It was deathly silent.
In the Ghost Domain.
It had returned to its former tranquility.
Wasn't it always extremely quiet before a storm?
Luo Qiu's status in the Ghost Domain was, of course, no ordinary one.
When she came and went in the Ghost Domain, no one dared to stop her.
Upon arriving in Chaozhou, Luo Qiu went straight to the Moon - Inviting Tower.
She reserved a room on the top floor.
After laying Xia Wanning on the bed, she began to regulate her inner energy to preserve Xia Wanning's basic breath first.
Just like this.
One day.
Two days.
Three days.
Slowly, Xia Wanning's breathing began to stabilize. However, all her spiritual energy had been drained by the ancient tree. Even though she had taken the beauty - preserving pill in her youth, she could never return to her former self.
Watching the slow rise and fall of the person on the bed, Luo Qiu withdrew her spiritual energy.
She returned Xia Wanning's eyes.
However,
Even so.
Xia Wanning's eyesight could never return to what it used to be.
Luo Qiu got up, opened the door, and was about to go out when a dry voice came from behind.
Yes.
Dry.
That was the only word Luo Qiu could think of at this moment.
"Why did you save me?"
It was Xia Wanning.
Presumably, she had woken up long ago but had just kept her eyes closed and remained silent.
Now,
Sensing that Luo Qiu was about to leave, she finally spoke.
Luo Qiu said coldly, "It wasn't me who wanted to save you."
"Do you pity me?"
"I don't think you're pitiful."
Luo Qiu didn't think anyone in this world was pitiful. What was sympathy? She had long lost it.
If it weren't for her elder sister wanting to see Xia Wanning, she wouldn't have wasted her time and energy to save her.
"You people are the ones who made me like this. Now, why do you save me? I'd rather be dead than alive."
Luo Qiu let out a chilling sneer.
She slowly closed the door.
Step by step, she walked towards Xia Wanning.
She said indifferently, "It doesn't matter if you die, but you can't die now."
"I have no more use for you. Why won't you let me go?"
Luo Qiu sat down and sipped her tea.
At this moment, she looked cold - blooded and withdrawn.
"Just remember that as long as I don't want you to die, you definitely won't."
"This isn't like you."
The person on the bed moved her lips and uttered these four words.
Luo Qiu replied, "I don't even know what kind of person I am."
There was a self - mocking tone in her voice, but one could hear how lonely and miserable her life had been over the years.
Xia Wanning didn't say a word.
After a while,
It was Luo Qiu who spoke first.
"You were with her before. What was she like?"
"Who?"
Luo Qiu's expression showed a hint of pain.
"Ye Ling."
Hearing this name, Xia Wanning couldn't help but shiver all over.
After that,
Her body began to cough violently.
Luo Qiu quickly used her spiritual energy again to soothe her agitated emotions.
Finally, after Xia Wanning calmed down, Luo Qiu continued, "If you don't want to talk, you don't have to. Don't torture yourself like this."
Xia Wanning turned her face towards the inside of the bed.
Her body,
She still couldn't move. She didn't even have the strength to control herself freely.
"Ye Ling—what kind of person was she?"
"How can I judge her?"
"We could have been fine. If it weren't for you people from the Ghost Domain, maybe I would be happy now."
Luo Qiu didn't say a word.
This conspiracy,
It originated from her and Mo Yan's selfish desires.
Too many people were involved in it.
Xia Wanning was just a pawn among them.
"If you—"
Luo Qiu was about to speak again, but before she could finish, Xia Wanning took over.
Perhaps,
Regarding Ye Ling, she had a lot to say. Maybe she would never have the chance to tell these words to Ye Ling herself.
"Since I was a child, I was born in the Ghost Domain. I really thought I was a person of the Ghost Domain. I thought that as long as I was loyal to the Ghost Domain, the God - Seat would give me everything I wanted. I really thought so."
"Later, I was sent to the Xia family. At that time, I didn't remember anything. Later, I found out that it was all the God - Seat's doing."
"You people from the Ghost Domain wanted to use me as your first pawn to set foot on the Kyushu Continent."
"The night Ye Ling saved me, I looked at her and thought she was so majestic. At that time, I thought if I could be as powerful as her when I grew up, that would be great."
In Xia Wanning's confused eyes,
A look of longing began to fill them.
What she was telling should be the deepest memory buried in her heart.
So,
She couldn't help but get emotional.
"During the time I was with Ye Ling, I called her Sister Ling every day and felt her care for me. Sometimes, I thought that if there wasn't the Emperor - Venerable by her side, she would be the closest person to me."
"However, once a person's desires and jealousy are ignited, they will start to burn and then become more and more intense. I couldn't stop my feelings for the Emperor - Venerable. Because of this, my hatred for Ye Ling grew deeper and deeper."
"I thought that the Emperor - Venerable was kind to her only because she was the Female Emperor and he was the Millennium Imperial Teacher. If I became the Female Emperor, I could become his disciple, and then the person who accompanied him every day would be me."
"Later, just as you all had planned, I did many things wrong to her. Even after her death, I didn't feel guilty at all. Moreover, at that time, I even thought that since she was dead, the Emperor - Venerable would never see her again. In this way, the Emperor - Venerable would notice my existence."
Xia Wanning let out a bitter laugh.
Her expression was full of remorse.
"But I found that since her death, the Emperor - Venerable even spent less and less time seeing us. Even when we met, he would just ask about the basic situation and then leave. I racked my brains to have some interaction with him, but he always kept me at a distance."
"Later, I found that every time I was with the Emperor - Venerable, if I mentioned Ye Ling, he would say a few more words to me. Therefore, every time in front of him, I always mentioned her and then pretended to be heart - broken. Only at this time would he say a few more words to me."
Luo Qiu originally wanted to know what kind of person her elder sister was when she was Ye Ling, but what she heard from Xia Wanning was more of her personal grudges.
However,
Luo Qiu didn't interrupt her.
Because from Xia Wanning's words, she could still get some information about her elder sister.
"You don't know that even when I was tied to the ancient tree in the Ghost Domain, even after the God - Seat told me the truth, at first, I still had full of hatred for Ye Ling."
"But later,"
"Every time I woke up from a midnight dream, the figure that appeared most in my mind wasn't the cold and aloof figure of the Emperor - Venerable, but the kind look of Ye Ling smiling and touching my head."
Xia Wanning seemed a bit obsessed.
When she said this,
She even laughed to herself.