When she saw the blue-robed youth standing beneath the pine tree, his hands behind his back, Wen Lingzhao visibly froze mid-step.

A moment later, her painted eyebrows knit together. Her heart, usually as placid as the surface of a lake, rippled with an emotion she didn’t quite know how to describe.

Was this conflict, rejection, confusion, surprise…?

Whatever it was, it was subtle and complex.

She likely never, ever would have guessed that she’d encounter the “husband” she preferred never to bring up here of all places, in Heaven’s Origin Academy’s Divine Firmament Peak, so close to where she lived and cultivated. 

After a moment’s silence, and beneath countless stunned and confused gazes, Wen Lingzhao walked right towards Su Yi.

As she drew closer, her clear, cold gaze and beautiful features became as tranquil as could be, like stagnant waters, without the slightest ripple. 

Zheng Muyao’s gaze darted around, and she instinctively got out of the way and created some distance between them. Inside, she was excited; she realized that it was highly likely that she was about to get some answers to everything she’d wondered about on her way here.

Meanwhile, off in the distance, when Xiang Ming and his followers saw her approach the youth in blue, all of them were dumbstruck,...