Yu Xunge deftly filled a small bottle with Youwo's Variation Quicksand. She tossed the bottle in her hand now and then, her gaze unfocused, her thoughts unknown.
Tulan looked at her in confusion. When Yu Xunge had first come to collect Youwo's Variation Quicksand, she had still felt a trace of anger and the satisfaction of revenge. Yet gradually, those feelings had faded, turning into hesitation and helplessness.
Was it because reason and her nature had gained the upper hand, and Yu Xunge had finally come to her senses and decided to stop meddling?
Tulan's question pulled Yu Xunge out of her thoughts. She shook her head. "No, I just suddenly realized something...
"Youwo is afraid of seeing Qihua too."
Just as she had thought before, if Qihua went to see Youwo, she would be going to see the part of herself she had buried. That would mean Qihua had reconciled with her past, that she had forgiven Lighthouse Youwo for sacrificing all the Fragrant Branches.
That was absolutely not the Qihua Youwo wanted to see!
The moment Qihua appeared at Youwo's Burial Ground would be the moment she completely withered, faded, and even rotted away in Lighthouse Youwo's heart.
What a contradiction...
Day after day, Youwo waited for someone she did not want to reunite with at all.
More than anyone else, she feared seeing Qihua in her own time.
And the answer Yu Xunge brought would not upset Lighthouse Youwo. Instead, it would make her even more fanatical and convince her that the choice she had made back then was right.
If she really put the three hundred-odd bottles of Variation Quicksand she had painstakingly collected in front of Youwo and told her that Qihua had not come to see her in any timeline, wouldn't Youwo burst out