Yet she had always been a strong woman, and in the end, she kept this longing buried in her heart.
Nor would she easily reveal her vulnerability.
"Yang Chen, how... how did you appear here?" Li Ruoxiang asked in confusion.
Yang Chen had originally wanted to explain everything in detail, but after thinking it over, he merely smiled. "I missed you, so I came."
Li Ruoxiang pursed her lips and smiled. With her intelligence, how could she possibly believe Yang Chen's words? She said gently, "Yang Chen, do you think I would believe what you said? Speaking of which, after all these years apart, your aura has become much stronger. I actually can't even see through you now."
"Do you find that unbelievable?" Yang Chen asked with a smile.
"If it happened to you, then it didn't seem so impossible to accept after all," Li Ruoxiang said softly.
"All these years, you've been staying here. Was it hard?" Yang Chen's tone was calm, though his voice trembled faintly.
Hearing Yang Chen's question, Li Ruoxiang broke into a smile. "How could it not have been hard?"
The moment those words fell, Zhu Hailong was frightened out of his wits. Afraid that Yang Chen would fly into a rage and punish him upon hearing Li Ruoxiang's words, he hurriedly removed the prison's restriction and opened the door.
"My good disciple, hurry, come out. You have truly suffered all these years." Zhu Hailong forced a smile. Though he called her his good disciple, he was treating Li Ruoxiang like an ancestor before whom he dared not breathe too loudly.
Back then, Li Ruoxiang had shown Zhu Hailong every measure of respect simply because he was her master. But now, things were different.
Facing Zhu Hailong's hypocritical smile, Li Ruoxiang had no intention of