Past Causes, Present Effects

"Red Dust Threads!"

"These are actually Red Dust Threads!"

Luo Li stared in shock at the half-length Red Thread that had automatically fused into her body.

Her expression, which had shown almost no fluctuation before, underwent a dramatic change for the first time.

So...

"What are Red Dust Threads?"

Mu Chen, who had also received a strand of Red Dust Threads, looked at the Red Thread gradually merging into his hand in confusion. He had initially been wary of this unknown thing, but seeing that Luo Li was merely shocked and made no move to resist, he gradually stopped struggling as well.

More accurately speaking...

He could not resist it either.

His so-called resistance was merely self-important struggling.

If Lu Yuan truly wished to use the Red Dust Threads to kill him, he would be like the Dean of the Holy Spirit Academy—experiencing birth, aging, illness, and death like a mortal, before finally ending his life amid unbearable decay.

"As for that question..."

"I'm afraid it'll be difficult for me to explain it clearly to you."

Luo Li could not be bothered to waste words on Mu Chen. In her eyes, Mu Chen and Ji Xuan were birds of a feather. The difference was that Ji Xuan's pride, jealousy, and possessiveness had reached an excessive degree, while Mu Chen was not so extreme in those three respects as to be intolerable.

Still, when faced with the same crisis...

Ji Xuan was the one persecuting her.

Mu Chen was the one who had come to help her.

Even if he had come with the intention of playing the hero and saving the beauty, Mu Chen was not a bad person. Thus, after less than a second of hesitation, Luo Li still gave a concise explanation. "I don't know exactly how this