"His aura... seemed different..." The moment Princess Youhua saw Mu Yuyi, she frowned.
She could not put her finger on the feeling, but as Mu Yuyi stood there, he seemed perfectly at one with his surroundings, as though he had merged with the space around him. That transcendent, otherworldly bearing was especially striking.
"What is it?" Zhongchuan Yue asked indistinctly, a blade of grass dangling from his mouth.
"I don't know, but I'm certain he's more frightening than when we last met. And..." Princess Youhua paused slightly, as though searching for the right words.
"I'm a little afraid of him!"
In the end, Princess Youhua voiced her truest feeling. Yes, she sensed an eerie aura from Mu Yuyi. It made her feel as though a single glance from him would reveal everything about her, as if she had no privacy at all before him. It was a bizarre feeling—not one born from perception, but more from a woman's intuition.
"You're afraid of him? Even if he's stronger than you, aren't the two of us here? You don't need to..." Zhongchuan Yue shot Princess Youhua a surprised look and gave a light laugh, about to comfort her wounded heart, when he was interrupted by the ever-silent Xiao Kai before he could finish.
"I have the same feeling Princess Youhua does..." Xiao Kai said solemnly.
"You... the two of you... don't tell me you're boosting someone else's morale and crushing your own..." Zhongchuan Yue said in astonishment, looking at them both in disbelief.
However, Xiao Kai and Princess Youhua ignored the somewhat foolishly adorable Zhongchuan Yue. They exchanged a glance and nodded to themselves.
"Hey, hey!!! What do you two mean by that..." Zhongchuan Yue was about to lose his mind. This feeling of everyone being sober while he alone was drunk