Brilliant Starlight, You Are My Lifelong Bond! (Bonus chapter for Alliance Leader Clear Dream, Ethereal Cloud!!)

Those beautiful eyes were clear, their black and white sharply distinct.

Within them lay both the joy of reunion after a long separation and hatred for the heartlessness of the man before her!

The eyes were windows to the soul, and Zhuo Mengzhen's complex, intense emotions were laid bare in that gaze.

She suffered, she struggled, she could not leave.

She was a living, breathing Golden Core female cultivator, rich in emotion, close enough to touch with an outstretched hand!

On one side was the sect whose kindness weighed as heavily as a mountain; on the other, the husband she longed for day and night. Whichever she chose, she could never satisfy both.

The dangers and thrills along the Chang'an Plan's journey had made Zhuo Mengran unwittingly fall for this warm embrace, deeply enamored of the feeling of having someone to lean on.

Yet for that, she had to betray the sect where she had lived for centuries, and certain elders who had treated her well.

She also had to remain in the Hehuan Sect, playing an impostor every single day.

For more than a hundred years, every minute and second had been torment. Its bitterness was beyond telling to outsiders.

"You truly have suffered all these years."

Seeing the threads of hatred in those bright eyes, Liu Yu suddenly sighed softly.

Though he could hardly feel exactly what she felt, he understood something of that torment.

He knew these years had been far from easy for her.

That was why, throughout those hundred-odd years, Liu Yu had never let her run short of pills, and had often spoken with her through a Communication Jade Token.

"..."

At those words, Zhuo Mengzhen froze.

Her eyes instantly reddened, a sheen of tears rising in them as boundless grievance flooded her heart.