"Tan Xiaoyi's knowledge was extraordinary, and of the three, she suited Xize's temperament best. The two became the closest of friends. They were lucky enough to discover some ruins afterward. No one expected those ruins to be a laboratory established by one of Rosenberg's students. This student specialized in card machinery and had left behind a vast body of card machinery technology. When they emerged from the ruins, Tan Xiaoyi had five notebooks recording all kinds of card machinery technology. Not long afterward, Xize drifted away. Tan Xiaoyi simply established her own laboratory and began researching the machinery, but she never revealed this to anyone."
The chill in Qiu Shanyu's voice made her sound almost mocking, yet everyone else listened with rapt attention.
"Mei Ji had already secretly developed feelings for Tan Xiaoyi. By then, he had finished his business for the Star Academy, so he went alone to find her. One was the daughter of the master of the Bitter Solitude Temple's West Temple, while the other was the Star Academy's most outstanding young talent of his generation. Both the Bitter Solitude Temple and the Star Academy considered this an ideal marriage alliance and naturally did everything they could to bring it about. They married six months later. Two years after that, shortly after Tan Xiaoyi gave birth to Tan Yuwen, Tan Xiaoyi, absorbed in her research, accidentally revealed where these technologies had come from. In the end, both the Star Academy and the Bitter Solitude Temple learned of it."
At this point, for some reason, everyone felt a faint, ominous foreboding about Tan Xiaoyi's fate.
"The Star Academy began pressuring Mei Ji, while the Bitter Solitude Temple sent Tan Xiaoyi's father. Before long, Tan Xiaoyi died, a casualty of the struggle between the Star Academy and the Bitter