Lin Youxie had actually left the cultivation method for Nian Chen at the end of that thin booklet recording corpse-examination techniques.
This showed that she had indeed already resolved to die.
What had she been thinking that day, when she handed the Lin Clan's inherited secret art to Jiang Wang?
At that time, black clouds loomed overhead. At that time, all evidence had been erased. At that time, her last remaining relative was floating dead upon the sea. At that time... every person connected to that case from so many years ago was unreliable, every one of them suspect!
The Four Great Green Badge Families had endured from the era of the Emperor Qi Wu until the present. Though their renown had faded and their influence waned, how vast were their connections? Yet at that time, looking across all of Qi State, she could not find a single person she could trust.
It could not be called anything but a tragedy.
Beneath overwhelming power, the human heart was treacherous and inscrutable.
Du Fang had been half a disciple of Lin Kuang, yet he personally threw Lin Kuang's corpse before the young Lin Youxie.
How many years had the Four Great Green Badge Families operated in Qi State?
When they vanished completely into smoke and dust, who spared them even a sigh?
Just as Lin Youxie had asked that day—
"How many people in this world can be trusted? And how many can I trust?"
Only Jiang Wang.
When she handed all this to Jiang Wang, she was giving him the last of her trust. Beyond believing that Jiang Wang could make proper use of the clues left upon her corpse after her death, perhaps she had also wanted to leave an inheritance behind for her father.
In the end, Jiang