"Why?"
Su Mo froze, looking at Phoenix Woman in utter bewilderment.
Phoenix Woman did not answer Su Mo. Instead, she turned her head, a trace of coldness in her gaze as she looked outside the hall.
There was no reason, nor could she say it outright.
Amid the silence, Su Mo suddenly smiled. "You can't keep me locked up forever, can you?"
By all rights, after Phoenix Woman recovered her cultivation, she should no longer have treated matters concerning Su Mo as she had before.
Yet Phoenix Woman insisted on forcibly keeping Su Mo there.
How many things in this world could ever be explained clearly...
"Phoenix Venerable has recovered her cultivation, and her former disposition as well," Su Mo said slowly. "I'm still the same Su Mo, but Phoenix Venerable is no longer Phoenix Woman."
"Why keep entangling ourselves like this?"
Phoenix Woman suddenly turned back and fixed Su Mo with an unfriendly stare. "You say I'm no longer Phoenix Woman? You mean I've changed?"
The corner of Su Mo's mouth twitched, and then he shook his head...
Yes, at that moment, Su Mo lost his nerve.
Seeing that Su Mo said nothing, Phoenix Woman spoke again. "Was it me who changed, or you?"
"After I recovered my cultivation, who was the first to change how they addressed the other?"
"Based on your own understanding alone, you decided that once my disposition returned, the bond between us would end."
"Isn't that merely your own one-sided suspicion?"
Su Mo froze, staring blankly at her... Yes, from beginning to end, he had been the first to assume Phoenix Woman would change. And after she recovered her cultivation, he had also been the first to call her "Phoenix Venerable."
But had Phoenix Woman truly not changed?
And... what did she mean?
Amid