Gu Yue Was Still Gu Yue

Xie Xie had been forcibly kept in the infirmary by Wu Zhangkong for an entire day before she finally let him out.

And throughout that day, Wu Zhangkong did nothing but stare at him, staring until goosebumps rose all over his body.

But Xie Xie also knew that Wu Zhangkong was probably looking at Long Bing through him.

It was not only because his personality resembled Long Bing's. More importantly, Wu Zhangkong's usually cold eyes were far too frank at that moment—grief, longing, and guilt nearly spilling out of them.

He was not blind. Of course he could see it.

Walking down the path toward the training grounds, Xie Xie raised a hand to shield his eyes from the somewhat glaring sunlight and sighed helplessly.

All he could say was—Love Continent was still working its magic.

He absolutely did not want to become the simp from the original story. He would just let things happen naturally with Yuan En Yehui.

Even if it did not work out, as one of the current Shrek Seven Devils, surely he would not be unable to find a partner, right?

Probably... right?

Just as Xie Xie scratched at his hair and let his thoughts run wild, Gu Yue's voice suddenly rang out.

"What are you thinking about?"

Then something icy pressed against his neck, making Xie Xie shudder all over and leap into the air on the spot.

"Damn! Gu Yue, are you trying to murder me—"

Xie Xie covered his neck and turned around, only to see the girl standing behind him, a bottle of iced mineral water hooked around her fingertip.

A faint smile rested at the corner of Gu Yue's lips, softening some of the usual proud, aloof sharpness of her features.

She ignored Xie Xie's fussing entirely. With a turn of her wrist, she shoved the bottle of mineral water directly into his hand. The coolness of the bottle seeped through his skin, driving away much of the afternoon heat.

"What a fuss." Gu Yue shot him an indifferent glance, her gaze unconsciously settling on his still somewhat pale cheeks.

"Are your injuries healed?"

"They healed ages ago! Teacher Wu just insisted on making me lie there for a whole day. I was practically growing mold."

Xie Xie curled his lip. "By the way, what are you doing here?"

Gu Yue did not answer right away. The wind swept through the treetops and brushed against the ends of her black hair.

She stared steadily at Xie Xie. In those eyes that were always proud and certain, there flashed a trace of confusion that even she herself had not noticed, as though she were asking him—and asking herself.

"Xie Xie."

"What is it?" Xie Xie rubbed his still slightly numb neck.

Gu Yue's voice was very soft. "If one day, I became different from how I am now... would you still remember me?"

"Why wouldn't I?" Xie Xie asked in return.

That question clearly caught Gu Yue off guard.

"Gu Yue is Gu Yue."

Xie Xie said it as though it were only natural—simple, certain, without the slightest hesitation.

Yes, in Xie Xie's eyes, Gu Yue was Gu Yue, that proud and radiant human girl.

If he truly gained the ability to change the ending in the future, just as the Space-Time Dragon had said, then he would definitely separate Gu Yue and Na'er, then work with Tang Wulin to unlock the hidden happy ending.

When the two of them got married, he would have to get a separate table—and it had to be the head table!

The air fell silent for a moment.

The fingers hanging at Gu Yue's side curled slightly, and the look in her eyes became unreadable.

The memories in her mind were chaotic and unclear, like a tangled ball of thread. Every now and then, several fragmented images would flash past—

The memories in her mind were chaotic and unclear, like a hopelessly tangled mess that could never be unraveled. Every now and then, several fragmented images would flash past—

A silver giant dragon, figures kneeling in worship, and a bloodstained longsword cleaving down from above.

The images came quickly and vanished just as quickly.

They left only a nameless panic in her heart, along with a loneliness that sank into her very bones...

She was afraid.

Afraid that one day, she would become a stranger even she herself did not recognize.

And that no one would remember who she was now.

Watching Gu Yue suddenly lose herself in thought, Xie Xie raised a hand in confusion, intending to wave it in front of her face.

But the instant he lifted his hand, a gentle breeze suddenly blew toward him.

Xie Xie instinctively raised his hand to block it. When the wind faded, a pendant had somehow appeared in his palm.

A thin silver chain hung with a translucent crystal, within which faint glimmers of pale green, light blue, silver-white, warm gold, and blazing red flowed.

"Put it on."

Gu Yue's voice lacked its usual coolness. There was a hint of careful hesitation in it, though she still maintained her proud bearing.

Seeing that Xie Xie was still standing there foolishly without moving, she lightly hooked a finger, and the pendant fastened itself around his neck.

Xie Xie subconsciously touched the icy crystal against his neck.

A gentle elemental aura slowly seeped through his skin, warm and comfortable.

"This... did you make this with your elemental Martial Soul?"

Xie Xie was somewhat surprised. So elemental power could be used like this?

Gu Yue did not deny it. She merely turned her gaze away, the tips of her ears faintly reddening in the sunlight as she replied with feigned composure.

"I just made it on a whim."

After a pause, she added in an even softer voice.

"...Don't lose it."

After saying that, she turned around. Her figure flickered, and a faint elemental halo rose around her.

The next second, she vanished as abruptly as she had arrived, leaving behind only a faintly cool scent in the air and the very real pendant around Xie Xie's neck.

Xie Xie remained where he was, toying with the crystal.

He was extremely curious about how the crystal had been made. As expected of the Silver Dragon King's main body, Gu Yue could not only materialize, fuse, and store elemental power, but also create objects that carried elemental power.

His own Martial Soul also came with four elements.

Why could only time and space elements fuse? Could darkness and light not do the same?

Light and darkness merging... holy shit, Chaos!

The more he thought about it, the more excited Xie Xie became. Doubting Old Tuo, understanding Old Tuo, surpassing Old Tuo!

Gu Yue hid behind a tree not far away and slowly materialized from an elemental halo.

She lowered her head to look at her hand, then lifted it to look at the boy who was still standing there grinning foolishly. Her previously restless heart suddenly settled down bit by bit.

That was right. She was Gu Yue. Nothing could stop her.

Gu Yue pressed her lips together, and that confident smile curled across her lips once more.

Just as Xie Xie calmed down from his excitement and arrived beside the training grounds, he saw Tang Wulin scratching his head bashfully as he told an upperclassman beside him how amazing she was.

The instant Xie Xie saw this, his eyes lit up with a flash, and his gossip-loving instincts stirred.

But before he could even get a bite of the gossip, Tang Wulin, who had been chatting with the upperclassman, suddenly twitched his nose slightly.

The next second, Xie Xie saw Tang Wulin whip his head around, his gaze locking onto him with incredible precision.

"Xie Xie!"

Tang Wulin did not even spare the upperclassman another thought. He turned and sprinted madly toward Xie Xie, then immediately plunged headfirst into his arms.

"Pfft—"

The sudden collision nearly made Xie Xie cough up a mouthful of blood.

"Tang. Wu. Lin!"

"Do you two have something wrong with you? Every one of you is trying to murder me!!"