Afterword

"So, we're lonely again."

In some corner of the Divine Realm, Yi Qing sat quietly beside her lover, gazing contentedly at the flowers she had planted by the cliff.

"Do you feel lonely, Yi Qing?"

Xuan Sheng turned his head toward his wife and studied her expression. Having returned to an ordinary flesh-and-blood body, he observed his companion's demeanor.

The living beings he had once created because he could not endure that loneliness...

Yet now, Xuan Sheng could no longer feel the slightest trace of boredom or tedium.

Having Yi Qing by his side was already enough to calm his heart.

However—this had been his decision, after all. Xuan Sheng needed to make sure Yi Qing was also at peace with their current life.

"Just a little bored."

Seeing her lover casually cast the hook and toss the long fishing line into the water, Yi Qing hugged her knees and waited for something to bite.

"What about those children?"

"Which children?"

"The twisted children..."

They had all turned into fragments beneath the warm radiance... Everything had been like that.

Yi Qing did not quite understand. That paranoid evil god was...

"They've left completely."

He had made up for the mistakes he had once committed.

Xuan Sheng's heart no longer held any regrets.

"They died?"

"You could say that."

A trace of amusement rose in his smile as Xuan Sheng recalled what he had done.

All the muddled consciousnesses had been purified.

He had indeed erased those frenzied thoughts with his own hands.

He had purified and dispersed the child's thoughts...

But that did not mean it had died completely.

"In any case, there won't be any more problems."

Xuan Sheng nodded firmly, thoroughly satisfied with his handling of things.

Whether it was that twisted child...

Or the future...

"There won't