In the end, the two did not go back to the main palace together. To give Qing Xue time to be allowed entry into Wen Lian’s chambers and talk to her, Bai Ruyi rejoined Kazane first at the temple.
He didn’t approach the slab where Hayanari’s body, cleaned and clothed in his formal clothing, was laid. He stayed just by the front of the inner room’s doorway, looking at Hayanari’s unmoving profile, listening to Kazane’s sobs as she held and laid her head over her cold and lifeless brother.
Never again would she be able to talk and bicker with him. The special place by her side that Hayanari used to occupy would now forever be empty.
What Bai Ruyi and Qing Xue intended to do them was yet another sin. If they got their way, he and his sister would not be able to get the justice that was owed t
