[Bonus chapter 1]
---
"Jing'ge?" Long ZhenHai called out to him – out of the blue – as they sat side-by-side whilst facing the sea doing nothing, his voice held a contemplative cadence to it as he turned his head towards the nine-tailed fox spirit.
Hu Lijing let out an inquiring hum in return as he tore his gaze away from the rolling waves of the vast blue sea stretched infinitely in front of them.
"Hm?" He raised a quizzical eyebrow at the dragon of the infinite sea. "What is it?" Though he felt rather displeased about being knocked out of his thoughts, it was but a small matter when compared with the importance Long ZhenHai held in his heart.
"If one of these days into the future," the dragon began, his words filled with an exasperating drawl as he spoke. "I were to die, how would Jing'ge react?"
Huh?