Chapter 544 Logical Consistency

Yin Qingcheng's words made Lu Ye clearly understand why he had forgotten the memories related to her.

Because he could analyze it objectively.

If he hadn’t lost his memories, emotions might have gained a slight edge.

But now, without those memories, Lu Ye could listen to Yin Qingcheng’s words with complete objectivity. He no longer viewed things from an emotional perspective.

Shen Xitong wanted to retort.

However, Lu Ye cut her off.

"First, you claim you practiced the Dao of Detachment and regretted it, so why didn’t you tell me immediately?" Lu Ye asked calmly.

Yin Qingcheng let her tears flow down her exquisite cheeks without wiping them away.

"Because I was afraid. In our past life, my love for you deepened gradually. I didn’t know how you’d react if I told you I cultivated the Dao of Detachment."

Lu Ye shook his head.

"No. Dead wrong!"

"With Shangguan Huanling as an example—even when her Path of Emotion vanished, I never abandoned her. You shouldn’t have feared that I would discard you if you told me about your cultivation of the Dao of Detachment."

Lu Ye laid it out bluntly.

Yin Qingcheng’s face twisted in pain.

"My lord, this was indeed my mistake. At first, I intended to treat you as a means to advance my Dao. I could sense that you yearned for love, yet I harbored selfish intentions."

"I’ve cultivated since childhood. The elders of the Forgetful Immortal Palace raised me as a future Emperor, and I myself was a seeker of the Dao. So, when I first met you, before my love for you grew deep, I saw you as a trial in my cultivation. Was that wrong?" Yin Qingcheng asked.

Lu Ye nodded. That made sense. Before our bond grew strong, asking her to abandon her Dao and start anew would have been unreasonable.

"Then, when did your love for me reach its peak?" Lu Ye asked.

"When I took that fatal strike for you. That time, you were besieged by the Dark Emperor. Had that strike landed on you, you would have faced inescapable death. My mind went completely blank—without hesitation, I sacrificed everything to shield you from that attack."

"At that moment, my love for you reached its zenith, to the point where I was willing to die for you!"

Yin Qingcheng was referring to the time of the Dark Calamity.

It was then that she suffered mortal wounds. Even though Lu Ye immediately sealed her away, her true spirit continued to dissipate uncontrollably.

"A lover’s sacrifice, limitless might."

Lu Ye snapped completely. After defeating his enemies, he rushed to beg the Detached Immortal Venerable.

At that moment, Lu Ye truly became a force that cut down gods and crushed buddhas.

The Detached Immortal Venerable initially refused, leading to a brutal fight between them.

Later, Yin Qingcheng’s memories were damaged, and Lu Ye altered his own.

Lu Ye went quiet.

Shen Xitong just rolled her eyes.

She had expected more from her damn host, but this is all he’s got?

What a load of crap!

So she spoke up.

"All that blabbering just boils down to the fact that you knew the Path of Detachment had been discovered by Lu Ye and was no longer viable, so in this life, you had no choice but to switch to the Path of Ultimate Emotion."

"Since your rebirth, has your love faded at all?" Shen Xitong snapped.

Yin Qingcheng's heart sank.

This Shen Xitong was definitely not an easy person to deal with.

"I remain the one who loves Lu Ye the most, never changed, not in this life or the last!"

"Then why didn’t you switch to the Path of Ultimate Emotion immediately after your rebirth, instead of clinging to the Path of Detachment?"

Shen Xitong's gaze was sharp.

Yin Qingcheng had already rehearsed answers to these possible questions hundreds of times in her heart.

"Because I knew I had hurt my husband. I thought that since I was reborn in this life, I should forget him and let everything return to normal. I even tried my hardest to follow through."

"But I found that I simply couldn’t do it. I had already fallen deeply in love with him. Even knowing I had committed a colossal mistake, I still couldn’t forget him."

"I couldn’t fight my yearning for him. My mind was filled with his image. I couldn’t help but experience the pain he endured. Knowing the Jiang family was his enemy, I opened the Chaos Arena so he could destroy their cultivation."

"The more I did this, the more I missed him."

"The longing was too painful. In the end, I couldn’t hold back and used the Stone of Three Lives to see him once."

"My longing for him only grew stronger, and my love only grew stronger. Yet I still couldn’t bear to see him surrounded by those backstabbing curs. I took all the resources from the Sixth Heaven and even considered using the Sea of Oblivion to erase the memories of those traitors from his mind."

"Every action I took came from loving him too much."

"Later, when I saw that he had truly awakened, I finally made up my mind to abandon my Path of Detachment and fully commit to the Path of Ultimate Emotion."

"After the incident with the Sea of Oblivion, I met the Detached Celestial Lord. I learned that the Detached Immortal Venerable never had the power to alter my Path. My husband had known all along in our past life that my Path was the Path of Detachment, yet for my sake… for my sake… he altered his own memories…"

At this point, Yin Qingcheng was on the verge of breaking down completely, nearly sobbing into her hands.

"I was wrong. I truly know I was wrong. This was my first love, and I didn’t know how to love properly."

"I thought giving him what I believed was good meant loving him well. But now I understand—that wasn’t the case."

"I shouldn’t have forced what I thought was best onto him. I was wrong. I truly know I was wrong!"

Faced with Yin Qingcheng in this state, Shen Xitong only wore a gentle smile.

She glanced at Lu Ye, her eyes carrying a faint trace of pity.

Pity.

Or more accurately, heartache.

Now she seemed to understand why Lu Ye had suffered so much in their past life—not just because of the Path of Protection, but because some people were truly silver-tongued and impossible to deal with.

"You’ve said so much. Would you like to hear my thoughts?" Shen Xitong asked with a smile.

Yin Qingcheng looked at her, convinced that her mistake had been forcing what she thought was best onto Lu Ye.

There is a kind of "good" in this world called "It's all for your own good."

Yin Qingcheng naturally knew this was wrong, but at the very least, she could minimize her mistakes as much as possible.

That way, her husband might actually forgive her.

She had already figured it all out—what could Shen Xitong even say to that?

She wasn’t afraid at all.

She’d just listen.