In the Lotus Lantern Prequel Plane, at the Water Curtain Cave on Flowers and Fruit Mountain, as the scene of Yaoji's tragic death flickered across the Celestial Screen, Yang Jiao, the eldest son, instantly swelled with rage like a pufferfish. Puffs of steam billowed from his nostrils, making him look precisely like an enraged bull.
His younger sister, Yang Chan, held tightly to Yaoji, her eyes already veiled in mist. To put it bluntly, their mother's departure pained her heart far more than witnessing the sudden, violent deaths of her father and brothers on the screen earlier. It was not that she loved her mother more, but rather that her mother had been literally baked to death. Compared to the swift, one-stroke deaths of her father and brothers, her mother's suffering was unmistakably far greater.
As for Young Yang Jian, he had long since left the Water Curtain Cave, finding a quiet corner to hide and weep in secret. He blamed his grown-up self for everything—for his mother's passing as shown on the celestial screen. Continuously, he bombarded [Lotus Lantern Yang Jian] with voice messages in the chat interface, every single word piercing straight to the heart:
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