Chapter 610

Love is A Kind of Faith [爱是一种信仰 Ài Shì Yī Zhǒng Xìn Yǎng] is the six hundred and tenth chapter of Tong Yao's Guardians of Night.

Summary
The chapter opens with the memories of the leader of Bloodstain. In them, a blond man calling for a person named "Mu Lulu" while she hides behind a brick wall near him. The girl then jumps out and surprises the man, flustering him. While viewing the memories, Xi Sha notes how inside Mu Lulu's heart, she once was a simple girl who wanted to grow old together with her love and be each other's one and only, a stark contrast to the rebel group leader she became. Noticing the phrase "one and only", Xi Sha wonders why humans commonly use the phrase before continuing to read the memories, hoping to discover why Mu Lulu eventually became the leader of Bloodstain.

Xi Sha then sees her past self mercilessly killing the man from earlier, realizing that the random Nightwatcher she once casually killed in the human world was Mu Lulu's beloved. With his dying breath, the Nightwatcher desperately begs for his life, as he had plans with Mu Lulu in the following week. Meanwhile, the girl is unaware of her lover's death and is bashfully wondering if they will be living together after they become engaged next week. Her servant suddenly arrives to inform her of her loved one's death and leads her to his corpse. Upon seeing his corpse, Mu Lulu cries out the man's name "Ye Chen" before tearfully demanding to know who killed him.

Xi Sha narrates that the death of the girl's fiancé caused her excruciating emotional pain, leading to her falling unconscious several times after crying. Some time later, her depression eventually changed into overwhelming hatred. Before Ye Chen's spirit tablet, Mu Lulu swears to avenge him by all means. Willingly expending all of her family's wealth to win over the hearts of those she hired to kill Xi Sha, abandoning her honor to acquire necessary resources, and even staying in the Underworld to the point where her body begins to deteriorates so she can easily command her forces, Mu Lulu turned herself into a cold-blooded and sinister lunatic for the sake of vengeance.

Seeing Mu Lulu's journey as self-torture, Xi Sha expresses that while she would be willing to die for her lover, she would not be able to endure such long torment, and questions why Mu Lulu was willing to go so far for a deceased love when she could have given up on her affection and started a new romance, especially since her position and power as the leader of Bloodstain attracted many impressive people who vied for her, all of which were more remarkable than Ye Chen. Xi Sha further questions Mu Lulu's obsession, since even if she achieved her goal, it would still lead to her death. The demon lord decides to read deeper into the memories.

In the memories, even two years after the death of Ye Chen, Mu Lulu cried herself awake every night. She declares to a picture of Ye Chen on her bed that he is irreplaceable in her heart, and that as the one and only love of her life, she wishes to die after him. She then asks him to wait a while longer, as she plans to kill Xi Sha before she dies. Noticing the phrase "one and only" again, Xi Sha remembers Ximen Lan shouting to her about how demons don't understand love. Saddened by her own memory, Xi Sha conveys that she is still unable to understand the devotion of love. She notices that the rate her body is self-destructing quickened. From Mu Lulu's memories, she knows that the moment she entered the dimension, it was sealed off for 48 hours, preventing her from escaping. Feeling her soul decaying, Xi Sha sits on the ground and dejectedly mocks that a world-shaking demon lord such as herself is helplessly waiting for death in a forgotten corner of the world.

Recalling moments throughout her life, Xi Sha comes to realize that she did many things faddishly, losing interest quickly after the enthusiasm passes. She then wonders what she would do if she somehow were to survive. Despite planning to conquer the Underworld, destroy Bloodstain and more effectively use affection to bind people to her favor, she eventually becomes exhausted with her thoughts and concludes that she actually desires the simple life Mu Lulu wished for. Wondering what's wrong with herself, Xi Sha disintegrates.

Chapter Notes

 * The reason for Mu Lulu's grudge against Xi Sha is explained.
 * Xi Sha dies, wishing for a simple life.