They had anticipated the worst-case scenario, but when the truth was laid bare before them, Li Mu Yang and Qian Du still felt as if they were on the verge of collapse.
Qian Du's eyes were red-rimmed, and she stood rooted to the spot, unwilling to move closer.
Perhaps everything she was seeing was fake. Perhaps that corpse belonged to someone else, not Lin Cang Hai. But what if that person really was Lin Cang Hai?
It was a truth she could not bring herself to accept.
Li Mu Yang was also suffering terribly. He had not known Lin Cang Hai for long; they had only met after arriving at Starry Sky Academy. Yet the two had grown very close, and Lin Cang Hai had rescued him several times whenever he encountered danger.
At the thought of that handsome, lovable face, and the possibility that they might never meet again in this life, he felt truly wretched.
But they were in a perilous place. At a time like this, he had to stay strong.
Li Mu Yang patted Qian Du on the shoulder and consoled her in a deep voice. "Don't panic. Let's first see whether it's really Cang Hai."
By then, tears were streaming down Qian Du's face, large drops rolling down her beautiful cheeks.
"This is the Water Illusion Realm. No one usually comes here at all. Gu Diao only snatched Cang Hai away right in front of us. Who else could it be?" Qian Du's voice was choked with sobs, and her grief was impossible to contain.
Her parents had only one daughter: her. She had plenty of cousins, but every one of them was fiercely ambitious, with pleasant yet false smiles.
Lin Cang Hai was her aunt's son. He had lived with her family since childhood,