Everyone's Changes

In the room, the siblings looked at each other. Even with talents as extraordinary as theirs, they still felt powerless in the face of such a situation.

"Brother, are we really staying?" Meng Hongchen murmured as if in a dream, still finding it hard to believe what she had heard today.

Even though she liked Ye Chen very much, under the current circumstances, her sense of the bigger picture ultimately overcame her personal feelings. Perhaps that was the greatest difference between her and Wang Dong'er.

Xiao Hongchen looked up at where Ye Chen had left, gently rubbing his forehead with his right hand. "Meng, I think you understand Grandpa's personality. He really is capable of doing something like this. Besides, Ye Chen has no reason to lie. Once we leave, we only need to ask around a little to determine whether those things are true or false. And if they wanted to make a move against us, there would have been no need to waste so many words. We might have already met with disaster before we even woke up."

Xiao Hongchen voiced all his thoughts in one breath. It had to be said that his analysis was very thorough.

Of course, he would not feel grateful toward Shrek or Ye Chen because of this. Although he had been in a state of extreme shock the entire time, he remembered one thing Ye Chen had said: this was merely a deal, a deal between Shrek—or rather, Ye Chen—and his grandfather, Jing Hongchen.

Night fell, and the dark clouds hanging over Shrek City gradually dispersed, revealing a sky full of brilliant stars.

Delayed by the matter of the Hongchen Siblings, Ye Chen was already close to the appointed time when he left Sea God's Pavilion. Stepping through those ancient gates,