Gu Yuena: I Can Pay More

"By the way, don't try using violence~ Otherwise, I can't guarantee that nothing will happen to him."

Kiana's tone was casual, as though she were discussing the weather. After speaking, she lowered her head again, deftly moving her silver fork across the plate as she focused on the caramel-drizzled pudding. It was as if those chilling words had merely been an offhand remark about something ordinary.

Gu Yuena's fingers quietly tightened on the table. Her exquisite face remained calm, but a ripple passed through her eyes.

After a moment of silence, she lifted her glass and took a sip, trying to suppress the turmoil within her. Then she softly asked, "I'm curious. Why did you choose Fusheng? Is there something special about him?"

Kiana was lifting a large piece of Chocolate Mousse to her mouth. With her mouth full, she said indistinctly, "You got that wrong. It wasn't that I chose him—it was that he happened to be chosen by me."

It wasn't that she chose him, but that he happened to be chosen?

Gu Yuena froze slightly, her brows knitting as she carefully considered the meaning behind those words.

The implication seemed to be that Nan Fusheng had not entered Kiana's sights from the very beginning. Rather, some chance opportunity had led to her choosing him?

What sort of opportunity could that have been?

Gu Yuena's thoughts drifted back into the past, and memories related to Nan Fusheng began surfacing in her mind.

When she was young, before she had split into Gu Yue and Na'er, she had spent a brief period of time with Nan Fusheng.

At the time, Nan Fusheng had merely been a child with weak cultivation. Among his peers, his talent could only be considered average. He possessed neither exceptional Soul Power talent nor any