I'm Chen Jiang

Jiang You did not like having a crowd watch her leave. Just thinking about it made her scalp tingle.

She simply left in the middle of the night. In any case, she had finished explaining everything that needed to be explained.

The moonlight was bright tonight—bright enough for her to clearly see a cricket perched on Silver's pink coffin in the yard.

The bright moonlight spilled over Dragon Mountain like a layer of frost. The branches hanging from the three-meter-tall man-eating tree swayed gently in the breeze, silently watching everything.

Jiang You was just about to leave when she suddenly felt something tugging at her.

Looking down, she saw a thin vine hooked around her pinky, its dark-red leaves hanging limply.

She could actually sense something pitiful from those few leaves.

The man-eating tree's branches and leaves swayed faintly, making a rustling sound.

"Shh~"

Jiang You raised a finger to her lips. "Shh, don't wake the others."

The tender branch tugged harder at Jiang You's pinky.

She walked beneath the tree. "I'll be back soon. Wait here for me. Wait for me to come back.

"I know you can understand what I'm saying. We're symbiotic. I can sense you. No matter how far I go, I'll still be able to sense you..."

The man-eating tree bent its trunk. Its lush crown was like a broad embrace, directly enveloping Jiang You.

The leaves rustled beside her ears, but Jiang You could not understand what it was saying.

So she patted the trunk of the man-eating tree, then turned and left.

She did not like dragging things out.

The moment she turned around, the thin vine hooked around her wrist again.

"Ah Qing, let go."

Jiang You was getting impatient.

The vine changed from a hook into a loop, winding around her