An underground cavern, an ice palace.
Yang Ming borrowed a room from the Ice Empress and brought the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm inside.
Yang Ming had already thawed the ice encasing the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm. The little fellow showed no intention of escaping, quietly pretending to be a corpse as he lay obediently in Yang Ming's hand.
Was the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm moved?
He dared not move! He dared not move! He dared not move!
Yang Ming placed the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm on the floor. Seeing him look as hopeless about the future as a downtrodden corporate drone, Yang Ming poked his soft body with a finger and asked:
"Come to think of it, how did a little fellow like you get caught by the Ice Empress and end up as food?"
The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, who had been playing dead the whole way, flew into a rage at those words. Even a coffin lid could not have kept him down. His face filled with grief and indignation as he said:
"Ah, what a cruel twist of fate!"
"My connection with the Ice Empress began a hundred and ninety thousand years ago. That day, I'd fallen asleep after eating a huge amount of ten-thousand-year ice marrow. I'd just woken up and was about to find somewhere to go back to sleep when she suddenly appeared. She'd come looking for ten-thousand-year ice marrow, and when she saw that I'd eaten it all, she was furious."
What struck Yang Ming as odd was that, at this point, the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's face actually took on a humanlike expression of lovestruck devotion.
"I'll never forget how she looked in her anger that day. She was so stunning, she made my heart race. I was utterly captivated. Even when