Neveah had been on the receiving end of Jian's wrath on many occasions... still, she had never seen him like this.
The moment she lowered the barrier, allowing Lodenworth entry, Jian's eyes went cold. Not blank, a deathly cold. His posture was calm, deceptively so but his aura...it was something murderous.
It was at this moment she understood it. She had never truly faced Jian's wrath, because he had never considered her an enemy.
An inconvenience, certainly. An irritation more often than not. He had wanted her dead once, but never had he looked at her in this manner...like the one in his sight was beneath even hatred.
Since she had first set eyes on him in the meeting hall of the Eclipse Domain until now, this was the first time she detected pure loathing.
A fury so potent that it chilled the very earth beneath his feet. She had to consciously suppress the instinct to withdraw, to retreat and put some distance between herself and this embodiment of cold death.
