"Madam, what exactly is going on with this senior sister of yours?"
The woman in plain clothes had gone down to rest. After all, it seemed it would still be quite some time before the Otherworld stabilized.
Once she had left, Xue Beikong could no longer hold himself back.
Did she not know what failing the third trial meant for Xue Xue? She knew. Not only did she know, she had unhesitatingly wanted Xue Xue to fail.
If that were all, it would have been one thing. It could only mean that she bore deep killing intent toward Xue Xue for violating the rules.
But she was not like that. Her words and actions were like calling you darling, darling, with profound love spilling from her eyes—while at the same time clutching a knife in her hand and stabbing it into your stomach over and over.
The deeper the love, the crueler the stabbing.
Her words and behavior were utterly abnormal, as though she were some crazed lunatic.
Madam Xue looked complicatedly in the direction the plainly dressed woman had departed, then let out a soft sigh.
"It is a punishment."
Hm?
"Senior Sister once committed an unforgivable mistake."
Madam Xue said softly, "Love Wine may be connected to marriage, but it has nothing to do with love."
"Not every woman who is pursued can necessarily end up with the person she wants—the one she loves."
"Senior Sister had a lover. They loved each other, and clung to one another through thick and thin. Yet the man she loved failed the three trials. Not only that, another man she did not love succeeded."
"By the rules, Senior Sister had no choice but to marry the man she did not love. So she resisted. She wanted to marry the man she