"Just from your tone, I can tell that this woman called Qian Du is far more important than Snowball and me." The Wolf King sounded a little jealous. "Your voice becomes lower and your emotions more sorrowful whenever you mention her, and I can hear how deeply you feel for her. When you talk about Snowball and me, you're so casual and dismissive."
"It's different. You and I..." Li Mu Yang thought about comforting the Wolf King a little. After all, he was still riding on its back, and they would need to fight side by side for some time to come. "Humans and wolves are different. We're brothers and companions. But she's my partner—the woman I can spend my whole life with, marry, and have children with."
"We can do that too," the Wolf King said.
"That really won't work."
"I can spend my whole life with you too, as long as I condense a physical body."
"I'm in a terrible mood right now. I don't want to talk. Let me be quiet for a while."
"All right." The Wolf King nodded.
After flying for a while, the Wolf King could not help speaking again. "Human women live for only a mere hundred years. But you're a dragon, with a nearly immortal lifespan. The only ones who can stay with you and accompany you for life are me and Snowball."
"Don't you like howling at the sky? How about giving me a few howls now?"
"Why? Didn't you say you don't like hearing me howl?"
"I like hearing you talk even less!"
The Northern Darkness was vast—so vast that whether you went east or west, south or north, it seemed you could never reach the end.
The Northern Darkness knew neither day nor night. It was forever a murky