She was no longer that "little girl" who used to fret over how to address her.
She was a true Great Emperor of this age, a Heavenly Emperor who had attained the supreme Dao Fruit.
Standing where she was, Tianling looked at the Female Emperor and opened her mouth. Yet the words "little girl," already at her lips, were swallowed back down.
She knew it was no longer appropriate to call her that.
Now it was her turn to wonder what manner she should adopt in the future when facing this woman, who had already surpassed her in brilliance and peerless grace.
Yet before her, the Female Emperor's heart was no more as calm as she appeared.
By now, she had long known that Tianling was her master's beloved confidante, someone he had known since the Archaic Era.
In a sense, although her master, in the lifetime when he had been reborn as the Indestructible Golden Body, had become entangled with several women due to his early memories not having awakened—
—resulting in quite a few beauties, openly or secretly, being connected to him now, or harboring one-sided yearning for him for the time being—
Once all of his Past-Life Wisdom had awakened, however, whether it was called indifference or numbness born of his subjective consciousness, he had in fact remained utterly devoted in matters of the heart.
To this day, her master had one and only one Dao companion: Tianling.
As for the others, even among those who had shared physical intimacy with him, at most there were Gu Qingying, due to special circumstances, and Shao Hanyun, who had acted with reckless abandon and whom he had personally suppressed on Gou Chen Ancient Star.
There was no one else.
Those so-called favored daughters of heaven—if her master had wanted