"Hey! Got you!"
The young girl jumped out again.
She skipped out from around the bend in the cave.
Hooking one foot and waving her hand, she leaped into the Eye of the Great Dao. Then, with crescent-moon eyes narrowed in a smile, she kept smiling, smiling...
The orange afterglow of the setting sun lit the dim cave world like a candle, revealing its gullies and scars. Ai Cangsheng's heartstrings rippled again.
That long-lost, crisp greeting was like a sharp arrow. It needed no great force to tear apart Great Emperor Cangsheng's psychological defenses.
Ai Cangsheng sat in the Southern Domain.
He sat rather majestically in his cassia-wood wheelchair.
As he looked over, half of the Eye of the Great Dao contained the continent's present rules, while the other half contained the cave girl of the past.
"Why are you looking at me like that?"
Wrapped in a yellow, diamond-patterned headscarf, Zhong Yuanzi noticed that Ai Cangsheng's gaze had turned sticky. Suppressing a shudder, he spoke.
He had changed!
Ai Cangsheng had indeed changed, if only a little.
Perhaps it had something to do with his splitting headache? Why did the way he looked at people now resemble the scorching gaze exchanged by lovers in the flush of youth, after they had untangled themselves and drawn apart to catch their breath?
The way he looked at me was like how twenty-year-old me looked at her.
Fervent, affectionate, and carrying a hint of inferiority, because there was nothing he could do...
"People really shouldn't spend too much time around Xu Xiaoshou."
Zhong Yuanzi quietly edged farther away, realizing that Ai Cangsheng had been played into ruin by that brat Xu.
He moved away, only to discover that Ai Cangsheng was still staring at the spot where he had been standing. That