"What did you say?!" Ye Mo flung the plate to the floor with a backhanded swing, shattering it with a crash.
His eyes widened as he stared at the man before him in disbelief. "Qi Yu, say that again!"
Qi Yu got up and carefully picked up the shards from the floor, afraid Ye Mo might overlook them and accidentally step on them later.
Ye Mo grabbed his collar, forcing him to straighten up and look at him. "You want to break up with me?"
Qi Yu said nothing.
Ye Mo clenched his collar tightly and asked again, "You want to break up with me?"
Qi Yu looked up and froze. At some point, Ye Mo's eyes had reddened. As far as he remembered, Ye Mo rarely cried, but whenever he did, it seemed to be because of him.
"Momo..."
Smack! Ye Mo slapped him. "You'd better think carefully before you speak."
Ye Mo hadn't held back. Five red finger marks stood out starkly on Qi Yu's face.
"You're going to leave..." Qi Yu lowered his head. He didn't quite dare look Ye Mo in the eyes.
The system had already said this was their last Instance. Once they cleared it, they could go straight home. But what about him? He would probably have to return to his own Instance and go back to being Master Qi, living along the path that had long since been laid out for him.
Ye Mo's fingers stiffened. "You were the one who said we'd take it one step at a time. You said that..."
"But we've reached the end of the road." Qi Yu gave a bitter laugh. "Maybe our meeting was a mistake from the very beginning."
"According to the system's programming, I might have met countless people who wandered into my