Here to say goodbye?!
Both An Lingzhen and Lu Xuan, who stood beside her clutching the hem of her skirt, abruptly paled.
"Have you run into some trouble?" An Lingzhen asked first.
"No, nothing like that. I just have some personal matters to handle."
Ye Li paid no heed to the sudden change in their expressions.
He turned his wrist, and three Jade Slips glowing with a faint light appeared in his palm.
He flicked his fingers.
The three Jade Slips obediently floated over to stop before An Lingzhen.
"In a crisis, crush any one of these."
Ye Li looked at her and said evenly,
"When that happens, someone will cross the Star Sea to aid the Xuanjian Mansion."
"Keep them safe. Consider them the contingency measures I'm leaving for the Xuanjian Mansion."
"..."
An Lingzhen held the three Jade Slips rather stiffly, feeling as though they weighed as much as millions of stars piled together.
She opened her mouth, wanting to ask where he was going and why he had come to say goodbye.
Yet when the words reached her lips, she simply could not voice them.
After everything she had experienced, she understood.
The young man before her had long since become someone she could no longer persuade to stay.
Taking in An Lingzhen's utterly forlorn expression, Ye Li paused.
After a moment's thought, he casually added,
"I originally planned to bring someone over for you to meet this time."
"Then... where is she?"
"That's why I said originally."
Ye Li waved a hand.
Thinking of the Red-Robed Girl sulking outside the door, he found it rather amusing and explained,
"She seems to be in a bad mood and doesn't want to come in."
"So I left it at that."
"Anyway, those three Jade Slips are linked to