Su Yu was stunned for a moment, not expecting Yan Chiling to suddenly bring up the matter between him and Bai Ying.
"Aren't you... the one who hates Bai Ying the most?"
Su Yu's voice trembled slightly, and a dull pain shot through his chest when he mentioned his fifth junior sister.
Fifth Junior Sister has been gone for a long time. Master led people to hunt her down, but unexpectedly, she killed Master instead.
Although Su Yu's feelings for Bai Ying were complicated, he really wanted to go back to the past and make Bai Ying his fifth junior sister again.
But he already knew that they could never go back...
The girl he raised from a baby to adulthood, who depended on him the most, is long gone now.
He still remembers how resolute Bai Ying's back looked when she turned and left the last time he saw her.
She said, "This is the last time I'll call you 'Senior Brother,' and I never will again..."
Su Yu said to Yan Chiling with some distress:
"Fourth Junior Brother, I know you dislike Bai Ying and always bully her. But for the sake of our fellow disciples, please put aside your hatred for Fifth Junior Sister..."
After all, their past relationship...
Yan Chiling shook his head frantically, his hands unconsciously gripping Su Yu's sleeves: "No, Senior Brother! I...I've lost a piece of my memory. All my memories before Ruan Xinrou came are gone!" His voice was filled with unprecedented panic, "I want to know, before that...what kind of relationship did Bai Ying and I have..."
"What?!" Su Yu jumped up, the table shaking from the impact. This sudden truth struck him like a thunderbolt.
Su Yu clearly hadn't expected that Yan Chiling had actually lost a piece of her memory!
This kid hadn't told anyone about this.
The various difficulties Yan Chiling had made for Bai Ying over the years flashed through her mind, and suddenly everything made sense.
"No wonder!" Su Yu murmured.
"No wonder what?" Yan Chiling gripped his arm tightly, her nails almost digging into his flesh.
"No wonder you used to like Bai Ying so much, to the point that you wanted her to marry you. But later, you seemed to become a different person, suddenly hating her to the core. You always bullied her, even beating her..."
When Su Yu said this, he felt guilty, but in fact, he felt the same way.
He clearly favored Fifth Junior Sister the most before Junior Sister arrived.
But after his junior sister arrived, he suddenly grew to dislike her and kept scolding his fifth junior sister, to the point that he didn't even want to see her.
At this moment, Su Yu felt an indescribable sadness in his heart.
He said slowly, "I really think I'm very strange. I used to love my fifth junior sister so much. But later, I always scolded her. I believed everything Ruan Xinrou said without ever verifying it. I never even considered that what Ruan Xinrou said might be a lie!"
He genuinely believed that Ruan Xinrou wouldn't lie, but he never imagined that she was the one who was constantly lying.
The thought that Ruan Xinrou had almost killed her sixth junior brother and blamed Bai Ying for attracting the monster filled him with skepticism about what Ruan Xinrou had said.
But Su Yu had no idea that while he was saying these words, Yan Chiling felt like his head was about to explode!
He felt as if he had heard the most absurd joke in the world.
Unconsciously, my fingers dug into my palm, my nails digging deep into my flesh, yet I felt no pain whatsoever.
"I like... Bai Ying?"
These words were squeezed from his trembling lips, in a broken, incredulous tone.
For years, his perception of Bai Ying had been one of utter detestability—spoiled, domineering, and constantly at odds with Ruan Xinrou. But now his senior brother was telling him that he liked Bai Ying?
"This is impossible..." Yan Chiling's voice was hoarse and barely audible, her bloodshot eyes fixed on Su Yu, as if trying to find any trace of a lie on his face.
Su Yu sighed and took out an ancient-looking Qiankun Mirror from his storage bag.
Ripples spread across the mirror's surface, gradually revealing a long-forgotten scene—
That was when Su Yu secretly placed the Qiankun Mirror there to catch the thief who cut off the deer antlers. He caught the two of them red-handed.
In the Qiankun Mirror, two small figures crouched furtively beside a sleeping spirit deer. Young Yan Chiling held a small knife, carefully cutting the deer's antlers, glancing nervously around every now and then. Behind him, Bai Ying, with her hair in two buns, clung tightly to his clothes, her round eyes filled with fear.
"Fourth Senior Brother, let's go quickly..." the little girl's voice was soft and sweet, tinged with tears, "What if Eldest Senior Brother finds out..."
"Don't be afraid." The little boy in the picture straightened his chest, his hands trembling, but he tried to appear calm. "I said I'd give you the deer antlers to forge, and I will. If Senior Brother blames me, I'll take the blame!"
Yan Chiling was struck dumb, frozen in place. This memory... this childhood event he had completely forgotten, now pierced his heart like a sharp sword.
The scene shifts, and Su Yu appears angrily before the two little ones. Little Yan Chiling reacts quickly, grabbing Bai Ying and trying to run away, but is lifted up by the back of her collar.
"Senior Brother!" The little boy, though pale with fright, stubbornly shielded Bai Ying behind him. "It was all my idea! Punish me if you must!"
Su Yu couldn't help but chuckle: "Oh, so you've learned to protect your junior sister now?"
"Of course!" Little Flame Chiling straightened her back, her childish voice ringing out firmly, "As long as I'm here, no one can bully Bai Ying! Not even Senior Brother!"
The mirror gradually darkened, finally freezing on the little boy's resolute expression. The child who once swore to protect her had now become the one who hurt Bai Ying the most...
"Clang—"
Yan Chiling staggered backward, knocking over the coffee table behind him. His face was ashen, and fine beads of cold sweat appeared on his forehead.
This video is like a key, slowly prying open the sealed door to memories.
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