The girl beside him suddenly jolted and caught his wrist. "Yi Duanzhi!"
Li Piaoqing looked at the two depressions in the ground. "These marks... Yi Duanzhi left them!"
The boy and the chi looked at her. The girl still could not tear her eyes from the marks. "I saw him in Yi Danjun's Mindscape."
"But I didn't notice at the time." She looked at them, her throat a little tight. "I actually saw him in two different guises."
"One was in Xifang Tian's New Year’s Eve Night Drinking Record. That was how he looked back then: tall and straight, his whole person like the spear in his hand. Although he was already over forty, his face was stern and his temples still black. He looked like a more imposing Yi Nandai." The girl recalled it dazedly. "The other was in Yi Chengxin's Mindscape."
"Yi Chengxin's Heart Poison was a family reunion, but the way Dragonkin grow meant that scene could never have existed in reality—she shouldn't even have seen her own mother or elder sister." The girl spoke softly. "In that scene, Yi Danjun and Yang Zhaoren still looked as they did in New Year’s Eve Night Drinking Record, but Yi Nandai looked as he does today, playing chess with his sister in the courtyard."
"And Yi Duanzhi was still tall and straight, but his presence was profound, vast as mountains and seas, with stars of white at his temples."
The girl looked at Pei Ye and Black Chi. "His image in Yi Chengxin's heart was a little hazy precisely because, after she grew up, she had actually only seen him a few times."
-But she had indeed seen him.
So the image of her father in Yi Chengxin's Heart Poison did not come from New Year’s Eve Night Drinking