"If I can handle one thing, I'll handle it," Gu Sheng said lightly. "At least I can give some people a glimmer of hope."
The night was hazy, with sparse starlight. In the vast and mysterious underground world, a twilight-shrouded landscape stretched endlessly before them.
Gu Sheng and Ji Yewei drifted slowly along the winding underground river. The water sparkled under the light of Fluorescent Insects, resembling a flowing Milky Way.
"Gu Sheng, can't you just let me go?" Ji Yewei tried once again to persuade Gu Sheng, her tone carrying a mix of pleading and frustration. "I've already promised you that I won't cause you trouble after I return."
Gu Sheng glanced at her with a hint of mockery in his eyes. "Ji Yewei, your promise means nothing to me. You are the infamous second daughter of the Ji family—high cultivation, shrewd mind. Letting you go would be inviting disaster, wouldn't it?"
