Gu Yuena shuddered upon hearing this. "Do you really have no regrets?"

Tang Wulin nodded in response. "No matter how much pain I'm in now, at the very least, I was happy during the time I spent with you. Without those happy days, perhaps I wouldn't even have been able to persevere to this point. Without those memories to fuel and console me, I wouldn't have had the strength to rebuild Shrek Academy and face the abyssal plane. You have always been the hope in my heart, and it's because of you that I was able to persist through all of my past hardships and setbacks. My hope may be broken now, but at least it did exist once upon a time."

Gu Yuena was rooted to the spot upon hearing this.

Tang Wulin smiled, and the smile was even more sour than a grimace, but he was smiling. "The outcome is important, but the process is just as important....