Wei Ji stood there for a moment, his mind still half on what he had planned to do after leaving, but when Lu Shaohua suddenly spoke up, her voice trembling slightly, he turned back.
"What?" he asked, half expecting her to tell him to forget everything he'd said.
Lu Shaohua hesitated. Her eyes wandered to the ground as if she was trying to find the right words. "I… I wanted to ask something," she said quietly.
Wei Ji raised a brow. "What is it?"
"It's just…" she paused, fiddling with her sleeves. "Since I was little, I've always wanted to learn spells. I wanted to learn directly from the beasts. That was my dream. But they couldn't teach me. And even when I tried once, I was… forced to learn something I didn't understand. It hurt them."
Her tone was soft, distant, but heavy with something unspoken.
Wei Ji's sharp eyes softened a little. "Forced?"
