I'll also work hard to conquer the dungeon today.

Chapter 300, 1.21-16: The Girl Imprisoned in the Tower
The reason why the Geminis were so fixated on that map, and even after it was stolen, they relentlessly pursued it, was because of the contents of that map.

They compared hundreds of maps and found the only one with different content.

It was this map that made them realize a certain possibility, but unfortunately, it was stolen as soon as they went out, and even if they left and chased after it, they couldn't catch up with the other party's premeditated plan.

Mingxi walked slowly behind Mingjin, her lake-blue eyes quietly watching Mingjin's back.

Suddenly, he asked, "What happened during those ten days?"

Ming Jin stiffened slightly. He turned to look at Ming Xi, who looked exactly like him, but the twins had completely different temperaments. Ming Jin chuckled and said, "Nothing happened. It was just a matter of reflecting on my mistakes behind closed doors."

Mingxi frowned first, looked at Mingjin with a serious expression, and said solemnly, "Is it meaningful for you to lie to me with this? Your feelings are all synchronized with mine. I can feel your fear and dread for a moment when I asked you about it."

Ming Jin lowered her eyes and stopped talking after Ming Xi pointed it out so bluntly.

"Say something!" Mingxi clicked her tongue, sounding annoyed.

He felt a sense of betrayal, as if his most intimate and inseparable half had been kept in the dark about something important. He could feel the thin membrane separating him from Mingjin.

Even if he wanted to get closer and restore their original intimacy, he had no way to do so.

He couldn't break through this invisible wall, while Mingjin could break it but was unwilling to.

"I've held back for a long time. The emotion you conveyed the moment you came out made me give up asking you. Later, seeing that you had recovered completely, I didn't continue to pursue the answer. I've been holding back until now. Mingjin! How much longer do you intend to hide this from me?"

Mingxi slammed his fist into the tree trunk, his silver hair fluttering slightly. He stared intently into his lake-blue eyes at the boy whose forehead still bore the blue crystal, as if trying to see through his heart.

“There’s no need to tell you. Even if we’re twins, we’re still different individuals, and I also want my own space,” Ming Jin said softly, her head lowered and eyes narrowed.

With just a slight bow of his head, it was impossible to see Ming Jin's expression clearly at that moment.

Mingxi felt extremely unfamiliar with Mingjin like this. He took a step forward in a daze, as if he wanted to touch Mingjin tentatively, but the latter took a step back to avoid his touch.

The previously invisible membrane had thickened, and he could even clearly see his body reflected in it like glass, while on the other side was his brother, who should be his closest confidant.

"Are you kidding me?" Mingxi's voice was a little hoarse, as if she was enduring something.

His expression carried a hint of pain, like that of an abandoned little animal, his lake-blue eyes filled with a pleading look.

Ming Jin looked up at Ming Xi as if she hadn't noticed anything and chuckled, "Of course I'm serious." She didn't even care about Ming Xi's expression at that moment, as if she were just looking at an unreasonable child.

Mingxi's hands, which were naturally hanging at his sides, clenched slightly into fists. He restrained himself from acting impulsively, reminding himself that it was none other than his own brother.

"Mingjin... tell me... are you serious?" Mingxi took a deep breath, looked at the face that looked exactly like hers, and asked in a low, hoarse voice.

Ming Jin chuckled as she looked at Ming Xi as if she were a naive child, her lake-blue eyes holding a hint of darkness. "Of course I am..."

Before he could finish speaking, Mingxi pressed him against the tree trunk, making him feel the powerful force and see the hurt and anger in Mingxi's eyes.

"Say it again!!" Mingxi gritted her teeth and looked at Mingjin, saying each word clearly.

"Mingxi, how many times do you want me to repeat myself before you're satisfied? If you really want to hear it, why did you interrupt me? Stop running away from reality. Even though we're the closest twins, I sometimes want some personal space too." Mingxi punched the tree trunk next to Mingjin's face, but even though she was angry, she didn't hit his face.

Feeling the sharp pain in her fingers, Mingxi slowly closed her eyes and whispered, "So this is what you really think? Is this why you keep trying to separate yourself from me? It turns out it was all premeditated, and I was the only one who was foolish enough to think you were still the same person."

God knows how much his voice trembled when he said those words.

He was terrified to hear this cruel truth...

He told himself he shouldn't believe Ming Jin's words, that it wasn't true, that Ming Jin was lying to him. But when he opened his eyes, he was met with a pair of lake-blue eyes exactly like his own, eyes filled with seriousness, a seriousness that frightened him.

Mingxi released Mingjin, took a step back as if giving up, and whispered, "You go first, I want to calm down for a while."

Ming Jin frowned and looked at Ming Xi with concern, "You..."

"Don't talk to me! I don't want to see you right now." Mingxi, with her back to Mingjin, interrupted him the moment he opened his mouth, her attitude firm.

Mingjin nodded and said, "I understand. I'll wait for you at the entrance of the valley ahead."

Without hesitation, they turned and left, showing no intention of stopping or turning back.

Mingxi turned his head and watched Mingjin's figure getting further and further away. He punched the tree trunk, making his finger bleed profusely. He didn't care about the pain at all, but just stared at his back until he could no longer see him.

"My brother, you are truly heartless."

Drops of blood from his fingertips fell onto the snow-covered ground, vivid yet glaring.

Dark red bloodstains remained on the tree trunk, indicating that Mingxi had previously committed self-harm without hesitation.

He sat on the ground leaning against a tree trunk, as pure white snowflakes drifted down from the sky.

His lake-blue eyes stared blankly at the snowflakes on the back of his hand, watching them melt little by little into snow water, and finally mix with blood as it fell to the ground.

The cold wind blew a few glittering silver strands of hair. The boy looked up at the gray sky, looking helpless and pitiful like an abandoned cub.

“You’re not lying, I really can’t feel your presence at all.” Mingxi leaned against the tree trunk dejectedly, repeating softly, “I can’t feel it at all… it’s like you don’t exist at all…”

Suddenly, I felt like I was transported back to that time more than twenty years ago.

Ming Jin made a mistake and was thrown into the cultivation room and confined by his brother Ming Xi and his father. That was the first time he couldn't feel his brother's presence.

For ten whole days, there was no news from that person.

When one of the twins loses half of its body, the other cannot survive on its own.

This is a fact that both of them know, but now his other half is thinking of leaving him and wanting to be independent.

He was completely abandoned.

(End of this chapter)