Sitting cross-legged, Tinglan kept looking around. Mu Guyue had still not returned, and all sorts of thoughts began to surface in her mind...
Earlier, while she was cultivating, she had suddenly sensed something unusual nearby: a ripple of spatial fluctuations.
She had immediately roused herself from cultivation. After looking around, she discovered that Mu Guyue was gone!
The other woman had actually left without even saying a word to her.
Was she taken outside by Li Yan? Is he finally going to use us for that mission of his?
But why... didn't he take me out with her? Or tell us beforehand what was happening, so we could make some preparations...
Tinglan had gradually come to trust Li Yan as well.
Over all these years, he had never paid her any attention. He had not even spoken a single word to her, much less touched her.
That had made her begin to believe what Mu Guyue had once told her: he really was an ascetic cultivator who did not covet feminine beauty.
Yet aside from having her help refine some artifact blanks at the very beginning, he had never asked her to do anything else for him.
In truth, that was precisely what had always troubled Tinglan most.
After acquiring her, he had only had her do a few simple things before leaving her to cultivate. How could anything in this world come so easily?
Even if Li Yan had beaten or berated her, she would have felt that she served some purpose. Being kept like this, as though she were being "provided for," left her perpetually uneasy.
But whenever she looked at Mu Guyue, the woman seemed utterly unworried. It bewildered her. How could Mu Guyue be so carefree?
Still, she had already determined that Mu Guyue probably had