"Mm."
Gu Qinghan looked at the Ice and Snow Empresses and nodded with a faint smile. "I know everything you've done to look after the Far North all these years."
"It should have been my responsibility, yet I left you to shoulder it in my place... I failed in my duty."
During the many years since her fall, she had watched everything that happened in the Far North, powerless to help.
Fortunately, the Three Great Heavenly Kings had kept the Far North from falling into utter despair.
"Lady Ice God, this was our..."
The Snow Empress shook her head and was about to say something.
But Gu Qinghan raised a hand to stop her and smiled. "You needn't call me Ice God. That's only a title I once held. Just call me Qinghan."
"Ah, well..."
The Snow Empress and the Ice Empress exchanged a glance, truly struggling to say it.
They revered the Ice God as the focus of their faith. Addressing her by her name now felt rather awkward.
Gu Qinghan noticed their discomfort and immediately explained with a smile, "I'm no longer the Ice God. I've already passed that position to Yunxiao."
"Now I'm just an ordinary woman, free of the burden of a god position, so you don't need to feel burdened either."
"What, are you planning to have them call me Lord Ice God instead?" Gu Yunxiao rolled his eyes at Gu Qinghan. "They're my women, you know."
Hearing such shameless words, the Snow Empress and the Ice Empress grew increasingly embarrassed, inwardly berating Gu Yunxiao in their mortification.
Nothing had even happened between them yet. How had they become Gu Yunxiao's women?
"It's all the same."
Gu Qinghan smiled as she spoke.
"Heh."
Gu Yunxiao chuckled, then looked at the Ice and Snow Empresses. "Since