"Auntie, why are you so worked up? I haven't done anything outrageous to you, have I? Besides, even if I'm a substitute, I was still constructed from your thoughts. I exist because of you in the first place, so how could I be lumped in with the bad guys? Auntie, do you have some misunderstanding about me?" I smiled faintly.
My probing remark immediately darkened Xia Canglan's expression. "Shut up! You dare say you were constructed from my thoughts, but have you ever respected what I thought because of that? If your consciousness itself was formed from my thoughts, how could it be like yours, harboring improper intentions toward me?!"
"I harbor improper intentions toward you? Then in your previous life, as my elder, you should have advised and admonished me step by step. In this life, as my junior, you could also have spoken frankly and denounced my mistakes, couldn't you? What, are you saying I wasn't part of your impression of me, or that I failed to satisfy your expectations and broke free of your image of me, thus making you disgusted with me?" I smiled with my hands behind my back.
"You! It's my fault too. My memories from my previous life weren't complete. Even after I recovered countless memories in later lives, it was still difficult to sort them all out and form a complete loop. That caused deviations in my thoughts and created a monster like you! I admit that in my later lives, I truly had several hazy, unclear thoughts about Xia Yitian, but that was Xia Yitian, not you. Yet on the level of our very first life, we were aunt and nephew with deep blood ties!" Xia Canglan frowned as she explained herself, but when she reached the end, she paused, as