"Calm down? How am I supposed to calm down?"
Xiao Yan's arm around Liuli's slender waist tightened slightly. The ambiguity in the young girl's words stirred a faint sense of panic in his heart.
This girl... she isn't about to dump me, is she?
Liuli slowly shook her head, her fingertips gently brushing over the bite mark she had left on Xiao Yan's arm. Softly, she said, "For the time being, we should give each other some space. While we're in the Ancient Realm, we shouldn't interact too much.
There can be more or less 'love' between people. You can have the one you love most, someone you love second most, someone you love ordinarily... even that fluttering feeling from your youth can count as a kind of love. Some loves require responsibility, while others should be buried deep in your heart and left for time to wear away. Right now, inside your heart..."
Liuli turned around in Xiao Yan's embrace and poked at his chest with her fingertip. Raising her delicate face, she said earnestly, "There are so, so many kinds of 'love' hidden in there. What you need to do now is sort through them one by one.
Perhaps it will take a long time, but our future is still very long..."
With that, she gently pushed Xiao Yan away, turned around, and said faintly, "Also, this is the Ancient Realm. We can't act too intimate and let those old fellows find out. Otherwise, you and Xun Er will probably have no hope at all. Go on, hurry back!"
This was, after all, the Ancient Clan. Countless strong individuals of the Ancient Clan were concealed throughout the area. As the "thorn in their eyes" who had abducted their precious daughter, Xiao Yan was certainly under constant surveillance during