If a person has the energy to make others laugh, it at least proves she has stood up again.
Even in front of the master she chose to follow with an oath, the woman was unwilling to reveal too much vulnerability. She wiped her tears on Pei Ye's shoulder, straightened her body, and also gave him a teary smile.
"When you were captured by Nandu, we also captured Qi and Zhou alive, intending to inquire about your whereabouts from them. But they didn't know." Shi Zanxue gazed into the void, "Thinking about it, this makes sense, because if they were truly in collusion with Nandu, they wouldn't have fallen into our hands. They are tied to the Hanhai Eagle, indeed pulled by the Zhushi Sect, but they know nothing about the matters of Nandu."
"There is a clear emotional difference between 'if Nandu was truly in collusion with them' and 'if they were truly in collusion with Nandu', Pei Ye feels a shared resentment against a common enemy, somewhat comforting."
