(P.S. I managed to squeeze out a chapter, but I still have to care for and pick up my child this afternoon, so I can't guarantee there'll be a second chapter. Please read this one first.)
Huang Rong's suggestion was simply earth-shattering. This was no longer opening a window—it was blowing away the entire wall of the house.
Everyone was utterly stunned, including Wu Pifu, the other companions, and even the three Ascendant Bodies who wished they could turn invisible.
What did she mean by walking into a trap?!
Wu Pifu?
Heavenly Court?
Beyond the Thirty-Three Heavens?
Was there really nothing wrong with putting those words together?
At first hearing, everyone immediately wanted to refute her, but once they opened their mouths, they all fell into thought instead.
Huang Rong wore an earnest, resolute expression. For this young girl, who was always cheerful and giggling, such an expression was exceedingly rare.
"Of course I don't want Brother Pifu to take risks. But Brother Pifu is a true man who stands tall between heaven and earth, and he bears the life and death of all Gaia Humans on his shoulders. There are many times when he cannot retreat even a single step. A man's spirit like this must not be worn away. Though I do not wish for it, I long to follow at Brother Pifu's side, to live and die with him. Then this life would be enough."
Wu Pifu fell silent. In the Legend of the Condor Heroes novel he knew, Huang Rong had indeed done exactly that. She had spent her entire life upholding it, never abandoning Guo Jing until the very end, when the two of them died together beneath Xiangyang City.
He had never expected that she would feel this way about him now... What deep