"Do you know you're playing with fire?"
Xi Ye gazed at that familiar figure, unchanged even after more than a hundred thousand years, his expression complicated.
Although the bad blood between their families had become obvious, the other man's tone, carrying the air of an elder brother, had never changed.
It had been like this since they were young. Xi Ye was a sensitive person and knew very well that Raine had hated him since childhood. But no matter how much Raine hated him, his tone toward Xi Ye had never changed. It had always carried that elder-brother quality.
Perhaps he was simply used to it. When the other man asked him that question, Xi Ye surprisingly felt no discord at all...
"Are you worried that I'll burn myself playing with fire, Brother?" Xi Ye countered.
Raine glanced at Xi Ye and said naturally, "You're the only divine seedling in our family. The family paid a tremendous price to put you on this path. Now that you've finally made some progress, of course we hope you can stay safe..."
"So you tracked me down because you wanted to protect me in secret, Brother?"
Raine fell silent for a moment after hearing that. In the end, he said faintly, "Since you schemed to drag me into this, you should have a plan too, right?"
Xi Ye smiled. "Brother, you think too highly of me. You decided to scheme against me on the spur of the moment, but when I scheme against you, why does it sound like I've been plotting it for ages? Am I really that bad?"
"Pfft!" Death's Embrace, standing nearby, couldn't help laughing. "Your brother is more interesting than you..."
Raine's expression darkened. "What's the point of arguing about this now?"
"Wasn't this a topic you brought up,