Rebirth was a gift, a gift Qing Lin gave Xiao Fan. Rebirth was also a punishment, punishing Xiao Fan for leaving without a word.
Punishing Xiao Fan for breaking his promise...
Xiao Fan did not know that his scattered soul had attached itself, more or less, to everyone he had wronged...
Those abruptly ending fragments of memory were also punishing Xiao Fan...
"Qing Lin, I..."
Xiao Fan had never delved deeply into the reason for his rebirth, but now it seemed that it was not Heaven granting him another chance. It was Qing Lin's sacrifice that had bought him this opportunity.
Xiao Fan had underestimated the power called love. He had mistaken love for love, treated love as love, underestimated everyone's resolve, lived in paradise without realizing it, possessed a sea of stars yet squandered it recklessly.
Just as Xiao Fan had irresponsibly thrown away his life in his previous life.
What Qing Lin had sealed was not the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils. She simply did not want Xiao Fan to see her in such a wretched state. Covered in wounds, she must have thought she looked ugly.
Even at the very end, this little girl had still been thinking of her young master in every way.
"The price was... never seeing each other again. Was that why Qing Lin sealed herself...?"
Xiao Fan understood everything. He understood why he had been reborn, and he understood the price that had been paid for that rebirth.
"Qing Lin... this time, I'll be the one to find you..."
Xiao Fan's consciousness left that space. Somewhere beyond his sight, ripples spread through his own eyes, faint arcs of reincarnation appearing and vanishing within them.
At the same time, the seal on little Qing Lin's Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils completely dissipated, and