The silence that followed after wasn't the intense kind. The sounds of the waves washing over the shore echoed in the background as they stared at each other.
The painful image on how she was suddenly attacked by a masked stranger and thrown off the peak. How she merely survived and ended up in that cave that marked the beginning of her fall.
She wondered why he was suddenly asking now. She once thought he never cared to know as long as she was safe now and happy.
Xueyao stared at the sandy grounds and wondered how she should tell him everything without being reminded of the pain and hardship she had to endure and push through.
The Black Dragon waited for her story. He had been holding back from wanting to know everything and what happened to her because she was still unwell and bad things kept happening without giving them any breathing space.
But now that it was all over and she seemed mentally fine now, he wished to know.
