A New Beginning

Su Xun had often pessimistically thought that he would probably never achieve this goal.

Who could have guessed that life was so unpredictable?

So as long as you held on, you were bound to find something waiting for you.

Maybe it would be bad, maybe it would be good.

If you didn't hold on until the end, how would you know?

"Thank you, Master Xiao."

"Thank you so much."

Su Xun was so earnest that he was almost reverent.

In his eyes, Xiao Xiao was the savior he would remember for the rest of his life.

Xiao Xiao smiled but said nothing.

He lowered his eyes slightly and looked at the coffee cup on the table.

In the amber liquid, he and Feifei were reflected. Above his head, a dark outline was just barely visible, too.

That was Taotie.

But Su Xun showed no reaction.

Xiao Xiao stirred the coffee with a silver spoon.

The calm liquid swirled into a restless whirlpool, and the reflections broke apart.

It seemed that Su Xun's "sight" had merely been "bestowed" by Beauty Spider.

Apart from Beauty Spider, he couldn't see any other demons.

It wasn't a matter of being disappointed or not.

Besides, for Su Xun, it was better that he couldn't see them.

After all, demons had once brought him so much pain.

Whether time could heal everything depended on the circumstances.

After all, humans didn't live long enough for time to heal everything.

So for humans, some wounds healed as time passed.

Others, however, could never heal.

They only formed a scab.

Touch them, and they might start bleeding again.

The pain remained.

"Master Xiao, before I came here, I had a lot of questions I wanted to ask you."

Su Xun suddenly spoke