Gu Yuena looked at him.
"You survived?"
"Because you kept holding my hand."
Long Yuan raised his right hand.
"You could no longer circulate your divine power, yet you refused to let go."
"You told me that as long as we stayed together, we would find our way back."
Gu Yuena's expression gradually grew serious.
Long Yuan said:
"Later, we did make it back."
"But to keep me alive, you gave me the last of your divine power."
"You fell into a deep sleep."
"That time, you slept for three hundred years."
Gu Yuena's lashes lowered slightly.
"You waited three hundred years?"
"Yes."
"You didn't leave?"
"No."
"Why?"
Long Yuan looked at her.
"Because you said you would come back for me."
Silence settled over the lakeshore again.
The distant ferocious beasts did not approach.
Di Tian stood on the other side of the lake, looking up toward them, but did not interrupt their conversation.
Gu Yuena looked at Long Yuan.
"What happened after I awoke?"
"The first thing you asked when you woke up was how long I had waited."
"I told you, three hundred years."
"You said you owed me your life."
Gu Yuena asked softly:
"Did I repay you?"
"No."
"Why not?"
"Because you saved me many more times after that."
Long Yuan said:
"You owed me more and more lives."
"And I owed you more and more lives."
"In the end, neither of us could keep count."
Gu Yuena looked at him.
"So you became my husband?"
"No."
Long Yuan shook his head.
"You were the one who first proposed that we marry."
Gu Yuena's gaze froze.
"I was?"
"Yes, you."
Long Yuan said:
"That day, you had just finished your secluded cultivation."
"You asked me if I was willing to spend the rest of my