"The real reason was... your heart ached, right? You nearly lost all rationality," Haitang finished exasperatedly.
"Lord Asura, is it? He should be someone worthy of being entrusted with her for the rest of her life," Ji Xiuran murmured softly some time later.
"Was it worth it?" Haitang asked a long while later.
"What do you think?" Ji Xiuran narrowed his eyes.
"Regardless of how entrustable someone else is, he's still not you." Haitang stared at Ji Xiuranthis man who she couldn't understand at all.
"Pah!"
Suddenly, Ji Xiuran spat out a mouthful of fresh blood.
"Are you okay?"
Haitang shot forward to support Ji Xiuran.
Ji Xiuran was silent for a moment before slowly standing up. He shook his head and said, "I... don't have time."
"As Master Li said, right now... you suffer every day, right... Your strong willpower comes from Worriless... Now that Worriless has returned, your wish is fulfilled, right? You persisted for so long just so you could see Worriless again..." An indescribable emotion broiled in Haitang's eyes.
Ji Xiuran continued to stay silent.
"With your body's current condition, you can't attack at all. However, you exchanged blows with Lord Asura last time... You're killing yourself. If it weren't for that time, your body wouldn't have deteriorated this much," Haitang said.
"It's all the same." Ji Xiuran shook his head. "I said I don't have much time left."
"When they captured me, my illness happened to act up... Coming here, I consider it my last act... for Worriless."
The man trudged his way outside the cell, his face ashen.
Staring after Ji Xiuran's departing figure, Haitang didn't say a word.
Just what did this man want to do? With his crippled body, what could he do currently?
Haitang finally stood up as well and followed Ji Xiuran.
Elsewhere on the island, in an extremely dilapidated room:
Ji Xiuran slowly entered the room.
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