Saving the White Moonlight Chapter 88

“This matter is only our one-sided guess,” Yan Zhuguang first made it clear to Su Qian’er. “As for what exactly happened, perhaps Junior Sister Su will have to investigate it yourself.”
Su Qian’er raised her head. “What?”
Yan Zhuguang handed the marked drawing to Su Qian’er. “Does Junior Sister Su still remember this drawing?”
Su Qian’er hesitated as she took it. She turned the drawing over and looked at both sides, but did not speak.
Yan Zhuguang knew she did not remember it, but did not expose her. She only followed her expression and said, “No wonder Junior Sister Su does not remember. Its appearance is already different from when Junior Sister Su gave it to me.”
Yan Zhuguang brushed her hand across the drawing, and the ice-green drawing returned to its original bronze color. The markings that had once vanished also appeared.
“This was its original appearance. Junior Sister Su forced this drawing on me to thank me for saving your life. Speaking of it, if not for this drawing, Eldest Senior Sister and I might not have arrived in time to save Junior Sister Su from Qiu Qiao and the others.”
Su Qian’er’s attention was drawn by the mark. Her fingertip rubbed over it. “So it was this.”
“While you were resting, we learned from Qiu Qiao that he harmed you precisely for this drawing. And this drawing was connected to a hidden realm.”
Yan Zhuguang drew out the mark on the drawing. Under Su Qian’er’s gaze, she flipped that mark left to right, then stamped it onto the drawing, just as she had done when opening the hidden realm.
When the symbol belonging to the Dripping Blood Demon Domain appeared, Su Qian’er’s breathing suddenly quickened. She abruptly clenched the drawing in her hand. It seemed she used great restraint to avoid losing control like earlier.
She endured and said, “This mark…”
Yan Zhuguang acted as if she had not noticed Su Qian’er’s loss of control. “This is the mark of the Dripping Blood Demon Domain. Has Junior Sister Su seen it before?”
“No.” She shook her head hard, yet her eyes never left the mark. “I have not… seen it.”
Yan Zhuguang was thoughtful.
“This mark was carved on the gate outside the hidden realm, sealing that hidden realm shut.”
Yan Zhuguang looked at Yun Mixue. Yun Mixue tacitly took over and told Su Qian’er how they discovered the Heavenly Heart Lotus Seed in the hidden realm. As for Yan Zhuguang’s experiences and the hidden realm’s inheritance, Yun Mixue naturally would not reveal those to her.
Yan Zhuguang was thinking about Su Qian’er’s behavior just now. She said to the system, “What do you think?”
“Ah?”
The system looked confused. Host suddenly asking it like this made it panic a little. What did it think? It did not know anything.
“Host, what did you discover now?”
Its intelligence was not high. Please, great one, tell it!
Yan Zhuguang rolled her eyes in her heart. “You also know that the development of a parallel space may be different from the current world, right?”
“Mm-hm.”
If the female lead could suddenly die halfway through and cross space to be reborn, how could things still be the same?
“Earlier, I guessed that she was Shen Wanqing, the female lead who accidentally died after leaving Fenghua Immortal Sect. Then have you thought about how exactly she ‘accidentally’ died if this guess is true?”
The system shook its head like a rattle. “I do not know.”
If an accident could be guessed, could it still be called an accident?
“Just now, she reacted greatly to the Dripping Blood Demon Domain’s mark, just like when she learned she was Su You Demon Lord’s daughter.”
The system had noticed this too.
Yan Zhuguang, Gu Chen, and even Yun Mixue knew Su Qian’er was not right, but none of them had shown suspicion toward Su Qian’er so far. Because of that, Su Qian’er had always thought she was hiding herself well.
In reality, Su Qian’er truly did not know how to hide things. Her emotions were almost written directly on her face. This did match Shen Wanqing’s character. If not for that, she would not have revealed signs that she had no spiritual root and been tricked by the people of Yimiao Sect into searching for a spiritual medicine that could “fake a spiritual root.”
Without a straightforward and frank heart, without a nature that hid nothing and wrote every thought on her face, how could she be different from ordinary people and attract the male lead’s eyes?
The system thought for a moment. “Looking at her, she should recognize this mark.”
Yan Zhuguang said, “I remember you told me that after the plot began, the Dripping Blood Demon Domain that appeared was no longer the current one. It is very possible that after Blood Lotus Demon Lord rose to power, he changed the mark.”
The system confirmed it. “Yes.”
“Then, continuing our earlier suspicion toward Su Qian’er. If she is the female lead who died halfway, why would she know Su You Demon Lord? Why would she remember the Dripping Blood Demon Domain’s mark from Su You Demon Lord’s time? Why would she react so strongly?”
The system asked foolishly, “Why?”
“Is it possible…” Yan Zhuguang put forward a guess. The system lifted its heart and listened carefully. Every time Host used this tone, it meant another mystery was about to become clear.
“In the parallel world where this ‘Su Qian’er’ was the female lead, Blood Lotus Demon Lord did not rise to power. Su You Demon Lord continued her rule over the Dripping Blood Demon Domain. And after Shen Wanqing left Fenghua Immortal Sect and was caught by the people of the Dripping Blood Demon Domain, Su You Demon Lord did not show mercy to her like Blood Lotus Demon Lord did, but directly… killed her.”
The system opened its mouth and thought. “Right. If Su You Demon Lord was the one who killed Su Qian’er, then after she learned her reborn body was Su You Demon Lord’s daughter, she would feel disgusted… That is why she had this expression when she saw the Dripping Blood Demon Domain’s mark.”
“She died at the hands of the Dripping Blood Demon Domain. With how the people of the Dripping Blood Demon Domain act, after doing something, they would definitely leave the Dripping Blood Demon Domain’s mark behind. So when she was taken away by the Dripping Blood Demon Domain, she might have seen this mark.”
“Mm.” Yan Zhuguang nodded.
The system could not imagine any flaw in this reasoning. “Host, you are amazing. I think it must be like this.”
Yan Zhuguang felt no waves in her heart at the system’s praise. Her thoughts shifted. “Right, how is that main mission?”
The system checked and said to Yan Zhuguang, “The main mission, Explore the Mystery Around Su Qian’er (Four), still shows as incomplete.”
Yan Zhuguang raised her brow. “That is strange. Could my guess be wrong? Is Su Qian’er not the female lead reborn from a parallel space?”
The system scratched its head. “Probably not. The current mission panel does not have a place to submit Su Qian’er’s final identity. Mission Four… may not be asking Host to investigate Su Qian’er’s identity…”
“Oh?” Yan Zhuguang asked softly.
The system scratched its head. “It means… Host completed the mission too far ahead. What the mission system wants Host to complete right now is another mission. It has not yet released the final mission. Host has not unlocked the series mission corresponding to the final answer, so it cannot show as complete.”
This feeling was like obtaining a mission guide and preparing to complete the mission, only to discover that the earlier prerequisite missions still had to be finished first. The system understood very well.
Yan Zhuguang said, “You mean I still need to guess what mission your system released, and complete the missions one by one before I can know whether my guess about Su Qian’er is true?”
The system laughed somewhat weakly. “Ahaha, series missions are like that. Because they are not independent missions, they cannot be accepted early. They can only be unlocked link by link. Host is really too far ahead. How about we just follow the steps?”
Yan Zhuguang gave a soft laugh with unclear meaning. “Your Save the White Moonlight System is a little too rigid.”
The system closed its eyes and pretended to be dead. The mission system was a fixed program set by the higher-ups. What it could do was only make some adjustments to the mission rewards and help Host accept or refuse missions.
Yan Zhuguang did not speak to the system again.
At this moment, the room was somewhat quiet. After Yun Mixue told Su Qian’er the origin of the Heavenly Heart Lotus Seed given to her, Su Qian’er became silent, thinking about something unknown.
After a while, she asked, “Then how exactly did the former sect master die?”
Yan Zhuguang said, “He was killed by Su You Demon Lord.”
Su Qian’er was somewhat surprised. “Were they not… lovers?” She chose the word after some thought.
Yan Zhuguang said, “From the things the former sect master left behind, we guessed that during the time when the Heavenly Heart Lotus Seed matured, he changed his original thoughts about it.”
Su Qian’er thought for a moment. “He wanted to take all the Heavenly Heart Lotus Seeds for himself?”
Yan Zhuguang and Yun Mixue nodded slightly. Yun Mixue said, “According to our guess, when the Heavenly Heart Lotus Seeds matured and the former sect master went to collect them, Su You Demon Lord discovered it…”
Su Qian’er suddenly laughed mockingly. “My background is very laughable, is it not? I was born a monster who could not see the light. I had to leave my parents and be sent to another family to be raised. My birth father was blinded by greed, and my birth mother is the enemy who killed my father.”
“Then how was the Qiao family that raised me destroyed? Was it also connected to my ‘mother’?”
Su Qian’er had only said a self-mocking joke, but Yan Zhuguang and Yun Mixue fell silent. From their appearance, it actually seemed that her casual guess had hit the mark.
Su Qian’er’s voice almost failed. “You… what else do you know? Tell me all of it.”
Yun Mixue looked at Yan Zhuguang. Yan Zhuguang shook her head slightly at Yun Mixue, then said to Su Qian’er, “No. We still do not know exactly how the Qiao branch family was destroyed. If Junior Sister Su wants to know, I am afraid you will have to investigate it yourself.”
But Su Qian’er noticed Yan Zhuguang signaling to Yun Mixue. “No, you must know something else. Tell me!”
Only after Su Qian’er demanded it again and again did Yan Zhuguang seem unable to resist and have no choice but to say to her, “The news may not be true…”
“According to information we received, the destruction of the Qiao family may be connected to the Heaven-Slaying Demon Gate.”
After Yan Zhuguang finished speaking, she received a real warning glance from Yun Mixue. Why had she deliberately led Su Qian’er to keep asking, and then only told her half?
Yan Zhuguang transmitted her voice to Yun Mixue. “She will know sooner or later anyway. As for our guesses, in the end they are only guesses. If we say too much, it will instead make her suspicious. It is better to let her find it herself. That will make her believe it more.”
When Su Qian’er heard Yan Zhuguang’s words, she was indeed stunned. She had originally thought Yan Zhuguang would say it was connected to the Dripping Blood Demon Domain, but instead it was a sect she had never heard of. “What sect is that?”
“It is a demonic cultivator sect opposed to the Dripping Blood Demon Domain,” Yan Zhuguang explained. “As for why they would attack the Qiao branch family, we do not know.”
Su Qian’er leaned against the chair back. “An enemy of the Dripping Blood Demon Domain. Heh. That may not mean it has nothing to do with the Dripping Blood Demon Domain.”
It had to be said that her casual words truly matched Yan Zhuguang’s guess. However, what Su Qian’er thought of as connection was probably the Heaven-Slaying Demon Gate taking revenge against the Dripping Blood Demon Domain, which was different from the hidden instigator Yan Zhuguang imagined.
Seeing her so dispirited, Yan Zhuguang asked carefully, “Junior Sister Su, you…”
Su Qian’er came back to herself. She wiped her face and pulled up the corner of her mouth. “I am fine. You do not need to worry about me. I have been struck by many things during this time. This is already nothing to me.”
“It is just gaining a pair of strange parents. It is nothing serious. In my heart, the Qiao branch family, Grandfather, they are my true family.”
“As for them, I will just treat it as hearing one more story.”
She took a deep breath and stood. “Eldest Senior Sister and Senior Sister Yan, have you said everything you wanted to say? Let us go. We are going to the Qiao main family.”