"Wu Heng, you..."
Su Xuan still doubted Wu Heng's intentions.
"..."
Before Su Xuan could finish, the two "people," Wu Heng and Su Xuan, suddenly vanished from before Su Bai, leaving only a sentence that Wu Heng, as his Puzzle Piece, transmitted directly into his mind-
"There are a few things I'd like to discuss with my brother-in-law. We'll be back soon."
Brother-in-law?
"Ahem." Su Bai coughed lightly twice. Color had long since returned to his fair cheeks, yet now, for some reason, a faint blush spread across them.
Even though he had once signed his name on the Marriage Contract, even though he had long known he had a nonhuman betrothed, even though he knew Wu Heng had always, always stayed by his side in various guises, Su Bai still felt that form of address gently touch something in his heart. It felt as though a lone puzzle piece in his mind had finally found where it belonged.
Perhaps he had known all along where that piece belonged; he simply had never truly pressed it into place.
Or perhaps he had already set it in place, but... had yet to say it aloud to Wu Heng, just as Wu Heng still held on to secrets he had yet to reveal.
Had he not already figured certain things out and made certain decisions, he would have had plenty of other ways to replenish Wu Heng's strength when he first entered the Nightmare Tower.
At that thought, the young man standing still on the sidewalk amid the passing pedestrians looked in a certain direction, a faint smile appearing on his face.
Although Su Bai did not know what Su Xuan was allowed to know that he was not, Su Xuan's power was easy to recognize in this city he had created,