A Test Of Truth And Resolve

Within the darkness of a cave and the terrible outpour of a thunderstorm, there was a stillness in the air as she said those words to him. They were straight from the heart. 

And it was something that even touched the eavesdropping fox spirit from the outside, he inwardly sighed and took the opportunity to step into the cave before his friend could say anything else and instead greeted them with a smirk, "Has the two love birds finally got along with each other now?"

He wasn't exactly wet with the rain but he instinctually shook himself and placed the slaughtered deer on the cave's floor. Neither of them were speaking probably because it felt invasive that he was here—but he was the reason why the two even actually had the opportunity to talk.

The Huli Jing sincerely doubted the chance that the other humans would allow Xue and his beloved human to talk properly and would instead choose to take advantage of a situation like this in the first place.