Yet, as expected, Nalan Yanran's words had no effect whatsoever. Yun Yun's pupils trembled violently, and she pointed a shaking finger at Nalan Yanran as she asked in disbelief.
"Yanran... you... why did you do this?!"
"No! That's not what happened! Master! Listen to me!"
Seeing Yun Yun's despairing face and her swaying figure, so much like her earlier state of utter hopelessness, Nalan Yanran grew even more frantic and hurriedly cried out.
"Explain? He died at your hands! What is there left to explain?"
Yun Yun had completely lost her reason. She screamed at Nalan Yanran, falling apart.
"That's not what happened... that's not what happened..."
Nalan Yanran repeated those words over and over, her eyes fixed on Yun Yun. She braced herself, ready to intervene the moment Yun Yun showed any sign of trying to take her own life again.
Just as Nalan Yanran had expected, after another bout of anguish, the despair surrounding Yun Yun erupted once more. Dou Qi surged beneath the surface-a sign that she was about to sever her own meridians.
Nalan Yanran had been prepared for this and rushed forward to stop her. But Yun Yun was now a Dou Sheng Expert too. How could Nalan Yanran, who was at the same cultivation level, stop another Dou Sheng Expert from taking her own life?
And so, beneath Nalan Yanran's bloodshot gaze, Yun Yun fell into the arms of Hun Changqing's corpse once again, a faint smile on her lips as her life slipped away.
Nalan Yanran's expression went utterly blank, her eyes hollow. She had watched the person most important to her die before her twice, yet she had failed to stop it even once. That helplessness and despair nearly drove her into a maddened breakdown.
But just as despair spread wildly through