Wang Yuanyu: "?? What are ji mei, inner layers, and lightning avoidance?"
Qi Yuan's modern-day remarks made black lines form over Wang Yuanyu's head. She could not understand a word.
However, Wang Nian had told her that these bloodline bearers came from the Land of Termination. They were people on the verge of death, so it was normal for them to know some strange language.
"This... is a meme." Qi Yuan gave a brief explanation. "Ji mei means sisters, and inner layers are..."
After hearing him out, Wang Yuanyu's face beneath the black bag turned crimson. "Pervert! Who's sisters with you!"
"Not bad. You've learned to catch the meme." Qi Yuan smiled, then continued, "Since this world is false, and in your eyes I'm false too, what's wrong with looking at your inner layers? I don't exist anyway."
"No!" Wang Yuanyu said heavily. Then, as if she had suddenly thought of something, she froze. In an instant, she seemed to understand something.
There had never been a boundary between illusion and reality.
Or rather, did truth and falsehood even matter?
What mattered was one's own heart.
Seeing Wang Yuanyu like this, Qi Yuan seemed to recall something. "The way you are now reminds me of a famous saying: I think, therefore I am.
"Even if I am an illusion in your eyes, if I believe I am real, then... I am real."
Wang Yuanyu looked at Qi Yuan, and more than half of her previous melancholy dispersed.
At first, when she heard Wang Nian say that the Mountains and Seas Scroll was false and had been created by East Monarch, she had felt deeply dazed.
Did that not mean everything she had experienced in her life was but a dream?
Now that she heard Qi Yuan put it this way,