"Such a smile only appears when one meets the person they love."
"Or rather, the Nian Ci in the reflection would smile like this."
After hearing everything Nian Ci had to say, Chen Changsheng kept his eyes closed and asked another question.
"If things were truly as you said, why did you marry someone else?"
"Because I'm proud!"
"From the moment you, Chen Changsheng, were born into this world, you carried an air of pride about you."
"That pride not only ran deep into your bones, but I learned every bit of it from you."
"I can accept dying together with the person I love, but I will never accept charity in love."
"Rather than force myself to marry someone who doesn't love me, why shouldn't I find someone who does?"
"That was how Nian Ci in reality was, and it is how I am in this cycle of reincarnation too."
"Even if you, Chen Changsheng, command countless eras, so long as you don't love me, I would rather die than marry you!"
As her words fell, Chen Changsheng opened his eyes once more.
Looking at Nian Ci before him, Chen Changsheng smiled helplessly. "You really are exactly like her."
"I, Chen Changsheng, am truly the biggest fool under heaven. I actually fell for such a simple lie for hundreds of thousands of years."
"If not for you, I truly don't know how much longer I would have remained trapped."
Hearing Chen Changsheng's words, Nian Ci immediately lost her earlier fierce and overbearing manner.
"Changsheng, the road ahead is long. I can't accompany you all the way."
"I only hope you won't be trapped by the past any longer. That's what I don't want to see."
"I want to take you along a cultivation path through this lifetime!"
Chen Changsheng