The three living people held dried meat in their hands, while fine wine from Moon City sat on the table. Each was lost in their own thoughts.
Feng Hao and Sa Tongtian were thinking along the same lines: both were waiting for Hu Keke to return.
The old man was thinking that three years had dragged by, and it was time to settle accounts with the usurping woman in the imperial palace.
Feng Hao was thinking that the young master would probably wake up in less than ten days.
He could no longer wait to share his joy with Hu Keke.
Wang Xian silently wondered whether, after fulfilling his promise to Hu Keke, he should head toward Ghosts' Bane—
or take a ship out to sea, follow in the footsteps of Song Tian and the others, and return to the imperial capital of Jinling.
Sa Tongtian muttered, "I just miss Keke a little. Three years have passed in the blink of an eye. I wonder whether he's been doing well."
Feng Hao, who felt the same, laughed. "The little master must be doing fine."
Wang Xian set down his wine cup and said in a low voice, "As long as he's alive, that's enough... Even if things haven't gone his way, as long as he's alive, there will always be a day when they do."
Hearing this, the old man laughed helplessly.
Recalling the years he had spent with the emperor, the old man had quickly let go of any dissatisfaction whenever he thought of Hu Keke still being alive.
Wang Xian had rescued him from the death-bound Heavenly Prison, and he had watched a crow undergo tribulation in his eyes and become the young man before him.
The wish he had spoken of for so many years was about