Chapter 622: It Was Dawn
"All right, then. Let's talk!"
Qin Xiaoxia turned back to Duobaili. With a mere thought from him, she suddenly felt her body relax, freed from the pressure that had made even moving difficult.
A look from this Devil, who had killed that Demon so effortlessly, was enough to send chills through Duobaili.
She had seen many Devils in the world of the Ridge-Crowned People. She had witnessed wars in which the Demon armies and the Devil Legion had each claimed victories and suffered defeats, and countless brutal battles of every scale. She could even say she had witnessed the fall of a Demon Lord.
But Duobaili had no way to classify a Devil on the level of the one before her. Powerful, uncanny, miraculous... none of those words seemed adequate to describe what she felt.
"I can tell you've truly fallen for Zhou Zhigang. Fate is a strange thing. If you'd met him under more comfortable circumstances, you probably would've drained him dry the moment you crossed paths."
Qin Xiaoxia teased, "Tell me about your original plans. If this hadn't happened, how were you planning to live and spend the rest of your lives together? Hmm, neither of you intended to leave the other, did you?"
The more kindly Qin Xiaoxia behaved, the more frightened Duobaili became. This was an unfathomable Devil, after all, one she could not even classify. He would never be so pleasant to a Demon. It had to be a false front, and one answer he disliked might be enough to reduce her to ashes.
But she had no choice. Duobaili did not dare refuse to answer.
"We... we planned to settle down as an ordinary married couple... He told me Huaguo has a lot of people coming in from elsewhere