The improved female villains regained their memories.

The familiar spiritual energy enveloped her entire body, and Liu Yin closed her eyes, feeling a sense of peace.

"You're really being reckless. Do you want me to spend the night on the mountaintop?"

"hey-hey......."

Murong Xu smiled sheepishly and said, "I... I've been thinking about what to give you, but I..."

He seemed to want to come closer, but was a little embarrassed, waving his hands up and down like a bird, unsure of where to place them.

Liu Yin smiled helplessly, moved closer to his embrace, and said, "You've already given me a very nice gift."

Without him, there would be no Mangrove Gang.

Without his constant support, she wouldn't have had the courage to get to where she is today.

“Murong Xu, you’ve always been a good person, so don’t talk about yourself like that…” Liu Yin leaned against him and whispered.

It's clear that she still cares about what happened before.

"But Liu Yin, you're a very good person too. Actually, I... well, I just feel that someone like me..."

Murong Xu's words were somewhat incoherent; she didn't know what to say.

Liu Yin recalled the scene of their first meeting.

She had just come out of her room when she saw Murong Xu trying to climb over the wall to get in. Murong Xu was clearly stunned when she saw her.

"Um, I..."

Before he could finish speaking, he was apprehended by the guards surrounding Liu Yin, who mistook him for a thief.

"Pfft." Liu Yin laughed out loud subconsciously.

Murong Xu looked down at her: "What are you laughing at?"

"It's nothing, I was just thinking about when I first met you," Liu Yin said with a smile.

"Haha, back then..."

The wind was strong at night, but chatting with Murong Xu made me feel warm.

As they were chatting, Murong Xu suddenly tugged at her and whispered, "Your gift has arrived."

In the soft light of dawn, the sky began to be painted with a pale orange-red hue. As the sun slowly rose, the forest seemed to ignite, every leaf bathed in golden-red light. Sunlight pierced through the treetops, forming dazzling beams that illuminated the forest paths and the dew-kissed grass.

Looking out, the whole world is ablaze with red.

Liu Yin stared in amazement, murmuring to herself, "So beautiful."

It turns out she's always lived in such a beautiful place.

"Liu Yin, I..." he said something behind her, just as a strong gust of wind blew by.

The wind drowned out the rest of his words, and Liu Yin didn't hear him clearly: "What?"

Murong Xu paused for a moment, then smiled and shook her head: "It's nothing, look at this."

He opened his palm, and in the center was a fiery red leaf.

The leaves have been processed by spiritual energy, and there are some special patterns on them, with the character "柳" (willow) faintly visible.

Happy birthday.

Murong Xu said in a low voice.

Liu Yin looked at him seriously, smiled, and said, "Yes."

A breeze stirred within her, brushing against her most tender spot.

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The fragments of my dream are piling up.

On the second day of the Family Reunion Festival, Liu Yin wanted to rest for a while, and it was during this short time that she had another dream.

In her dream, she saw a person.

She saw that person standing there alone, looking at everyone who had died.

Who is that person?

When she regained consciousness and everyone came to her room, she seemed to have found that person.

She carried in tea and snacks, just in time to see the man about to leave: "Pingsheng, are you leaving? I just prepared some tea here, have some more."

Yang Pingsheng smiled and shook his head: "No, Mo Chang is still not awake. I'll come later."

Liu Yin walked past Yang Pingsheng and looked at Jiang Mochang, who was eating like a robot at the table. In her dream, the two of them seemed to be inseparable, just like in reality.

She couldn't help but smile, her gaze softening slightly: "Well then, you've worked hard."

It wasn't until that dream occurred to her that she realized the deep pain in that man's heart.

However, she wouldn't cause trouble; the people of the Mangrove Gang always harbored their own pain.

As she walked in, she could sense that Yang Pingsheng had already left.

【hope......】

She had a feeling she couldn't quite put her finger on.

Looking at the dazed Jiang Mochang, she suddenly thought, what would happen to this child if Yang Pingsheng wasn't here?

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Yang Pingsheng was brought back by Jiang Mochang.

When they brought him back, he was injured and unconscious.

After he regained consciousness, Liu Yin learned all the information from him, and Yan Yong's shadow finally loomed over her after many years.

After leaving the space to Yang Pingsheng and Jiang Mochang, she left almost anxiously to arrange the defense plan.

She knew Yan Yong better than anyone.

She didn't know where Yang Pingsheng got this information from, or how he contacted him.

But he stopped Yan Yong, that's a fact. Otherwise, Yan Yong would have launched an attack in the early hours of the morning of the Family Reunion Festival, when everyone was drunk. If Yan Yong had actually done that, Liu Yin couldn't even imagine what would have happened.

She thanked Yang Pingsheng, but the crisis is still not over.

Sure enough, even though the attack led by Yan Yong's bearded gang was repelled, other greedy gangs formed an alliance and continued to harass them.

Without even thinking about it, this is Yan Yong's method.

The wind in the air is getting colder and colder.

The situation was becoming increasingly dangerous. Sikong Xuan, Yang Pingsheng, Jiang Mochang, and everyone else were thrown into the battle. Even Murong Xu was working day and night to calculate supplies and the wounded.

And she, the gang leader, could do nothing.

The eyes that looked at her held a longing for peace and a yearning for the past, but they were quickly drowned out by blood and vanished into nothingness.

The corpses were piled up.

In the final battle against the gang alliance, Su Fengqing's innate immortal body was also fully exposed.

She broke the seal, and her own spiritual energy could no longer be controlled.

The usually cheerful child lay on the bed with her brows furrowed. Liu Yin sat by the bedside, and just by holding her hand, she could feel the child's pain.

She didn't want to.........

She didn't want to see the pain of separation again.

The wind rises, and the willows sway accordingly.

At night, she knelt before the graves of the dead, praying for their lives.

Her companions, her family, are dying every day.

The jade pendant around her neck swayed, emitting a faint light.

"Why......."

She asked a question, a question for herself and a question for Heaven.

"People will eventually separate, there's no reason why."

Unbeknownst to her, Murong Xu was standing behind her. He had brought new clothes, which he draped over Liu Yin, and said softly, "But even if we are separated, it doesn't matter. The wind will carry one person's longing to another."

"But what's the use? We've already separated, so what's the point?" Liu Yin murmured to herself, looking at the tombstone in front of her.

“It’s meaningful; at least, that story did happen,” Murong Xu replied firmly.

“They once lived here. They cried and laughed. They should have died in the chaos of war, by the schemes and plots of others. But because of you, Liu Yin, because of you, you gave them another memory here.”

"It is you who created all of this, and it is not meaningless, especially in this world, it has meaning."

Liu Yin looked up and met those determined eyes, and met the boy's fiery heart.

"But I didn't do anything..."

"No, you did it. You are the leader of the Mangrove Forest Gang, the belief in our hearts, and the belief of me, Murong Xu." As he spoke, he suddenly laughed, like the bright moon in the night sky, like a willow swaying in the wind.

“Liu Yin, perhaps you don’t realize it yourself, but I know that you have been redeeming others all along.”

The members of the Mangrove Forest Gang all harbor wounds that cannot be healed.

But Liu Yin redeemed them.

"If we're going to die, then let's die together," Liu Yin said softly. "Even in death, I don't want to be separated from you."

She could allow these people to live while she herself died, but she would never allow them to die while she herself eked out a living.

She wanted to stay with them, even if it meant death.

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The last time...

Only the five of them are capable of fighting.

Liu Yin had never fought, or rather, she had never killed anyone.

She saw the arrogance in Yan Yong's eyes, and the greed in the eyes of the cultivators surging up from the foot of the mountain.

She suddenly understood the meaning of "Chosen One".