Ye Jiao's eyes widened, for she realized that she was talking with herself. Her figure at the center of the mess was looking back at her. The despair and hatred in her eyes were awfully familiar to her. It was the look that Ye Jiao had seen on herself when she was young.
"They have paid for what they have done to me. I no longer want my path to be filled with despair and cries, but happiness. I wish to be happy with my friends and future friends that I have not met yet."
She didn't want to learn martial arts just for the sole sake of revenge. There were times when she felt that she truly wished to destroy them, but she knew that it was not worth it. She has her own dreams too, which was to reach the peak and protect everything that she treasured.
Revenge might be part of it, but it wouldn't be the entirety of her path, just like what Lu Wan told her.