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"fine."

Ying looked up and saw Fang Qiu standing in the lamplight. She was slightly taken aback, then followed him.

After Fang Qiu and Ying left, the cursing in the teahouse gradually subsided.

"Keep watching. Although the story of Cai Die and Liu Jinyuan is very heartbreaking, thankfully the story of Lin Yueru and Li Xiaoyao is still very sweet."

"That's true. I hope Fang Qiu can give them a perfect ending. After all, I really like this kind of bickering relationship where we can play together until we're old."

"Me too, me too. They remind me of Jing Tian and Xue Jian."

"Jingtian and Xuejian... Brother, Jingtian doesn't have much time left..."

"Ah, this..."

"Wait a minute, do you all like Lin Yueru? I like Zhao Ling'er more. She's the same person I used to like."

Me too.

"I bet five moras that Li Xiaoyao will end up with Zhao Ling'er."

"I bet ten moras that it's Lin Yueru."

"Too small. Your vision is too limited. If you ask me, we should take them all at once. I'll bet fifty moras on it."

They chattered amongst themselves, their earlier sadness somewhat dispelled, and they continued watching amidst laughter and conversation.

However, after seeing Liu Jinyuan's parents commit suicide, the air fell silent once again.

They continued looking down.

At this time.

Led by the Drunken Sword Immortal, Li Xiaoyao and Lin Yueru arrived at Mount Shu.

After their negotiations failed, they secretly broke into the Demon-Sealing Tower.

As Li Xiaoyao ventures deeper into the Demon-Sealing Tower, his long-buried memories begin to resurface.

The moment Li Xiaoyao saw Zhao Ling'er, he completely regained his memories.

He and Zhao Ling'er embraced each other.

Lin Yueru stared blankly, her mind reeling from the image of growing old together.

"So fate is just an explanation for why you suddenly stopped loving me..."

Fang Qiu poured his heart and soul into this passage, and when they read Lin Yueru's inner monologue in the book, their eyes filled with tears.

However, when they saw the song "Always Quiet," they couldn't hold back their tears any longer.

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P.S.: There's more to come.

Chapter 367 The Moth Chasing the Flame

"Oh no, oh no, is this going to kill Lin Yueru? I just placed a 10 Mora bet! No, wait, my Yueru!"

"My love for you has always been so quiet... just like Lin Yueru, just like Cai Die, and alas... just like me. Indeed, fate decides everything. If Lin Yueru had met Li Xiaoyao first, perhaps everything would have been different... If I had met her sooner, if I had been the one who saved her from the Hilichurls, perhaps... everything would have been different..."

"Me too... Sometimes the order of appearance really matters... I understand that feeling..."

"Everything was predetermined."

"Yue Ru is so pitiful, so wronged. She and Li Xiaoyao had just pledged their lives to each other, but Li Xiaoyao remembered everything..."

Everyone sighed.

Looking at Lin Yueru in the book, at this moment, standing to the side with a sad expression, determined to withdraw from the shadow of these three people.

They felt as if something was pressing down on their chests, making it hard to breathe.

That was a really vicious cut...

In particular, the song "Always Quiet" awakened memories that many people in the audience had kept buried deep in their hearts and were unwilling to mention.

Just as everyone sighed and continued reading, Zhao Ling'er said that the three of them should always be together.

"Huh?"

Many people present who liked Lin Yueru were pleasantly surprised. Unexpectedly, Fang Qiu actually used a trick of first suppressing and then elevating the opponent, stopping the attack halfway through.

Fang Qiu actually spared his life.

Seeing that they had already figured out how to unlock the Demon-Sealing Tower, they all looked forward to what would happen next.

Next, Zhao Ling'er, Lin Yueru, and Li Xiaoyao's journey to the Nanzhao Kingdom together will surely be very enjoyable.

After arriving in the Nanzhao Kingdom, the crisis was resolved.

The three of them traveled together, enjoying the scenery, flowers, the moon, and beautiful women.

The three of them will eat and play together until they grow old.

She had several children.

Of course, the happiest person was the one who bet fifty mora on the three of them being together.

They dived into the Demon-Transforming Water and successfully destroyed the Panlong Pillar. Lin Yueru was the first to climb ashore, and then pulled Li Xiaoyao and Zhao Ling'er out of the Demon-Transforming Water.

Just when everyone thought they were about to escape and live happily ever after, a huge rock fell from the top of the Demon-Sealing Tower. Accompanied by a heartfelt and tearful confession, Lin Yueru pushed Li Xiaoyao and Zhao Ling'er back into the Demon-Transforming Water, but was hit by the boulder herself.

Upon seeing this, the smiles on everyone's faces froze...

……

Meanwhile, in another teahouse...

A seat by the window.

Ayaka Kamisato and Yoshimiya Naganohara sat facing each other, looking sadly at the books in their hands.

A breeze blows, and like the tea in the cup, the pages of the book sway gently.

The pages of the book depict the tragic death of Lin Yueru.

Naganohara Yomi-miya looked incredulous, tears streaming down her pale face, soaking the white cloth covering her chest.

Lin Yueru...

She... is dead?

Just moments ago, Lin Yueru was envisioning a trip together after leaving the Demon-Sealing Tower, but in the blink of an eye...

In the book, Fang Qiu's reluctant yet resolute gaze when Lin Yueru pushed Li Xiaoyao away is exactly the same as the description of Cai Die exchanging her thousand years of cultivation for Liu Jinyuan's ten years of life.

They are the same kind of people.

For the one they love, they are willing to sacrifice everything.

Like a moth drawn to a flame.

Unfortunately……

Butterfly couldn't say goodbye to Liu Jinyuan...

Lin Yueru died without ever being able to say "I love you" to Li Xiaoyao...

"This is outrageous, how could they do this..."

Nagano Hara kept wiping away her tears, crying as she felt very sorry for Lin Yueru.

It was so close...

If they can escape, they can be together forever...

They still have so many things they haven't done, so many places they haven't seen...

But all of this has come to nothing...

"Never forget..."

Ayaka Kamisato looked at the four words Fang Qiu left behind after Li Xiaoyao dreamt of Lin Yueru leaving in despair on the page of the book, her eyes reddening as she murmured them softly.

I can't lose it, I can't forget it...

However, Li Xiaoyao has already lost Lin Yueru...

Only Don't Forget...

Perhaps for Lin Yueru, true death meant being forgotten by Li Xiaoyao.

Looking at Li Xiaoyao's anguish and self-reproach in the book, Ayaka Kamisato felt as if she could hardly breathe, and tears streamed down her pale face onto the pages.

Meanwhile, other people in the teahouse also spotted the location.

"My Yue Ru! Fang Qiu, you heartless scoundrel! How could you be so cruel!"

"If you're going to kill Yue Ru, why give her any hope? That's far too cruel!"

"Li Xiaoyao is so pitiful. You can tell he also loves Yue Ru, but the person he loves died in front of him to save him and another woman..."

"Yes, Lin Yueru said that no one wants their beloved to die before them. For the sake of their loved ones, any sacrifice is worthwhile. Unlike Liu Jinyuan, Li Xiaoyao truly loved Lin Yueru deeply. His beloved died to save him. If it were me, I'm afraid I would never be able to get over such pain..."

"Yes... I'll never get over it..."

"Fang Qiu is like this: she creates the best characters and uses the most ruthless techniques... every cut is bloody. I once suspected that Fang Qiu herself was suffering a lot. However, when I went to the book signing this morning, she was smiling so brightly and gently."

"Sigh, you don't understand. Her laughter is just a way for her to hide her inner pain. I used to have a neighbor who loved to laugh, but then..."

"Sigh...that's true...how could someone who can write such a work not be experiencing immense pain..."

Hearing the crowd's discussion, Ayaka Kamisato and Yoshimiya Naganohara exchanged a glance.

After a long silence, they agreed to visit Fang Qiu together later to ask him about this issue.

If what they say is true, they must help Fang Qiu escape her misery.

After letting out a long sigh, they continued watching.

When they saw Fang Qiu using flashbacks to describe Li Xiaoyao's memories of his time with Lin Yueru, their attention, which had just shifted to Fang Qiu's mental well-being, returned to the book.

"Why...why didn't you dodge?"