Ye Xuan was nervous now. If Liu Ruyan identified him, then even if there was no demonic aura here, the blood pool alone would be impossible to explain.
The persona he had painstakingly cultivated for years would completely collapse at this moment.
Liu Ruyan, trapped by those chains, slowly raised her head. Her face, dry and shriveled like tree bark, no longer retained even a trace of its former youthful beauty.
The torment of this period had already made her wish she were dead.
Liu Ruyan had barely raised her head, before she could savor the sunlight she had not seen in so long, when she spotted Ye Yu in midair.
Ye Yu was holding Qin Ruoxian's hand, bathed in sunlight, like an immortal couple.
Then she looked at her own withered body, and a howl of unwillingness rose from her throat.
Originally, the one standing beside Ye Yu should have been her. Yet now, she was hanging above this blood pool, old and frail, with her life nearing its end.
At some point, her murky eyes had filled with tears, and Ye Yu's figure in the air gradually blurred.
In her daze, she saw the Ye Yu who had once devoted himself to her with all his heart.
But as tears fell, the world before her became clear again. What she saw was Ye Yu, his expression calm, his eyes devoid of even the slightest emotional ripple.
She was the one who had driven him away!
She was the one who had abandoned Ye Yu, who had loved her with all his heart!
"Yu... Yu-ge..." After a long while, Liu Ruyan finally spoke her first words.
Before anyone could react, a startled cry suddenly rang out.
The crowd turned to look, only to see Ye Xuan wearing a shocked