At the same time as the ’bright moon’ ascended into the blur, it seemed... there were also the hidden women in the darkness and everything within the Great Hall. They or it ascended higher and higher until reaching the dome of the Great Hall. Until they merged with the ’starry sky’ inside the dome. Until they became a fixed picture. The ’night phenomenon’, symbolizing some kind of law, was completed. In a certain time and space, a reversal occurs... The bright moon disappeared. The Great Hall was brand new as before. Not a single figure in sight. On the edge of a certain abandoned ruin covered with Nine Heavens Cold Palace Flowers. There was a comparatively intact Great Hall building. It was situated on a solitary cliff, at the outermost edge of the ruins. In front was a magnificent and spectacular ruin, behind was a pitch-black bottomless abyss. Within the abyss below the solitary cliff, autumn winds continued to blow violently out, like cold knives flying to carve incessantly at the edge of the cliff’s Great Hall building... At this time, inside the hall. At a certain moment, with the sudden appearance of a bright moon, the originally neat and grand Great Hall disappeared. In its place, there appeared... a blood-stained floor in the center with a blood-colored hexagram and circle, a dragon coffin with an open lid, headless remains, and a divine beauty in white clothing with a veiled face. Various signs indicated that this was no longer the original Great Hall. The objects were different, and so were the people. "Um, Xiu’er sister, so dizzy~" The sense of spatial dislocation left the women with a sense of spatial dislocation, and the youngest, Xiaoyu, spun dizzily in place for two laps. Luo Xiu first glanced down at the bottom of the coffin, then reached out to steady the dizzy little girl spinning in circles. "First, take them out and settle them; it’s not advisable to stay here long. I’ll tidy up and then come find you." She said, lowering her eyes. "Oh, oh." Xiaoyu nodded in agreement. She found this place that could teleport and switch the entire Great Hall to be very mysterious, just like how she could never figure out where babies came from. Before leaving Xingzi Lake, she always thought it was the Music Workshop, which distributed them. After the couple in the town got married, they wanted children and had to collect one from the Music Workshop. A couple could only collect one, so the gentlemen and wealthy families in the town had to marry many concubines... As for her, well, she was surely an ugly girl no one wanted to take home, which is why the Music Workshop disdainfully put her on the boat to be a ship girl who could never set foot on land. Xiaoyu put on a stern face, mimicking her sister Xiu’er, leading sixteen other women who would soon ascend, away from the Great Hall. When the Great Hall became quiet again, Luo Xiu looked down, glanced at the disfigured young gentleman on the ground, and then looked at the dragon coffin. Inside the coffin, the small bronze tripod was empty, with no bright moon, nor any ’autumn wind autumn vibe’ spilling out. Luo Xiu did not close the dragon coffin lid again, as she had done several times before. She lowered her gaze, took out the bronze tripod, and temporarily set it aside. There was also the solemn Netherworld Robe of the Emperor of Great Li inside, which was also taken out and set aside. In front of the coffin, the woman bent down and placed the ’handsome young gentleman’ whom she once adored into the empty dragon coffin. "When I was still called Cicada, the empress dowager who gifted me my name once said to me..." A woman removed her veil, let it fall, faced up, watching the starry sky at the dome, "In this world, there are two things worth looking up to lifelong." She seemed to murmur to herself, yet also spoke to the sleeping gentleman. "One is the brilliant starry sky above us; the other is the bright moon forever suspended in the hearts of women." Luo Xiu gently pulled open her sash, removing her white clothes, her red string, dudou, and undergarments slipping down onto the blood-stained floor. This moment seemed ephemeral, just like that day at Xingzi Town’s inn when she, in utter despair, untied her skirt, offering herself to the Pure White Cold Palace. Only this time, there wasn’t the gentleman smilingly watching her in front. "The gentleman gifted me the starry sky, and I repay him with the bright moon." Luo Xiu removed her white clothes of departure, changing into the fiery red dress from that night of heroic spirit under the starry sky. The woman leaned and entered the coffin... PS: Thanks to the alliance leader’s reward from my good brother "|Wei, Lai|"! It seems like my good brother wanted to see Qing Jun, ahem, I’ll take care of it next time! (whispering) ʀᴇᴀᴅ ʟᴀᴛᴇsᴛ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀᴛ 𝓷𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓵✶𝓯𝓲𝓻𝓮✶𝓷𝓮𝓽