He waited in the courtyard for Ke Xialing to return. The changes in her expression in those brief moments had truly moved him.
He was not made of wood; he simply did not know how to handle this right now.
After all, he had been a lone dog in both his lives. Only in this life had he found Ye Wuxia, but they had not spent much time together, and there were still some chasms between them to bridge.
Ke Xialing's ardent feelings left him somewhat at a loss.
Ah! Never mind for now. I'll deal with it later. Thinking too much gives me a headache.
Ke Xialing jogged happily all the way to her mother's palace and told her, "Mother, I want to go traveling with Brother Dalong for a while."
Ke Meili was handling sect affairs when she suddenly saw her precious daughter run in and, without even catching her breath, announce that she wanted to go traveling with Guest Elder Li Dalong.
Her heart gave a violent jump at those words. What she had worried about had finally come. It was not that she thought too little of Li Dalong; on the contrary, she thought too highly of him.
She knew Li Dalong was a true dragon and feared that her precious daughter would only end up with needless sorrow.
She could not bear to let her daughter walk the same old road she had, with no good outcome.
Yet now she did not know how to tell her. She had dropped some hints before, but she did not know whether her daughter was pretending not to understand or had failed to understand at all.
Now, instead, she was sinking ever deeper.
Ke Xialing looked at her mother expectantly, while her mother sank into thought. To her,