It seemed to sense Lu Yin looking at her. Wang Miaomiao rose and slowly bowed.
"Who are you?" Lu Yin asked. With his current identity, Wang Miaomiao didn't know—and shouldn't know—who he was.
Wang Miaomiao looked at Lu Yin with a smile. "The Wang family. Wang Miaomiao, at your service, Lord Chen."
"A human from the Wang family?"
"Yes."
"Why have you come here?"
"To seek protection."
Lu Yin was puzzled. "Who wants to harm you?"
"The Dao of Time. I ran away from my wedding, so I suppose I've betrayed both the Wang family and the Dao of Time. The entire Outer Heaven is probably searching for me now." Wang Miaomiao smiled, unconcerned.
She had run away from her wedding? From her wedding to Bu Qing.
"Why should I protect you?"
"I don't know." Wang Miaomiao said those three words, her voice filled with confusion. She slowly sat down. "Perhaps because you're the Humanoid Skeleton. You're the most famous person around right now. Or perhaps... I don't know where else to go."
Lu Yin looked at her. In his impression, Wang Miaomiao had always teased him with a sly smile, yet when she attacked, she unleashed Nine Wolves Devouring Heaven. She was domineering but cunning—a difficult opponent.
But the Wang Miaomiao before him was different from the one he had known in the Heavenly Origin Universe.
In the outside universe, especially the Outer Heaven, she had encountered countless experts far beyond her level. She had changed as well.
Lu Yin asked no more questions and continued cultivating in the Small Bamboo Forest.
Strange insects crawled across the wasteland from time to time. Even after Sin City had been reduced to ruins, the insects had not all died. Their vitality was astonishingly tenacious.
Wang Miaomiao raised her legs and placed