CXXXVIII. Time and Tide

Hened's old friend sensed something was amiss, so he looped his hand around Lu Chen's neck, resting it on his shoulder as a declaration of ownership.

She had encountered Lu Chen four years ago when she had just arrived at the Great Wetland.

Back then, Lu Chen was a "chef" in another garden area, which had some minor conflict with his. Almost all the combatants were gone, leaving only the technical staff, whom she couldn't bear to kill.

To her surprise, she discovered that Lu Chen was a treasure, not only possessing a world-rare mastery of alchemy but also excelling in other intellectual talents.

Over the years, he had become her right hand.

To control him, she found a woman for him to marry. Once he had a child here, she wasn't worried he would run off.

He could be called the scar-faced woman's external brain.

"Do you know each other?"