Chapter 509: 'You are, the most important.

Su Ming'an opened his eyes.

The pale, expansive sky hung upside down before him, the whole world silent.

Every time he reset after dying, he felt as though he were still caught in a dream, not yet awakened from a nightmare of despair.

As the wind brushed his face, he remembered her, her hair white with age, her body rapidly decaying, looking at him with that gaze as she fell.

Like the end of a long journey, that gaze held reluctance, regret, remorse.

…but more than anything, it was a calmness that comes with the closeness of death.

She was always close to death, closer than she was to him.

In the moments before she converged with eternal slumber, her eyes lost their usual wild fields, all defiance and resistance seemingly buried deep in the mud with the quietude of the world.

To compromise with destiny, sometimes, does not make one a coward who ceases to struggle.

…This was the best outcome they could achieve, the best possible ending within their power.