Gu Xinlan's words stopped there, as she choked and couldn't go on.
Tears, turbid with emotion, flowed from the corners of her eyes.
"That child, I've never seen him in such agony. He said... a great fire took everything from him, his wife, his children. He said he must have been punished for not avenging the Gu Family. He said life had no meaning left for him and that all he had was his quest for revenge."
"Alas, when he spoke those words, I felt it. He didn't want to live... No matter how long I persuaded him, it was meaningless; he wouldn't listen to a single word. He's just like his father, very stubborn. Fixated on his own ideas, and also because he loved that girl too much."
"Alas, this is his tribulation! I knew he wouldn't get through this. Well, it's better this way; living was suffering for him. May Buddha bless him, may he rest in the Pure Land of Bliss."
Gu Xinlan choked up throughout these last words.
As if each word was extremely difficult to say.
