For ten thousand years, Xiao Wu had never truly seen Tang San for who he was. She had only been willing to be a carefree, foolish rabbit.
But when she opened her eyes for the first time and looked seriously at Tang San...
She could not help but shiver all over.
Daughter, parents, teachers, elders, friends, companions.
Everything, all of it, had merely been tools he gathered to achieve his own ends.
Then...
What about herself?
"Third Brother, you once promised me that you would never casually kill soul beasts again. Can you tell me what happened to the Imperial Auspicious Beast, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion?"
At last, Xiao Wu looked at Tang San and spoke with a bitter smile.
There was less tenderness and love in those reddened rabbit eyes, replaced by sorrow.
The moment she asked that question, countless extreme emotions nearly filled her heart.
How she wished she had never learned any of this.
How she wished it had all been Qian Chaoguang's baseless fabrication.
How she wished none of it had ever happened.
Even if she had died without understanding anything, that would have been better!
But facts did not lie.
Nor would manifested memories.
There was no medicine for regret in this world.
And turning back time was nearly impossible.
"The Imperial Auspicious Beast, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion? Didn't she merely go missing? What does that have to do with me? Xiao Wu, do you suspect me? I have never broken my oath."
Tang San, still in the midst of his fury, did not stop to consider how Xiao Wu knew or how much she knew. He answered casually.
Not only that, but at the mention of the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, a sickly, smug smile even appeared on Tang San's face.
"That so-called auspicious beast