Though the world held a thousand regrets.
Of all the things that should never have happened, the worst was making a master unwittingly watch her disciple die before her very eyes.
Verdant Green Maiden slept for many days before waking. By then, the Lin Family had already given Lin Moniang a proper burial.
The summer heat was oppressive, the air stifling. Lin Moniang could not wait for Verdant Green Maiden to wake.
"..."
"In the end, I didn't even get to see her one last time."
Verdant Green Maiden mocked herself in a low voice.
The Lin Family had all come. Lin Moniang had left few belongings behind, but in her final moments, she had still left something for Verdant Green Maiden: a little clay figurine she had made herself, shaped like Verdant Green Maiden. Whenever she missed her, she would take it out and look at it.
"Lady Shao Dian, are you... all right?"
Liu Yong asked cautiously.
It was the first time he had seen Verdant Green Maiden cry, and the first time he had seen her cry until she passed out.
Only now did he finally understand.
When Mad Wind had come that day, the boat Verdant Green Maiden had seen from the shore might have been Lin Moniang's!
Perhaps...
She had watched her own disciple die before her eyes.
There could be nothing more sorrowful in this world!
"I'm fine."
Verdant Green Maiden let out a long, heavy breath. She wanted to go see Lin Moniang.
The Lin Family took her to Lin Moniang's grave.
Before the gravestone lay many offerings brought by the local fishing folk, and people could be seen coming to pay their respects at any time.
But if that was all, then a hundred or a thousand years later, people would forget