So, were Moon City and Fu City actually two cities watched separately by It?
Qin Manjiang gazed steadily at Li Xijiu and asked, "What about you?"
Li Xijiu remained silent for a long time, but Qin Manjiang continued, "Did something happen to you later, or were you hiding things from me... from the very beginning?"
His question was so direct that Li Xijiu had no way to brush it off.
"I never lied to you," Li Xijiu said quietly. "But I did hide things."
Ever since discovering Yang's deception, Qin Manjiang's eyes had seemed covered in a thin layer of dust. Only when Li Xijiu said "never lied to you" did a glimmer return to them.
"What did you hide?" Qin Manjiang breathed a sigh of relief. If Li Xijiu really had deceived him, especially if there had been something underhanded about entering the [Eye Realm], then... he might have lost the most important friend in his life today.
Li Xijiu gave a bitter smile and sat back down in the chair. He couldn't help glancing at Qin Manjiang again.
His impression of Qin Manjiang was still stuck in their school days. In these few short months, Qin Manjiang seemed to have become a different person.
He found it hard to connect this young man with dull, gray eyes to the "slacker" and "unremarkable" Qin Manjiang he had known before. He was even different from how he had been during the [Wedding Dress] Ghost Story.
It was as though... some breath that had kept him going had suddenly dissipated.
"Since you've asked me like this, I might as well tell you everything I know." Li Xijiu slumped against the back of the chair. Though his whole body relaxed into a lazy sprawl, the air around him instantly became much more