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Li Yuan raised an eyebrow. “What? Afraid the mirror will show my sins…and you won’t know what to do with me after?”
This time, Yan Yu didn’t hesitate. Her dark eyes lifted, sharp and resolute.
“I can stop being the Ghost Street Judge,” she said softly, “I can burn down every temple they’ve built for me…but I cannot lose my family. Not you. Not Sheng’er. If keeping you means abandoning everything else, then I will abandon it. If losing you means becoming an evil ghost of the deepest hells, so be it.”
Yan Yu’s words struck him more deeply than she probably intended.
Li Yuan’s smile faded. “Then let’s do it,” he said gently. “Let me see.”
Part of him was genuinely curious. What would the mirror show him? Would it reveal the man he was before he crossed into this world? Would it somehow expose the mystery of how he came here in the first place?
As for secrets, there weren’t many left between him and Yan Yu. She already knew the truth about his eternal youth, about his pursuit of immortality. If she were to learn a little more today, so be it.
Yan Yu said nothing. From her robe, she withdrew a bronze mirror —larger, heavier, older than the rest, almost like a mother mirror— and set it down before him.
She didn’t step away. She didn’t need to look. Whatever the mirror revealed, she would see it all the same.
Li Yuan faced the mirror. And the mirror awakened. One by one, images surged into view, fragments of his past laid bare like wounds torn open. Darkness. Deception. Desire....
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