Not Quite Right

Wei Xinglu spoke softly, "He’s acted so because he’s afraid of you being upset over it… That’s why he had to put up a calm front. Didn’t you see him falling to the ground after we took off? That’s the energy holding him upright being used up; he can’t control his feelings anymore… How could a rather achieved cultivator collapse on the ground without reason? How could you not notice it at all?"

Gugu bit her lips, almost piercing them with her teeth, but she was still stubborn when she said, "It’s good that he’s at least this self-aware. We’re two worlds apart anyway; what’s the use even if there was wishful thinking?"

Wei Xinglu chuckled dryly. The girl was stubborn with her words but how could he not see that she was sad as well?

He said nothing more.

Gugu sat unmoved on the hawk’s back the whole way, keeping her silence throughout the journey.

The black hawk went through the clouds towards the Empire of Dongxuan, swift as an arrow.