What did it mean to lock away her heart and forsake love?
What did it mean to be as lifeless as withered wood?
Don't joke around!
All life would find its own way out!
At this moment, Little Angel had merely suffered a blow too terrifying to bear.
She simply couldn't accept it for the time being.
"Perhaps there really are parents in this world who don't love their children!"
"But Bibi Dong isn't one of them!"
"The reason she treated you so cruelly from childhood until now!"
"Was simply because her hatred for your father ran far too deep!"
"Whenever she saw you, she would remember the life she had spent locked away by your father in that sunless Secret Chamber!"
"So it isn't that she doesn't love you. It's more like... she doesn't dare face you!"
"After all, your birth came from her nightmare!"
"On top of that, over the past decade or so, she obtained the Rakshasa God's inheritance."
"Her thoughts were constantly being eroded and torn apart by the Rakshasa God's divine will."
"The Rakshasa God is the mortal enemy of your family's Angel God."
"The deity who governs all wicked thoughts and evil intentions!"
"Once Bibi Dong became Its inheritor, the malice, resentment, and hatred in her heart would all be amplified without limit!"
"If she truly hated you and didn't love you, then under those circumstances, she should have killed you long ago!"
"Perhaps you don't know this, but when she received the Rakshasa God's inheritance, it was actually when your father died! You were nine years old then!"
Gu Changge paused at that point.
The numb, vacant look on Qian Renxue's face faded considerably.
"You know what Bibi Dong's talent is like."
Gu Changge continued, "With her Twin Martial Souls, once she reached the realm of a Title Douluo!"
"Even though your grandfather Qian Daoliu is a level ninety-nine Limit Douluo, he was no longer that much of a threat to her!"
"Because once she gathered all nine Spirit Rings for her second martial soul, her cultivation might not be inferior to your grandfather's!"
"Furthermore, she is the inheritor of the Rakshasa God, who stands opposed to your family's Angel God."
"If she truly went all out, then even though your grandfather is the Angel God's guardian, he might not be her match!"
"So think carefully. When you were nine and came up with the idea of infiltrating the Heaven Dou Empire as a spy to seize the Heaven Dou Empire—"
"Did you truly come up with it yourself, or was it born under Bibi Dong's influence?"
This time, Gu Changge did not spell everything out for her.
Instead, he guided Qian Renxue and let her think it through herself.
Then, Qian Renxue's expression finally came alive completely. "Going to the Heaven Dou Empire... was that something she deliberately guided and arranged?"
"If it wasn't your own idea, then it must have been something she guided and arranged!"
Gu Changge smiled as he spoke.
"But why would she do that?"
Qian Renxue's face was filled with complicated emotions. "Was it just to send me far away, so she wouldn't have to see me?"
"Is there a possibility that sending you away was actually meant to protect you?"
Gu Changge offered a different perspective. "As I said before, your birth came from her nightmare. So even if she loved you, whenever she saw you, she would involuntarily recall that sunless Secret Chamber, and all kinds of painful, desperate, and indignant anger would arise within her!"
"If those emotions came from herself alone, it wouldn't have been much of a problem. At worst, she would have treated you a little badly!"
"But don't forget, when you were nine, she began the Rakshasa God Trial, which represents malice, resentment, and hatred!"
"Under the Rakshasa God's erosion and influence, all negative emotions would be amplified to the greatest extent possible!"
"So when she deliberately guided you to the Heaven Dou Empire and sent you away from her sight—"
"Is it possible that she feared that, under the Rakshasa God's influence, she might do something to you that she would regret for the rest of her life?"
Gu Changge's words echoed in Qian Renxue's heart.
They sent unprecedented waves crashing through her emotions once more.
So that was it!
She had loved her after all.
It was only because of those reasons that she couldn't face her.
But Father had died by her hand—
Qian Renxue felt her heart twist painfully again and again.
She had clearly received the answer she wanted.
Yet she couldn't feel happy in the slightest.
Gu Changge watched her complicated expression.
Without needing to say anything, he could guess what she was thinking.
"In the ending I saw, you two eventually reconciled. She traded her life for yours."
Gu Changge's words were like a blade plunging into the deepest part of Qian Renxue's heart.
She cried!
Little Angel broke down in tears once again, unable to control herself.
"Why?"
"Why are you telling me this?"
"Even if I know she loves me now, what use is that?"
"My father ultimately died by her hand."
"What do you want me to do?"
"What can I do under these circumstances?"
Qian Renxue collapsed completely once more, from the inside out.
Dugu Bo and the others felt a little sorry for her after watching Gu Changge's maneuver.
Even when killing someone, you should at least leave them their dignity.
How could this kid keep chasing after her just to twist the knife?
Yet Gu Changge showed no reaction to the situation before him.
He quietly watched Qian Renxue.
"I actually have another version of the answer."
"One that can explain all the unreasonable parts!"
"And can also answer how you should face Bibi Dong now!"
"Do you want to hear it?"
Qian Renxue raised her head.
Dugu Bo and the others immediately pricked up their ears as well.
But this time, Qian Renxue did not answer directly.
Instead, with tears in her eyes, she asked, "Would this answer be a good one for me?"
"Both good and bad!"
Gu Changge said, "But the good definitely outweighs the bad. The only thing you'll have to give up is the righteous and honorable image your father Qian Xunji left in your childhood memories!"
Qian Renxue's heart trembled, and her voice instantly choked up. "Do you even want to take away the only trace of beauty in my life?"
If there had been any beautiful time in her life at all,
it was probably when her father Qian Xunji was still alive.
But from what Gu Changge had said,
it seemed that he did not even intend to leave her that tiny bit of beauty.
Gu Changge said helplessly, "Don't make me sound so cruel. I won't deny that the happiness you enjoyed while your father Qian Xunji was alive was real!"
"But aren't you also curious what kind of blindness Bibi Dong must have had to fall for trash like Yu Xiaogang?"
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