Guo Jiuqing

She thought it was all over, but she never expected to get another chance at life. Shen Kejun didn't give much thought to what this System was for. In his past life, he hurt Bai Yejin. This time, Shen Kejun would make things right.

With Shen Kejun there, nothing could happen to Bai Yejin. Even if something did, Shen Kejun would save him without regard for his own safety.

“If all of this is fake, then fine. Bai Yejin, tell me, how has your master ever wronged you? Even if it's fake, so what? Has he ever hurt you?”

Those caught up in a situation can't see it clearly, but outsiders can. Fansuan saw it all plainly.

Shen Kejun looked at everything before him and gave a bitter laugh. Looking at the person before him, his eyes filled with endless remorse. “In the end, I was only fooling myself...”

Bai Yejin sat on the roof, gazing up at the stars scattered across the sky. He took the hand of the person beside him and laughed, but his laughter was full of scorn.

“Master, isn't it beautiful?”

“If this can erase the hatred you feel for me, I have no regrets.”

What could they not bring themselves to say? What words were impossible to speak? Neither of them could utter those three words.

[My first novel, written in 2021. I cut more than ten thousand words from the opening and another ten thousand from the ending, then removed over twenty thousand words from the middle. The disciple was originally named Bai Junci, and the master's name was changed too. Fansuan was originally named Su Yining, and their gender was changed later. So some details, like the characters' nicknames, may differ.]

Theme: No one is born to belong to darkness. At its end lies light, a warm passage, and a direction to move forward.