Since both sides had made their intentions clear, Su Nanyin saw no need to conceal anything.
She had to open her heart to Li Qianfan to mend the rift that had suddenly appeared after his "awakening."
She looked in the direction of Lingnan and began to narrate.
"You know, before I married Shen Yue, I was actually already married."
"Yes, I've forgotten the name of my ex-husband, or rather, I'm unwilling to mention it."
"But before I met Shen Yue, I deeply loved my ex-husband." httpδ:/m.kuAisugg.nět
"Before this, I particularly despised those men and women who betrayed their families and love."
"But with Shen Yue's appearance, I eventually became the person I hated."
"Firstly, I couldn't resist the longing for Shen Yue, wanting to spend my life with him."
"Secondly, my ex-husband turned out to be a gentleman in public but a beast who committed endless crimes in private. After I witnessed his ugliness firsthand, my worldview completely collapsed."
"Before marrying Shen Yue, I knew I had finally married the true love I had yearned for since childhood."
"But after Mao Maochong was born."
Su Nanyin's eyes clearly dimmed at this point.
Li Qianfan couldn't help but ask, "What happened? After you gave birth to twins for Uncle Shen, did he completely lose interest in you, Su Nanyin Guanyin?"
"Nonsense."
Su Nanyin frowned. "My status in his heart has always remained unchanged!"
Li Qianfan nodded.
"What changed was me."
Su Nanyin lowered her head, looking at her toes. "After Mao Maochong was born, I was immersed in happiness. I felt like I was the happiest woman in the world. I wanted Shen Yue to always be by my side."
Li Qianfan understood.
Su Nanyin, after giving birth to Mao Maochong for Shen Yue, wanted to "monopolize" him, forbidding him from interacting with other men!
How could that be possible!?
Shen Yue was a playboy on par with the scoundrel Li Qianfan, with beauties flocking around him.
If he only stayed with Su Nanyin, what about Zhan Xiaobai, Zhuang Chun, Wen Yanwu, Li Min, and others?
Should they find other men again?
That was absolutely impossible!
"It was then that I realized I was a jealous woman at heart."
Su Nanyin gave a self-deprecating laugh. "And the irony is that this jealous woman is the most understanding. No matter how much I craved Shen Yue to be only by my side, I could never do that. Because."
Because she loved him.
Su Nanyin either didn't love, or once she loved, it was without reservation, even to the point of being destructive.
But it was precisely because of this love that she shed silent tears alone countless times after waking up at night.
Could Shen Yue not sense Su Nanyin's love?
And he couldn't just stay by her side!
In this way, Su Nanyin's most selfless love became a spiritual burden for both her and Shen Yue!!
"Now I finally understand that the reason Shen Yue chose the Four Phoenixes Gathering Array, besides saving me, was that he couldn't bear my love."
Su Nanyin pursed her lips. "He paid the price of staying forever in Misty Village to escape the bondage of my love."
Li Qianfan nodded.
"Qianfan, do you understand?"
Su Nanyin looked at Li Qianfan and, mimicking his earlier action, firmly pinched his chin.
She whispered, "I, Su Nanyin, am the kind of woman who, once she loves, gives her all! If my love doesn't yield an equivalent return! I might do something crazy at any moment! For example, drag him to death with me!!"
Li Qianfan's heart leaped.
He thought of Su Nanyin's crazy act of wanting to drag him to death just now.
He also recalled her frantic shouts of waiting for death, and her words that she would cooperate unconditionally with whatever he wanted to do to her afterward.
He stammered, "You, you wouldn't have fallen in love."
He stopped speaking at this point.
Su Nanyin also remained silent.
But uncontrollable pain welled up in her eyes.
The effect of the Four Phoenixes Gathering Array was something she couldn't resist, even if she were to tear herself to pieces!
Li Qianfan stared at her foolishly, not daring to move for a long time.
He had no psychological burden when joking and bickering with the great Empress.
But when it came to romance, it was too damn ridiculous.
"Shen Yue saw right through me. That's why he had such a hard time with me over the years, afraid of igniting the madness in my bones and dragging him and Mao Maochong to another world."
Su Nanyin withdrew her hand, her voice hoarse. "When the best opportunity to escape me arose, he seized it without hesitation. This led to the Su family of Si Jiu, the scandal of a certain beautiful empress secretly conceiving a child with a young man, and my crazy actions of wanting to drag you to death with me."
Li Qianfan picked up his cigarette case.
His hand trembled uncontrollably.
He couldn't light his cigarette for a long time.
He was terrified.
Poor child—
Su Nanyin snatched the lighter and helped him light it.
After taking several deep puffs, Li Qianfan's trembling heart gradually calmed down.
He asked, "What did I do today, or rather, what did I say that stimulated you, that ignited the madness in your bones? Is it because my aging accelerated, and you were afraid? So you decided to take me to another world prematurely?"
Su Nanyin didn't speak.
She simply took the folded lab report from her coat pocket and handed it to Li Qianfan.
Li Qianfan quickly opened it.
Then the world fell silent.
After an unknown amount of time, Li Qianfan's dazed eyes rolled slightly, and he heard soft sobs.
Su Nanyin held her curled knees with both hands, tears streaming down her jade-like face.
As her cells rejuvenated at an inexplicable speed, her tear ducts also returned to the state of being around thirty years old.
The storage capacity of her tears was quite ample.
"Qianfan—"
"Yes?"
"You are currently 33 years old in actual age."
"Mm."
"I am 29."
"I see."
"But Mao Maochong is several years older than you!"
"I know that too."
"My overall cell age is even younger than yours."
"I see."
"I've truly become your younger sister."
"Yes. The Four Phoenixes Gathering Array is simply too miraculous."
"I constantly remind myself that even if I were to shatter myself, it would be for you to live! But I would end my life immediately afterward to maintain that red line from being crossed."
"I can understand that too."
"But suddenly, I became younger than you."
Su Nanyin raised her tear-streaked face and looked at Li Qianfan. "I've returned to the past. I can still live for at least fifty more years! I can even have children anytime I want!"
Li Qianfan remained silent but looked down at the lab report.
Although he was a practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine, he could still understand the "ghost symbols" on the lab report.
The last line of the test result was something Su Nanyin had specifically requested, and Mengyue had meticulously tested several times to provide an objective result.
As everyone knows.
A woman's "egg" count throughout her life is limited.
As the monthly cycle arrives, the number decreases.
But once the eggs are depleted, the monthly cycle stops.
Su Nanyin, who paid great attention to her health, was well aware of her egg count.
According to the normal life trajectory, even though her physical condition was far superior to that of ordinary women, her eggs were already at their last leg.
And now?
Based on her cells, Mengyue's objective data inference showed that Su Nanyin's egg reserve had returned to when she was around thirty years old!
"I am so young."
"I am so beautiful!"
"The key is, I possess a mature charm that a thirty-year-old woman cannot match even if she tried!"
"I dare say, when I take the initiative, you won't be able to resist!"
"All you can do is be completely captured by me."
"But can I do that?"
"If I did that, I would be an unadulterated slut, a beast."
"But if I don't do that—"
"If there were no Four Phoenixes Gathering Array, I could completely fall in love with other men! Just like how I devoted all my love for my ex-husband to Shen Yue back then."
"But the Four Phoenixes Gathering Array predetermined that I couldn't develop even the slightest interest in other men."
"Even if Shen Yue returned, as long as the Four Phoenixes Gathering Array wasn't broken, I couldn't rekindle our old flame."
"Qianfan, tell me."
Su Nanyin sniffled heavily, reached out, grabbed Li Qianfan's hand, shook it forcefully, and asked in a hoarse voice, "Other than dying, what other way do I have to resist the power of the Four Phoenixes Gathering Array? What other way can I treat you like the child Mao Maochong that I want to bite?"
Li Qianfan didn't know how to answer her question.
He also understood why Su Nanyin had gone mad and wanted to drag him to death.
"Qianfan."
Madness flickered in Su Nanyin's eyes again. "Will you accompany me to death, okay?"