In Dou Qi Continent, One Talent Trait Every Day

Yun Yun was completely dumbfounded.

How had things changed so quickly?

"Many thanks to the Old Sect Master for granting us this!"

Xu Qi clasped his hands and bowed deeply.

"Then we won't disturb the Old Sect Master's cultivation any longer."

"Mm, go back."

Yun Shan was quite satisfied.

Xu Qi then pulled the stunned Yun Yun away from the forbidden bamboo grove.

Once they were outside the back mountain, Yun Yun suddenly shook off Xu Qi's hand, her face stern.

"What nonsense were you talking about just now? Didn't I tell you that in front of my teacher, you only needed to admit your mistake and not say anything reckless?"

"But not only did you speak recklessly, you even... spouted nonsense!"

Yun Yun was so angry that she did not know what to say.

They had clearly gone there to admit fault, yet somehow, as they talked, it had turned into getting Yun Shan to agree to her being with Xu Qi?

What the hell was that?!

"Sister Yun Yun, every word I said just now was true. Not a single word was false." Xu Qi looked into her eyes, his expression earnest and sincere.

"I like you. Just like what I told you back in the Monster Beast Mountain Range, that will never change."

"Back then, Sister Yun Yun, you said you needed some time."

"You also said that if I could reach the Dou Wang realm, you would acknowledge me. Although I'm not a Dou Wang yet, I believe I soon will be."

"So much time has passed already. I want to know whether you truly don't feel even the slightest thing for me."

"If you still cannot let go of your resentment toward me, you can make a move whenever you want. Do whatever you think will make me pay the price. I will never complain in the slightest."

Yun Yun said nothing. Her pearly teeth bit down on her thin lips, and her lovely face was filled with conflict and struggle.

She would never forget everything that had happened in the Monster Beast Mountain Range.

She even often dreamed of those events, and Xu Qi was there even in her dreams.

When they had parted back then, she really had said that she needed some time.

But that time had passed too quickly, so quickly that she still had not prepared herself.

Silence.

Still silence.

Countless thoughts filled Yun Yun's heart. She seemed to have many things she wanted to say, yet she could not utter a single word.

There was only silence.

"I understand." Xu Qi slowly lowered his gaze, and the expectation on his face vanished without a trace.

"I'll go confess everything to the Old Sect Master. No matter how he punishes me, I'll accept it."

"Then, I'll leave the Misty Cloud Sect and never appear before you again. Your world will no longer have my shadow in it. Just pretend I never existed."

"Goodbye..."

He spoke in a low voice, slowly turning around and walking toward the forbidden bamboo grove.

Since Yun Yun rejected him so deeply, why should he continue pursuing her so desperately?

What was not his would never be his. Forcing it was useless.

Just as Xu Qi turned to walk back, Yun Yun suddenly raised her eyes, ran up to him, and wrapped her arms around his waist.

"Stop! I won't allow you to go!"

She held Xu Qi tightly. Tears slid from the corners of her eyes, falling onto his back and soaking a patch of his clothes.

"Xu Qi, I like you too..."

Yun Yun finally said those words.

The countless complicated emotions in her heart all vanished into thin air with that one sentence.