Then Show Me

Silence descended upon the ruins once more.

As if Ophelia's words had corroded everything in the area, returning all things to utter stillness.

And what Ophelia's words had corroded was not merely her surroundings, but her own heart as well.

—"Fate."

Because of it, the girl before him had abandoned everything and chosen to drift with the current.

Fang Li suddenly understood something Sylvia had once said.

Sylvia had said that, for some reason, this Lonely Poison Witch would only ever obey the King of Wickedness without question.

Yet that was not obedience without question. She had merely cast away all her own will and numbly followed the arrangements of others.

Therefore, whether this person was truly Diluk or not did not matter at all.

To Ophelia, Diluk was merely someone who pointed the way to fate. Nothing more.

"Heh..."

Fang Li suddenly laughed.

Ophelia raised her pitifully beautiful face and looked toward Fang Li.

Her eyes still held nothing but grief.

Her voice was still heartbreaking to hear.

Only doubt stirred within her heart.

"What is so funny?"

For the first time, emotion entered her words.

At that question, Fang Li glanced at Ophelia.

"No one can shatter it?"

Fang Li spoke with the calmness that Ophelia found so detestable.

"If you mean that you yourself cannot shatter it, then that is another matter."

"But you said no one can shatter it?"

At last, a trace of mockery entered Fang Li's voice.

"If you want to give up, that is your business. If you are powerless against your own fate, that is your business too. But could you please not deny everyone else's potential?"

"Your own incompetence does not mean everyone else is the same, you know?"

"—Lonely Poison Witch."

Fang Li's words finally made Ophelia's lovely brows draw