Believe Me, This Won't Be Our Ending (VI)

"Mm, yes. I'm right here."

"So you have to promise me you'll live too. Otherwise, you'll be the one admitting defeat in our bet. Besides, you still have the Soul Beasts to take care of. Don't come looking for me so soon." Luo Ze spoke with a smile, though his heart was filled with indescribable bitterness.

He had finally recovered the emotions only humans could possess, yet he was about to give them up so easily. He truly couldn't bear to let go... couldn't bear to...

"Then let's make another bet. Guess what expression you'll have the next time you see me?" Gu Yue Na's tone subtly changed. Her pale violet eyes brimmed with an emotion Luo Ze could not understand, yet somehow found familiar.

"Don't. What's past is past. You can't keep immersing yourself in fantasies. Facing reality and pressing forward is what you should do, my dear wife."

Luo Ze had practically laid everything bare. He hoped Gu Yue Na would not care too much about whether he lived or died. It was enough for her to care about herself. Nothing else mattered; everything would follow the course of fate.

"Believe me, this won't be our ending."

As though he had sensed something, Luo Ze vaguely saw another figure within Gu Yue Na—a person only he had ever met, that person he had seen in the Lost Land...

"Gu Yue, what exactly are you—?"

"What's wrong with me? Was what I said incorrect? It's a blessing for the beautiful future of the two of us, dear." Gu Yue Na replied with a smile, but the arms around him tightened more and more, as unchangeable as her resolve.

For an instant, Luo Ze seemed to see the possibility that the future could be changed. Yet that image was just