Gu Yuena's Heartfelt Confession, Their Honest Talk

It was late at night.

Heaven Dou Royal Academy lay shrouded in tranquil moonlight.

In the dormitory, Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong had long since fallen deeply asleep. Zhu Zhuqing lay on her side with her eyes closed, her breathing even.

Gu Yuena lay in bed, but her silver eyes were wide open in the darkness, exceptionally clear.

She could not sleep.

That scene kept replaying in her mind. Under the moonlight, he had lowered his head and kissed her. Their lips had barely touched, as light as a butterfly wing brushing over a flower petal.

Yet that warmth, that sensation, had branded itself deeply into her memories, impossible to erase.

Gu Yuena turned over to face the wall.

Her long silver hair spilled across the pillow like the lingering glow of moonlight. She raised a hand and lightly touched her lips, as if she could still feel the warmth he had left behind.

How strange.

She had slept in the Star Dou Great Forest for hundreds of thousands of years. She had lived through the upheavals of the Dragon God era and witnessed the rise and fall of countless soul beasts.

She had thought she had long viewed worldly desires with indifference, that all things were pieces on a chessboard and all matters could be calculated.

But why could that young man throw her once-proud state of mind into turmoil with a single kiss?

She closed her eyes, but the image of him holding her hand to adjust her posture surfaced again. So did the warmth of his breath brushing past her ear as he stood behind her, and that gentle light in his eyes whenever he smiled at her.

Gu Yuena abruptly opened her eyes and sat up in bed as though she had been scalded.

She sat