"Just send it to me through [Heart-Tethering]."
"But it's rather hard to scroll back up through [Heart-Tethering] now."
"Why?"
Pei Ye frowned at her, and she looked back at him with a smile.
Over two breaths, Pei Ye's face slowly reddened.
He turned away.
A message appeared on [Knowing Intent].
[Xi Zhou, I entrust Pei Ye to you. He is my only family and my beloved disciple. I have been alone for more than fifty years, and I will leave nothing behind when I die except this child. For eighteen years, he has been all I had in my life, and I have been all he had in his. Once I die, he will have nothing left. Yue Muzhou bows in thanks.]
"That was the last thing he sent me." Li Xizhou gazed at the stunned boy and said gently, "I think whether you kill Yong Ji or not, even if you cannot avenge him, it won't change your place in his heart."
Caught utterly off guard by these words, Pei Ye felt his nose and eyes sting at once. He stared fixedly at her.
But Li Xizhou tilted her head and murmured with a smile, "I really did have to scroll through so many pages."
Pei Ye was still grieving, but at her words, the tips of his ears reddened again. He glared at her in embarrassment. "Stop bringing that up."
Li Xizhou pressed her lips together in a smile without speaking.
Silence settled between them. After a moment, she asked quietly, "Why did you send me so many words? Paragraph after paragraph."
"..."
"Hm? Tell me."
Pei Ye stared expressionlessly into the distance and said coldly, "I suspect you actually saw them and simply didn't reply."
"If I'd seen them, I certainly would have replied." Li Xizhou's voice