Years had taken away their beauty.
Wrinkles began to mark their faces, hair turning silvery white...
In life's final moment, they smiled serenely at the brilliant Peach Blossom Grove and closed their eyes in peace.
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Bang!
A massive collision sound startled the two women awake.
The stone door started to crack, as the skeleton relentlessly persisted.
But at this moment, Ran Qingchen and Qu Hongling looked bewildered, as if the illusion truly had them living through a lifetime.
Consciousness, like the first light of dawn, dispelled the chaos surrounding them.
Qu Hongling blinked, "Sister, was it a dream?"
The deity statue was shattered to pieces without them noticing, and two spherical crystals lay scattered on the ground.
One shone bright as the sun, the other pure and gentle as the moon.
Ran Qingchen's mindset had not yet adjusted.
Yet that call of "Sister" sent a shiver to her heartstrings, the ephemeral memories of familial love fusing into her blood.