Zhu Zhuqing froze for a moment when she heard that form of address.
It sounded... familiar.
But her mind was in turmoil, and she had only just escaped death's door. She had no heart to think it over, much less connect it to the Chat Group.
She looked at Li Yuan's face.
He seemed familiar too, but she couldn't place him.
She was about to thank him.
But Li Yuan raised a finger to his lips, signaling for silence.
"Shh. Someone's coming."
Without another word, he pulled Zhu Zhuqing behind him.
Her heart tightened. She stared at the solid shoulders before her and fell into a daze for a second.
Once, on countless lonely, helpless nights when nightmares had jolted her awake, she had imagined Dai Mubai standing before her just like this.
Their vows to each other had proved no more than a dream's fragile bubble in the face of reality.
One touch, and it burst.
Dai Mubai had chosen to run, leaving her alone to face her family's coldness and her sister's relentless pressure.
Yet the one standing before her now was a stranger she had never met, whose name she didn't even know.
In the distance, halfway up the mountainside.
The sudden reversal left the black-clad Soul Ancestor in charge stunned for a moment.
A mysterious young man had appeared out of nowhere and saved Zhu Zhuqing, who should have been certain to die, in an inconceivable way?
When he came to his senses, his eyes filled with shock. "When did that kid get here?"
Only one mountain path led to the foot of the cliff. They had chased her all the way down without seeing a soul.
No matter how fast the kid was, he couldn't have arrived before pursuers running at full speed.
Unless