Chang Nian did not dare speak. She merely looked at her husband, whom she had regained after losing him, her eyes filled with trust.
After their long and painful separation, her gaze now seemed exceptionally resolute as she allowed Tong Guan to pull her by the hand and run upstairs.
From the Tenth Floor to the eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth...
During that time, she did not say a word or ask anything. She simply watched in silence.
Compared to Chang Nian, Tong Guan had to bear the immense pressure brought by the truth.
This path was his "Yellow Springs Road." Though the comparison was not entirely fitting, since he should have died long ago, in a sense, it was indeed so.
When Tong Guan had died was no longer important. What mattered was that only by being dismembered now and jumping into the Giant Furnace could he save Chang Nian.
His life had always been trapped by all kinds of emotions.
Throughout his twenty-five years of life, he had remained caught in the Supernatural Incident surrounding his parents' disappearance, unable to escape it, until it eventually became a dead end.
Tong Guan had come to Heavenly Sea because of his parents, but he was leaving because of Chang Nian.
He deeply regretted meeting and falling in love with Chang Nian, then dragging her into the cycle of fate. Now, his only wish was to make amends.
Tong Guan believed that since he had become a ghost because of his obsession, he would inevitably turn completely into a murderous ghost once that obsession was resolved.
His life had already ended. This little bit of clarity he retained now was already a gift from "Heaven."
Fortunately, after clerks died during this mission and became ghosts, their obsessions remained. That gave him time to