Smoke hung over the ruins.
When Yun Ming's gaze fell on that coldly beautiful figure in black, the Heaven-Piercing Spear in his hand trembled slightly.
He knew that face all too well, and those eyes just as well.
Unlike the others, Leng Yulai had not unleashed any killing intent. She simply stood there quietly, her phoenix eyes, which should have been filled with murderous ferocity, fixed unwaveringly on Yun Ming. What shone in them was not hatred, but a nearly pathological love, so intense it could never be dissolved.
It was a twisted, desperate devotion.
Looking into those eyes, Yun Ming felt an indescribable ache and anger well up within him.
He drew a deep breath, and his voice exploded like thunder above the battlefield, carrying barely restrained fury:
"Leng Yulai! Is this what you wanted to do?!"
"Destroy Shrek? Slaughter innocents? Is this what you call 'love'?!"
Yun Ming pointed at the devastation around them, at the civilians crying amid the ruins, at the fallen students.
"Look at this place! Look at what you've done!"
"You were once part of Shrek too. You once had innocent dreams. Why did you have to become like this?!"
Yun Ming's barrage of furious accusations stunned Leng Yulai.
A trace of bewilderment crossed her coldly beautiful face, followed by an overwhelming sense of injustice.
She had never imagined this.
She had only been following orders. She had only wanted him to look at her more, to see how much she loved him, to see how powerful she had become for his sake.
How had she become an unforgivable Destruction?
How had she become an enemy he loathed to the depths of his soul?
"I..."
Leng Yulai opened her mouth, wanting to explain, wanting to say she was merely obeying the Holy Spirit Cult,