Moved by the Blue-Haired Girl's pure blue eyes,
by the bottomless sorrow within them,
Cui Ciyou felt his heart
being squeezed tightly by an invisible hand.
Wave after wave of unbearable pain stabbed through it.
For some reason, Cui Ciyou wanted to comfort the blue-haired girl.
He wanted to tell her, "Don't be afraid. I'm here."
Perhaps it was because the blue-haired girl looked a little too much like Roxy.
And Cui Ciyou hadn't seen Roxy in a long time.
So Cui Ciyou reached out...
He wanted to gently, soothingly
wipe away the tears of the blue-haired girl before him, who seemed to bear
all the sorrow in the world.
But...
just as Cui Ciyou's fingers
were about to touch the girl's cold cheek,
the instant that sorrowful, pleading gaze was reflected in his eyes,
the entire world began to shake violently!
The dream world slowly began to collapse.
The ruins beneath his feet groaned under the strain.
Great fissures spread in every direction like black lightning.
The towering broken pillars began to topple and shatter, one after another.
Overhead, the gray sky
peeled away in fragments of nothingness, like a shattered mirror.
Amid the violent tremors, the girl's body began to turn transparent.
Her entire outline gradually blurred.
The blue-haired girl seemed to want to say something to Cui Ciyou.
She opened her small mouth, but still could only utter that faint, hoarse syllable meaning "I."
Then her body slowly...
turned into countless points of ghostly blue light, like fireflies.
Beginning at her bare toes;
then moving to her tattered white dress;
and finally reaching her cheeks, so pale it hurt to look at them...
bit by bit, she melted away like ice and snow.
Like a dandelion in the wind, she was scattered by an invisible, irresistible force.