"You are an exorcist, or a demon slayer, who manipulates ice. I'm really getting old; it took me only a moment to realize that."
Lin Yue felt that it was really inappropriate for the young woman in front of him, who was not yet forty (actually not even thirty-five), to say that she was old.
Lanxi's mother deliberately sent her daughter away to tell the truth, so that she could properly observe the young man in front of her.
She gazed at Lin Yue with her clear eyes, and he did not flinch from that gaze that seemed to pierce his heart and peer into his soul.
She admired Lin Yue's perseverance—a quality befitting a messenger fighting against evil.
However, she still felt that Lin Yue seemed to be hiding something.
Lanxi's mother continued, "The 'Demon's Right Eye' she mentioned is yours, so you should also know that only the 'Holy Blood Witch' clan has the ability to use this item to foresee the future, right?"
Lin Yue agreed and added, "Not only that, she can also change the future. Otherwise, I wouldn't be alive talking to you right now; I would already be engulfed in flames, a charred corpse."
She noticed that Lin Yue's description of the cruel truth was completely unvarnished, as if he had seen through death.
But why would someone like that have something to hide?
Regardless of all that, she continued, "However, she's only seventeen, her magic hasn't been fully explored, and her 'spirit' isn't yet pure. She's not yet a qualified Holy Blood Witch."
"But even so, she still saved my life."
“Fate. How I wish Lanxi wasn’t my daughter. But she is indeed my flesh and blood, inseparable from me. If she weren’t my daughter, she wouldn’t have to bear the burden of blood ties and the tragic fate.”
"I'm sorry. I shouldn't have bothered you. It's just that something strange happened at Holy Cross Academy, and I was asked to come and solve it. I'll leave immediately after I'm done, and I will never reveal your whereabouts."
“Even if you hadn’t met Lanxi, another group of people would have met her sooner or later, and then been drawn into that terrifying vortex again, until they sacrificed themselves. That’s our fate. But I’m not blaming you. On the contrary, I’m very grateful that you were able to save Lanxi.”
"At the time, we were just helping each other out."
“I’m not just referring to that.” Lanxi’s mother began to gaze out the window.
"That child had very few friends since childhood and was not close to his classmates. This continued until high school, and he never brought friends home to play."
This is a large ancestral hall, and it welcomes guests. Everyone often tells Lanxi this, asking her to bring more friends over to play.
Furthermore, she has always been submissive, accepting both the good and the bad. Even so, she usually smiles. But starting in her second year of high school, she smiled much less often than usual.
"It must be because she was bullied by people in that class at school," Lin Yue thought, but she didn't say it aloud. She figured her mother could guess something too, and if she didn't know, she shouldn't let her mother know.
"But about a month ago, she suddenly started smiling again. I guess she made a very good new friend. That person must be you. So, I want to thank you for saving her heart."
She told Lin Yue all of this very sincerely.
In response to Lanxi's mother's sincerity, he smiled wearily and said, "It's not that I saved her; on the contrary, it's possible that she redeemed me."
"So... now I think, even if you were Lan Xi's boyfriend, I wouldn't be too opposed to it..."
"..." The serious and slightly melancholic atmosphere was broken by a joke from Lanxi's mother.
“You know I’m not an ordinary person, and I’m surrounded by dangerous things. Can you bear to throw your daughter into a dangerous pit?” Lin Yue helplessly spread his hands, but this gesture only involved his right hand.
"Why are you taking this so seriously?" She opened her mouth slightly, feigning surprise. "You believed me when I was just joking? I don't like being a matchmaker... Besides, free love is encouraged now, so you should ask your daughter herself!"
"Auntie, you're too old for that kind of joke."
Upon hearing this, Lanxi's mother forcefully pulled the tweezers, which were holding a large piece of glass, out of the wound.
Lin Yue almost screamed like a pig being slaughtered, but thankfully he held back.
"I lost... Big sister, please forgive me..." But then he realized that this move did not cause him to spit blood. He thought about it and realized that this was a necessary and decisive pull when treating the wound.
"Didn't I say I advocate for free love? Even if you have a high-risk job, if she likes you and is willing to 'throw herself into a dangerous pit,' there's nothing I can do to stop her."
"Big sister, please stop joking. I admit defeat..."
"I'm not joking."
"I have lost... I have lost..."
Lanxi's mother realized that she had ruined Lin Yue's life. "In any case, I am very grateful to you for making Lanxi cheerful again, and even more grateful to you for saving her today." After saying that, she calmed down and continued to treat Lin Yue's wounds.
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