The Glory After Rebirth [重生之尊荣]

Chapter 406- 408

Chapter 406: The Imperial Wedding (4)

The moment Yuwen Tong walked into the courtyard and sighted Ling Zhang, all his unease and anxiety slowly ebbed away, tension consuming him like never before. As though everything and everybody else around him had suddenly disappeared, he could only see the person opposite him, who, wearing the wedding robes he'd tried on the other day, was standing in sunlight, every inch of the robes so becoming and so enthralling as though the beauty of them were bewitching his heart and mind.

Ling Zhang quietly stood still where he was, watching Yuwen Tong making towards him, also unable to see anybody else.

Yuwen Tong walked closer to Ling Zhang step by step. As he saw that Ling Zhang was gazing squarely at him with only his reflection in his eyes, his mind was occupied by the thought that the whole being of this person in front of him belonged to him now, his heart hammering madly, its every beat making his eardrums throb. He could feel his heart pounding more violently with every step he took towards Ling Zhang, as if only by walking up to Ling Zhang would he be redeemed.

The morning breeze lifted the hem of Ling Zhang's scarlet wedding robes, which were fluttering. The red silk ribbons attached to Ling Zhang's headwear were flying, entrancing Yuwen Tong further with their every flutter. Such was the beauty of Ling Zhang on this day that Yuwen Tong was entranced. Although he had once seen Ling Zhang in these robes, he was still fascinated at this moment. This kind of beauty was a combination of masculinity and femininity. Yuwen Tong had never seen this side of Ling Zhang before, so impressed by his charm that he involuntarily held his breath, but his heart was racing faster with every beat.

Likewise, in Ling Zhang's eyes, Yuwen Tong looked so handsome on this day that he was unable to bring himself back to his senses for quite a while. The two of them clearly had tried on their wedding robes in the imperial bedchamber the other day, and they'd known beforehand how they looked in their wedding robes, but they felt that on this day something was different, that the visual stimuli were exceptionally intense. On that day Ling Zhang had stared unblinkingly at Yuwen Tong because the latter had looked so handsome in the wedding robes that he'd been unable to take his eyes off him, but on this day, apart from handsomeness, there was also something else about Yuwen Tong, something that even Ling Zhang himself found inexplicable, something that was making his heartbeat quicken. If he was to describe it with words, he would say it was probably destiny.

The destiny that had brought him and Yuwen Tong together.

His father had once told him that in his last incarnation, although Yuwen Tong had never met him, and the two of them had never been in love, Yuwen Tong had still avenged the massacre of the Ling family by killing Zhang Chong and members of the Jia family; afterward, Yuwen Tong had spent the rest of his life in the north-west like a warlord and never married. Their paths had been supposed to cross, but what with the woeful fate of the Ling family, the two of them had missed the opportunity to meet, which had resulted in his early death and Yuwen Tong's lifelong bachelordom. After he was reborn and started this incarnation, because of a misunderstanding, he'd decided to call off the engagement to Yuwen Tong on his own account; the Ling family's butler had set off to the capital city to deliver the Letter of Revocation but had chanced upon Yuwen Tong halfway there; Yuwen Tong, after being informed of the existence of the engagement, had gone to Tanyang of his own accord and thus their paths had crossed. Afterward, Yuwen Tong had helped him get his revenge, ridding the Ling family of the threat from their foes, ensuring the Ling family's safety. All this struck Ling Zhang as a cosmic plan.

It was as though his rebirth had been meant to make sure he crossed paths with Yuwen Tong. The convergence of their paths had changed the Ling family's fate, his fate, Yuwen Tong's fate, and even the fate of everybody in this country. Sometimes Ling Zhang really couldn't help but wonder whether or not it'd been because something had gong awry in his last incarnation that had caused their paths, which had been meant to cross, to fail to cross, but this destiny still stood. Providence had given him a chance of rebirth and he'd seized it, and now they had walked into each other's lives.