Mu Yunchu, aware of the results of this Illusion Realm, watched the events unfold several tis with open eyes.
She noticed that with each retrospective, Wen Xu beca further integrated, and his consciousness and characteristics dwindled.
This made her more certain that it was not rely an Illusion Realm, but a life soone had truly experienced. She realized that if she couldn’t find a way to break the cycle at the crucial point, they would continue to loop and beco characters in the story.
Mu Yunchu patiently took part in the rituals, fed fish, ate als, her concentration multiplied, yet she still did not find any breakthrough points.
Until... their family was raided once again.
She followed her mother into the courtyard and once again saw her dear ones heading to their death alone in the Illusion Realm, and the voice of Wen Xu arose simultaneously behind her.
Mu Yunchu could sense that his voice, along with the increasing retrospectives, had grown colder, deviating entirely from Wen Xu’s original tone.
The sa words remained.
"You didn’t expect it, did you? What you thought was love at first sight was actually my long-planned sche."
"From the start, I approached you with this very purpose."
Mu Yunchu turned to look at him.
From her perspective, she could clearly see the struggle and pain in his eyes.
So... He was saddened by the ruin he brought upon her family, wasn’t he?
He continued speaking, ending with a bitter smile directed at ’Mu Yunchu’. She knew that according to the usual flow, he would jump into the pond.
But after saying those once ’unbelievable’ lines, Mu Yunchu suddenly spoke herself.
"Are you waiting for my forgiveness?"
’Wen Xu’ was stunned.
The action to jump paused as well.
From that mont, the original storyline of the Illusion Realm evidently changed.
He stared at Mu Yunchu, his eyes filled with complex emotions, neither admitting nor denying.
Mu Yunchu, however, saw a faint trace of anticipation in his pupils.
Nonetheless, she had no intention of continuing down his path, slowly curling her lips, saying: "It turns out to be true."
At this mont, she couldn’t find a perfect word to describe her emotions, but it certainly wasn’t happiness.
Thinking about the Illusion Realm scenes repeated multiple tis, imagining it as a life soone truly encountered, her chest uncontrollably surged with anger.
"How dare you."
As she spoke, her brows and eyes seed to be covered with a layer of ice.
"What did you say?"
’Wen Xu’ was even more surprised at what she said.
"I said, you do not deserve forgiveness."
Neither her forgiveness.
Nor original self’s forgiveness.
Mu Yunchu found the thought laughable. That he expected to hear words of forgiveness from another’s mouth after the harm done to his original self.
She wouldn’t say it, nor did she have the right to speak on behalf of the original self.
"What? Thinking this will ease your own conscience?"
"Stop dreaming."
"You will never deserve forgiveness."
’Wen Xu’: "..."
Mu Yunchu looked at Wen Xu’s face. On it, there was even a faint outline of another person’s features, seemingly stimulated by Mu Yunchu’s words, now becoming extrely unstable.
In the end, it completely vanished.
Right after, Wen Xu nonetheless jumped into the pond.
But Mu Yunchu had a premonition that this ti was different from the previous ones.
Without any hesitation, she jumped in again after him.
Indeed, once underwater, she noticed the difference. No matter how fast she had jumped down before, she could never see Wen Xu again, but this ti she could see him.
It looked like she gambled right!
Yet there was no ti for joy, as beside Wen Xu, a sudden anomaly appeared. Ink-green water plants drifted from sowhere, like grasping tentacles, entwined around Wen Xu’s body.
Mu Yunchu panicked, the Breath-holding Technique utterly failed, and a foul water rushed directly into her lungs through her nose, making her wrinkle her brows painfully.
At the sa mont, a voice kept echoing in Wen Xu’s mind.
Unlike any heard in the Illusion Realm before.
"Kill her..."
"As long as you kill her, you can wake up..."
"Listen to , kill her..."
"Only one of you two can walk out of this Illusion Realm alive..."
...
Under the effect of this voice, Wen Xu briefly regained a sense of clarity. He soon understood that he had been dragged into the Illusion Realm by the water ghost.
And Mu Yunchu had followed him in.
What she said, was it true?
How much of it could be trusted?
Though Wen Xu couldn’t move, his consciousness was clear, already able to see Mu Yunchu approaching him.
Sohow a dagger had appeared in his hand, he looked down at it, then lifted his head again.
The voice continued to echo in his ears.
It didn’t have any intent of seducing him, rely anxiously offering suggestions.
Wen Xu suddenly recalled hearing this voice many years ago.
Though he couldn’t produce evidence, it was rely a gamble, but now he chose to believe this strange voice.
Only because it was entirely different from the previous Illusion Realm voices.
Moreover, if he didn’t make a choice, according to what this voice said, he and Mu Yunchu would die here together.
In an instant, his once clear eyes deepened, looking at the situation before him, he made a rapid decision.
When he slowly raised the dagger, the anxious urging voice relaxed sowhat.
"Right, just like that."
"When she approaches, kill her soul."
But as the words fell, Wen Xu raised the dagger and fiercely stabbed it at himself.
"?"
The blade pierced into his chest, although no blood flowed, Wen Xu’s complexion visibly paled even more.
"Are you insane!?"
The voice beca extrely agitated.
Mixed with a hint of pain.
Yet Wen Xu said: "Now she can leave, right?"
As Mu Yunchu slowly approached Wen Xu, she noticed sothing amiss.
From her angle, the water plants were continuously absorbing Wen Xu’s soul, she could even sense the rapid loss of his life.
When she finally swam over, seeing the near-death Wen Xu, her brows tightened aggressively.
Unbeknownst to her, under the pond, breathing was no longer being affected, and not far away a strange light appeared.
Mu Yunchu closed her eyes montarily, she could feel warmth from where the light connected, it seed this was the way out.
But looking down at the Wen Xu in her arms, and the water plants tightly binding him, it made her unable to leave.
anwhile.
Wen Xu’s soul had been wandering aimlessly for quite so ti.
He saw a river, along with a long road, the road bordered by enchanting red flowers. He continued walking forward until he entered a majestic hall.
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