Seeing this, Shui Yue asked softly, "What happened afterward?"
"What happened afterward was even more troublesome."
Chen Changsheng raised his head to look at the sky and sighed. "As time passed, the woman I loved died, and so did her husband. He died in a plague."
"Before she passed away, she entrusted her daughter to me."
"To fulfill the wishes of an old friend, I personally raised her daughter to adulthood."
"But no matter how carefully I calculated, I never expected her to fall in love with me."
"Faced with those feelings, I used the method you just mentioned and ruthlessly rejected her."
"And I set before her an obstacle she could never cross: 'longevity'!"
Hearing this, Shui Yue looked at Chen Changsheng and said, "But in the end, she did not back down. She still charged forward without hesitation, didn't she?"
"That's right!"
"In pursuit of longevity, she embarked upon the path of cultivation."
"Because I was worried about her, I kept following in her footsteps."
"At the time, I thought that even cultivators had a day when their lifespans would run out. Once she died, perhaps this matter would finally come to an end."
"But I never expected that girl to be so stubborn. Relying on that obsession, she kept walking forward, leaving one bloody footprint after another."
"More than a hundred thousand years!"
"Even I was exhausted in body and soul after such a long time, yet she gritted her teeth and persisted."
"I could not imagine just how much she had suffered, how many hardships she had endured."
"Yet even now, I still could not give her a definite answer."
Faced with Chen Changsheng's answer, Shui Yue lowered her head slightly. "Then who was the owner of this face?"
After taking in Shui Yue's emotions, Chen