Xu Qizhen gave an awkward chuckle.
"My ears must really be failing me."
"What did she just say?"
Xu Qizhen suspected he'd misheard.
"She said I can't see her?"
"She's the one hiding..."
"She can't see me..."
He'd searched for her for so many years...
He'd never stopped looking for her...
If she'd been looking for him too...
They should have—
No.
They definitely would have met much sooner.
A trace of resentment rose in Xu Qizhen's heart.
"Ah."
The Heavenly Maiden sat cross-legged, floating in midair.
"I remember now."
It looked at Lord Xiao Xiao.
"This person..."
It pointed at Xu Qizhen across from it.
"I remember who he is."
The emotions welling up inside Xu Qizhen abruptly stalled.
He stared in confusion, eyes wide.
W-what?
She remembered him?
He wanted to see her face.
He wanted to see the expression on her face.
Anxiousness welled up inside him.
"Where are you?"
"I want to see you!"
"You've remembered me, so can't you let me see you?!"
"We're not playing hide-and-seek right now!"
Xu Qizhen growled.
He'd had enough of hearing her voice without ever seeing her.
He wanted to see what she looked like with his own eyes.
To see what the person he'd searched for all these years actually looked like...
The Heavenly Maiden tilted its head.
"You're the one who can't see me."
It repeated itself.
It didn't really like repeating things.
This human was truly foolish.
But there was no helping it.
Since this human knew Lord Xiao Xiao...
It would be a little more patient with him.
"I—"
Xu Qizhen nearly choked on his own breath.
He couldn't see her because—
"Xu Qizhen."
Xiao Xiao felt that if he didn't speak up, Xu Qizhen would trap himself in a dead