At this instant,
Xu Hongyu felt as though time itself had slowed down. A myriad of figures flashed through her mind: her father Xu Yichuan, her companion Little Lotus, her sister Yu Ru, and most prominently, the gentle visage of Chen Mu.
She had not yet found Xu Yichuan's whereabouts,
nor had she returned to Yu City.
She could not die here...
In the past, Xu Hongyu had also faced life-and-death situations, but none had sharpened her senses as sharply as this moment, an unprecedented calmness enveloped her. The scene that arose in her mind was the one where Chen Mu and she had walked along the parched riverbank after the drought ended, witnessing a stream of water meandering along the cracked riverbed.