By the island's edge, their lips remained pressed together for a long, long time. Lin Su's hand traced the enticing curves several times before their lips finally parted. Misty rain filled Yuan Ji's eyes.
"Wife, there's something I don't know whether it'll affect us..."
"You wanted to say that you killed my mother?" Yuan Ji said.
Lin Su: "..."
Yuan Ji smiled softly. "First, my mother isn't here. Even if you slaughtered everyone outside clean, you couldn't harm a single hair on her head. Second... second..."
"What's the second point?"
"The second point is... I said it just now. On Fireworks Island, every emotion from the course of one's life unfolds before one's eyes. I view them from a detached perspective, and that includes her. I saw her entire life, and I also saw the look in my father's eyes that day..."
Having said this much, Yuan Ji did not continue.
Her chest rose and fell lightly.
When she had been panting in Lin Su's arms just now, her chest had not risen and fallen like this. But now it did.
Lin Su looked at her profile, his heart suddenly bright as snow.
She understood, after all!
On this Fireworks Island, she had understood everything. Perhaps she had understood long ago, but trapped by the rope of mother-daughter affection, she had always chosen not to understand.
Now, she truly understood.
She knew what kind of person her mother was.
She even knew that before her father died, the last person he looked at had actually been her mother. Her father's gaze had been presented from another angle on Fireworks Island, and she had read the disappointment and sorrow in his eyes.
She knew that her father's true enemy was her mother!
It was her mother who had caused her father's