Yuan En, What's Wrong?

Chen Xin Jie strode forward. "Even if you don't want to see me, you should at least listen to my explanation."

"I'm deeply sorry about what happened afterward. Because of our hesitation, Bei Mu died pointlessly at Stone Pillar. But it was never intentional."

"You should understand the situation back then better than I do. It wasn't just Stone Pillar—the border had also run into enormous trouble."

"To prevent the worst from happening, we had no choice but to refuse reinforcements. Only then could we avoid the worst possible outcome."

Long Yeyue snorted coldly. "Even now, Chen Xin Jie, you still want to evade your mistakes? Is admitting them really that difficult?"

"I don't want to argue with you about this. I'll say it again: I will never forgive you. I will never forgive anything the Vast Sea Legion and the Vast Sea Family did."

"To put it bluntly, if Luo Ze weren't heading to the border and passing through your area, I wouldn't have taken out that token at all."

With that, without waiting for any response from him, Long Yeyue tore open space and left the Sea God Pavilion.

Chen Xin Jie had wanted to chase after her, but Luo Ze stopped him. "Elder Chen, Elder Long has always been like this. I hope you won't take offense."

"I don't know much about what happened back then, but since it's all in the past, there's no need to keep talking about it."

"After all, Elder Bei was the one who died in that accident. He and Elder Long shared a deep bond, one that may not have been any less profound than what Gu Yue and I have now."

In other words, he hoped Chen Xin Jie would stop bringing up what happened back then. Luo Ze had