Firelight bloomed in the night sky, illuminating the beautiful face of Dragon Maiden Ao Yun.
The surrounding flowering trees cast deep, overlapping shadows. Song Ciwan caught a fleeting glimpse from beneath them, and in that single instant, a strange sensation washed over her, as if she were caught in a loop of time.
For a moment, she almost thought she had returned to the past.
The image of the woman under the flowering trees overlapped with a memory from years ago: the distressed young Lady Zhen, emerging from a wooden hut in the Xu Family Mansion, besieged by a garden full of vermin.
But was the woman before her the Dragon Maiden, or was she Lady Zhen?
Or perhaps, was she both the Dragon Maiden and Lady Zhen?
A storm of thoughts raged within Song Ciwan, but her expression remained impassive.
She hadn't revealed her true face to Lady Zhen back then. Therefore, even if this woman really was Lady Zhen, she likely wouldn't recognize her.
