【Night, after returning to her room in Mo Mang Palace, Fu Ningna sat alone on the edge of the bed.】
【Her eyes were downcast, tears welling up inside them.】
【"So long...so lonely...how much longer...?"】
【"It's been hundreds of years, maybe this play will continue for another few hundred years..."】
【"I never thought this process would be so painful...have I reached my limit? No...I should have reached my limit a long, long time ago, even today I don't notice my own tears."】
【"I so desperately want to confide in someone, even just one person...but that would be a complete waste of all my efforts."】
【"I've done so much investigation over the past few hundred years, but I haven't made any progress in breaking the prophecy..."】
【"Now I can only continue to believe...playing the role of the Water God is the only way to save Fontaine, please be successful, 'me in the mirror'."】
【Saying this in her heart, Fu Ningna looked up and scanned the room. Besides herself, it was empty, there was no one else.】
【Then, came the 180,376th scene.】
【First, a few fragmented scenes appeared one after another.】
【The omen of the prophecy erupted, causing many people in Bai Song Town to be dissolved by the primordial amniotic ocean water.】
【To deal with the prophecy, the Traveler, Lumine, Nahida, and Chloeinde, along with the Rosaria Knights and Linny, planned to have Fu Ningna reveal the secrets she knew, in order to cope with the prophecy.】
【Inside the giant magic box, the Traveler, Lumine, was a little anxious and persuaded, "Fu Ningna...maybe you really don't need to shoulder this burden alone."】
【"Although I don't know what else you know...your people would be very willing to share the burden with you."】
【"Sharing...that's impossible. It was destined from the beginning that I would be the one to bear this responsibility."】
【Fu Ningna's voice was flat, her attitude was firm.】
【"Since you don't need to share the burden, you can at least choose to confide in someone." The Traveler, Lumine, still refused to give up, continuing to persuade, "I am a 'Witness', just confide in me."】
【"Witness..."】
【Fu Ningna's heart was shaken at this moment.】
【Having kept a secret silently for five hundred years, the immense mental pressure made her desperately want to confide in someone: "That's right, I heard you came to Teyvat from beyond the starry sea? In other words, you don't belong here..."】
【"If everything in Teyvat is a play on stage, then you are just an 'audience' in the opera house, right?"】
【"If it were you..."】
【Fu Ningna was trying to convince herself.】
Linny: "I was thinking, if Fu Ningna had told the Traveler her secret back then, would the prophecy of Fontaine...would the outcome have been different?"
Nahida: "That would be another story line, but I think in that situation, Fontaine's situation wouldn't have been optimistic."
Chloeinde: "Yeah, from what we know now, if Fu Ningna had spoken back then, there wouldn't have been that trial against her in the opera house...then it wouldn't match the four prophecy tablets, and where things would go is unpredictable."
The Traveler, Lumine: "Without that trial, I think we would have been even more confused. Even if we knew that Fu Ningna wasn't the real Water God, what would we have done? It seems like Fu Ningna didn't know about Fucalos's plan."
Paimon: "Right, thankfully Fu Ningna didn't say anything back then..."
Nahida: "But from what Fu Ningna said to her good partner, she clearly wanted to convince herself to reveal the secret?"
Chloeinde: "Normal, something that you keep bottled up for five hundred years, under immense mental pressure, wanting to confide in someone is understandable, especially since the Traveler doesn't belong to Teyvat."
Chiori: "Then how did Miss Fu Ningna hold back from telling? At first, she looked resolute, but when the Traveler said she was a witness, her heart wavered."
The Traveler, Lumine: "I don't know either, I don't remember it very well, but she just didn't say it."
....
Even though everyone knew at this point in time that Fu Ningna didn't reveal her secret to the Traveler, Lumine.
But the video footage on the giant screen stopped there.
Chloeinde, Nahida, and many of Fontaine's citizens still subconsciously tensed up.
Then.
The video footage on the giant screen showed Fu Ningna's inner world.
【"She's right, if it were her, confiding wouldn't be a problem, right?"】
【"But...if things don't go as planned, it's the entire population of Fontaine who will bear the risk..." The short-haired Fu Ningna, wearing a black dress, wanted to confide in the Traveler, Lumine, to slightly release the mental pressure she had bottled up for five hundred years.】
【But she was also a little worried that all her efforts of five hundred years would be wasted.】
【"No! Fu Ningna, you should be selfish..."】
【"But what if it's really okay?"】
【"Fu Ningna, you've been working hard for so long, it's okay to be a little selfish, right?"】
【"You're not doing anything too outrageous, just finding a suitable person to confide in about your worries and pain, it should be fine, right?"】
【"If you miss this chance, you might never find another one, right?"】
【"Think carefully...about it."】
【From her inner world back to the real world, the Traveler, Lumine, and Paimon were staring at Fu Ningna eagerly.】
【Eagerly expecting Fu Ningna to reveal what she knew, about the prophecy of Fontaine.】
【"......"】
【Taking a light sigh, Fu Ningna's voice trembled slightly, "Nothing, I don't have anything to confide. I am the Goddess Fu Ningna, everything will be fine!"】
【"As an audience, just witness me until the curtain falls."】
At this moment.
When Fu Ningna's words echoed across Teyvat's sky.
Not just the people of Fontaine, but many citizens of other countries were also captivated by Fu Ningna at this moment.
Strictly speaking, Fu Ningna was not a true Water God, she did not possess the divine power and spirit of a god.
But at this moment, Fu Ningna was filled with a divine radiance.
Because in her mind, the people of Fontaine were far more important than her own pain!
This is a realm that most ordinary humans cannot reach.
After all, humans are selfish creatures!
Therefore, at this moment.
She was not a god, yet she was more god-like than a god!
.......