"I simply can't accept you leaving my world—not even for a day, an hour, a minute, a second..."
"Can you understand that?"
Lin Yue's body trembled slightly. The tears in her eyes vanished in an instant, but they could not conceal the exhaustion beneath them.
The countless reset points she had gone through had long since utterly twisted her emotions.
Chen Xi took a deep breath and looked at her with blazing eyes. "That won't happen."
"Why?" Lin Yue asked casually.
"No reason. It's simply my instinct." Chen Xi's tone was resolute.
Lin Yue curled her lip disdainfully. "That sounds like nonsense. It's not convincing at all."
Noticing that she was merely putting up a front, Chen Xi simply smiled. "When it comes down to it, aren't you the one being even more absurd? What makes you so certain that after going back, I'll fall for someone else?"
"Then let's settle it with our hands."
With that, Lin Yue no longer hesitated and continued controlling the shadows to attack Chen Xi.
The shadows took the shape of armor and adhered to Lin Yue's body without reservation.
As the shadow armor formed, Lin Yue's presence rose once more.
With a wave of her hand, shadowy slime scattered through the air before rapidly taking the form of serrated blades.
The serrated blades cut off every route Chen Xi could use to evade, assaulting her from all directions.
Chen Xi remained calm in the face of danger, controlling the ring-shaped current to surge outward.
The powerful impact of the water ring stalled the shadow blades' assault, forcing them back like an overwhelming tide.
Seizing that opening, tiny droplets scattered across the path Chen Xi had just taken, then erupted a second later into water spheres the size of watermelons.
Within half a second,