After another long silence, Su Mo spoke again. "Why were you looking for me before?"
The woman looked at Su Mo impassively, as though she could not explain why she wanted to find him just then.
But she did have her reasons; she simply did not know how to describe them.
After the two had remained silent for a long time, the woman finally spoke. "I want to know... who I am!"
Su Mo frowned at her words. "Does that have anything to do with me?"
The woman shook her head, then nodded, as though she found this question difficult to explain.
"You are like me. Neither of us knows why we exist, and neither of us knows who we are."
"You and I both transcend this world, as though we are not people of this world..."
"I was merely searching this world for someone like me."
Standing beneath the white mist, Su Mo slowly turned and raised his head toward the boundless Qiongyu:
"No, I know who I am, and I know why I exist."
Hearing Su Mo's words, the woman still shook her head stubbornly. "No, you don't."
Su Mo turned to look at the woman, not understanding.
Dressed in a long white gown, the woman stood amid the boundless white mist, seeming so transcendent and mysterious, as though her entire being were shrouded in a deep fog.
It seemed that, in her eyes, Su Mo was just as mysterious and transcendent as she was.
The woman continued softly, "Do you know why you exist within the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths?"
"Do you know why that book of yours is in your possession?"
"And how can you be certain that your existence before you came to the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths was real?"
"You are clearly