Back on Blue Star once more.
Shen Yi went straight back to his familiar bedroom in the Mountain City Shelter.
He dismissed all the maids who usually attended to him, and the heavy door cut off the outside world.
The lights were off in the room. Only scattered points of light seeped in from outside the window, outlining his silent figure as he sat on the sofa. An opened bottle of red wine rested at his side. He drank quietly, the liquid in his glass gleaming dark red in the dim light, reflecting not the slightest emotion in his eyes.
Outside the door, Lin Tu and Murong Xue stood guard, not knowing how to talk to Shen Yi.
They could sense the indescribable heaviness lingering around the Shelter after Shen Yi returned.
"What happened with my husband? Should we tell Sister Aoshuang?" Lin Tu lowered her voice, her fingers unconsciously twisting the hem of her clothes.
Murong Xue pressed her lips together and shook her head. Her gaze was complicated as she looked at the tightly shut door. She could sense that there was something obscure yet lingeringly grave about Shen Yi.
"Let him stay by himself for a while," she said softly.
Inside the room, Shen Yi's fingertips unconsciously brushed over the cold wall of the glass.
The damage to the World Barrier, the loss of Authority's power, and the traces of the Black Fog's invasion.
These thoughts were like boulders hurled into a calm lake, churning endlessly in his mind.
Blue Star seemed temporarily safe for now, but there was already a problem with the small world they were in itself.
If that crack was the only one, perhaps Shen Yi would not have felt this way.
But unfortunately, this was something he had no way to even