I sighed, set my backpack aside, and said softly, "Maybe I really did have a younger sister. But judging from the situation, she's probably no longer alive."
"There was nothing we could do about that," Liu Ling'er said.
I wandered through the ancient building and discovered many details I had never noticed before. It gradually dawned on me that my past had not been simple at all.
What secret had Grandma concealed until the day she died?
Who had taken away my missing memories?
At that moment, I shook my head, simply sat down on the floor, and slowly closed my eyes. When I opened them again, I had arrived in a grand hall. A woman was standing there, looking at me.
"It's been a long time since I last saw you," the woman said.
"You've lived for five thousand years, so you must know a great many things. I want to know whether there's a way in this world to bring the dead back to life," I said.
"Of course there is, but it requires an enormous price," the woman said.
"Take me there," I said.
The woman then brought me to a library, where I casually picked up a book and began reading. After a while, I said despondently, "So there really is a spell in this world that can bring the dead back to life. But why is this spell so demanding?"
"To keep one person alive, someone else must make the sacrifice," the woman said.
I said nothing. Tears streamed down my face, and only after a while did I say, "I finally understand why you were willing to give up everything and lose it all just to give me the Power of Reincarnation—and why you gave up your chance to be reborn."
"Because, in my