A tenderness she had never shown before emerged in her cool, clear eyes.
Perhaps, beneath the clear sky and bright moon, as she gazed at him, so gentle, that trace of apprehension in her heart began to gradually melt away.
He was who he was. Was that unique title truly so important to her?
The meticulous care he'd shown when she was injured, how he'd entered the Southern Border for the sake of the Evil Qi within her...
Between them, there was no need for so-called societal expectations, unconcerned with favors, status, or etiquette.
Unbound by any constraints.
Even if it meant letting him off easy, beneath this starry sky, she could hear his heart.
She was in his heart.
And her place there was profound.
Su Bei was slightly taken aback, his eyes then rapidly dilating as if he had understood something; no more words were needed.
That word—forever—bore far more weight than merely liking someone.
