Aggrieved.
Utterly aggrieved.
Even Gu Yuena herself had not known she would react so strongly.
Clearly, Xia Linyuan's "Do that again next time, and believe it or not, I'll chop off your claws" was perfectly normal in their usual exchanges of mutual mockery, yet she still felt incomparably wronged.
Her eyes grew hot, and tears surged straight to her head.
She desperately held them back, forcing herself not to cry in front of Xia Linyuan.
Yet Xia Linyuan, seeing that Gu Yuena looked as though she might burst into tears at any moment, inexplicably felt immensely irritated.
Having lived on the edge of a blade for years, his emotions had long since been nearly worn away by bloody reality. Yet ever since he had come to the Douluo Continent in the form of an avatar, trivial matters kept stirring those indifferent feelings within him once more.
First Duke Molong and his wife, and now Gu Yuena's tears.
"My dear friend, thou who possessest a 'heart' art truly unbearably fragile."
R'lyeh's emotionless voice suddenly echoed beside his ear.
Yes, he possessed a "heart." As an incomplete creation of the Abyss, he was indeed far more fragile than other Abyssal creations.
As though memories had been stirred, Xia Linyuan's indifferent golden eyes gradually became unfocused.
Those emotionless Abyssal creations acted ruthlessly. They would not feel pity for the miserable fate awaiting their targets, nor would they bring greater trouble upon themselves because of it.
But he was different. He still possessed a human "heart," human emotions. Once an enemy seized upon his weakness, he would become like an ant on a hot pan, unable to act.
They despised him for possessing a "heart." They rejected him as an outsider. They disdained to walk alongside an aberration like him...
They whispered in the