Dual Cultivation God Returns

Chapter 897: An Empress and a Provincial Beauty

Gong Liwei always felt a bit uneasy being around Nie Xiwang.

It was natural, as the latter used to be the famous Blade Empress, the highly rumored and to an extent infamous ruler of the Empire that Gong Liwei was once just a citizen of.

Of course, she was a noble by birth, and had her own share of fame as the Beauty of the Eastern Forest Province, but her noble family was a small provincial one without any power, and her fame, as she saw it, was only of a provincial beauty.

Gong Liwei saw that Nie Xiwang wasn’t a bad person or even a scary one, at least when she was not fighting, as she was quite a bit scary in combat, but she also could not bring herself to think of the Blade Empress as someone she could casually speak to, let alone treat like an equal.

And though she knew that Nie Xiwang was close with Gong Cui, this wasn’t something that influenced Gong Liwei’s perception as Gong Cui was an irregularity who casually crossed any boundaries. She’d talk to a literal goddess in the same way she would talk to a mortal village girl.

Thus, the situation in which they were left alone with Yuanfen who didn’t talk at all, for an extended period of time, was somewhat of a conundrum for her.

She didn’t know if she should start a conversation, or continue in awkward silence for the rest of the journey.

“You don’t have to be so apprehensive, we’re Dao Sisters now”, Nie Xiwang spoke.

“Eh? Ah~… haha”, Gong Liwei’s slightly nervous dry laugh caused the Blade Empress to sigh.

And then, as if reminded of something, she turned her eyes to Gong Liwei, “Which reminds me, I never apologized to you in person, my relative did something unforgivable toward you”