"All right. I thought it was someone else." I gave an awkward smile.
Actually, I had been wondering whether Yuwen had someone she liked. If she did, I could have helped make it happen.
But since that wasn't the case, I let it go.
Toward Yuwen, I felt both grateful and somewhat guilty. I wasn't a homebody to begin with, constantly traveling all over the world, so seeing her even once was incredibly difficult.
In fact, how many years had passed since the last time?
At least after proving the Dao, we'd seen each other very rarely. After all, it wasn't as though anyone could prove the Dao in the Proving Dao Heaven simply by standing out. Luck was the fundamental deciding factor.
Although many people had later borrowed my luck and taken the stage in the Nether Heaven Ancient Cosmos, Yuwen and the companions from Southern Heaven clearly didn't yet possess that ability.
Or perhaps they hadn't reached the level where my luck could shelter them.
"Yumu, you won't blame me for meddling, will you..."
"Of course not. I was worried you'd have nothing to do and get bored. If there's something you want to do, then even if Heaven and Earth need to be inverted, I'd reverse the universe for you." I couldn't help patting her hand.
"No... As long as you don't blame me... that's good enough." Yuwen's face immediately flushed.
Ever since she learned that her younger brother had died, and that I was actually the person who had treated her so well afterward, it had been difficult for her to accept it. And after learning that I was the Lord of the Nine Heavens, she felt even more insignificant.
I had asked her to treat me as her younger brother. She cooperated on the surface,