"Bi Ji! How is he?" the Ice Empress asked anxiously.
The Snow Empress raised a hand to her shoulder. Her palm was frighteningly cold, but her voice remained steady. "Trust him. With his current foundation, if he can't even get through this, how could he possibly reverse the future?"
Despite those words, the Snow Empress's other hand was slick with cold sweat. For a supreme ice-attribute powerhouse, that alone showed how nervous she was.
Before her words had faded, Tian Chen's eyelashes trembled.
The instant he looked up, his breath caught slightly. Then something soft brushed his face.
Bi Ji was kneeling before him on one knee, her emerald wings not yet fully folded. Their soft tips swept over the remaining wounds on his arm, leaving a tingling itch.
Her usually gentle, serene face filled his vision. He could even hear her faint, breathless panting.
Her neckline was slightly open, revealing undulating peaks that trembled with her rapid breathing. Every rise and fall seemed to tug at the world's most primal rhythm of life.
An exceedingly faint fragrance of greenery drifted from her, like the softest rain on a spring night. It settled gently on Tian Chen's nose, then slipped through his nostrils and into his heart.
Tian Chen's throat bobbed. He instinctively averted his eyes, only to hear Bi Ji murmur, "You're awake! Don't move."
Her voice was very soft, yet carried a tenderness that brooked no refusal.
Her fingertip touched the space between Tian Chen's brows, and that faint fragrance suddenly grew rich-not flowers, not greenery, but the more primal, more boundless aura of life origin.
Seeing her little brother wake, the Ice Empress couldn't keep the joy off her face. But because he had just worried her so badly, she was ready to march over and give