Apart from Sun Wukong and trolls, the vast majority of people have parents and friends; essentially, humans are a collection of social relationships.
Death for a person occurs in three stages: first is physiological death, when the heart stops beating; second is social death, when others replace the deceased's position; third is ultimate death when the last person who remembers the deceased dies, and their traces completely vanish from the world, like a period on a page.
Some people die as if they never existed, like Koto's Zero Number Machine;
while for others, their cause and effect remain entangled with the living, their voices and shadows quietly flowing deep within the hearts of the living, ready to stir up stormy waves at any moment.
Like Bai Yu, like Qin Xiao.
