After returning to the Soul Space, Leng Xiyue headed for the lake where she had planted Ah Yin.
By now, the Blue Silver Grass beside the lake was gone. In its place stood a gentle, lovely woman with delicate features, wearing a plain, clean long dress and gazing into the distance.
Her looks were neither as stunning as Qian Renxue's nor as bewitching as Hu Liena's. Hers was an unadorned beauty, like a fairy born into poverty, making it hard for anyone to harbor profane thoughts toward her.
"I don't understand."
Xiao Bai was sitting on a rock behind her, her expression rather ugly. "All you have to do is cut ties with those two humans, and you can recover your cultivation with us and become human again. Why won't you?"
Ah Yin turned around and bowed to Xiao Bai, saying softly, "My lady, I appreciate your kindness, and thank you for everything you've done for me. But I still want to leave this place and return to my beloved."
"I've seen your memories, but why? Just because that man met you, traveled with you for a few years, fought his own older brother over ownership of you, then tricked you into giving him your body and made you bear a child, you have to follow them for the rest of your life? Even after dying for him once? You still won't make any plans for your own future?"
Leng Xiyue had never seen Xiao Bai angry before, yet now she was shouting at Ah Yin, looking furious at her refusal to stand up for herself and grieved by her misfortune.
"My lady, I know you must have an extraordinary background, but do you know what love is?" Rather than answering Xiao Bai's interrogation directly, Ah Yin posed a question