Three years ago, she saved him at the cost of shattering her mental domain, then vanished into the Empire's darkest depths.
Three years later, she reunites with those three S-rank sentinels in a remedial class at the Sentinel Academy. The boys who once looked up to her, depended on her, and were saved by her have now grown into the Empire's sharpest blades.
He Lianjing corners her at the end of the hallway, his crimson mental tentacles coiling around her fragile defenses. "Do you know what these past three years have been like for me?"
Xiao Hanye pushes open the door in the dead of night, his metallic fingertips resting on the swollen interface at the back of her neck. "Why did you leave?"
Gu Shen pushes up his glasses and lays a thick stack of training plans in front of her. His deep blue mental power has already wrapped around her in layer upon layer. "This time, you're not going anywhere."
New author, new book? Let's try some salted eggs, high and low.