"Ah!"
Ao Tong cried out softly and staggered backward.
She hurriedly closed her eyes, and two streams of clear tears slid down her cheeks.
It was the backlash from the Great Dao Qi Mechanism.
"How is this possible..."
Ao Tong's heart was swept by raging waves.
How long had it been?
Only a few short months.
The youth whose strength she'd once been able to gauge to some extent had now grown to the point where she couldn't even look directly at him?
"Oh, isn't this Sister Ao Tong?"
Just then, a clear voice tinged with amusement rang out.
Ye Xuan turned around and looked at the Twin Pupils Woman, who was covering her eyes as she wept. A brilliant smile spread across his lips.
"You came rushing back in such a hurry. Did you calculate the date and find out I'd emerge from seclusion today? Did you come all this way just to honor our Hundred Year Agreement and become my maid?"
Hearing that familiar, infuriating tone, Ao Tong forgot the soreness in her eyes and snapped them open.
Though her Double Pupils still glistened with tears, she shot Ye Xuan a flirtatious, exasperated look.
"In your dreams!"
Ao Tong gave a soft snort and returned to her usual cool, haughty demeanor.
But the tips of her ears, faintly red, betrayed her unsettled feelings.
"How long has it even been? The Hundred Year Agreement is still a long way off!"
"Besides, what I said back then was that if you could defeat me within a hundred years, I would follow you. We haven't settled the victor yet, and you already want me as your maid?"
At that, Ye Xuan lowered the wine flask in his hand.
He slowly rose and took a step toward Ao Tong.
"We haven't settled