Turning the Tables

Tian Hao's guess had been correct. After leaving Heaven Dou City and making a wide detour to ensure she was not being followed, Ye Xishui immediately changed direction and headed toward Shrek City. She met Mu En there, but she had not expected to see Long Xiaoyao at the same time.

"You came out of seclusion?"

Standing before the window of a hotel room in Shrek City, Ye Xishui had no mood to appreciate the view outside. Her emotions were complicated.

She would not have felt this way if she had met Mu En or Long Xiaoyao alone, but seeing the two of them together left a bitter, tangled feeling in her heart.

In the end, what had happened back then had been her fault, even if she had been forced into it.

"Xishui!"

Seeing the beloved woman's back, Long Xiaoyao finally relaxed.

No matter what, it was good that Xishui had returned safely.

Compared to Long Xiaoyao, Mu En's feelings were far more complicated—just as complicated as Ye Xishui's.

He could face Long Xiaoyao or Ye Xishui individually, but once the two came together, all that remained was complexity.

Likewise, after calming down, Long Xiaoyao's feelings became just as complicated.

Ye Xishui turned around and looked at the two most important men in her life. Though her emotions were tangled, she still had to face what needed to be faced.

"The three of us are together again."

Ye Xishui sighed. Since they had parted ways back then, the three of them had not gathered together in a very long time.

"Xishui, what is Shaozhe's relationship to us?"

Long Xiaoyao suddenly asked. When he had entered Shrek Academy and seen Yan Shaozhe, he had felt that something was off. Especially after absorbing and refining the Darkness God's Origin power and