Ranni's feelings toward Zhao Si were quite complicated.
She owed him both a grudge and a debt of gratitude.
It was a fact that Zhao Si had ruined all her plans.
Ranni was still Ranni. She had failed to take on a doll's body.
Zhao Si had also ruined her only Black Knife.
Blaidd had been crippled by Zhao Si, too.
She had no way to avenge her two brothers, either.
Things had come to this, and there really was nothing she could do.
Unless some formidable man truly fell from the heavens, someone far stronger than Zhao Si.
Otherwise, Ranni ought to stop dreaming.
Besides, Ranni had already seen countless dreams in Rennala's Dream.
All sorts of dreams, a chaotic jumble, had worn away more and more of Ranni's spirit.
Previously, Zhao Si had even tried to comfort her. "Princess, count your blessings. At least we didn't slip into a dream and turn into a pair of plants."
"Plants?" Ranni asked in confusion. "Why plants?"
"No particular reason. I just mean it's lucky we didn't turn into flowers, grass, trees, green onions, or something. Otherwise, we couldn't move or talk. We'd just have to root ourselves in the soil and struggle to grow in the wind and sun." Zhao Si spread his hands. "Now that would be despair. You might even stop thinking altogether."
This man was annoying. He was always teasing her.
Yet he also took her deep into the dreams to untangle Rennala's emotional knots.
The complexity of people was hard to describe in words.
Ranni's heart was even harder to fathom.
Sometimes, she could not quite figure it out herself.
Right now, she simply felt that being on better terms with Zhao Si certainly would not hurt.
It would also help Rennala recover.
Besides, after spending