Today's first update: Chapter 2337! 1/4!
Tai Si's answer contained no obvious flaws. Everything was perfectly logical.
After hearing it, Xu Kun could empathize with her.
The only loophole was...
"Was he still himself in your eyes?"
That question undoubtedly tore open the deepest scar buried within Tai Si's heart.
After Xu Kun asked it, Tai Si covered her face and wept, consumed by anguish.
"I was wrong. I was truly wrong. I shouldn't have arrogantly and selfishly stripped away everything from his past life and sealed it within my Phoenix Core."
Tai Si finally opened up, recounting the story that had weighed on her heart for countless years.
What she meant was that Ji Chang had been reborn in this life with a similar body, without needing to pay the price of losing his memories...
No, more accurately, this was not a price, because this Ji Chang, apart from his body, fate, and name, had no connection to the Ji Chang of that bygone era.
He was something like... a clone.
The difference between a clone and the original lay in the different experiences they underwent as they grew.
To put it plainly, the two might walk similar paths due to fate, but in the end, they were merely similar. Some things would be missing, while others would be added.
The essential difference was that they did not possess identical memories.
Tai Si understood that difference all too well. The one she loved was him from back then, not this man nurtured by Human Race Luck in this life, who resembled him yet was not him.
To change all this, either Ji Chang had to endure the decline of the great era, like the many ancient gods and the Phoenix Race members who had condensed Phoenix Cores. That