Feng Guang's face was pale. She smiled softly, and her frail appearance had an eerie beauty about her. With her last bit of strength, she raised her hand and touched his cheek. "When I close my eyes... maybe you will know the answer."
As the last word faded, she closed her eyes, and her hand that had been on his face slipped away. For a long, long time, she made no sound, not even a breath.
As the body in Zhong Ran's arms grew colder, he finally reacted. His gaze lowered, and in his eyes was her bloodless face. On that beautiful face, her lively eyes would never open again to look at him with joy, and her red lips would never speak again, never uttering the infatuated words, "You are so beautiful."
As he held her, Zhong Ran's grip tightened. He was certain of the answer, but remained calm. He stood up, still holding her, and never once did he look at Liu Li. Instead, he vanished into the desolate battlefield, paved with blood.
"After that, I never saw Zhong Ran again." After telling this long story, Liuli poured herself a cup of tea. The tea helped her calm down, because just thinking about that scene on the battlefield made her feel lingering fear.
Whether it's Zhong Ran's indifference or Feng Guang's stubbornness, Liu Li still can't understand them now, but she doesn't intend to ask, because she and they are not the same kind of people.
After listening to Liuli's story, Fengguang was deeply moved and couldn't calm down for a long time. She never imagined that the plot from the original story would actually come to pass. For example, she was indeed the empress of the male protagonist Jian An, and after Jian An died, Liuli had to risk her life to save the tower.
But there are still many things she doesn't understand.
"According to you, I am dead, so why did I come back to life? And... wasn't Jian An dead? Why is he still alive now?"
"I know you still have many questions. Don't worry, I will explain them to you one by one." Liuli finished her tea and then told her what she knew about the follow-up.
Back then, Zhong Ran disappeared with Feng Guang's corpse. To save Jian An, she still wanted to use her own heart. However, she later discovered that she was pregnant with Jian An's child. She was caught in a dilemma. Later, she thought of going to the King of Hell's Palace. After people die, their souls enter the King of Hell's Palace. If she could snatch Jian An's soul back, Jian An could be brought back to life.
When she arrived at the Yama King's Palace, she found it completely silent. The underworld was already desolate, but it was filled with the wailing of ghosts and howls every day and night. How could it be so quiet?
Until she met the injured King Yama, who told her: "A man said he came to find a woman's soul, but I told him that there was no such soul in the underworld. He snatched the Book of Fates and found that there was no such woman. Then he suddenly went mad and beat all the ghosts to a pulp. In the end, Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva intervened and I barely managed to save my life, but the Bodhisattva was also seriously injured."
The first person Liuli thought of was Zhong Ran. She had a feeling that Zhong Ran must be regretting it. He was looking for Feng Guang's soul, hoping to bring Feng Guang back to life. But Feng Guang's soul was not in the underworld. Not only that, Jian An's soul was not in the underworld either.
Liuli suddenly lost her mind. She didn't know why their souls hadn't appeared in the underworld, but she wasn't about to give up on saving Jian An so easily. So she returned to the heavenly realm.
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