Chapter Ninety-Seven A spirit of heroic resolve flows unceasingly (I)
Word Number：236
Author：一曲雨霖铃
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Release Time：2025-10-08
Though fortune and misfortune be beyond mortal guess, who among men would willingly seek but to be a tool? Though skulls, when beheld, bring not sorrow, why should the sacrificial elephant be deemed a wooden bane? Now it must be told: ever since the runners of the Court of Judicial Review had visited the Academy, strange events thereafter ensued. One day, during the hour of calligraphy instruction, the master came not for long; the students, knowing not the cause, fell into idle talk. Matters of court and hall, affairs of the rivers and lakes, and even the children of households, all became subjects of their tongues. At this time, Lin Wanyan, resting her chin upon her hand, gazed out through the window at raindrops soaking the crabapple blossoms. Suddenly, she heard beside her the voice of Zhang Xiao: “What avails to look and look again? The past cannot be held, the future cannot be seized, why cling so painfully to this fleeting eve?” Turning back, she saw it was indeed Zhang Xiao, with Li Chenghao by her side. Li Chenghao’s heart was struck by the words, and confusion filled his breast; thus he lowered his head in silence, murmuring within: “Yet affection hath entered my heart, and she entereth my dreams—these things, all of them, are beyond my will to command!” Lin Wanyan, perceiving Li Chenghao’s cheeks flushed red, knew his plight. To
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