Zhao Lian gritted her teeth, exhaled, and glanced out the window at the long night of the Crimson Firmament Roselight Realm. She summoned the palace maid on night watch to clean up the mess in her bedroom.
Rather than go back to sleep, she dressed and stepped out through the palace gates to find Zhang Yuan, who had only just left.
After leaving Zhao Lian's palace, Zhang Yuan wandered aimlessly through the Imperial City. He was not alone; as he admired the Bright Dawn Kingdom's imperial nightscape, he chatted with Chi Guanguan, who had finally agreed to leave his Sea of Consciousness.
"Are you in a bad mood, Immortal Maiden? Has something happened to your true body? If so, don't worry about me. Go deal with that first."
Zhang Yuan glanced at Chi Guanguan, who sat on his shoulder with a stern face, and asked after her with concern.
Chi Guanguan rarely stayed unhappy for so long. Since she was still like this, something was probably wrong.
"Hmph, at least you have a little conscience. There's nothing wrong with my true body. You're the one with a problem."
From the fluctuations within his Sea of Consciousness, Chi Guanguan could tell that Zhang Yuan's concern was sincere. Her tone softened slightly as she spoke.
"Me? What problem could I have?"
Zhang Yuan scratched his head in confusion.
His current situation was actually quite all right. No True Lord was laying schemes around him, and his biggest problem was merely the conflict between two of the Six Heavenly Demon Kings. He played the foolish king by day and the Seventh Sun-Eroding Demon King by night. Life was passable enough.
Chi Guanguan turned her head, studied Zhang Yuan for a moment with knitted brows, and said:
"You spend all day plucking flowers