After returning home from Lone Shadow Peak, the Ice and Snow Empress left the Pet Space and found a room where she could recover in seclusion...
Zi You also emerged from the Pet Space and was about to head to her own room to rest when Wu Shaozhen stopped her...
"What is it?" Zi You asked in confusion.
Wu Shaozhen glanced toward the Ice and Snow Empress's room in the distance, then quietly recounted how her hair and demeanor had kept changing that day...
A flicker of understanding crossed Zi You's eyes as she listened...
"So that's it!"
"Zi You, do you know what's happening to her?" Wu Shaozhen asked hurriedly.
"If I'm right, the silver-haired woman with the icy demeanor is her true self, or rather, who she was before she fell. That fits her bearing as the Ice and Snow Empress.
"When she was reborn, she wanted to live differently, so she sealed away her original self and was reborn in a different state-as the Bing Yu we know...
"Back in Hundred Beasts City, she must have faced a crisis she couldn't handle, forcing her to undo the seal and fight with her full strength...
"Now that the seal has been lifted, her original self has awakened. But her original personality is completely different from her current one, so they're probably fighting for control..."
"That can actually happen?! What will happen to her?" Wu Shaozhen asked, his eyes widening.
"Either her original self makes a forceful comeback and her current self fades away, leaving her with nothing more to do with us,
"Or her current self persuades her original self to merge willingly. Then she'll regain her peak strength and won't need to keep switching back and forth..."
"So her original self has the advantage?"
"Of course. An