“You remember?” Feng Qishi asked, looking down at Mu Anxiao’s hand.
“Remember…” Uttering a single word, Mu Anxiao felt dizzy for a moment before collapsing towards Feng Qishi.
Seeing this, Feng Qishi quickly reached out to catch Mu Anxiao, then slung her over his shoulder and left using a spell.
Soon, they were back.
“What’s wrong with her?” Zeng asked, standing by the bed and looking at Mu Anxiao.
Feng Qishi said, “She’s fine. Go buy some things.” With that, he gave Zeng some silver.
Zeng took the silver, nodded obediently, and left.
After Zeng had completely departed, Feng Qishi cast a spell to close the door, sat by the bed, and waved his hand in front of Mu Anxiao’s face.
Instantly, Mu Anxiao woke up.
“I’m back,” she croaked.
“You’re back,” Feng Qishi withdrew his hand and asked, “Did you remember anything?”
“…” Mu Anxiao shook her head.
“You didn’t remember?” Feng Qishi asked again.
Mu Anxiao closed her eyes.
At this moment, Feng Qishi could no longer understand Mu Anxiao. He stood up, not asking any further questions, and quietly walked away.
After he left, Mu Anxiao opened her eyes, stared at the ceiling beams, and murmured, “Wan Sha’s true form is a sunflower.”
Sunflowers, just as Mu Anxiao had thought, Wan Sha had once been a sunflower.
In Mu Anxiao’s memory, decades ago, there were no houses built here; instead, it was full of sunflowers, and Wan Sha had been one of them.
At that time, a large number of monsters lived in this place. Through the infusion of demonic energy, Wan Sha had cultivated into a monster.
But on the very day Wan Sha transformed into human form, the second son of the Lin family, Lin Xian, took a fancy to this place and had it built up at a high price.
Therefore, the sunflowers that had cultivated demonic energy and accompanied Wan Sha for a long time were all plucked and discarded overnight at his command.
Wan Sha, therefore, stayed behind secretly, determined to avenge the sunflowers.
Initially, Wan Sha did not know Lin Xian’s purpose, so she investigated in secret, eventually learning that Lin Xian partly intended to hide women here. Knowing this, she stubbornly believed that beautiful women were a source of disaster.
Thus, she made up her mind to kill the women who moved in.
Over time, Lin Xian could no longer tolerate it and found a demon hunter named Wan Xia, a young woman disguised as a man. She was also the first person Wan Sha met.
The name Wan Sha was also given by her.
At first, Wan Sha disliked her.
As they interacted more later on, Wan Sha recognized her as an elder sister. It was also because of Wan Xia that Wan Sha gradually lost her murderous intent.
However, Wan Sha had already been targeted by the Yin Messengers below. Mu Anxiao received the mission and came here.
At that time, Mu Anxiao was an immortal who was completely heartless and only focused on completing her mission.
For the sake of the mission, she intervened in their lives by any means necessary.
Because Wan Xia tried to stop her, Mu Anxiao, with intent, told the Lin family that the demon hunter was a woman, and also told the Lin family that everything was Wan Xia’s doing. Lin Xian, upon hearing this, became furious and came looking for her.
Thinking of this, Mu Anxiao began to pound the bedboard forcefully, tears streaming down her face, and she kept scolding herself.
At the same time, Feng Qishi heard Mu Anxiao’s commotion and hurried around the screen to her side, asking, “What’s wrong?”
“It’s all me, it’s my fault.” Mu Anxiao cried.
Feng Qishi looked at Mu Anxiao, utterly confused, and asked, “What’s wrong?”
Mu Anxiao could not control her emotions and deliberately used her arm to cover her eyes, “It’s all me. If it weren’t for me, Wan Sha would never have accumulated so much hatred.”
“It was the vine spirit, it has nothing to do with you,” Feng Qishi said.
Mu Anxiao shook her head vigorously twice, “No, it was me. If I hadn’t gone to the Lin family to cause trouble, none of this would have happened. If I had believed Wan Xia, perhaps Wan Sha wouldn’t have left this world with hatred, nor would she have turned from sunlight to complete darkness. It’s all my fault.”
“It was the vine spirit.”
“It was me, it was me… sob sob sob…” Mu Anxiao burst into tears.
Feng Qishi looked at Mu Anxiao like this and had no idea what to say.
“…”
“If it weren’t for me, that bastard Lin Xian would never have discovered she was a woman,” Mu Anxiao said with a choked voice.
“What’s going on?” Feng Qishi frowned.
Mu Anxiao slowly moved her arm away.
As Mu Anxiao said, the day Lin Xian went there, Wan Xia happened to have changed into women’s clothing.
At that time, Lin Xian was also startled when he saw her.
Afterward, Lin Xian forced Wan Xia to marry him.
Later, due to Lin Xian’s repeated harassment, Wan Xia finally reached an agreement with him.
The condition was that the houses here would be demolished and planted with sunflowers. Lin Xian readily agreed, hoping to win Wan Xia over.
Wan Xia did not know how difficult sunflowers were to cultivate, but Lin Xian did.
Shortly after, Wan Xia married Lin Xian.
Afterward, Wan Xia was confined to her residence, and the houses here were not demolished, but no one ever came again.
Mu Anxiao’s scheme succeeded, thinking that by separating them, Wan Sha would obey. She didn’t expect that after that incident, Wan Sha harbored hatred towards Mu Anxiao.
Because Wan Sha knew what kind of person Lin Xian was, she was constantly worried about Wan Xia. When she heard the news of Wan Xia’s death, she completely collapsed.
Mu Anxiao witnessed everything, and Wan Sha also became dark. She left her body and told Mu Anxiao that if she found her among the hellflowers, she would go to hell.
At that time, Mu Anxiao thought that if a sunflower hid in a sea of hellflowers, it would be found quickly, so she agreed without thinking.
Then, Wan Sha left.
Who knew that reality would be completely different from what Mu Anxiao thought? Standing on the stone path, she looked at the lycoris on both sides, a doubt arose in her heart. She couldn’t see Wan Sha, only a vast expanse of blood red. This feeling made her unable to make up her mind, and finally, she coldly uttered two words.
At the same time, because Wan Sha could not adapt to the lycoris sea, she moved her body.
Thus, Mu Anxiao, breaking the rules, found her.
Before that, Wan Sha had already begun to turn dark. In her own eyes, she no longer had any connection to sunflowers. The color of her body had long since turned blood red from the moment it was stained with human blood.
It was precisely because the color of her body was the same as the color of the lycoris that she dared to make such a bet with Mu Anxiao.
Unexpectedly, she still lost in the end, becoming the most unique sunflower.
As for why she could transform into datura and lycoris, it was purely due to the illusion of the vine spirit and had nothing to do with her own!
Mu Anxiao also realized this point.
“If I hadn’t forced her, she wouldn’t have become like this,” Mu Anxiao choked out.
Feng Qishi sat by the bed and patted Mu Anxiao’s hand, “Don’t blame yourself anymore.”
Mu Anxiao said, “She forgot all of this too.”