Zhiwei sighed, "Master..."

Mo Qing didn't look at him; his gaze was fixed on Feng Guang. "I keep asking myself if I regret it? Yes, I regret it, but I've also thought about whether I would make a different choice if I could go back to that time. But I can't go back. I became a selfless hero in people's eyes, but times have changed, and those people will die. I suddenly don't understand. What's the point of giving up the woman I love?"

Feng Guang couldn't help but say, "But you really did save so many people..."

“These things mean nothing to me now.” Mo Qing walked to her side, reached out and covered her cheek. He lowered his head slightly, his eyes flickering. “Originally, we could have been husband and wife. You would have lived with me in the Immortal Sect. If you were bored, I would have taken you for a walk down the mountain. I know you like children. Maybe in a few years, we would have another child… I thought about many, many things for the future, things I had never thought about before I met you. But all my imagination vanished when I held your cold body in my arms.”

“Mo Qing…” It seemed like we had returned to the past, when he would look at me with such gentle eyes, but not with such heavy pain, so oppressive that it was almost impossible to breathe.

He smiled slightly and said, "As time goes by, there are more and more things I can't understand. Why am I the eldest disciple of the immortal sect? Why do I have to bear so many responsibilities? Why... can't I choose the person I love? After you died, I killed more evil demons and monsters, my hands were covered in blood, and I seemed to have an indelible bloody smell on my body. Suddenly one day, the elders came to me together. They said I was possessed by a demon. That was... the first time I realized that I was not a perfect person after all."

Feng Guang said slowly, "No one in this world is perfect."

"No, I am perfect only with you." Mo Qing slowly hugged her. Apart from her body stiffening slightly, she did not react in any other way. He smiled, "You see, only when you are by my side do I feel like I have everything. I have no other desires but you."

With her there, his empty heart seemed to be filled.

"But... why did I give you up?" He tightened his grip on her waist, and a pain finally surfaced in his usually calm voice. "Why did I give you up back then? In the Boundless Cliff, I kept thinking about this question, but no one gave me an answer. I didn't even have the courage to see you. Feng Guang, I'm a coward. I only dared to watch you from the Linglong Pool, watching you sit under the tree, idly counting the leaves, watching you erect tombstones for the dead, and then watching you slowly forget them. And later... you forgot me too."

Mo Qing felt an unprecedented panic, even more so than when she saw Feng Guang lose her life. For Feng Guang, she had forgotten him, and those memories were gone. He was just a stranger to her. But what about him? He couldn't forget anything. On the contrary, as time went by, those memories with her would become clearer and clearer in his mind.

“Feng Guang once asked me, if the person I love dies, would I be willing to watch her reincarnate…” He whispered in her ear, “My answer is no.”