On the way back to Shrek City from the Star Dou Great Forest, the atmosphere was rather delicate.
Gu Yue streaked above the clouds as a silver stream of light, while Tang Wulin sat obediently on her shoulder. Although she had deliberately slowed down and even carefully spread a gentle shield of Divine Power to protect him from the biting Astral Wind at that altitude, Tang Wulin still wore a stern expression on his exquisite little face. Arms folded across his chest, he stared angrily at the sea of clouds ahead without a word.
"Wulin?" Gu Yue turned her head slightly, a flicker of panic and appeasement crossing her purple eyes. She extended a finger and cautiously poked his rigid back. "Are you still angry?"
Like a kitten with its fur bristling, Tang Wulin abruptly twisted away from her finger. Still keeping his back to Gu Yue, he let out an exceedingly haughty "Hmph" through his nose.
Seeing how furious he was, yet how especially adorable his shrunken body made him look, Gu Yue felt both amused and sorry for him. She knew she really had gone too far last night. Carried away by the excitement of her breakthrough to the Dragon God Realm, and taking advantage of Tang Wulin's "weakness" after shrinking, she had bullied him without restraint all night. Calling him her "little baby," making him a "cradle," and even conjuring a baby bottle with her spiritual power to tease him... Looking back now, she really had gone a little too far beyond all bounds.
"Come on, don't be angry anymore." Gu Yue slowed her flight, her voice soft and sweet, with a coaxing note. "I was wrong last night. I shouldn't have teased you like that. Let me apologize, all right?"
Tang Wulin still did not look