Su Jiu was a little surprised. "You actually investigated it?"
Bai Su smiled. "Sounds unbelievable, doesn't it? Actually, after I left the Heavenly Dawn Sect, my mind inexplicably became much clearer. It felt as though a thick fog in my sea of consciousness had finally dispersed."
Su Jiu considered it, but ultimately did not tell Bai Su about the storybook in her sea of consciousness. She was surprised because the woman before her was now nothing like her counterpart in the book.
The present Bai Su seemed more like a cultivator with an independent personality, and more like someone from that world. As for the Bai Su in the storybook... best left unsaid.
Something weighed on Bai Su's mind. She seemed torn over whether to speak, but when she thought of her ruined body and the little time she had left, she feared she would regret keeping silent even more...
"Su Jiu, would you believe me if I said I felt as though I was being controlled when I was at the Azure Tide Sect?"
Perhaps because she was nearing death, she seemed to have begun grasping the edges of many things she had never understood.
"Actually, I'm not certain I really was being controlled...
"After all, those things I did were things I had thought about, and they remain in my memories. Yet whenever I was clearheaded, I knew perfectly well that I shouldn't do them.
"Back then, a voice deep inside told me I was the protagonist of this world. I could do whatever I wanted, everyone should love me, and I could boldly pursue anyone I liked.
"Anyone who stood in the way of my search for true love shouldn't exist, and anyone who bullied me would inevitably be punished."
At this point, Bai Su gave a