“You sound like a perverted food harasser,” Nie Wan said.

“I won’t bother the food, I’ll only bother you.” Lan Xiangyuan narrowed her eyes and smiled. “I’ll stick with you for the rest of my life, otherwise I don’t know what I’m living for.”

After she finished speaking, the two of them fell silent.

Without its master to control its speed, the Wheel of Fortune and Misfortune moved with unstoppable force, no longer condensing misfortune into a whip, but instead circling it around itself like a satellite orbiting the earth, spinning rapidly and cutting forward.

Memories raced forward amidst fragmentation and rebirth, but Tianxi Changyi's words remained unfastened, playing in Lan Xiangyuan's ears word by word.

"Can't you hear me?"

"You have the aura of magical artifacts on you. Can't you remember what they are?"

"Does it hurt a lot? Let me give you some anesthesia."

"You can still blink, so you must be conscious. So, is it that you don't want to respond to me, or that you're incapable of responding?"

"It seems I'm unable to respond. You probably find my voice very loud."

So he stopped talking, and then he simply disappeared.

The world was filled with only one color: blood red.

The scene moves forward rapidly, as fast as if you were in a time machine.

The scene slowed down again only after Tianxi Changyi spoke again.

He reappeared in the crimson light, thoughtfully observing Nie Wan before tentatively speaking.

"feel better now?"

"Ah."

Lan Xiangyuan's eyes widened: "How long has it been? You can actually talk now?"

Nie Wan didn't speak; in her memory, she didn't say anything after answering that question.

Tianxi Changyi was just as surprised as Lan Xiangyuan, astonished that she had recovered so quickly.

But he immediately got to the point.

"Do you remember what you suffered at Ye Rutan's hands?"

Nie Wan gave a soft "hmm" again, and Tianxi Changyi's eyes immediately lit up.

Can you tell me about it?

Nie Wan remained silent. Tianxi Changyi asked, "Is it because you don't have the strength to speak yet?"

Nie Wan hummed in agreement again.

Lan Xiangyuan and Tianxi Changyi both understood that Nie Wan only retained the ability to make sounds, and was still far from being able to truly converse with people and convey her meaning.

Tianxi Changyi then continued to let Nie Wan recuperate in this blood lake, generously providing her with a drop of soul-restoring blood bead every day.

After three months of recuperation flew by, it was the first thing Nie Wan said to Tian Xi Changyi.

"You have to give it back to me."

Lan Xiangyuan and Tianxi Changyi once again showed expressions of surprise.

"What did you say?" Tianxi Changyi retorted.

Nie Wandao said again, "You have to give it back to me."

"How do I repay it?"

"I don't know, but I have to go back."

"why?"

"I want...I want to see..."

Nie Wan couldn't express herself clearly at this crucial moment, and Lan Xiangyuan looked anxious, so the person next to her personally explained.

"I want to go back, and then torment Ye Rutan until she has no choice but to surrender me to the concept of lust."

Lan Xiangyuan suddenly realized, and then pursed her lips again.

When did you realize that there were concepts behind it all?

“You told me,” Nie Wan said, then shook her head. “It wasn’t you who told me, but after I swallowed your consciousness, I naturally became vaguely aware that there was such a thing as a concept, and I knew that there was something else behind Ye Rutan, so I always wanted to see it for myself.”

At that time, Nie Wan was unable to explain these meanings clearly. On the one hand, she only had a superficial understanding of the existence of concepts, and on the other hand, her mind did not allow her to think more deeply or express herself more thoroughly.

But Tianxi Changyi was very patient, and could even be described as gentle and considerate.

"It's okay if you can't say it. If you need me to do it, I'll do my best to help you. But it's not possible right now."

He moved closer, and Nie Wan's current appearance was reflected in his eyes again.

Compared to when he was first brought back by Tianxi Changyi, he is now at least a whole person, though he is shriveled and pale, like a corpse with its eyes open.

"In your current state, even if I were to perfectly send you back, you still wouldn't be able to withstand her torment."

Nie Wan didn't press the matter, but instead asked, "Why did you go that day?"

Nie Wan reverted to her usual style of simply replying with an "um" instead of an answer.

Instead, it was Tianxi Changyi who asked countless questions one by one.

"Can you tell me how you died? Did you die from the Yin Soul Jade?"

"……Um."

"Was he killed directly by an item or weapon made from the Yin Soul Jade, or by an array formed based on it?"

"..."

"Is it the former?"

"..."

"So it's the latter?"

"……Um."

"So you are also..." Tianxi Changyi pondered for a moment, carefully examining Nie Wan. After a struggle in his heart, he spoke to her.

"That's how the leaders died too, from Chief Mo to—I thought I could protect him, I thought there were no mistakes, but Ye Rutan still found an opportunity."

Lan Xiangyuan's eyes widened: "So, Chief Chi Yunsong and the others died in my past life?"

Nie Wan asked, somewhat puzzled, "You don't know?"

"I don't know." Lan Xiangyuan shook her head blankly. "You should know that after I was captured by Ye Rutan, I never had any freedom of movement. For a long time, it was just opening treasure chests, opening treasure chests, opening treasure chests, until the two of them found out about the concept of fortune and misfortune by interrogating my parents. They wanted to use me to bring out the concept of fortune and misfortune, but they failed, so they swallowed me up, wanting to usurp the inheritance of the skincare concept. So, in fact, I only know about the events of the past year in the game. After that year, I basically closed my eyes and ears."

At this point, Lan Xiangyuan couldn't help but sigh, "How come we're both in such a miserable situation? It would be too humiliating if we didn't return everything to those two sisters intact!"

"I will return it," Nie Wan said.

"Yes, so I will try my best to live to that day and personally stab them in the back." Lan Xiangyuan nodded, encouraging herself with Nie Wan's words.

In my memory, Tianxi Changyi also encouraged Nie Wan in the same way.

"I can tell you're no ordinary person. Although your plan sounds like a pipe dream, you might succeed. I'll do my best to help you. If you survive, I'll support whatever you want to do."

Nie Wan softly said, "Thank you."

Then came another period of recuperation, the exact duration of which was unknown.

It's not the physical wounds that are being healed, but the mental ones.

Nie Wan finally got a complete hibernation. Tianxi Changyi acted as her guardian deity, protecting her from any external interference, in addition to the cultural relics and props.

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