Chapter 176 Confirmed

Luoyang's swordsmanship is among the best in the entire empire. If he is so good, those who can't compare with him in swordsmanship will be even more helpless.

"Where's Old Tang?"

"Same."

Tang Zhen was well aware of his swordsmanship. He stared intently at Jian Yan's movements without even raising his eyes, "I'm sure Jian Yan's unique skill was acquired through practice since he was a child.

Children's bones are soft, but if they get used to it from childhood, even when their bones harden as they grow older, their muscle memory will form a conditioned reflex, allowing them to perform any difficult movements according to their ideas."

Did you start practicing when you were a kid?

"Are you sure?"

"There's no need to confirm this. Anyone with eyes can see that this level of proficiency is definitely not something that can be achieved in a short period of time."

Lu Jinxiu and the others didn't say anything, but there was a flash of thought in their eyes at the same time.

Who taught Jianyan this unique skill?

As early as when Dizong came to them for help, they received all the information about Jian Yan from Dizong.

This girl's growth experience is not complicated. She has no mother. Instead, her father went to the egg center to apply for an egg after obtaining a parent's work certificate. The egg was then sent to the pregnancy and childbirth center to obtain sperm, which was then cultivated in an artificial womb by professionals.

If her father had not become a martyr, the girl would have had a happy childhood.

But unfortunately, her father died during the mission, and she became an orphan.

It’s not that no one wanted to adopt her. At least her father’s comrades-in-arms were very willing to adopt her. It was she who refused, preferring to go to an orphanage rather than join a new family.

There are many children in the empire who have become orphans for various reasons, which leads to a large number of welfare homes in the empire.

Although the conditions in welfare homes funded by the state are not bad, this does not include exclusion and bullying among children.

Since his father's death, Jian Yan has become a taciturn child who likes to be alone. He is too quiet and not sweet-spoken, and his sense of existence is shockingly low.

It is also easy to be ignored by adults.

But children will not ignore it, because they eat and live together, and they cannot ignore it even if they want to.

Children are the cutest creatures in the world, but also the most vicious.

Their feelings are straightforward and bold. If they like someone, they like him; if they don’t like someone, they don’t like him.

In addition, children who have not yet formed a sense of right and wrong are prone to doing evil things that adults can hardly imagine because of trivial matters.

In brief...

She was unpopular among children and became the target of bullying.

This girl is stupid. When she was bullied, she didn't even bother to ask the teacher for help. She just endured it silently by herself.

It was only after the teacher discovered the problem, moved her to a single room, and paid more attention to her that the bullying situation improved.

But by then, Jianyan's personality had already taken shape. She didn't like to meet people or interact with them. She would go to and from school alone, and would often come home late with injuries...

Thinking of the records in the file, Qin Che leaned over to Lu Jinxiu and said in a nearly whispered voice, "Did you learn it at that time?"

“It doesn’t matter whether it is or not…”

Lu Jinxiu, who never took his eyes off Jian Yan, thought of her upbringing and felt a little distressed. "The important thing is, I will protect this person."

Qin Che and the others choked. They weren't complaining, but they felt that their boss was turning into a tyrant.

Sighing, Xiao Mufeng said, "Are you sure?"

Lu Jinxiu replied, pointing to the small golden dragon coiled above Jian Yan's head, "I thought I had made it very obvious."

(End of this chapter)