บท 81: The Questions Unanswered

Needless to say, it was a sleepless night for me, and likely the same for Bai Ye as well.

Alone in the silence and stillness of the night, I was able to think through everything more clearly now. I stared at the canopy over my bed, wondering idly if I would start to hallucinate once I grew sleepy enough, and if the scenes of the past would appear in front of me on that blank screen.

My conscience told me that my earlier reaction was wrong. Innocent lives were lost, and nothing could justify this part of Mount Hua's history being rewritten and buried into the past. The dead deserved a better answer, and whoever brought this bloodbath should've been punished.