-"Where did Zai Jiu's Yitong go?"
The smile on Su Yitong's face earlier flashed through Yu Xunge's mind. She probably knew where it had come from now.
To Su Yitong, that one question was worth more than a thousand words.
Why had Maple Sugar kept her around despite knowing she was Su Yitong, not Feng Mu?
Perhaps it was because the end of the world was right before them, things kept happening one after another, and she was too busy.
Perhaps it was because she knew nothing could be undone.
Or perhaps Maple Sugar truly could not distinguish Zai Jiu's Yitong from Zelan's Feng Mu...
But after that question, none of those past doubts mattered anymore.
Even if Maple Sugar would still bring Feng Mu back without hesitation whenever she had the chance, even if Su Yitong was only an inferior substitute to Maple Sugar...
This moment was enough.
Su Yitong's emotional needs had always been that slight. To her, power and status were equivalent to love. Other forms of love were like the chocolate hidden in the tip of an ice cream cone: finding it brought surprise and happiness, but what she had wanted most in the first place was the ice cream.
The two fell silent for a while, until Zai Jiu Yitong's figure disappeared completely around the street corner.
"I never knew your dream was to save the living beings of the Star Sea." Maple Sugar skipped over that extraordinarily tender topic of her own accord and asked, "I inspected your previous God-Bestowed Talent. It was called [One-Man Party], right? Are you planning to drag everyone into your party now?"
Maple Sugar's tone was so calm that, for a moment, Yu Xunge actually could not be sure whether she was mocking her.
But she still answered seriously,