Stop pretending, the fake heiress is actually a master of metaphysics.

Shen Nian began to think about what would happen after her death.

Actually, she had been dead for many years, so logically there shouldn't have been any funeral arrangements.

One after another, people entered her world, leaving behind vivid and memorable experiences in her pale memory.

Shen Nian decided to return the Shen family's property to Shen Boyuan for him to dispose of.

Shen Boyuan is only this age, and with the pills she left behind, he should be able to manage the Shen family's business for a long time to come.

Shen Zhaoxin is a smart woman. If Shen Boyuan passes away in a few decades, he can be entrusted with managing the affairs of the household.

Is there anything else?

Xiao Bai is a registered and officially employed zombie in the Xuanmen Guild, and the Xuanmen Guild is responsible for him.

Wang Jingxing asked, "Will your apprentice be going along this time?"

Shen Nian pondered for a moment: "Strictly speaking, he can actually be considered my apprentice as well."

Shen Nian never made Gu Yuncheng perform the apprenticeship ceremony. The fundamental reason was that the hatred of the massacre of the Guili Sect had not been avenged. If Gu Yuncheng became the next disciple of the Guili Sect, should he also bear the blood feud of the sect?

That's so unfair.

Gui Li Sect never raised him; in any case, he should only be allowed to join the sect after the blood feud has been avenged.

If Shen Nian dies, then the Guili Sect will be wiped out. She has already found a successor for Gu Yuncheng. If he is willing to continue cultivating, he can join her sect. If he is not willing, he can continue to be a carefree young master.

Shen Nian will erase part of his memory, allowing him to return to the path of a normal person.

If Shen Nian survives after killing the enemy who wiped out her family, she will have Gu Yuncheng complete the formal apprenticeship ceremony and officially become the 476th disciple of the Guili Sect.

Therefore, Shen Nian does not plan to take him with her on this trip to the Northwest.

She said calmly, "He was originally just an ordinary person. It was only because he kept bothering me and because I had a karmic debt with him that I took him in and taught him."

"If I go there, I may not even be able to save my own life, let alone his."

He has too many family members, friends, and worldly attachments.

He cannot go with her.

Wang Jingxing nodded knowingly.

"Master Shen's disciple...we will do everything we can to take care of him."

Shen Nian paused, about to say something, when she suddenly heard a knock on the door.

Since it was about making final arrangements, the guild wouldn't force them to write their wills in one place. Instead, they were allowed to write them on their own and then hand them over to their respective department heads.

Those who want to say goodbye to their families can write their wills and go home immediately. They will then gather again three days later to head to the Northwest.

Shen Nian got up to open the door, only to find Gu Qiwen standing outside.

He did not return to Tiannan Mountain or go to his family.

Hu Die stood beside him and whispered, "President Gu said... he insisted on seeing you, so I brought him in."

"...Did I do something wrong?"

Shen Nian shook her head: "No, you should go back first."

Lesser demons like Butterfly, who are less than fifty years old, are not allowed to participate in this operation.

Shen Nian thought for a moment, then said, "If I don't come back, you must send that ginseng spirit back to the place where it was dug up, understand?"

Hu Die nodded: "I understand, Master Shen."

"Then... I won't bother you any longer."

Wang Jingxing glanced at Shen Nian, then got up and left the room as well.

Gu Qiwen looked down at Shen Nian.

After a long pause, he finally spoke in a hoarse voice, "And what about me?"

"...What?"

I asked, "And what about me?"

Gu Qi asked, "You've arranged everything for everyone, so what about me? What are your plans for me?"

"Or perhaps you've never cared how I feel?"

Shen Nian paused for a moment, which was unusual for her.

Unlike others, Gu Qiwen was neither taken in by her nor taught by her. Strictly speaking, he and Shen Nian only had an undetermined, engaged relationship.

She didn't know what liking someone meant, and she couldn't really say whether she liked him or not; she was just used to him always being by her side.

Gu Yuncheng's cultivation path needs continued guidance, and she also needs to arrange the follow-up for those spirits and monsters that are not suitable for living in human society.

But what about Gu Qiwen?

He was the head of the Gu family, with countless riches and power under his control. He didn't need her to plan his future; he could live a good life on his own.

He likes her now, that's true, but liking is too shallow a feeling. Five, ten, or twenty years after she dies, he will eventually meet someone new, someone who knows what liking is, and spend the rest of his life with her.

A hundred years later, you will be reincarnated and have a brand new life.

Will he be sad?

Perhaps, but sadness is not fatal.

If all else fails, Shen Nian can leave behind another spell to seal his memories, as if "Shen Nian" had never existed.

"You promised me."

Gu Qiwen looked down at her: "You promised me you would stay with me for a hundred years."

How can you go back on your word?

Shen Nian had nothing to say, nor could she defend herself.

If she could, she wouldn't want to break her promise.

but……

In her life, nothing was more important than avenging her sect.

There is no one more important than my senior brother and master.

"sorry."

Shen Nian said, "I didn't expect them to arrive so quickly."

"But I have to go, it's..."

This is the obsession that her soul has lingered on for over a thousand years since she was trapped underground.

It was something she had to accomplish.

"I'll go with you."

"No!"

Shen Nian frowned and said, "This is utter nonsense. Even demons who are less than a few decades old are not allowed to go to the Xuanmen Guild. You are an ordinary person, and I cannot joke with your life."

Gu Qiwen paused for a moment, then said, "There's something I need to tell you."

"...I might not be an ordinary person."

Shen Nian: ...

"But your soul is complete; you are a child born of your mother, and there is no demonic aura about you."

"I shouldn't... be a monster either."

"...Then what are you?"

Shen Nian frowned.

"I seem to be exactly what you've been looking for."

Gu Qiwen grasped Shen Nian's wrist and placed it on his chest: "Ever since I saw that totem, I've been having dreams... I dream that I'm not human, but a scroll..."

A wordless book.

The Heavenly Book is a divine artifact, and one day, this divine artifact suddenly developed sentience.

A Taoist priest then split the heavenly book in two.

One half remained as the celestial book, while the other half, carrying his spiritual consciousness, entered the cycle of reincarnation. In life after life, he nurtured his soul and became a human being in the truest sense.

He was unaware that he had once been part of the artifact.

Later, the Taoist priest found his reincarnation, whose exact number of lifetimes was unknown, and wanted to take him as his disciple.

Thus, he became the chief disciple of the Guili sect.

Later, the Taoist priest took on a second disciple.

The legendary phoenix destiny means that as long as one does not ascend to godhood, one will remain immortal and in eternal reincarnation—the phoenix's destiny.

That was Shen Nian.

His junior sister.

That's also what he is now...

fiancée.