Huang Xiao Li's Feelings

"When did you promise my father such a thing?" Huang Xiao Li asked him.

"..."

After a brief moment of silence, he revealed, "When we were being attacked by the sea demon, he communicated with me through divine sense."

"If you manage to get out of this alive and we don't, please protect my daughter— these were his exact words right before we got separated."

Huang Xiao Li began brawling her eyes out after hearing this.

"Father!!! Mother!!! Brother!!!" she screamed into her sleeves, releasing all of her built-up anguish.

Huang Xiao Li cried and cried, soaking her whole sleeve with tears.

Eventually, after many minutes of release, Huang Xiao Li calmed down.

"Thank you, Tian Yang. I will stop being so weak. That will be the last time I shed tears," she declared with a determined look on her face.

Tian Yang smiled, "It's okay to have a moment of weakness now and then. That's what makes us human."