On that same token though… why can’t she drool over them if she wants? There’s no reason the main character has to be independent. If she wants to be independent she totally could but there’s no reason to force that within the novel.
Aside from the life 'mist', it was like the forest also has life itself. It was guarding itself from those it was not familiar with. That was why Ling could not sense the exit.
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