(A quick explanation for the slower updates lately: as you can all see, the story is almost finished, with no more than another hundred thousand Chinese characters to go. It hasn't been easy to take a yuri novel to 1.3 or 1.4 million characters, so I want to let things settle for a while and write the most perfect ending I can.)
Behind us.
Stood a great hall in the midst of collapsing.
I stood at the edge of the ruins.
Fragments of rock rained down from above.
Kicking up dust all over the ground.
It could truly be called a Secret Realm within the Secret Realm.
With its core support gone, as it finally collapsed, it looked more like a scene from reality.
It took the interplay between illusion and reality to the utmost extreme.
"It isn't quite an illusion."
"There's reality within the illusion."
"And illusion within the reality."
"It's the highest manifestation of the rules."
Ye Qingxian offered her assessment.
I neither agreed nor disagreed.
Oh, Senior Sister.
That was just the kind of person she was.
She always knew what I was thinking.
And could even give me an answer.
Ye Qingxian was aloof above all else.
An immortal descended to earth, with an elegance all her own.
But once you became the one she favored, it was the most perfect experience.
Dating her.
Building a family with her.
Becoming her Dao Companion would surely bring happiness.
Of course, the prerequisite was that you had to like her too.
Otherwise...
My thoughts paused, and my gaze drifted to my fingertips.
Pale pink nails.
Tiny, delicate nail tips.
They weren't long the way other people understood nails to be.
They had only a shallow curve.
This wasn't the result of trimming, but the natural little claws of