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Deep within the Luo Tian Society, the night rain fell in a steady drizzle. The light rain washed away the clamor of the day, as if cleansing the air of lingering noise.
After riding the crimson tide and journeying together into the clouds and rain of Mount Wu[1], Luo Chen lay on the bed with his eyes fixed on the ornately carved ceiling. It felt as though he could see straight through the roof into the night sky beyond. At the edge of his vision, a woman rested limply against his chest, drained of all strength. Only her flowing black hair stood out in the dim light, set against her white shoulders.
Some things happened too suddenly, yet they felt entirely natural, half willingness and half inevitability. The reasons behind it could not be explained, and perhaps they should never be explained.
“You didn’t seem too happy today,” Sima Huiniang murmured lazily, her ear resting against the steady thump of Luo Chen’s heartbeat, which sounded like distant thunder.
“Mm,” Luo Chen hums in acknowledgement. That soft hum carried a trace of gloom, even after such a blissful union.
"What happened?"
In the past, Luo Chen would have brushed the question aside without a second thought. He had always been a man who made his own plans and bore the weight of his decisions alone. He revealed nothing more than he had to, and he did not lean on anyone. But now, she was no longer just anyone.
He held nothing back, recounting every detail of Tantai Jin’s public display of dominance earlier that afternoon. The quiet room carried only the weight of his voice as he spoke of his Jade Dew pill dealings with Ice Fortress and the shifting power dynamics within that sect.
After a long silence, Sima Huiniang pushed herself up from his chest.
“There’s good and bad in this,” she...
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