When Su Yuan dragged his heavy body back to the Demon Administration Bureau, Nan Jia was in a hurry to go out and look for someone.
"Damn it! Watch where you're going! Shit—" Running headlong into a person, Nan Jia was in a bad mood at the moment. She was just about to start scolding when she looked up and found that the person in front of her was none other than the boss she was looking for.
"Boss, where have you been? Are you injured?!"
Su Yuan waved his hand. "No. My karmic sins are flaring up. I just need to rest for a while."
Karmic sins were an old problem of Su Yuan's. Besides worrying, Nan Jia couldn't do anything else. Seeing that it was getting dark outside, she thought of something else.
"Boss, Zhaozhao went to look for you. You two... Well, forget it. You must be fine." She wanted to ask if they had quarreled, but then she thought that Su Yuan usually indulged Zhaozhao in everything. He probably wouldn't be angry for long this time. He probably wouldn't be willing to quarrel with Zhaozhao.
Hearing the words "Zhaozhao" suddenly from Nan Jia's mouth, Su Yuan's gaze paused. A feeling of sourness welled up in his heart, along with a subtle sense of suffocation.
"The set of books I asked you to find last time doesn't need to be given to me. Just give them directly to Zhaozhao."
After saying this, Su Yuan bypassed Nan Jia and walked into the Demon Administration Bureau.
The Ever - Bright Cauldron was very important, not to mention the things inside. Now that the things were gone, he had to think about what to do next.
Moreover, Su Yuan had a feeling that his karmic sins had been flaring up more and more frequently recently. His inner demons were out of control, and his time was running out.
He said this lightly, but it left Nan Jia stunned. "Ah? What?"
"Not...," Nan Jia quickly turned around and chased after Su Yuan, her face full of confusion. "Give them directly to Zhaozhao? Didn't you say you wanted to teach her personally? Wait!"
Suddenly realizing something, she stopped Su Yuan in disbelief. "You really quarreled with Zhaozhao? No, this... Boss, listen to me. Although what Zhaozhao did today was really wrong, but she—"
"Nan Jia," Su Yuan interrupted her endless chatter coldly. "It's not because of today's incident, but I really need to keep a distance from Zhaozhao."
Nan Jia didn't understand. "Why?"
Why did the two people whose past fates were connected according to the two Diting have to keep a distance from each other? So many people couldn't even beg for such a fate. What was the boss thinking?
They were fine before. He looked at Zhaozhao like a doting husband. What on earth had happened?
"There's no reason. Remember to find someone to deal with the popular post on the forum. There's no need to keep the rumor to mislead others."
After giving these instructions, Su Yuan really left this time, leaving Nan Jia standing there in a daze.
Rumor? What was that? Could it be that the two of them had broken up?!
Oh no, this wouldn't do. Not to mention how sad Zhaozhao would be when she found out, Su Yuan's life still depended on Zhaozhao.
Now Su Yuan's condition was getting worse and worse. Before they found that thing, Zhaozhao seemed to be the only way to soothe him. She absolutely couldn't let them break up like this!
After realizing the seriousness of the matter, the love bodyguard Nan Jia rolled up her sleeves and rushed to the Underworld bravely to discuss countermeasures with another bodyguard.
While on the way, Nan Jia couldn't help but admire herself. She worked hard and also cared about her boss's emotional problems. Where could one find such a perfect subordinate like her?
Tsk tsk, truly a rare find in the Three Realms and Six Paths.
...
After Zhaozhao left Wutong Mountain, the only thought in her mind was that she had to find Su Yuan and ask him clearly.
She didn't believe what her master had shown her, nor did she believe what her master had said. But there were indeed many scenes in the ice mirror that overlapped with what she had seen in her dreams. So Su Yuan must have met her before.
But why did Su Yuan have no impression of her when they first met? And she couldn't find any trace of these memories either.
Was it something that happened in their previous lives, or something from the past that she had forgotten...
When she arrived at the entrance of the Demon Administration Bureau, Zhaozhao looked at the building that she had entered and exited many times. She unconsciously tightened her grip on the dragon scale hanging around her neck.
Su Yuan had cut off their spiritual connection, so Zhaozhao couldn't sense where he was. Fortunately, the dragon scale on her body favored her. Regardless of its master's order, it secretly transmitted his location to her.
It was a bit funny and sad. Su Yuan wanted to push her away, but his own heart - protecting dragon scale insisted on guarding and helping her.
Looking at the glowing dragon scale in her palm, Zhaozhao couldn't help but whisper in her heart, "Dragon scale, dragon scale, has your master really not wanted me anymore?"
The response she got was the dragon scale gradually becoming warm, as if telling her that it wasn't the case in this way.
Feeling the warmth in her palm, Zhaozhao smiled. She wiped away the tears that were about to flow from her eyes again and mocked herself, "I'm really a crybaby."
The crybaby was going to find the big dragon. The big dragon couldn't leave the crybaby behind. Zhaozhao thought that she hadn't left Longlong behind in the Wuhuang Valley back then, so he couldn't either.
After giving herself a mental pep - talk, she carried the Ever - Bright Cauldron that she had retrieved from her master and entered the Demon Administration Bureau.
She ran into Gu Qing head - on. Gu Qing still had a rather unfriendly look on his face when he looked at her. She didn't care. Su Yuan was the most important. She was in a hurry to find him.
Unexpectedly, this time Gu Qing called out to her first in an unusual way. "Wait a minute."
"Hmm?" Zhaozhao frowned and stopped to look at him.
Gu Qing scratched his head and said somewhat awkwardly, "I said something too harsh before. I'm sorry."
Zhaozhao was a bit surprised, but she still readily accepted it. "I forgive you." Then she was in a hurry to leave.
Gu Qing: "..." Who cares whether you forgive me or not? If it weren't for the boss with a cold face insisting that he apologize honestly, he wouldn't have come...
But when his gaze fell on the cauldron in Zhaozhao's hand, Gu Qing was stunned for a moment. He didn't expect that Zhaozhao would really do what she said. Maybe he had really misunderstood her before.
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but remind her, "There's a secret room behind the wardrobe in the lounge of the boss's office. He's in there now."
Zhaozhao paused in her steps, then turned around and bowed sincerely to Gu Qing. "Thank you."
Gu Qing couldn't stand such a big courtesy and quickly ran away like the wind.
Zhaozhao didn't care either. She went up to Su Yuan's office and pushed the door open. As expected, there was no one inside. She entered the lounge, opened the three - dimensional wardrobe, and walked in.
In the secret room, Su Yuan was sitting cross - legged in front of an ice bed, practicing his skills to adjust his breath.
Hearing the noise, Su Yuan thought it was Gu Qing who had come back again, so he asked without opening his eyes, "What else did you forget?"
"Well, there's something very important that I forgot."
Zhaozhao's clear and soft voice rang out, with a hint of hardly noticeable grievance and sadness. It unexpectedly made Su Yuan's heart skip a beat.
Opening his eyes, Su Yuan stared at Zhaozhao with a cold face like ice and asked, "How did you know about this place?"
Zhaozhao didn't answer his question. She held the Ever - Bright Cauldron in front of Su Yuan's eyes and walked towards him step by step.
"I've retrieved the thing. Can you stop disliking me? Can you stop being angry?"
Su Yuan's gaze fell on the Ever - Bright Cauldron but didn't stay there for long. Instead, he stared intently at the dried blood on Zhaozhao's hand. His throat felt blocked, and he couldn't say a word for a long time.
"I saw you today. Just like before, you walked away so quickly and so heartlessly. I couldn't catch up with you, and you didn't wait for me. But you clearly said not long ago that you wouldn't leave me behind. You lied."
She looked at Su Yuan, her eyes sad and resentful. Every word seemed to be accusing him of breaking his promise, but in fact, every word was just a wronged plea for attention, hoping to be comforted.
"Su Yuan, we've actually met before, right? A long time ago, even earlier than Posuo Village. We should have talked a lot... But why do you pretend not to know me? Is it really that you don't know me, or have you forgotten? Or, are you lying to me again..."
Su Yuan knew every word Zhaozhao said, but when they were put together, he couldn't understand at all. What did Zhaozhao mean?
"What did you say?"