But Ye Chuqi's gaze was clearly serious. She casually tossed San San to him as well. "Trust me. You can handle it."
Yan Jiu held the limp San San. Who exactly is trusting whom here, and who exactly can handle it?
Yan Jiu left with San San, who was dizzy from crying, to carry out the task Ye Chuqi had entrusted to him. Bone Wolf found it interesting and ran after them, leaving only Jelous and Ye Chuqi.
Jelous sat beside the bonfire and patted the spot next to him, looking ready for a long, heart-to-heart talk with Ye Chuqi.
Ye Chuqi smiled, her eyes narrowing. "I can more or less guess what you want to say. I can feel it." Perhaps she really had been muddled by the restrictions of the World Laws while she was in the River of Time, or rather, had found it hard to break free of that state. But once she was awake and thought through the chain of cause and effect, she understood most of it.
Especially with that glow over Jelous's heart, which had yet to fade.
"It was the Sacred Contract, wasn't it? Rather than saying the High Priest helped us with the Sacred Contract back then, it would be more accurate to say the Light God did." Having met the Light God, she could connect many of the clues. "Only power like that could briefly break through the restrictions of the World Laws and let you find me..."
Ye Chuqi sighed. Rather than saying every step had been part of the Light God's calculations, it was more accurate to say they had all been part of Eldest Senior Brother's. The Light God's past connection with Eldest Senior Brother, along with his hopes for this matter, had led him to simply