Another massive undertaking...
Seeing her let out a long sigh in his arms, Xiao Yan could not help but say, "There's no harm in taking it slowly."
"I'd like to take it slowly too..."
"Then why don't you?"
"Because..."
Yao Wan looked absentminded and hesitant to speak, quietly shifting her gaze away.
She seemed to have vaguely sensed the flaw Nalan Yanran had mentioned to her before.
Naturally, it could not truly be called a flaw, yet it was indeed something that weighed on her mind, something she could not simply turn the page on.
"Why are you suddenly looking away?"
Xiao Yan could not help reaching out and turning her head back, unwilling to let her gaze slip away just like that.
"Huh? Was I?"
"Yes. You do that whenever you feel guilty."
"You're the guilty one..."
"My conscience is perfectly clear."
Xiao Yan puffed out his chest confidently, making Yao Wan's mouth twitch. She wanted to say something to knock him down a peg, but it did not seem quite appropriate. She would need to consider it first.
There was nothing to say to this man who liked to fish for emotional entrapment.
Hmph.
Even so, Xiao Yan gently stroked her brow and eyes.
"If you're worried, aren't I still here? Take a little break. The sky isn't going to fall."
"The sky won't fall, but Jian Mu will."
Xiao Yan's words made Yao Wan instinctively raise her hand. Beneath the heavy curtains shone a faint glow—not the radiance of the sun, but the light of the Divine Tree they had planted.
A trace of sorrow inevitably tinged her voice.
Jian Mu was a Divine Tree Descendant, the foremost of Spiritual Medicine. The Jian Mu they had planted was still in its young growth stage, but one day,