She really does like that person.

He forced her to accept it, but she was still unwilling to give up!

"Niannian, please forget about this person, okay? Please don't think about him anymore, okay? Look at me!" Qingxuan cried.

Xu Nian fell in love, but not because of him.

"I can't forget, I can't forget," Xu Nian murmured, clutching the painting to her chest, tears streaming down her face.

She desperately tried to recall something, but her head was throbbing with pain. As she was about to faint from the pain, she saw someone smiling at her and saying, "Little fox."

"Yu Chen." Xu Nian murmured the name before losing consciousness completely.

Yuanbao was extremely anxious. It never expected that Xu Nian would suddenly draw Yu Chen and subconsciously try desperately to recall this person.

The only person who moved the host's emotions ultimately won.

With his Dao heart shattered, Xu Nian was essentially ruined.

"Waaaaah! Niannian, why can't you ever like me? Even just a little bit!"

"You've met that person a few times, why is it that you can't live without him?" Qingxuan asked painfully, but Xu Nian, who was unconscious, was unable to answer.

When Xu Nian woke up, she found herself lying in soft bedding, but her whole body ached.

That feeling of pain in my lungs and internal organs when I move them is really unbearable.

Xu Nian sensed it and found that her body was completely empty, devoid of any spiritual energy.

She fell silent as she thought about what she had done before she lost consciousness.

She couldn't remember anything, but she knew one thing: that person was very important to her.

She must have liked him a lot before!

Otherwise, why would he subconsciously try to retrieve his memories and subconsciously draw them?

These damn tears, why are they flowing again?

"Niannian, you're awake." Qingxuan returned with the medicine and saw that Xu Nian had regained consciousness. The tension in his heart finally eased.

"Qingxuan, I..." Qingxuan wiped away the tears from the corners of Xu Nian's eyes.

"Niannian, don't cry. It's my fault. I'm the one who hurt you." Qingxuan fed the pill to Xu Nian, his expression filled with guilt and pain.

Does Qingxuan regret it?

He regretted it.

But he was really unwilling to accept it. He was the one who met her first. What was it about that person that made her like him?

"Qingxuan, what did you give me to eat?" Xu Nian felt that the pain all over her body had been relieved a lot after taking the pill.

"The pills to repair your body... Your Dao heart collapsed, your spiritual power went berserk, and you damaged all the meridians in your body." Qingxuan became saddened. He had always hoped that Xu Nian could switch to cultivating other Daoist methods.

Now that his wish has come true, he can't be happy at all, because it's all because of another person.

Xu Nian stared at Qingxuan's face for a long time before suddenly saying, "Qingxuan, come here."

"What's wrong, Niannian?" Qingxuan walked over and squatted down beside the bed.

"Lower your head." Qingxuan did exactly as Xu Nian said.

Until a pair of soft hands covered his face, she looked into his eyes and smiled.

"Qingxuan, did you really like me the first time we met?" Xu Nian still found it unbelievable. Does love at first sight really exist?

"Niannian, to be precise, from the very first moment I saw you, I knew you were the one."

“But you don’t like me, and I can’t just watch you like someone else, so I did that to you in the secret realm.” Qingxuan smiled bitterly, her face looking as if she was about to cry at any moment.

"So every time we met since I left the Immortal Seeking Sect, it was all planned by you?" Xu Nian raised an eyebrow and questioned.

"Yes, Niannian, are you afraid of me?" Qingxuan knew that what he was doing was abnormal in other people's eyes, but he couldn't control his heart.

"Qingxuan, how do you plan to treat me in the future?" Xu Nian can ignore the past, but not the future. Qingxuan needs to learn to respect her wishes.

"Niannian, can you not leave me? I really can't live without you. That Ye Fuchen is no good man. He's entangled with his junior sister and has a bunch of other women. Look at me, I really can't live without you." Qingxuan cried, sobbing as he begged Xu Nian not to give up on him.

"Qingxuan, can you let me finish what I have to say before you cry?" Xu Nian scolded in a coquettish voice.

"No, if Niannian finishes speaking, I won't even have a chance to play the victim." Qingxuan's sobbing voice sounded so pitiful that anyone who didn't know better would think he had been bullied in some way!

"Shut up, don't cry." Xu Nian had never seen someone so self-righteous in playing the victim.

"Niannian, don't abandon me." Qingxuan was genuinely afraid that Xu Nian would insist on going to find Ye Fuchen.

She has already ruined her Dao heart for him, and she still insists on going to find that person. How can he stop her?

"Qingxuan, I like you. Please don't cry, okay? You don't look good when you cry." Xu Nian's words made Qingxuan freeze.

He mechanically looked up and said, "Niannian, if you say you like me again, I won't cry."

"Qingxuan, I, Xu Nian, like you." Xu Nian smiled sweetly at him after saying that, and the sincerity in her eyes made Qingxuan feel like he was in a dream.

He stared at her blankly, unable to come to his senses for a long time.

"Qingxuan, where is my painting?" Xu Nian thought of the painting she had paid such a high price for, and she couldn't let it be lost.

Upon hearing Xu Nian looking for the painting, Qingxuan regained his senses and realized that she was indeed trying to coax him.

Qingxuan took out the scroll from the storage space and spread it out for Xu Nian to see. "Nian Nian, this is your painting."

"It's good that it's not damaged. Please put it away for me!" Xu Nian's eyes crinkled with joy, clearly delighted to see the painting.

“Okay.” Qingxuan put the painting away in a jade box in front of Xu Nian.

"By the way, did you not tell my master about my Dao Heart collapsing?" Xu Nian didn't want True Monarch Qingyu to worry about this.

"I haven't told my senior sister yet," Qingxuan said, shaking his head.

After settling Xu Nian in, he went to Danfeng to seek medicine, and he hasn't told anyone about it yet.

"Qingxuan, don't tell my master about this. It's only a matter of time before my Dao Heart is fully formed." Xu Nian already had a plan in mind. Once she recovered, she would begin to form a new Dao Heart.

"Niannian, which path do you want to cultivate?" Qingxuan used to be eager for Xu Nian to cultivate the Path of Sentiment, but now he was afraid.

"The way of time is such that the flowers bloom the same year after year, but the people are different year after year." Xu Nian looked at Qingxuan as if she were looking into the past.

Even though neither of them remembers, even though they look different, even though they will forget each other again in this life.

But it's okay, they will meet again.

Time can erase memories, erase the traces of what once existed, and give them all a completely new appearance, but its essence has never changed.

Xu Nian said to Qing Xuan with utmost solemnity, "Qing Xuan, remember this: Xu Nian likes you. She likes you very much."

"What you keep in mind will surely come to pass. My name is Xu Nian, the Xu Nian that you will never forget."