He Yuanyue spoke softly with her eyes closed. She seemed to be trying hard to persuade Jiang Changbin, but even more so to persuade herself.
"But now, after nearly a hundred years apart, have you... forgotten? Has he forgotten?" Jiang Changbin pressed, unwilling to give up.
Chapter 140: Ten Things!
Have you forgotten? Has he forgotten?
He Yuanyue began coughing violently.
Startled, Jiang Changbin hurried behind He Yuanyue and carefully helped ease her breathing.
After a long while, He Yuanyue's breathing steadied, and she murmured, "He still has thousands of years in which to forget. If he breaks through to Cloud Transformation, he'll have ten thousand years in which to forget."
"But I have less than a year left in which to forget."
"To remind him now, to make him remember me again, another me, to brand the impression of that other me into his memory all over again-that would be cruel to him!"
With her eyes closed, He Yuanyue asked quietly, "Changbin, however much I suffer, however selfish I am, I have less than a year left. But how long do you want that suffering to continue for him?"
"He isn't someone who can stay here long. Sooner or later, he'll have to return to Sun Moon Pass. He only came back to get past the obsession in his heart. When I'm truly gone, when his hopes are shattered, that obsession will cease to exist!"
"What I can do is keep his obsession, after so many years of fading, from turning into a knot that cannot be untied. A knot that might even last thousands upon thousands of years."
"Jiang Changbin..."
"Am I supposed to offer up thousands of years of his longing and suffering as a sacrifice, just to satisfy my wish to leave no regrets in my