When I said that, Yuehan nodded along.
Although she was judging her own husband, Yuehan was a woman with a mind of her own. She would not take his side at a time like this...
"Even if you'll end up in prison sooner or later, you should make amends now. A lovely child may have come out of it in the end, but you still used Anjie in Witchification experiments. There's no denying that."
She sat beside me on the couch, picking Xiaojie up and settling her on her lap.
"A-Ji, if you're going to take responsibility for what you did, you need to do more than apologize."
Yuehan's words carried a lot of weight with Sun Ji. Perhaps hers were the only words that did.
And unlike my merciless jabs, she genuinely wanted to mediate and resolve the wrongs that stood between them.
"...Sigh. Then what should I do?"
"Offer some tangible compensation. Let Anjie decide what it should be-whatever helps her let out her anger. You can't carry those regrets all the way to the end, can you?"
Yuehan had said "the end."
Perhaps she had not meant to, but she, too, was pessimistic about defeating the Great Will.
I understood. The scales in my own heart were tipping that way, too...
I had little faith in either Sun Ji's plan or Aldebaran's. We could not fight the Great Will in a world under her control. Our only hope was for the Earth Crystal to help us from outside...
I did not want to join the surrender camp, but this time, I truly could not see any hope.
At Yuehan's urging, Anjie looked up at Sun Ji.
There was no real hatred in her eyes.
Had she already made peace with it?
Or perhaps...she could no longer bring