asked a healer to examine him. “Nona, the heart of the lord is troubled, and this is already very severe. I'm afraid that master can't survive any longer.” replied the healer with a voice that sounded vibrating.

Shu’er who heard the words of the healer was like he had just been struck by lightning. The father who loved him so much is now helpless. Although he had opposed his relationship with the warrior, Yin Lang, but he loved his father very much. Shu’er clasped his father's hand tightly. In the room, his mother and his sister were gathered.

“Shuwan, daughter..”.

Shuwan who was also there gasped to hear Shu’er's father calling his daughter.

“S-Shuwan? So then... Shu’er his real name is Shuwan? How could it be the same as my name? Moreover, he also has the exact same level as me. No. gabe.... No. gabe.... This must be just a coincidence. Or, it really has something to do with my past life. I can't confirm it now,” Shuwan who witnessed events after events became even more confused. 

“Kang Family? I hope this isn't what I imagined,” Shuwan tries to dismiss the old man's statement, hoping that the Zhang he's referring to isn't the Zhang who is accompanying his current mission.

“What did dad say? Dad must be healed. We can definitely continue together,” Shu’er said with a sob.

Shuwan's tears just trickled down, seeing the old man say to the other himself there. “Why.. Why are my tears also falling? My heart feels tight.”

“Shu’er, dad is old. Plus I have a disease. Isn't death a sure thing that all living things feel?” Shu’er's father then gently caressed her daughter's head. “Dad just wants you to live happily. After all, that son of the Zhang family also seems to like you. I'm sure he can look after and make you happy.”

“Iya, dad... I will definitely marry him, and live happily. So, you have to heal, and stay alive.” He said with a sigh of sadness.

Shu’er's father smiled after hearing her daughter's words.

Shuwan who had been listening was thrown back to another time. She saw herself dressed in bridal clothes, sitting in the bridal room waiting for her husband.

Kriet's....

The door opens, featuring a man in matching bridal attire. Shuwan who saw it was shocked. His eyes widened, his heart as if it had stopped beating instantly.

“This man... Why look like him?” Shuwan seemed to be in disbelief, that the man was very similar to Zhang. He just looked at it with a confused look. He continued to pay attention to what the two men would do in this room.

The man walked up to the wedding bed where Shu’er was waiting. He then opened the face covering Shu’er's face. When he found his wife crying, the man wiped Shu’er's tears. “Why are you crying? Are you afraid of me?” ask the man.

“Young Master Zhang, I-I just... I just wasn't ready to do it. If you want to have a successor, then I tell you that I am not ready for it yet,” Shu’er replied.

Hearing his wife's answer, the man surnamed Zhang was surprised. “So apparently. I won't force you to do it tonight. I'll wait for you until you're ready.”

“Thank you, for your understanding.”

The man smiled, then said, “Do not be too formal with me. Now I am your husband. I want to hear you call me ‘myamiku’ directly your mouth?”

“Su-husband..” Shu’er's face flushed in embarrassment. The young man smiled to see it. 

“But tonight I'll sleep here too. I don't want any rumors to corner you, if on the night our bride and groom don't spend the night together. You take it easy, I can still control myself. I won't do anything to you.”

That night Shu’er slept in the bed, while the man sat at the study table there. At midnight, the man approached Shu’er who was asleep behind a mosquito net. He fixed his wife's blanket, then sat down beside her, and gently stroked her face.

“Shuwan, you may not remember me. But I've always remembered you, even since I was a kid. I have liked you for a long time, until now it still feels the same. I hope, you can open your heart to me, and we can live a normal life like a married couple in general,” the man ended his words by giving a kiss good night to Shu’er who was asleep, and back to closing the slow.

So, she's been fond of Shu’er since childhood? Shuwan took it upon himself to witness the scene before his eyes. He saw the man surnamed Zhang still calmly sitting down, holding a brush and paper. Shuwan then approached her. “His dream Shu’er has really become his obsession,” chirped Shuwan after seeing a beautiful painting of a woman who named and looked the same as him.

Shuwan sat down next to the young man, watching him closely until he finished painting. He was very similar to Zhang. Actually, what is all this? Why do I have to see this? The feeling that is in my heart with what is happening really feels familiar. I wish I could solve this puzzle so that it all ends soon.