Outside the window, the bright sun shone high; warm sunlight poured through the cracks of the window, illuminating the dim room.
"Mm."
Because of the sunlight shining in, Fang Qiu's body, nestled within the quilt, twisted twice, letting out a restless sound.
After a short while, Fang Qiu forcefully opened her eyes.
She propped up her body, and the fluffy sheet slid off her. As her fair skin made contact with the slightly cool air in the room, Fang Qiu couldn't help but shiver slightly.
"What time is it?"
Fang Qiu muttered to herself as she tidied the clothes on her body. She then got up, finished washing, put on her clothes, and opened the window.
In an instant, light flooded the entire room.
"So warm. The weather is nice today; it's a good day. When noon comes, I'll go find Hu Tao to have a good meal together to celebrate finishing the new book. Then we can discuss where to go for a stroll, maybe buy some new clothes or something. After all, I have money now, so naturally, I need to change into something nice. I just don't know if Hu Tao is at Wangsheng Funeral Parlor."
Bathing in the warm and gentle sunshine, Fang Qiu stretched her waist, gazing into the distance as she spoke to herself with a beaming smile.
Her body felt as if it had become softer.
However, looking at the angle of the sun, it must be eleven o'clock already, right?
This sleep of hers had truly been long.
She must have slept for fully twenty-plus hours, right?
She felt completely refreshed.
But then again, it was already eleven in the morning, and Sister Bai still hadn't come.
There shouldn't be any problems, right?
So hungry. Having slept for so long without eating, and the snacks were finished too.
Should she go out to eat first?
"Forget it, I'd better wait a bit longer."
Sighing, Fang Qiu sat on the Jumpy Dumpty, lying prone on the table as she waited quietly.
Meanwhile, in the editorial office.
Bai Qing's eyes were red, her long eyelashes were moist, and there were residual tear stains on her fair face.
She stared blankly at a poem at the end of the scroll titled Agreed Not to Love You, and tears flowed down uncontrollably once again.
"We agreed to forget, yet I recall it again. It turns out my heart hasn't agreed to give you up. I'm really sorry; although I promised you, I haven't promised myself—so how can I truly not love you."
Fang Qiu! You have no heart!
Yes!
The male and female protagonists, Jing Tian and Tang Xuejian, indeed did not die.
The supporting female and male characters, Zixuan and Xu Changqing, did not die either.
But, in order to help Jing Tian defeat the Evil Sword Immortal, Long Kui jumped into the casting furnace again to merge the Demon Sword and the Demon Suppression Sword into one.
Maomao cut his own flesh to exchange for food until he died.
Zixuan and Xu Changqing chose to forget each other in the jianghu, yet both refused to drink the Forgetfulness Water.
Final Act.
Xu Changqing cast a spell to bring a vast snowfall for Zixuan.
And in Yuzhou City, a snow fell that hadn't been seen in years.
Jing Tian and Tang Xuejian leaned against each other in the snow. To defeat the Evil Sword Immortal, Jing Tian's lifespan was already running out.
He looked at the sky and shouted, "I don't want to go."
But the innocent Tang Xuejian knew nothing of this. She even asked Jing Tian with a grin.
"Silly, who asked you to go?"
Fang Qiu's foreshadowing of emotions was extremely powerful; every one of these plot segments made her cry a river.
Xu Changqing and Zixuan—rather than suffering together, they chose to forget each other in the world. There is a kind of love called letting go; fulfilling the other for the sake of love. A romantic destiny of three lives and a wait of a hundred years ended just like this.
Jing Tian clearly saved the world, yet he could not grow old together with the woman he loved...
And Tang Xuejian didn't even know that Jing Tian was about to die.
Seeing Bai Qing crying like a pear blossom bathed in rain, the surrounding female editors sighed one after another.
"It seems Fang Qiu wrote something incredible again."
"For the first two books, Ah Qing only cried at the very end. But with this book—good heavens—Ah Qing's eyes were already red when she arrived. I didn't expect that in just half an hour, she would actually cry three or four times."
"These tear-jerking moments are too dense. Is Fang Qiu's writing really that powerful? This ability to render emotions can actually make people cry so many times in such a short period?"
"Don't get curious. Ahead lies the abyss; reading it will affect your mood for several days."
The editors spoke one after another.
"Sigh."
Li Ling sighed, walked up, and patted Bai Qing's shoulder, subconsciously glancing at the final few sentences of Fang Qiu's original manuscript.
At a glance, she saw the intense contrast.
Jing Tian's hidden sorrow and pain, Tang Xuejian's innocence and happiness—two diametrically opposed and extremely contradictory emotions and atmospheres—were blended so perfectly under this vast snowfall.
As expected of Fang Qiu, her writing power is astonishing.
Even though she hadn't read this book and didn't understand the story between Jing Tian and Tang Xuejian, she could clearly feel that wave of pain hidden beneath the happiness, appearing as if it could not be dissolved.
"Ah Qing, are you alright?" Li Ling asked.
"I'm fine," Bai Qing said with a sobbing tone.
"It's about time anyway. Let's go have lunch together and relax," Li Ling said.
"Let's go together too."
"Where to eat?"
"Let's go to Wanmin Restaurant. Although it's a bit far, we can call a carriage."
"Sure, let's go together."
The female editors spoke up one after another.
"Mm."
Bai Qing nodded. She wiped her tears, but just as the tears on her cheeks were wiped away, another line of clear tears flowed down her cheeks again.
Seeing that the time was about right, Fang Qiu was already so hungry she couldn't take it anymore.
Between going to Wanmin Restaurant with Hu Tao and eating by herself first, she chose the former.
She locked the door of her home and walked all the way toward Wangsheng Funeral Parlor.
The streets of Liyue Harbor were very lively. As Fang Qiu walked toward Wanmin Restaurant, her attention was attracted by the conversation of two people in front of her.
"Have you heard? The Yuheng seems to want to dig through that big mountain blocking the trade route between Mondstadt and Liyue. However, the engineering volume for that mountain is too large. She seems to plan to take the mountain to the southeast—the one separating Liyue Harbor and the new dockyard—to test the waters first. It is said that the survey of that mountain is almost done, and work should start in the next two days."
"Dig through a mountain? As expected of the Yuheng, what an unconstrained and bold idea."
"According to internal news, this idea wasn't actually thought up by Miss Keqing, but by a girl named Fang Qiu."
"Fang Qiu? The Fang Qiu you're talking about, is it the one who writes books?"
"Ah, yes, yes, yes, that's the Fang Qiu. My daughter likes her books very much; every day when she comes back, she chatters in my ear, saying she wants me to read them."
"Then did you go read them?"
"I'm a rough person; I can't even read, so how could I read them? However, if this thing called a tunnel is really successfully dug, I wouldn't mind going to Wanwen Bookhouse to buy two sets of her books."
"Didn't you say you're illiterate?"
"My wife's younger sister—my sister-in-law—seems to like reading quite a bit, so I'll buy them to give to her."
Fang Qiu naturally had no interest in listening to the subsequent conversation.
"Miss Keqing is indeed smart. She knows to test the waters with a small mountain first to summarize experience, rather than taking the knife to that big mountain right from the start."
Fang Qiu smiled and muttered to herself.
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