I stared at the dark, empty corridor ahead.
The deep, silent space made me a little uneasy.
A murderous air hung all around us.
I gradually began to understand our situation.
Neither of our footsteps had woken the motion-activated lights.
Ye Zhaoxuan quietly came to my side, her pure white wings trembling behind her. "Mother."
Boom—
An explosion-like sound rang out across the street.
It was as if I'd been drenched in a bucket of ice water in the dead of winter. The joy of reuniting with Cai Die vanished in an instant, and fear and panic spread through my heart...
They were fighting.
My older sister and the person closest to me.
—They were fighting!
Without a single unnecessary word, they'd started throwing down.
The feeling of suffocating hit me hard.
My emotions were so intense that my breathing stopped, as if I were going into shock.
"What are you doing? Stop! Why are you fighting?" My voice was nearly spent as I screamed. Without the slightest hesitation, I rushed into the darkness ahead.
"Mother, don't go!" Ye Zhaoxuan called after me.
I had no choice. Before leaving, I gritted my teeth and picked her up.
She wasn't that heavy, so she wouldn't get in the way.
Ye Qingxian had already heard the Junior Sister's voice.
But she also saw the girl approaching, carrying a heavy blade nearly two meters long, surrounded by a faint, invisible aura of killing intent.
Ye Qingxian's face was almost hidden in the darkness. When she realized Cai Die seemed intent on killing her, she immediately laughed.
This was interesting.
She had no idea where this hostility toward her came from.
But that didn't stop her from meeting the Junior Sister's so-called "older sister."
"Junior Sister, I know what I'm doing. I'll be right