This world had collapsed completely.
Qin Manyi stood quietly on the river, her hair moving without a breeze.
Qin Manjiang and the other four watched her from afar. It was not that they did not want to approach her; she was actively pushing them away.
Qin Manjiang's heart hurt as though it were about to split apart. He could do nothing but watch his sister... watch her collapse along with this world.
This world had been born because of Qin Manyi, and it existed solely because of her.
She was a fetus born within a ghost story, a special existence born in the blurred boundary between life and death, human and ghost.
Neither the Eye Realm, which belonged to vengeful ghosts, nor the present world, which belonged to humans, was her world.
This world... truly belonged to her alone.
But she was too lonely. She possessed a ghost's abilities yet had a human's sense of self. That was the true source of Qin Manyi's suffering.
If she had not known that humans existed, if she had not known that beyond this world lay another, real world, perhaps she could have endured this loneliness. Yet she had dreamed of the human world and learned what reality looked like.
The river beneath Qin Manyi's feet was draining away little by little. This river, too, was about to merge with the river in the real world.
No one spoke. Although Shen Hai and the others did not fully understand how everything had happened, they had just heard the broad outline. Together with Qin Manyi's actions, that had confirmed one thing for them-
If this girl wanted to kill them, then... not one of them would have any chance to resist.
She had spent too long in the world she had built herself. She