Ye Li had painted very little, using only three paintings to convey the past.
But it was the less glorious days—
Whether it was fleeing from a doomed planet at the beginning or the battle of wits with the spider monsters, she spent many paintings to express these moments.
It seemed that in Ye Li's memory,
Those painful and struggling years,
were actually the most memorable!
Afterward,
as Ye Li's power gradually expanded,
the various drawbacks brought about by controlling the Ether Authority began to emerge.
But what puzzled Matthew was—
"Wait!"
"According to the content of these sketches, Ye Li suffered from the backlash of Chaotic Ether, but she had indeed suppressed it through her own methods."
"She held on, didn't she?"
"Why did she choose to end her life in the end?"
Matthew's mood suddenly tensed up.
He saw that after dealing with the Chaotic Ether, the Goddess of Magic, Ye Li, used a crystal ball to divine the future of Aindor—
Matthew gently flipped through the picture book.
"Huh? It's the last page."
Little Ye Li next to him cocked her head and reminded him.
Matthew nodded.
The last painting was extremely abrupt, and its content was seventy to eighty percent similar to the first painting, with only minor differences.
If it weren't for Matthew's strong memory,
he might have thought it was the first painting!
At first,
Matthew's mind was filled with confusion.
Fortunately, he timely discovered a string of magic words in the lower right-hand corner of the last painting—
"It turns out, I could never escape the shadow of that destruction."
"So, the content of the last painting is the future of Aindor divined by Ye Li?"
"Divination spells are not always accurate, Ye Li wouldn't kill herself over a single prophecy, would she?"
Matthew showed a puzzled look.
Little Ye Li next to him also scratched her head and looked at Matthew with a posture of "I don't understand, explain it to me."
"The shadow of destruction?"
"The shadow of destruction?"
Matthew pondered deeply.
Did this sentence mean that the disaster that once forced Ye Li to flee would e in a similar form to the world of Aindor?
Even so,
she wouldn't have despaired to the point of taking her own life, would she?
Suddenly,
A flash of lightning passed through Matthew's mind:
"That's right."
"Ye Li didn't e from a doomed planet..."
"She came from the world of Aindor."
"Just from the Original World's Aindor!"
In that moment,
Matthew had an epiphany.
No wonder Ye Li was so desperate.
Before this, she might have thought her family died in a ruinous disaster.
She had not realized that she had fled from the Original Universe to the Mirror Universe!
She thought she was lucky.
But she found out that she had to endure longer suffering and torment than others.
Under such a massive shock to her worldview,
The Chaotic Ether she had just suppressed began to backlash again.
Her spirit must have been seriously troubled.
Ultimately leading to plete collapse and destruction!
To be honest,
Not only for Ye Li, the protagonist of the story,
but even Matthew, as a bystander, couldn't help but be deeply moved!
If it was himself, learning such news under an already high-pressure environment, would he be able to hold on?
"Do you understand now?"
"Can you explain it to me?"
Little Ye Li looked on with hope.
Matthew instinctively wanted to conceal the truth, but for some reason, under the little girl's expectant gaze, he relayed all his speculations about the story.
After finishing,
Matthew asked,
"Are you okay?"
He thought she would be quite affected.
Who knew that little Ye Li would shrug it off indifferently:
"I'm fine."
"The story seems pretty interesting."
"Why did she want to end her life?"
Matthew was at a loss for words.
Little Ye Li spoke in a light and lively tone, as if not even the sky falling down could trouble her.
This optimistic mood further affected Matthew.
He suddenly also felt that it might not be such a big deal.
"This is just one of the reasons that prompted her to end her life."
Matthew explained cautiously,
"Often, when people make an extreme decision, it's not due to a single factor, but rather a result of irrational choices made under the bined effects of many overwhelming pressures."
Little Ye Li nodded as if she understood, but not quite.
A few seconds later,
she suddenly asked with some concern,
"Should I be showing more sorrow?"
"Hmm?"
Matthew was surprised.
Little Ye Li seemed to be talking to herself,
"After all, this is the story of my branded predecessor; I should feel some level of empathy, right?"
"But I can't feel sorrowful."
"I was born lacking empathy and I'm slow with emotions."
"My mother says it's a good thing, indicating I have the potential to bee a great spellcaster."
"But my father is very worried about it."
"I don't know who is right, but I don't want to make my father worry..."
Perhaps because they had bee more familiar,
Little Ye Li was no longer as shy as before.
She chattered away to Matthew about many of her innermost thoughts,
"...Ultimately, when she ended her life, she also stripped away the pain, vulnerability, collapse, and her own branding; without the pain, there would be no new branding.
From this perspective, I should probably be thankful for the pain, otherwise, I might not exist..."
"Is it wrong for me to think this way? Actually, I'm very grateful to my predecessor."
"Though my strength isn't that great yet, far from worthy."
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