Bei Mingyuan froze, completely unsure how to respond. He just felt a small corner of his heart suddenly crumble.
It was a tiny, barely noticeable corner, but he couldn't ignore it. His hands hovered in mid-air as he tried to listen to the mortal woman's thoughts, but the Water and Fire Seal fell silent at the critical moment.
After a long moment, his hands slowly, gently lowered, coming to rest on her slender back.
'She's really gotten thin again. It took so much effort to fatten her up a bit in my Xuanyuan Gulun… She's more comfortable to hold with a little more meat on her bones.'
"Alright, have it your way," he answered, his throat feeling a little tight. He decided not to say anything more.
But Xin Huohuo seemed to have lost all sense of time, not letting go for a long while. Not only that, but since Bei Mingyuan was wearing a mid-length black trench coat, she moved her arms from outside the coat to inside, pressing them against his waist through his shirt.
