《Blood Sect Chronicles: Crimson Love Between War and Fate》
part 4
[– The Sect’s Secret Council Chamber]
Hidden deep below the Shanhe Sect’s eastern wing, a cold chamber lit by floating jade lanterns echoes with tense voices. Elders sit in a half-circle, robes stiff with righteousness.
Leader Shen minzi
We must proceed carefully. Liang Fenghua was once one of us.
Elder lu
Was!! leader shen...
Now he’s nothing more than a cursed remnant, animated by blood and hatred
Elder jiao
Still, our disciples whisper his name like he’s a deity of vengeance.
Some even revere him...
Elder lu
That’s exactly why he must be destroyed.
Before he becomes legend.
Leader Shen minzi
And what of Shen Yiren?
Elder lu
If he cannot cut down the devil, then he’s no better than the devil himself... He will be declared a rebel too!!
[ – Liang Fenghua’s Hideout, Beneath the Ruined Temple of Silent Sins]
Stone pillars wrapped in withered vines surround the underground crypt. A crimson ward pulses faintly on the floor. The ceiling drips water. Shadows dance like fireflies.
Liang Fenghua kneels shirtless by a blood sigil etched in ancient runes. Blood vessels glow faintly beneath his pale skin, like rivers of living curse..
Liang Fenghua
One more seal…
Then the wound is cover
A disembodied voice hisses through the air, born from the ward circle...
voice
Whispering Voice:
You’ll never be whole…
Not while he lives in the light.
Liang Fenghua
I don’t want his light..
voice
Liar..
You ache for him like the dead ache for breath!
Fenghua’s eyes glow crimson. He strikes the ward with his palm, breaking the sigil. Blood spits up like fire. The voice disappears in a wail...
[– On the Road to the Southern Ruins]
Shen Yiren walks beside a young disciple, Jiang Min, through a fog-drenched trail. Birdsong has vanished. Even the trees seem wary..
jiang min
Senior Shen… why do you keep following him?
Shen Yiren
Because I was there when they took him.
And I did nothing..
jiang min
But you were only seventeen…
Shen Yiren
(quietly)
Old enough to love him.
Old enough to know silence kills.
They reach a burned field. Bodies buried beneath. Yiren kneels before a shattered censer...
Shen Yiren
He was right. These were corrupt souls.
People the sect protected for favors..
jiang min
Do you… do you think Fenghua is punishing the sect?
Shen Yiren
I think he’s trying to make someone finally look...
[Dreamscape: The Night They Were Torn Apart]
A younger Shen Yiren clutches a bloodied Fenghua in his arms beneath the peach blossom trees. Sect soldiers tear him away. Fenghua screams his name as black chains wrap around his limbs..
young Liang Fenghua
Yiren! Look at me!
young shen yiren
I won’t let them—!
A palm strikes Yiren’s head. Darkness swallows him..
[– Present, Cangxue Temple’s Hidden Mirror Room]
The Priestess stands before an obsidian mirror. A reflection appears: Liang Fenghua feeding on a bandit lord in silence. It’s surgical, detached—no pleasure, no rage. Just necessity.
Cangxue Priestess
Emotionless… methodical.
This is not a demon born of frenzy.
It’s a man who has turned hunger into precision...
Acolyte
What do we do, Priestess?
Cangxue Priestess
We send a message to Shen Yiren.
Either he ends this…
Or we do...
[Forgotten Path Beneath Falling Stars]
Shen Yiren walks alone, torch flickering in the wind. A shadow drops from the cliffside behind him. No sound. No warning...
Liang Fenghua
You’re not very careful..
Shen Yiren
(calmly):
Only when you’re near..
Liang Fenghua
And if I was here to kill you?
Shen Yiren
Then I’d die with your name
Liang Fenghua
Why do you keep chasing ghosts?
Shen Yiren
Because ghosts remember what the living forget..
They walk side by side under the stars Peacefull night sky
Liang Fenghua
I found something. A truth buried under the Ye Clan’s ashes..
Liang Fenghua
They weren’t just bribing sect elders.
They were experimenting… with resurrection scrolls.
I was the test!!
Shen Yiren
…They killed you on purpose?
Liang Fenghua
They needed a soul tied to strong emotion.
And who better than someone who loved a disciple of the righteous path?
Shen Yiren
I’ll expose them..All of them....
Liang Fenghua
Too late They’re already dead I saw to it..
They stop near a frozen lake. Mist clings to the water like breath...
Shen Yiren
You wound...Did it hurts?
Liang Fenghua
(Bitter smile)
it's nothing in front of you give me
Every second
Every heartbeat I had to fake
Every drop of blood that wasn’t yours...
Shen Yiren
.....Then take it
He offers his wrist again. This time, no hesitation...
Shen Yiren
Take it fenghua...
You need this...
Liang Fenghua
If I drink from you, I won’t stop
Shen Yiren
......Then let it end here. With you and me...
Fenghua forcely grabs his neck,and placed his lips on his skin slowly, reverently. Fangs pierce skin. Shen Yiren doesn’t flinch. Blood flows, soft and warm. The world holds its breath...
[Aftermath]
Liang Fenghua pulls away, dazed. Blood stains his lips..
Liang Fenghua
You… taste the same...
Shen Yiren
Good...
Then maybe I haven’t changed either!
They stand in the quiet. Moonlight reflects in both of their eyes—red in one, silver in the other...
Scrolls are passed. Orders sealed. A decree declared:
"Liang Fenghua, once of Shanhe Sect, now marked demon.
Shen Yiren, if found conspiring, shall face equal judgment."
The war has begun. But for Yiren and Fenghua, it was always only ever about one thing:
Each other...
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