"Li Xuanxiao!" the girl suddenly spoke softly.
"You are... Ruyan?" Li Xuanxiao said in surprise.
Liu Ruyan nodded. "It's me. You still remember me."
Fragments of memories that did not belong to Li Xuanxiao flooded into his mind.
Liu Ruyan, his Childhood Sweetheart.
They had once been betrothed.
Later, Liu Ruyan's family moved away, and the two were separated.
This was Liu Ruyan's divine ability as the mistress of Happy Tower.
She could implant a memory that did not belong to someone into their mind.
Naturally, those memories had to fit together seamlessly and were subject to many restrictions, or mistakes could easily arise.
Without those restrictions, Liu Ruyan could directly tamper with someone's memories. There would be no need to go through such trouble.
The side effect was that once it was used on someone—
Even Liu Ruyan herself would become immersed in those memories, sometimes even believing them to be real.
"Brother Xuanxiao, I finally found you," Liu Ruyan said delightedly.
"Found me?"
Inside a restaurant.
Liu Ruyan was telling Li Xuanxiao about her experiences over the past few years.
Liu Ruyan had been forced into marriage and was to wed the sect master of the Flowing Water Sect.
Unwilling to marry that old man, Liu Ruyan had run away on her own.
Hearing that Li Xuanxiao had become a Shushan Disciple, she had rushed all the way here specifically to find him.
"The sect master of the Flowing Water Sect?"
"An old man."
Liu Ruyan lay sprawled across the table, then suddenly lifted her head, her bright eyes fixed on Li Xuanxiao.
"I don't want to marry him~"
Li Xuanxiao looked into her beautiful eyes and smiled faintly.
He could not help sighing inwardly. A girl changed beyond recognition as she grew.
No, that was not