She knew all too well what the consequences would be if the true face of the Imperial Court were exposed before Xia Qiuer.
The Emperor Lord would never forgive her!
"Qiu'er Holy Maiden, why did you disguise yourself as Bu Chenggong? Why?!" Yan Qing cried out, her expression completely changing as panic overwhelmed her.
"Yan Qing... what kind of people are you... and everyone else, really?"
Lying in Hua Yunfei's arms, Xia Qiuer's face was deathly pale. Her long lashes trembled, and her eyes showed signs of opening.
As her eyes, sealed shut for so long, were about to open, the state of mind she had upheld for years trembled violently like a towering mountain, gradually collapsing!
Crack!
Her Dao, everything she had believed in, split apart with it, slowly falling into pieces.
The people she had tried so hard to protect were capable of casually harming their companions.
She was suddenly so lost...
Lost over what exactly she had been pursuing all these years.
"Fairy Xia, you need to calm down!"
Hua Yunfei hurriedly pressed his index finger against Xia Qiuer's brow, channeling his power into her body in an attempt to force her to calm down.
At the same time, he helped Xia Qiuer close her eyes, refusing to let them open. Once they did, her state of mind would be utterly destroyed.
Yet no matter how hard he tried, Xia Qiuer's state of mind and Dao continued to collapse. Her faith crumbled completely, and everything she had firmly believed in and wished to protect shattered into fragments.
Her world was like a mirror, exploding with a bang and scattering into shards across the ground.
Her world contained nothing but darkness!
Within that world, she was like an abandoned child, crouching alone with her knees hugged to her