Chapter 679: Parted by merfolk silk
After quite a while, perhaps because the woman before him had stood motionless for far too long, Pei Ye finally shifted his eyes and said hesitantly, "Xu Chuo..."
Li Xizhou turned back and smiled faintly at him. Little had changed in her expression.
"You mustn't call me that so carelessly from now on. You'll have to show Her Highness the same respect you did when we first met," she said with a smile.
Pei Ye relaxed slightly. "Is this... is this Empress Wei?"
"Yes." Li Xizhou paused for a while. "This is my first time seeing her."
Pei Ye turned his gaze back to that scene of breathtaking, tranquil beauty. Where there was neither movement nor sound, it seemed time itself had no way to flow. Perhaps only when this body had vanished entirely into the water would this Merfolk Hall gradually dissolve into it.
Pei Ye's gaze sharpened slightly. He suddenly noticed a faintly glowing mass cradled in Wei Qingju's hands, concealed among the flowers.
He pointed, then immediately wanted to say, "Don't touch it yet," but Li Xizhou had already approached Wei Qingju's flower-clad body and reached out to pick it up.
The woman seemed naturally ten thousand times more familiar with this place than he was. Pei Ye said no more and leaned closer to look at what she held. His pupils widened slightly.
There was no question: in this realm so clear that a single glance could take in everything, this was all Wei Qingju had left for her.
It was a bead formed from two intertwined streams of liquid.
They seemed to have been broken down into their smallest individual units, then interlocked like starry grains of sand, without the slightest repulsion, as though fused into one substance. Yet