Good. This is exactly what I was waiting for.
Rong Yi's phoenix eyes narrowed. His fingers moved slightly as he swiftly activated his heart soul, forcibly invading the immortal physician's body. "Since you refuse to speak, I'll find the answers myself."
He forcefully pressed the green light into the immortal physician's eyes. On the hospital bed, Lu Wei's body trembled violently once more. Then, the immortal physician's image rapidly grew faint, as if it might vanish with the wind at any moment. Yet, Rong Yi managed to obtain fragmented answers—
"Getting close to her is because I like her... I've liked her for many years..."
Lu Wei murmured with his eyes closed.
The immortal physician's image was now extremely weak, unable even to produce a sound. Thus, the words spoken from Lu Wei's mouth could no longer be distinguished—were they the immortal physician's past-life memories or Lu Wei's current-life recollections?
Rong Yi furrowed his brow, deciding to treat his words as belonging to this life's Lu Wei: "Nonsense. You've only known each other for a few months."
In this life, Lu Wei had met Qiqi even later than he had—just a few months ago. How could he have liked her for many years?
"No, we've actually known each other for many years..." Lu Wei argued.
Rong Yi snorted coldly: "Is that so? Then why haven't you acknowledged her?"
Lu Wei: "Because I don't want to change her fate..."
Rong Yi's eyes snapped wide as he demanded harshly: "Why would you change her fate? Why did the Heavenly Emperor send you to change her fate?"
"Her fate, her fate..."
In the immortal physician's hollow illusion, his gaze was filled with compassion—the pity of a healer, brimming with sympathy for all living beings. At the same time, his eyes were like a light feather, gently brushing across the girl's face.
Because her fate is my calamity—he said to himself in his heart.
Of course, even as the illusion was forced to dissipate, the immortal physician kept this sentence buried in his heart, not letting the Wolf King hear it.
And this final act of slight resistance caused the fragile soul to ultimately collapse. The vermilion glow on Lu Wei's chest gradually dimmed, and the immortal physician's image vanished.
What remained in Lu Wei's heart was only the last proverb from his past life—her fate is my calamity...
I must protect her, until the very end.
"So stubborn?" Rong Yi frowned. "Fine. For the sake of your former status as the immortal physician, I'll save you this once."
Then... after a long while, Lu Wei finally regained consciousness.
As Lu Wei woke, the gold and silver light patterns in the room immediately disappeared. Then, the jade pendant on the table suddenly let out a deafening sound—*crack*!
The jade pendant exploded.
*Sizzle, sizzle.* Fragments of jade flew everywhere. Rong Yi lunged forward, shielding Qiqi, preventing the shards from cutting her face.
Zhou Yi also heard the loud noise. He turned around, stunned, staring at the smoky, scorched scene inside the room—what happened? In the blink of an eye, how did the place look like a demolition site?
"Oh no, my jade pendant!"
He cried out, rushing forward, and his heart shattered as beautifully as the jade pendant itself.
His moon gem, the family heirloom jade pendant, was gone, leaving only a few pieces of jade dust behind.
Strangely, though, Rong Yi's Moon Guidance remained almost completely intact.
"Sorry, the spell was too strong and shattered your jade pendant." Rong Yi bent down, picked up the jade fragments, and spread them out in front of Zhou Yi, a hint of mischievous satisfaction gleaming in his eyes.