Shui Meiyin had been trying her best to stop herself from crying all this while, but as her shoulders started to tremble, the dam completely burst. She kept trying to clench her teeth or bite down on her lower lip, but nothing worked.

“Alright, don’t cry, don’t cry,” Yun Che consoled her in a soft and gentle voice.

It hadn’t been an easy task for Shui Meiyin to stop his tears, but now, she suddenly ended up crying herself.

“I… I… Wuuuuuu…”

Yun Che didn’t say anything else, he only hugged her tightly… and he wouldn’t let her go ever again.

He knew that Shui Meiyin was also giving vent to her emotions. She had been keeping them bottled up in her heart all this while, and there was no way she could confide in anyone else either. It must have been a huge burden and torture for her.

Furthermore, every single teardrop that was falling from her eyes right now was shed because of him and for him.

She cried for a full fifteen minutes before she finally managed to stop her weeping. However, when she turned her delicate head up to look at Yun Che, her starry eyes were still filled with tears that had yet to fall.

As he bent his head to stare straight into Shui Meiyin’s reddened eyes, he chuckled to himself and said, “If your big sister were to see you now, she’d definitely come straight at me with her Jade Rivulet Sword.”

“Hmph, my big sister is really gentle! There’s no way she’d do that. Haha!” Shui Meiyin protested as she giggled. “Besides, you’re the grand and mighty Devil Master, who would dare...