Mu En's expression was as still as an ancient well. Nothing on his face seemed to betray that he and Ye Xishui had once been lovers.
"Mu En! If you hadn't left back then, how could things have reached that point? And now you're going to dump everything on me, a woman?"
Ye Xishui stared at Mu En with venomous resentment, hysteria in her eyes.
"Wasn't that what you wanted?"
Mu En gave Ye Xishui a cursory glance. "You were the one who found an excuse to send me away. You were the one who left a note on the table. You were the one who administered Spring Breeze Jade Dew. And you were the one who, despite being a full-fledged Soul Saint, tried to kill herself with a short sword-and happened to do so at the very moment Long Xiaoyao woke up."
"Don't forget, although I'm a Power Attack System Soul Master, I did create an ability like Rule the World. Those little tricks you thought were seamless were, in fact, completely exposed before my eyes."
"I once thought Long Xiaoyao was the one you truly loved, and that you had only been forced to choose to be with me because Xiaoyao lost the wager, eventually leading you to make that choice. So I knew everything. I simply didn't stop you."
"If that could give both of you a satisfactory ending, I didn't mind going with the current and helping you on your way back then."
As Mu En slowly recounted the truth behind that incident, the guilt in Long Xiaoyao's eyes turned to shock and disbelief.
"What nonsense are you spouting?!"
Ye Xishui began to grit her teeth. She finally understood why the plan she had spent years preparing had ultimately succeeded only halfway. With Mu En's talent