Qing Jin might have looked composed, but inwardly, she was frantic.

Due to a single sentence uttered in a crisis, she spent the whole night tossing and turning, barely sleeping a wink for fear that Su Yi would demand something shameless and excessive.

That was why this morning, she steeled herself to come along and lay everything out in the open.

If she had to face this sooner or later anyway, it was better to get it over with. Still, now that she truly faced the matter head-on, she couldn’t help but tense up.

I hope my guess is right. Given his temperament, he’s unlikely to demand anything over the line… Qing Jin prayed to herself.

In her eyes, while Su Yi looked young, and although he was quiet and indifferent, he was proud right down to his bones.

She’d only seen eyes like that, eyes that took everything in with calm indifference, back in the sect. Some of the elders, the true experts, had gazes like that too.

All were mighty figures capable of shaking the entire Great Zhou Dynasty with a single stomp of their foot.

But if anything, they seemed less proud than Su Yi. He gave off the impression that he saw everything beneath the heavens as fleeting and insignificant; he felt no need to concern himself with any of it!

His eyes were empty;...