The votes have reached 300, as promised, today there will be four updates. Here is the first one.
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She had imagined countless scenarios of their reunion and his possible reactions, but she never expected him to say those words. In that instant, she felt as if the days of searching throughout the year had shattered like crystal, becoming utterly meaningless. Even her very existence seemed superfluous and troublesome.
Xuanji took a deep breath, got up intending to leave, but then she remembered the hidden endurance and loneliness she had endured in almost two years. She had searched incessantly, yet never found him.
No, she wouldn't watch him walk away from her as she had done when she was sixteen. She couldn't allow such a long time to become a meaningless drift, nor would she let go of his hand so easily.
"You're lying," she said softly, "You're just trying to make me angry, aren't you?"
