Although the old man warned her, Xie Hua still entered. The place was heavy with yin energy, filled with incomplete souls and resentments. Xie Hua, harboring murderous intent, could easily fall into a demonic trance. In her hallucination, she killed Liao Zhong and was pulled out of the illusion by Xia Xianning.
If not for the psychological extremes, most people need some impulse to kill, and after that impulse, the drug-like hallucinatory feeling would gradually fade, replaced by panic and regret.
So at this moment, hearing Luo Yingbai say he didn’t actually kill anyone, Xie Hua suddenly felt empty inside, unable to tell if she felt regret or relief.
She murmured, “What is illusion, and what is reality? How can the same person have deep affection and yet be so heartless? Master Luo, tell me, is appearance really that important to you men?”
“When he was in a car accident and unconscious, I was willing to wait for him my entire life. When he said he wanted his current wife, I didn’t leave him. But that last ‘I love you’ – those three words I hadn’t heard in years – suddenly filled my heart with immense hatred!”
“He defiled those words, defiled Liao Zhong! Tell me, how could I not kill him? After waiting so hard for so many years…”
Xie Hua spoke incoherently, her emotions fluctuating, sometimes lucid, sometimes confused. Her thoughts were likely chaotic, unable to distinguish whether the Liao Zhong in her heart was real or imagined.
In a trance, white hair seemed to sprout at her temples. Luo Yingbai looked away, placing a transparent glass bottle on the table, saying softly, “Letting go at the cliff, instantly becoming nothing. Leaning on green, nestling in red, all like a spring dream. What of rosy cheeks? What of white hair?”
With his words, Xie Hua felt she understood something, yet couldn’t grasp the substantive thing. It was like a stone falling into a lake, ripples spreading, stirring a thousand thoughts.
Her body suddenly transformed into a blue smoke, floating into the small bottle.
Luo Yingbai sealed the cap and handed it to Xia Xianning, who had another small bottle, and he packed them together.
