As Long as They Kill Me, Will That Be Enough?

A fine rain pattered down.

It was exactly the color of the Blood Moon overhead.

Mountains of corpses, seas of blood, and stark white bones.

Countless scenes were projected by the rules...

The misery of flesh and blood crushed to pieces beneath the Era Millstone during the Famine Years.

A cultivator who sought enlightenment by murdering his wife and slaughtering his children, all humanity extinguished.

A man remembered the kindness of a single meal, only to kill his benefactor with his own hands years later. His reason? He had always hated the way other people looked down on him.

What a laughable, pitiful sight.

The deepest darkness in countless human hearts took shape under the rules, appearing before my eyes one scene at a time...

These scenes were not inventions.

They had happened before, or were happening even now.

"Senior Sister."

"Can I ask you something?"

I lay draped over Ye Qingxian's shoulder, my voice as limp as my body.

"Mm. Go ahead."

"Does the evil in this world have a source? A reason?"

Ye Qingxian was silent for a moment. "No."

"Evil can arise out of nothing."

"Two people had never crossed paths. Then one suddenly killed the other. When asked why, he said he no longer wanted to live, but was a little afraid of killing himself. So he had picked someone at random to murder and waited for society to punish him."

I looked at her, then suddenly reached out with my little hands and grabbed her cheeks from both sides.

"So."

"Darkness was always destined to exist."

"Just as wherever there is light, there is darkness."

"If that's true."

"Then as the Princess born from darkness."

"Is there nothing I can do to change any of this?"

"If darkness can't be ended, then what is the