After hearing Dao Hua's explanation, Su Mo stood forlornly to one side, saying nothing for a long time.
Cheng An'an kept watching Su Mo, never speaking from beginning to end. She recalled many things, from their first meeting to the admiration she had later felt for him.
Until he died, and she sealed away everything about him within herself.
The affairs of the world were like this, with fate making fools of people. As it turned out, he had been waiting for them here...
But when she saw the flowers of the Other Shore left on the riverbank by every person who crossed the River of Forgetfulness, she understood why Su Mo had not sought them out even after returning...
Perhaps he, too, was afraid that he would be unable to see his friends across the River of Forgetfulness.
At this thought, Cheng An'an slowly began to smile.
"What's over there?" she asked Su Mo, pointing toward the Other Shore of the River of Forgetfulness.
Su Mo answered, "Rebirth!"
Suddenly, Cheng An'an broke into a smile just as she had back then. "Will you go over there too?"
Su Mo fell silent. Gazing toward the vast Other Shore of the River of Forgetfulness, his eyes revealed a longing.
"Perhaps I will!"
Cheng An'an smiled. "Then I'll wait for you over there!"
"All right!" Su Mo nodded.
It was as though the two were making a promise to meet again before long...
With that, Cheng An'an stepped onto the Stone Bridge without looking back and walked into that unknowable place... If there is rebirth, I want to see you again! But when that time comes, I will never hesitate again!
*If, back then, within the Demon Sect's Mountain Gate, when the Ancestor asked you to marry me, I could have stepped