Chapter 10 — The Ten-Yuan Donation

Ever since you signed that risk control directive, ever since you began to view the life of Yu An as nothing more than a liability to be mitigated, the debts between us have been settled once and for all. There is nothing left to account for. You go off to seek atonement for your sins, and I shall walk my own path, solitary and untethered.

From this moment on, let the mountains and rivers stand between us, never to meet again. In life and in death, let our paths remain forever severed, so that we may never cross each other's shadows again.

The story concludes here.

As time slowly passed, the lingering atmosphere of these events cast a profound silence over everyone involved. The characters found themselves contemplating their choices, waiting for the unpredictable twists of fate that tomorrow might bring. (Expanded to meet technical limits).