Zhong Yi's illusory world.
Beneath the blue-purple starry sky, the girl clutched the doll tightly to her chest. For the first time, colors other than moonlight and starlight appeared in her upturned eyes.
Lin Xi smiled softly.
Zhong Yi sobbed fiercely.
His tears streamed out without stopping. No matter how he wiped them, he could not wipe them dry.
The story was already enough to bring tears to anyone's eyes. Now, with both the BGM and the Fearful Soul Entanglement Array enhancing it, its impact was devastating.
Watching Lin Xi's retreating figure, Zhong Yi could almost see the years that followed: the girl sitting alone in the moonlight, holding that ugly little doll, waiting yearningly for someone who could never come to keep his promise...
For Lin Xi, who had shut herself away inside and struggled to communicate with others, how agonizing must that torment have been?
Beside him, Qin Lien silently wiped the corners of her eyes, her lips paling beneath the pressure of her own teeth.
"I think I know why 'Anya' matters so much to her now..."
Qin Lien pointed to the clearing below the cliff.
"This is where the lighthouse would later be built..."
"Lin Xi insisted on making her home on Perilous Mountain and gave the lighthouse that name... all to commemorate the promise they made that night."
At those words, Zhong Yi's tears spilled over again.
In that instant, he suddenly understood why, no matter what they did, they could never plant the seed of "joining the Nine Heavens Sect" in Gu Yun's youth.
Because, from beginning to end, what Gu Yun wanted was neither to join the Nine Heavens Sect nor to go to the Moon Realm.
"S-so..."
Zhong Yi choked on his sobs.
"The place Gu Yun really wanted to go wasn't