"So..."
Lin Qingmo looked at Xiao Wu, his voice very soft.
"I'm more attracted to your looks than driven by sincere affection, and I can't guarantee that I'll be devoted to you alone in the future."
He laid his truest, most potentially hurtful side bare before her.
How she chose was up to her.
He was still quite easygoing about that.
"..."
Xiao Wu raised her head. The moisture in her pink eyes grew thicker, yet no tears fell.
It was as though she understood something.
If she had been the innocent, carefree Xiao Wu from before, she might have admired beautiful, romantic, unwavering love.
Like in fairy tales, where the prince and princess lived happily together forever.
But after hearing Elder Sister Ah Yin's story... after hearing about the twisted engagement between Zhu Zhuqing and Dai Mubai...
Her mindset had long since undergone a subtle change.
Xiao Wu could naturally see it—there had always been an invisible film separating Lin Qingmo from her.
He was gentle, considerate, and protective of her, but that was only friendship, always carrying a faint, almost imperceptible sense of distance.
Just as he had mentioned in the Chat Group... in the future, she had sacrificed herself for Tang San.
"Perhaps it's precisely because he knows the future..."
Xiao Wu murmured softly in her heart.
"That's why A-Qing won't accept me wholeheartedly. He's afraid of repeating the same mistakes, afraid that I'll end up the same way as before..."
Well, she was quite good at imagining things.
But Xiao Wu did not care.
She only knew that A-Qing was the one who did not disdain her identity as a Soul Beast, the one who had been willing to remind her to hide inside the room so a Title Douluo would not discover her shortly after