"But my Soul Power..." Su Yu's voice trembled slightly.
"And this endless drowsiness. Teacher, what exactly did you put in the medicine?"
He did not want to suspect Bibi Dong. The teacher who had protected him since childhood and taught him to cultivate was the person he trusted most in this world.
Bibi Dong abruptly turned around and set the medicine bowl down heavily on the stone table with a light clank.
With her back to Su Yu, her shoulders trembled slightly, and her voice carried suppressed anguish:
"Xiao Yu, I'm not a good teacher... I'm just like that beast. I've fallen in love with my own student too!"
Bibi Dong suddenly turned back, her face already stripped of its usual cold dignity.
Obsession and madness churned in those amber eyes, burning like a desperate beast trapped in an abyss:
"The worst decision I've made all these years was letting you get engaged to that Ning Rongrong!"
"Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, Ye Lingling... even that Zi JI!"
"Even though she's a Soul Beast, she can stand openly by your side and say she loves you!"
Her voice rose higher and higher, thick with resentment and unwillingness to accept it.
"But I can't! I'm your teacher! This is the only way I can keep you by my side!"
Before her words had faded, she suddenly stepped forward and hugged Su Yu tightly, with enough force to almost crush him into her very flesh and bones.
Her palm stroked his back gently, trembling slightly.
A faint yet unmistakable strand of purple Soul Power quietly flowed into his body.
"Xiao Yu, forgive me..."
She buried her face in the crook of his neck, her voice choked with sobs as her tears soaked his collar.
"I can't control myself... as long as I can