"Sister, you guessed it right."

The young man under the tree looked at Ying Baoyue, "This memory of yours has indeed been erased. It is something that does not exist in the fragments of your soul."

Ying Baoyue never thought that one day she would realize what it was like to be at a loss in her own memory.

"Who eliminated it?"

Ying Baoyue simply didn't know how to react, "Did you do it?"

The shadow under the tree shook his head, "It's not me, it's the child who doesn't want you to remember."

"who?"

Ying Baoyue's fingers holding the dagger trembled, "Aji?"

The young man in the shadow of the tree nodded, "I'm just a part of him. He doesn't want to disturb you. He's very well-behaved and just wants to abide by his agreement with you."

"He has a question in his mind, and he has been holding back from asking it since just now until now."

"He held it back until you left. But I want to fulfill his wish, so I have one last question for you."

"So I'm here, I'll ask you on his behalf."

Ying Baoyue stared at the shadow of the young man under the tree. She seemed to understand something, but she didn't fully understand it.

This phantom is indeed not a living person, but it does not look like Xiao Li Ji's soul. The other person seems to have a different personality from Xiao Li Ji, and the tone of his speech is also different from Xiao Li Ji's, as if he has lived for a long time.

"Who are you anyway?"

"I said, I'm just a part of him," the tree shadow young man said softly, "Don't people have many sides in their hearts? What's more..."

The boy in the shadow of the tree suddenly paused.

Ying Baoyue frowned, "What's more?"

"Not to mention practitioners," the young man in the shadow of the tree said softly.

Ying Baoyue looked at him quietly, "Even if you are a practitioner, it is not so easy to erase other people's memories, right?"

Manipulating memory is a forbidden art, and Xiao Li Ji is still only a human being, so it is impossible for him to do it.

What's more, she is now in her own memory fragments, and she is the master of this illusion.

How did this tree shadow boy jump out? How could he interfere with her memory?

Or is it that this past event has been sleeping in the deepest layer of her consciousness, and it was triggered under certain circumstances and then became visible?

"If it's a memory related to people, it's naturally not that easy," the young man in the shadow of the tree looked at her with complicated eyes.

"What do you mean by this?" Ying Baoyue frowned, "You mean, I'm not a human being?"

She always felt something was wrong.

The young man shook his head and said nothing more.

Ying Baoyue closed her eyes and stopped asking about the young man's identity.

She was leaving anyway, so there was no point in asking.

"What do you want to ask me when you catch up?"

"It's not me who wants to ask," the young man shook his head and turned to look into the distance, "it's the kid who wants to ask."

Ying Baoyue did not follow his gaze and turned around slowly.

"I've told him everything I can say."

There is no memory of this in her soul, and she doesn't know how she answered this boy eight years ago.

For the first time, she broke away from the fixed lines and spoke based on her current thoughts.

"No, you didn't tell him everything."

The young man's voice under the shadow of the tree suddenly became deeper. It was clearly still Xiao Li Ji's voice, but it sounded very unfamiliar.

"You didn't tell him when you would be back."

Ying Baoyue stiffened all over.

Xiao Li Ji asked her when she would come back, and she replied that she could not give him a clear guarantee and only gave an ambiguous answer.

She had no guarantee that she would come back alive.

This is an inaccurate answer, but for her eight years ago, she could only go so far.

"How else can I answer that?"

Ying Baoyue stood there without looking back, "I don't know if I can come back. Do you want me to give him a false answer?"

The road ahead is dangerous, how does she know whether she can survive?

"You really didn't know before," the young man said softly, "but what about you now?"

A biting chill enveloped Ying Baoyue's whole body. She turned her head little by little and looked at the shadow under the tree in shock.

Those eyes were still the same, but in those familiar black pupils, it was not the expression she was familiar with from Xiao Li Ji.

The young man with a scarred face under the tree looked straight at her, his eyes clear and penetrating, as if he could travel through time and space.

What he meant by this was as if he knew she came eight years ago!

"What... do you mean?"

Ying Baoyue asked stiffly, "What do you mean by me now?"

"You don't have to think too much, just answer me," the young man looked at her deeply, "I don't want the child to wait like this stupidly."

"Do you know your ending now?"

Of course she knew.

Eight years ago, she failed to come back.

The Li Zhao that Xiao Li Ji missed never came back.

Is the young man under the shadow of the tree pressing her for this answer?

Ying Baoyue stared at the shadow steadily, her eyes changed, "Are you really Ah Ji?"

Although the other party has the appearance of Li Ji that only she knows, what if he is transformed by some evil god and wants to ask her the secret of her death?

The breeze blew through the leaves, rustling like a boy's sigh.

The shadow of the boy under the tree lowered his head, his disheveled hair dragging to the ground.

"Let me ask another question."

"When can I see you again?"

The young man raised his head and his eyes changed.

The pure black pupils were slightly reddish, looking at her quietly through the eye sockets of the thick bronze mask.

This is the look in Xiao Li Ji's eyes.

Ying Baoyue felt a sting at the tip of her heart and slowly closed her eyes.

She knew that she could never say deceptive words again.

"us……"

Ying Baoyue stood on the bridge, looking at the young man under the bridge. Just as she was about to speak, the gurgling river flowed under the bridge.

Did the water of the Santu River once flow under the Naihe Bridge like this?

Did she ever cross that bridge in her previous life?

So, did she forget about him?

"Next life..."

"Um?"

The young man under the tree raised his head and looked at her eagerly.

"Let's meet again in the next life."

Ying Baoyue looked at the water drops falling behind her mask in the distance and finished her last sentence.

"We will definitely be able to meet again in the next life."

Eight years ago, she never believed in the so-called past and present lives.

But at this moment, facing the young man who was watching her, she realized that words were so pale and she could only make such pale promises.

In her previous life, when she was alive, she could not come back.

"If we never see each other again in this life, then in the next life, I promise you, I will definitely find you again."

The wind blew through the lake water under the bridge, causing heavy ripples.

Under the shadow of the trees, the edges of the boy's body gradually blurred.

Through the mask, Ying Baoyue could not see the expression on his face.
To be continued...