The moment Shen He saw who was standing in front of him, he felt as though he had been struck by lightning.
This was once the person he had wanted to see most.
But ever since what happened on Huajin Plain, Xia Wuyou had become a thorn in his heart. Whenever he thought of how inseparably connected she was to that defeat, his heart ached faintly.
And now, the childhood sweetheart from back then had reunited with him under such circumstances. His expression darkened further, and waves of dizziness clouded his mind.
"...Are you going to stop me from taking Uncle Luo away, Xiao Ling?"
Shen He forced himself to calm down and looked at Xia Wuyou as steadily as he could.
He still used the name she had gone by in the past.
"I... can't let you leave."
Xia Wuyou's feelings were complicated as well. Xu Shi's actual order to her had been to leave no one alive and kill them all.
That had already been a relatively tactful way of putting it.
"Can you tell me why?"
Shen He gritted his teeth, feeling increasingly tormented.
Somewhere deep down, he had always felt that he and Xia Wuyou should have reunited after a long separation, then fought side by side together.
Instead, there had been betrayal and treachery, and now they were even facing each other with weapons drawn.
He desperately wanted to know what had caused things to turn out like this.
"Why even ask?"
Before Xia Wuyou could answer, another young man's mocking voice rang out first. "Isn't this the right choice that anyone would make?"
Xia Wuyou instinctively turned around and saw Xu Shi walking over to stand beside her.
He had finally made it, and his timing was just right.
Gu Yi was following beside