A Lake Blue Silk Dress draped around her, its sheer gauze light as clouds and trailing to the floor.
As the woman knelt, the fabric spread like a flowing stream.
A matching sash gently cinched her slender waist, making it look delicate enough to circle with one hand.
Her former icy pride and indifference were gone. Only threads of humiliation remained.
Once, she had been the lofty Heartless Immortal, while he had been nothing more than a minor Foundation Establishment cultivator struggling out of the wilderness.
When they first met in Ice Wave Palace, he had not even dared raise his head to look at her.
But now, the people were the same while everything around them had changed. Times had shifted, and the world with them.
Their positions reversed, she was no longer an immortal untouched by love or feeling, but a Golden Core junior asking a favor.
He, meanwhile, was a Pill Sect master beyond her reach, renowned even among the foremost experts of their age!
Ordinarily, given her nature, she would sooner have kept her distance until death than come seeking an old connection.
There had mostly been transactions between her and Luo Chen, with no great love or hatred.
If one insisted on keeping score, she had once ordered Luo Tian Sect cultivators onto the Accumulated Thunder Mountain battlefield, causing the sect grievous losses.
Remembering how Luo Chen used to repay the smallest slight, even leading a force into the Flame Alliance, she knew this visit would very likely end in humiliation.
But some things she had to do, even if there was only a sliver of hope!
So she had summoned her courage and come!
The surroundings were silent. The only sound was the faint rustle of her hem against the floor as her body