An Unexpected Development

Until—

A dazzling golden light pierced the darkness!

"It's okay. I'll take you away."

Those were the first warm words she heard at the most hopeless moment of her life.

With every last shred of strength, she swam toward that light.

He pulled her out of the endless darkness and took her away from that hellish battlefield!

And hanging from his chest was a—

Dragon Scale Necklace!

She had always remembered that necklace, the one the radiant boy had left her when he was about to depart after saving her.

She still remembered the hope he had given her when he saved her.

Ever since then, she had searched desperately, yet she had never been able to see him again.

She had once thought that everything had merely been an illusory salvation bestowed upon her by fate, an unreachable dream. But today, the instant her fingertips touched this necklace, she knew—

It was all real!

He... had been by her side all along!

In reality, Lan Fo Zi's body trembled violently as tears rolled down her cheeks uncontrollably.

So the person she had searched for all these years had actually been by her side all along?

In an instant, every emotion surged into her heart. She even felt her body heating up, her blood churning.

She looked up at Wu Yang Jin, her gaze deep and complicated, as though she had crossed the long years of time and finally found, in reality, the boy who had saved her from despair.

She had searched so bitterly for all these years, even believing she would never be able to find that person again.

Yet now, he was right before her, and had always been by her side.

Even if she had concealed her identity, even if she had tried to hide her