Deep within the Magic Beast Mountain Range, in a courtyard.
Medusa Queen leaned lightly against the wooden door with her arms crossed, watching the man carefully wipe down an ancient guqin. There seemed to be a touch of unusual resentment in her beautiful eyes.
"Who would have thought that True Lord had such refined tastes? Which young lady gave you this?"
Yang Chen's hands paused slightly. He then carefully put away the guqin before replying without looking up.
"This is one of only two things my mother left behind. Does the Queen have any further questions?"
Hearing the faint chill in Yang Chen's voice, Medusa Queen's heart trembled slightly, and a trace of guilt immediately rose within her.
However, as the proud queen of the snake-people, Medusa Queen naturally could not bring herself to lower her head and apologize first. She could only stiffly change the subject.
"I thought it was a gift from Yun Yun."
Medusa Queen had sharp eyes. She had just seen a small character for "Yun" engraved on one end of the guqin. Combined with the news she had received earlier—that Yun Yun had secretly come to the Magic Beast Mountain Range to meet Yang Chen—she had misunderstood.
Yang Chen subconsciously reached out and stroked the engraving. A trace of melancholy flashed through his eyes as he softly sighed.
"This guqin was forged by my maternal grandfather at immense cost as a gift for my mother. It was called Wraith Soul. Later, after my mother met and fell in love with my father, she personally engraved this character on it and renamed the instrument Cloud Soul."
As his hand rested gently upon it, Yang Chen seemed able to feel the deep love between those two people, who had feared neither countless hardships nor life and death.