After the Queen Mother of the West's figure vanished completely, Jialan remained silently kneeling on the ground, not rising for a long time.
Looking at the blue-clad figure abandoned before the Pill Hall, everyone felt somewhat helpless. Although Jialan had not spent long with them, the girl was indeed quite lovable. They did not know what had happened; they only knew that Jialan seemed to have been expelled from Yaochi because of Lin Qiye...
At once, the looks they gave Lin Qiye turned hostile, every one of them staring at him like he was a scumbag.
Lin Qiye let out a long sigh and walked up to Jialan. Her face, streaked with tears like rain on pear blossoms, immediately came into view.
"Do you hate me?" Lin Qiye asked softly.
Jialan glared fiercely at him, then slammed a pale fist heavily into his chest and cried out through her tears:
"I told you not to save me, not to save me... but you just had to use the chance to shove the Immortal Pill into my mouth! Look what happened now, even Her Majesty doesn't want me anymore! You bastard, bastard, bastard, bastard..."
Jialan's fists fell on Lin Qiye like raindrops. Lin Qiye did not dodge, simply letting her pound on him for a long while without uttering a word.
After quite some time, Jialan lowered her head and looked at her fist, reddened from the impact, and cried even more bitterly.
"Feel better now?" Lin Qiye asked.
"No!" Jialan wiped away her tears and punched Lin Qiye again, silently hiding her twitching hand behind her back.
"I know you gave me the Immortal Pill because you wanted to save me... but I'm only a Soul Pearl. My duty was only to serve Her Majesty. Aside from occasionally shooting arrows