I'll smother you!
"How is anyone supposed to understand you when you put it like that...?"
Yao Wan was rendered speechless by Xiao Yan's answer. Only after the words left her mouth did she finally realize something.
"Wait, don't tell me you mean that time I told someone else my secret?"
Only then did Yao Wan belatedly catch on, unable to stop herself from asking.
"Does Wan'er think I'd be talking about anything else?"
Xiao Yan gazed into Yao Wan's eyes and murmured unconsciously.
"No—but that makes no sense."
Yao Wan blinked, then could not help saying, "It wasn't even that important. Don't tell me you've still been dwelling on something from a past life?!"
Perhaps Xiao Yan's answer had genuinely shocked her, because Yao Wan inadvertently blurted out what she truly felt.
"But this... this really is different."
Xiao Yan knew that he was somewhat emotionally unbalanced. Yet rational understanding and emotional impulse were not inherently contradictory. The real knot in his heart lay precisely in knowing that this feeling was distorted, yet being unable to break free from it.
"What's so different about it?"
Seeing that Xiao Yan seemed somewhat aware of the twisted nature behind this emotional outpouring, Yao Wan blinked and could not help asking.
"—Because it is different. Setting aside every other journey, the memories of that world alone belong exclusively to you and me."
Xiao Yan unconsciously raised a hand and gently caressed Yao Wan's cheek. How could she fail to hear the longing in his murmured voice?
"I think it may be because Wan'er herself doesn't remember much of it."
"Remember what?"
Yao Wan murmured. Xiao Yan merely shook his head lightly. "Mm... it wasn't anything especially important. It's just that, in one of the reincarnations I experienced within the Bodhi Ancient Tree,