At first, she thought Tang Qinghe had deliberately arranged for her to go alone to the Jedi Academy. So she'd rushed off to the inn beneath the Imperial Capital's palace, hoping to catch up with him as quickly as possible.
But there was no inn of that name in the Imperial Capital. There was only a building full of ordinary residents.
"What? What is going on...?"
For a moment, Bibi couldn't help questioning everything.
She'd been certain she'd spent the past several months growing close to Tang Qinghe. Was it all just a dream?
But why had it seemed so real?
Unconvinced, Bibi went back to the Rose Inn she'd visited before. Though the Rose Inn was still there, it was now just an ordinary little hotel with a dozen rooms.
After that, she asked around again and returned to the Jedi Academy. Everything was just as before.
That was when she realized that all the people she'd met while traveling with Tang Qinghe had never existed at all.
In the end, she returned to Ninglang Village, to Old Mu's home.
But when she reached Old Mu, she was utterly stunned.
Old Mu, who had once been so imposing, was now a frail old man, barely four or five steps from his grave.
Only then did Bibi realize that the boy she'd traveled with hadn't merely been special. He'd possessed a power beyond her imagination.
At the same time, while she'd been traveling with Tang Qinghe, she finally understood why those strange things had kept happening to her.
She learned why Zhu Zhuqing had loved her father, the Star Luo Emperor, and why her younger sister, Zhu Zhuyun, had pursued her relentlessly.
She learned that the Ghostly Demon who had sealed the orphanage might have been the one who'd appeared