Tonight, I Am Xiaoye

That day, she had told him she had a plague god physique: cattle and sheep would die if she approached them, and her clansmen would be plagued by misfortune if she came near.

That had been a lie. The truth was that she was Qing Yan of Hydra. If she drew close to her family, Hydra would know she cared about them and use them as leverage against her. Only by acting as though her family meant nothing to her, as though she had no concept of familial affection at all, could she keep Hydra from playing that card.

"I'm starting to believe the world reflects our state of mind, Dawa. I really am!" Lin Xiaosu said. "After we swept up every last Hydra remnant on Mount Doufang, I felt as though the skies over all of Daxia had grown brighter. Passing through the grasslands this time, the flowers seemed especially lovely. Beside the Tali River, the moon shone clear and spotless. It's time for you, that moon, to return and illuminate the land of your home."

Dawa seemed to stop breathing.

Lin Xiaosu's words sounded casual, but the sheer amount of information they carried was staggering.

Every last Hydra remnant on Mount Doufang had been swept up?

If he did not know where Hydra Headquarters was, he could not possibly know about Mount Doufang.

The moment that place name left his lips, it proved one thing: Hydra Headquarters really had been destroyed!

Are you telling me you already know who I really am?

Are you telling me there's no longer any need to fear Hydra's retaliation?

Yet he did not say it outright.

He merely told her that the skies over all of Daxia had grown brighter!

Dawa... did not know what to say either...

It was as though