Once she was certain Chen Mo had completely recognized her identity.
Di Qiu'er simply stopped pretending and laid her cards on the table.
As she ate her candied hawthorn, she said, "Who would've thought that after two years apart, not only would you have grown taller, Xiao Mo, but your eyes would still be so sharp? You recognized me in human form at a glance."
"Quit buttering me up."
"How exactly did you transform under Di Tian's watch?"
"That guy didn't stop you?"
Chen Mo was full of questions.
After finishing a skewer of candied hawthorn and tossing the stick precisely into a trash can, Di Qiu'er explained, "Di Tian doesn't have time to worry about me right now. He went into a brief slumber along with Bi Ji, Xiong Jun, the Myriad Demon King, and the Scarlet King."
"I snuck out while they were asleep."
Dragons were lustful by nature.
As the Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King, it was bad enough that Di Tian never spent his days thinking about how to reproduce.
Why was sleeping all he ever thought about?
And that goose, that stinking bear, that rotten log, and that dumb dog.
It wasn't even winter yet. Why had they gone to sleep too?
No wonder they failed to protect the Auspicious Beast in the original story.
With that attitude, even if they were given ten more Auspicious Beasts, they still couldn't keep watch over them.
At that thought.
Chen Mo continued, "So what are you doing in the Sun Moon Empire? Don't tell me you came all this way just to find me?"
"In your dreams. I came here specifically to attend school."
Di Qiu'er curled her lips as she spoke.
"School? You?"
"This plot feels awfully familiar..."
Chen Mo rubbed his head.
Traveling thousands of miles