"My Tempering of the Heart Trial was centered on me. Brin's dream was an instance she opened with the Book of Ten Thousand Kings; it was her dream. So were she and I really in the same world?"
"That depends on how you understand the world." Root Demon's answer was deeply esoteric.
"All right, then let me put it another way. Brother Root, were the things and developments Brunhilde and I saw and experienced really the same?"
"You spent eighty years together, and even had half a Quidditch team of children."
"Our senses and passions can empathize to some extent, but that's looking at the result. If the beginning and the process were different, then our understanding of those years would be different too." Yu Lian's answer was deeply philosophical.
"You have quite an imagination, but your suspicions aren't baseless." Root Demon's smile faded, and he wore the same troubled expression as Yu Lian. "So when did you notice?"
"I wouldn't go so far as to say I noticed. It was only a guess. In this history, I've fought battles to the death, come within an inch of losing my life, racked my brains, and faced betrayal and utter desperation. But when I think about it carefully, everything went a little too smoothly."
Of course, it also felt far too much like one of those power fantasies from ten years ago. It was satisfying, sure, but when things got too satisfying, it was hard not to feel a little uneasy. Yu Lian thought.
"Brin told me she could make me a Grand Duke, appoint me chancellor or Lord Privy Seal, and give me New Shenzhou and the Far Shore as my fiefs. But in the dream's timeline, for a long time, I held more territory and commanded larger armies than