His gaze swept over Qian Daoliu, Sword Bone Douluo, Tang San, and the others. That indifference was more chilling than any threat.
Despair weighed on everyone until they could barely breathe.
Then, amid that suffocating silence—
"I agree!"
A resolute voice suddenly rang out!
Qian Renxue abruptly raised her head. Her golden hair stirred without wind, and the eyes once filled with rage and tears now held only determination and a strange calm.
"Xue'er—!!!"
Qian Daoliu let out a heart-rending roar, his cloudy old eyes instantly bloodshot!
Bibi Dong also jerked her head toward Qian Renxue, her eyes filled with utter shock and... a trace of complicated pain that even she herself had not noticed.
This daughter whom she resented and kept at a distance had made such a resolute choice at this moment.
Was it to save her, an unworthy mother?
Or to save the grandfather who had always protected her?
Or perhaps... was it a desperate atonement for bringing a wolf into their home and deceiving Duanmu Ci?
Countless emotions churned within Bibi Dong's chest, leaving her unable to speak for a moment.
"I agree! As long as... as long as you let them go!" Her gaze swept over the badly wounded Qian Daoliu, passed over Bibi Dong's complicated expression, and finally settled on Duanmu Ci's inhuman face.
"I agree! As long as... as long as you let them go!" Qian Renxue's voice carried a trace of resolve as her gaze swept over her grandfather, whose breath was faint,
then passed over Bibi Dong beside him, whose expression was impossible to read,
before finally fixing on Duanmu Ci's inhumanly pale face as she answered firmly.
Duanmu Ci nodded in satisfaction.
"Very good. A wise choice, Sister Xue." His voice held a trace of amusement, as though he were