Shang Ruyi slowly walked out of the Great Hero Hall, the dazzling sunlight outside piercing her eyes, causing tears to well up again. She quickly bowed her head, looking at the paper in her hand and the gentle handwriting on it—
People live in the world, nothing but love and hate.
These eight characters both stripped open her bloody wounds and completely stitched up her long-unhealed injuries.
The scar left behind, perhaps hideous, and may ache faintly in future life, but she had ultimately emerged from the pain and from the bloodstained nightmare of that night.
At this moment, Eunuch Yu's voice echoed from ahead—
"The Empress Dowager is heading back to the palace."
