"Zi Xia, big sister. Why?"
Jiang Xin's mind went blank.
She couldn't believe anything she saw, and she couldn't believe anything she heard.
"A Xin." Zi Xia smiled, but her smile looked more like a sob. "In this world, how many things really have a why?"
Zi Xia drew a deep breath and looked at Jiang Xin calmly. Her eyes held a trace of pity.
"From the very beginning, I saved you because your Root Bone was decent. You could be used to make pills and help my master break through into the Nascent Soul Realm.
"To me, you were just one of the ingredients for a pill from the start!
"Before you, I had already brought back seventy or eighty boys and girls to Danyang Sect and refined them into pill after pill."
"No..."
Jiang Xin shook her head with all her might.
"I could feel it. You truly cared for us, Zi Xia, big sister. When you were with us, you were genuinely happy."
"Heh." Zi Xia let out two cold laughs. "So what if I was? What if I wasn't? Sometimes, being with you really did let me forget what I had to do. But it was only temporary."
"What does it matter if I pitied you? I still killed you all."
Zi Xia stared at Jiang Xin, her eyes narrowing.
"A Xin, I know you're different from the others. You can see other people's emotions and hear their thoughts, but you can only hear them when you focus your attention on someone.
"So I kept adjusting my emotions and hiding my thoughts, making sure not to be alone with you.
"That day, you happened to go up the mountain to gather herbs. I couldn't be bothered to catch you at first.
"But I never expected you