"Wait… who…?" Jiang Xin's voice trailed off as her body suddenly froze. Xu Lu looked at her in confusion as she fell silent just like the rest of the people inside this strange colourless world.
"She is a noisy one, isn't she?" the mysterious woman glared at the frozen Jiang Xin with a look of irritation in her crimson eyes.
"She isn't as half as charming is in this plane… hmm… but my personality is a bit difficult… oh well…"
"Unfortunately, I can't interfere for long… two minutes is all I can handle for now…"
"Keya?' Xu Lu's eyes widened as a word slipped out of her mouth. She did not know the aning of the word and yet it sounded natural as if she had said it thousands of tis before.
"Do you rember?" the pretty elf-like woman asked with a faint trace of hope in her voice.
Xu Lu shook her head not trusting herself to speak. She could feel a wave of emotions rising up in her chest and the tidal wave was making it hard to think.
Love, obsession, desire…
These emotions kept flooding her mind like an endless whirlpool. She felt a deep sense of attraction to the woman standing in front of her that was far stronger than anything that she had ever felt before.
Even her ti spent with Camilla or Jiang Xin felt like the light of a candle compared to a raging inferno.
Keya smiled lovingly and walked up to Xu Lu who was staring at her with a mixture of obsession and confusion evident in her expression.
The dark elf princess gently touched her old lover's face and ran her fingers along the many scars, burn marks and other deformities that marred her complexion.
"No matter your appearance…" Keya whispered softly as she leaned forward and pressed a gentle kiss directly on Xu Lu's lips that was as light as a feather.
"No matter which world…"
She planted another kiss this ti one that lingered for a bit longer.
"I…'
Keya withdrew her lips and stared at Xu Lu. A sweet smile danced along the corners of her mouth and a mischievous glint surfaced in her eyes.
"I will never let you escape ," Keya proudly declared with an impish grin.
"So never… never doubt…"
"Even if you forget this encounter… even if you forget who I am…"
"I… will always love you."
Xu Lu opened her mouth to say sothing, but Keya's body turned translucent before slowly dissolving into a stream of white particles which vanished into the wind.
"DON'T GO! I WANT TO REMBER TELL WHO YOU ARE!" Xu Lu desperately yelled as she tried to grab on to one of the particles only for her hand to pass through nothing but air.
She could feel a small tingling sensation in her fingertips but that was all that remained of the strange encounter with the mysterious woman.
Xu Lu lowered her palm and stared in the direction where Keya had disappeared with nurous thoughts running through her mind and dozens of questions with no answers.
Love? But what was her identity? Who was she?
She ntioned multiple worlds… had they t before?
No… clearly, they must have… otherwise how else could she had known Keya's na if the mysterious woman had not told her. Was Keya a fellow agent? Or…
Xu Lu felt lost and confused.
She hardly noticed that Jiang Xin had started to move once again, and her false lover picked up directly from where she had left off.
"The real Jiang Xin… she would never love you! Just look at yourself!" Jiang Xin laughed mockingly as she approached Xu Lu and placed a firm hand on her shoulder.
Several mirrors moved to face Xu Lu and the forr saintess could see her horrific reflection clearly displayed by the sheets of glass.
And yet now… she no longer felt… as bothered as before.
It would be an exaggeration to say that she no longer cared about her appearance because there was still a small part of her that loudly whispered about how ugly she looked.
But…
Whenever those negative thoughts entered her mind, the words of Keya would also appear and for so reason her voice drowned out all the self-hatred and doubt.
"I will always love you."
She was not the original Xu Lu.
Her na was Sui Li.
She may be Xu Lu in this plane but that was not her only identity. She was a knight, a warrior, a hunter… she was soone who had sacrificed everything to take down the monster who had stolen her brother's body.
Why should she care about the opinions of others?
And if Jiang Xin rejected her based on her looks, then… well she would cross that bridge when she had to.
Xu Lu took in a deep shuddering breath and stared at her reflection in the multiple mirrors that floated in the air above her body and clearly displayed her appearance.
"I know. I know that my face is disfigured," Xu Lu calmly spoke as one of the mirrors suddenly shattered causing pieces of glass to rain down from the sky.
"But I will no longer let that fact control my life."
Another mirror shattered and loud cracking noise could be heard as if this strange world itself was slowly beginning to collapse with every sentence that she spoke.
"Nonsense!" Jiang Xin snarled as she tightened her grip on Xu Lu's shoulder until her fingernails dug into her flesh causing droplets of blood to stain her hand.
"You are a hideous monster! No one could love you! You will always retorted as a new mirror broke apart into thousands of pieces.
"I will reveal my true face to the world."
be forced to wear that mask!"
"No. I don't intend to wear the mask anymore," Xu Lu calmly retorted as a new mirror broke apart into thousands of pieces.
"I will reveal my true face to the world."
"No more will I hide. As a victim… why should I be ashad? Why should I be condemned for the horrific experience that I suffered through?"
"No. More."
Jiang Xin clutched her chest in pain and sank to the ground. Her eyes widened in terror as one by one the remaining mirrors all broke simultaneously.
"You know… she… she is never going to love you…" Jiang Xin spitefully whispered as she could feel her reality gradually disintegrating with every passing second.
"I am not entitled to her love," Xu Lu responded peacefully as she stepped forward and looked down at the collapsed figure of her false girlfriend.
An illusion. A lie. A sweet temptation.
But at the end of the day…
A fake.
"Thank you for the pleasant mories but… it is ti for to wake up," Xu Lu whispered softly as she closed her eyes and felt the ground beneath her feet split wide open.
Her body fell into the earth and the last thing that she heard was the angry shout of the fake Jiang Xin as she cursed and scread in the void.
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