“Did you come from Silver Moon City?” I asked directly.

He immediately stopped as though he had been frozen mid-step.

“Xing Chuan is not dead yet,” I blurted somehow, as though my brain had suddenly shoved the name of the person that I least wanted to think of into my mouth.

His body stiffened at once. I felt like every question I asked was chipping away at his cool and barging into his isolated heart.

That meant I was heading in the right direction.

“Is Xing Chuan still on Silver Moon City?!” I asked loudly. I tried my best to control the disgust and anger I felt whenever I brought him up.

He’d searched for me all over the world when he’d lost me the first time. He had been thrown off Silver Moon City by Cang Yu when he’d...