Someone Returned at the Capital Gates

The song came to an end, its last lingering thread of emotion drifting over the Spring River before slowly fading into silence...

Wu Xue's eyes had quietly closed, even her long lashes utterly still.

Little Red was even worse, clutching the rail of the boat so tightly that she seemed to have become a red statue.

Time seemed to have stopped flowing altogether. Only the Spring River Water continued unhurriedly eastward toward the sea.

Wu Xue finally opened her eyes. "Truly unbelievable... Is there more?"

"You have the Jianghu, I have wine. You have blossoms in your heart, I have songs!" Lin Su smiled softly. "When we meet again, I'll sing you a new song! This Journey of the Jianghu is over. I should be going now. Farewell, two fairies!"

He stepped into the air, turned in the moonlit night, shot into the heavens, and vanished without a trace.

He was gone, yet the boat on the Spring River continued upstream...

The two women aboard gazed into the depths of the sky for a long, long time...

With a flash of red light, Little Red took human form. "Young Lady, let's go find him!"

"Hm? What do you mean? He only just left..." Wu Xue shot her a glare.

"He said that when we meet next time, he'll sing us a new song! When we see him again, that'll be next time..."

Good heavens, for the sake of hearing a new song, she had started playing with words?

Wu Xue lifted her teacup and gave this Demon King who had stepped into the Mortal World a lesson...

Little Red, I understand that you like songs. Such beautiful songs—not only do you like them, I like them too.

But you have to understand one thing...

Human men could be dangerous sometimes,