Hand Sis naturally sensed the aura of that power too, and trembled faintly.
Lu Xingyuan hesitated for a moment, but finally spoke:
"Stone asked me to tell you that he never regretted meeting you."
Hand Sis stopped trembling.
She sank into a long reverie, offering no response for a long time.
Everyone waited with great patience.
Even Weiwei learned to stay quiet, keeping her mouth zipped shut and not daring to babble.
After an unknown length of time, Hand Sis recovered, pulling herself out of that sorrowful state.
Her slender, jade-like fingers gently brushed the surface of the Jade Box.
The final Seal was lifted as well.
With a click, the Jade Box opened on its own, revealing what lay inside.
A leg.
A leg that had been severed cleanly at the very top of the thigh.
The blood at the severed end had long since drained away, leaving a dull ring of dark red that was almost black.
Yet even so, the leg was still beautiful.
Long and straight, its contours flowed from the rounded knee to the slender ankle, as though it had been carved inch by inch from the finest white mutton-fat jade.
The skin was so fair it was almost translucent, faintly revealing pale blue veins beneath, like barely visible crackle patterns in thin porcelain.
Under the light, it actually gave off a soft, pearly sheen.
The toes were small and rounded, curling slightly, with traces of pale red nail polish still lingering on them like five scattered peach blossom petals.
Everyone's breath caught involuntarily.
None of them seemed to have expected that the object inside the Jade Box would be a leg.
But a look of confirmation flickered across Lu Xingyuan's face.
He had been with Hand Sis the longest, so naturally he understood her