Blood Gu Eerie still looked the same as she did in his memories.
She was still that eerie girl in a dark crimson rose dress, but now, her eyes were filled with a dim grayness utterly devoid of emotion.
She looked at Ji Yan and spoke softly. "You're back."
Although he knew this Blood Gu Eerie was not the one from his timeline, seeing her still left Ji Yan with complicated feelings, rendering him speechless for a moment.
"I should thank you. Because of you, I was able to become the Red King and possess my father's estate forever."
Blood Gu Eerie raised a hand, and Bai Liangshen hurriedly and respectfully handed her the Oil Paper Joy Umbrella.
Holding the paper umbrella and staring at its vivid red color, Blood Gu Eerie's eyes grew distant. "When you chose that sister who wielded this umbrella and abandoned me, I had actually expected it from the start."
"But I still held onto a sliver of hope."
"I hoped you would take me away with you as well."
"But in the end, not only was I inferior to that sister, I was not even worth that reward. For that reward, you stripped away my 'spine' and completely reduced me to a tool ruled by the Eerie Dao."
"You 'sold' me to the Eerie Dao for your own selfish desires."
Hearing Blood Gu Eerie's words, Burning Death Eerie was stunned as well. He turned to Ji Yan in disbelief. "Fuck, were you really that inhuman back then?"
Ji Yan: "..."
Ji Yan knew that the label of "villain" branded onto him could never be removed, and he could not be bothered to explain.
At that moment, he stared at Blood Gu Eerie. What caught his attention even more was a mask hanging from her