Li Hui and Ling Wuya had been busy for so many days and were extremely tired. After completing their official duties, Ling Yuan arranged for them to rest.

Although there was no welcoming banquet, there were still delicious meals. After all, she could ignore Li Hui, but she could not ignore her adoptive father!

That night, after Li Hui and others had rested, Ling Yuan and Ling Wuya, father and daughter, finally met again after four years.

"Dad, how have you been these years? How's mom? And grandpa, brother, sister, are they all okay?"

Ling Wuya looked at her steadily, his eyes slightly sore, "Silly girl, as long as you are well, our family will be fine. But your mother cried so hard after knowing you were gone, and your sister even refused to arrange marriage for several years in order to observe mourning for you. It's so worrying."

Ling Yuan's eyes twitched slightly, "Dad, are you sure Sister is doing this for me? Not because she doesn't want to?"

Ling Wuya chuckled and ruffled her hair affectionately, "You, it's inappropriate to expose her shortcomings like this, isn't it?"

"Humph, how could I not know what my sister was thinking? Daddy and Grandpa, you all knew that I had this poison in my body. Did you guess that I would not die?"

Ling Wuya shook his head gently. "I'm not sure, but your body wasn't stiff or rotten at that time, which makes me think it might not be that simple."

"Plus, your life experience is a mystery, and the poison Hei Cang Lin is not something that ordinary people can possess, so I guess you will never die like this."

"That being said, we have always worried that one day you would suddenly pass away. Sure enough, a year later, we heard that your body had decayed. At that time, your mother cried so hard that she almost went blind, and your brothers and sisters lost their appetite. We thought you had really..."

"Until your 'corpse' was taken away, after much inquiry, we discovered that you were taken back to the Dragon Empire. Although we don't know where you are, we think it is impossible for the other party to go to such great lengths to snatch a 'corpse', so we guess that this may be an opportunity for you."

"I didn't expect that we would have to wait for more than three years. If the zombie poison had not been cured so easily, girl, I'm afraid we would still not know that you were still alive. Tell me, after all these years, why didn't you write us a letter to let us know that you were safe?"

Ling Yuan stuck out her tongue in embarrassment, "Dad, it's not that I don't want to pass on the news to you, but I can't. Don't you know that my brother is a big BT? He controls me like a bastard. Let alone communicating with you, I don't even know what's going on outside."

"It was not until three years later that he let us leave the forbidden area after we had learned everything we were supposed to learn. We didn't expect that we would be sent to Siyou Country to help eliminate zombies right after we came out. Then we returned to the Never-Sleeping City and were besieged again. Now even the Never-Sleeping City has been destroyed."

"I just came to Fengchi Villa. The enemy is too powerful. I have to be careful, for fear of getting you into trouble again. So, father, please forgive your daughter for being unfilial."

Ling Wuya helped her up and said, "Alright, we don't use this kind of tactics in our family. We are just curious about what you have been through."

Ling Yuan sighed softly, "It's hard to explain, Dad. I can't explain it in a few words. Anyway, the poison in my body was deliberately given to me by my cruel parents. As for why, I don't know either. Anyway, now I not only have brothers and sisters, but also parents. It's a pity that they know who I am. I don't know anything about them except a name."

When Ling Wuya heard "My parents deliberately poisoned me", his eyes suddenly flashed, but he quickly hid it in his eyes. When he raised his eyes again, he asked in surprise.

"I didn't expect this trip to yield such a rich harvest. I even found my biological parents? Girl, are you still not satisfied with this? Some people may not be able to find their own daughters in their entire lives!"

As he spoke, his eyes dimmed. When Ling Yuan saw Ling Wuya like this, he suddenly thought of something, and pulled Ling Wuya, and said excitedly: "Dad, guess who I met on the road after I surrounded and killed the zombies this time?"

"Who could make you so excited?" Ling Wuya paused and guessed: "Could it be... Wei Jie?"

Ling Yuan's smile froze, and she looked at her adoptive father with contempt, "What? How could it be him? It must be that bad guy Li Hongtao!"

"Li Hongtao?" Ling Wuya was slightly stunned, as if he had not heard of this person's name for a long time.

Ling Yuan nodded vigorously, "Yes, it was him. His two daughters made the harem of Mei Kingdom a mess, which caused resistance from all the concubines. Now those two troublemakers have been banished to the cold palace. Li Hongtao couldn't survive in the capital anymore, so he actually fled from Mei Kingdom with his whole family. They suffered heavy casualties along the way, and when I saw them, there were not many people left."

"Oh, by the way, you didn't know yet? This old man is actually quite capable. He married a concubine and had a son, who was about one or two years old and looked pretty good. But unfortunately, now, let alone his son, even he himself has become a walking corpse, right?"

Ling Wuya looked at her in surprise, "Dead?"

Ling Yuan sneered, "She's not dead, but I took care of her myself. Do you know why? Dad? This concerns your own daughter!"

Ling Wuya's pupils suddenly shrank, "What did you say? Your biological daughter?"

Seeing this, Ling Yuan hurriedly told him about her encounter with Li Hongtao. At the end, she said, "So, Dad, I think this is a very serious problem, and it may also be related to my life experience, so don't worry, maybe it's not as serious as we think."

Ling Wuya was silent for a while, then suddenly looked at Ling Yuan intently, "So, the person Li Hongtao took away was my daughter, but the person who entered Prince Kang's Mansion was replaced by you?"

Ling Yuan pursed her lips and said, "That's true, but there is another possibility. That is, when we were at Lingjia Village, um, to be specific, I might have switched places with your daughter as soon as she left you. The person behind this might know the whole story!"

"After I have investigated my background, I will definitely help you find your daughter. Daddy, please don't be unhappy, and don't tell mom and the others yet."

Ling Wuya felt warm in his heart and pulled Ling Yuan into his arms, "Silly child, you have worked hard. No wonder you have been so closely connected with our Ling family over the years. It turns out that there are so many unknown secrets in the dark. But why did Li Hongtao take our daughter away!"

Ling Yuan's face turned cold, and her eyes suddenly revealed a bone-chilling chill. "It's better that Daddy doesn't know. In short, I have avenged you. That bastard Li Hongtao died a very tragic death. He was ripped open by the zombies, and even his brain was dug out. I just don't know if he has become a zombie."

"Also, all the people in his Li family are dead. Those in the capital are not counted for now. Even if they are alive, they would not have a good ending. Those outside the capital are all dead."

In other words, Li Hongtao has gotten the retribution he deserves.

"Okay, if you don't tell me, I'll just pretend I don't know. Girl, thank you Daddy!"

"Dad, we are a family. Although we are not biological children, we are better than biological children. The reason why I am where I am today is all because of you, the Ling family. Without you, I would have died when I was three years old."

At this point, the father and daughter seemed to think of the real second young lady of the Ling family whose life or death was unknown at the same time, and they both fell silent.

I don’t know how long it took for the father and daughter to calm down, and gradually open up and tell each other how they had been living over the years.

But basically it was Ling Wuya who was talking and Ling Yuan who was listening. At the end, Ling Yuan actually fell asleep... in front of Ling Wuya.

Looking at her sunken eye sockets, Ling Wuya felt distressed. "Girl, you must be exhausted these days, right? You are even sleepier than me. Silly girl, why don't you feel sorry for yourself?"

As he spoke, he picked her up gently, placed her carefully on the couch, and after covering her with a quilt, he just sat beside her blankly, looking at Ling Yuan's delicate profile, but the person he was thinking about was his daughter, whom he had only met once.

Is it life or death now?

What does he look like? How is his life?

…

When the warm sun shone into the room and illuminated Ling Yuan's body, emitting a warm glow, the person on the couch finally reacted.

The pair of eyelashes as long as feather fans moved gently, and soon, a pair of clear and bright eyes slowly blossomed. She stretched her body lazily and groaned comfortably, "Ah, how come I slept so comfortably, so comfortably!"

After she looked around, she suddenly remembered something and jumped off the couch. "Oh no! How could I forget such an important thing? Someone, come quickly!"

Ling Yuan glanced at her clothes and saw that she had not taken them off. This showed that her adoptive father had left after she fell asleep. She immediately kicked off her shoes and ran out the door. She ran into the maid who came running over: "Where is he? Where is he?"

"Miss, who is it?"

She had kept her meeting with Ling Wuya a secret from everyone last night, so it was impossible for the maid to see it. She slapped her forehead and asked, "Oh, I mean the people from the Dragon Empire. Where are they now?"

"Yes, he left before dawn today. The five young masters personally saw him off!"

"Why didn't you wake me up?"

"The masters said that you have been exhausted recently, young lady, and they want you to have a good sleep."

“……” So, did she miss the day of sending her adoptive father off?

When the maid saw Ling Yuan's face, she shrank her neck in fear and became extremely nervous. She had never heard that the young lady would be in a bad mood when waking up. Why was she so angry so early in the morning? Her face looked so bad, and even her voice sounded like she had been blasted, which made her dizzy.

Ling Yuan looked depressed and said, "Go, invite the brothers over to me."

"Yes, young lady." After the maid left, Ling Yuan looked in the mirror and realized that her face was not Ling Yuan's, but Feng Yan's. That was to say, last night, she met her adoptive father with Feng Yan's face?

Ling Yuan slapped his forehead in annoyance, "How stupid! How could I forget such an important thing?"

Ling Wuya did not attend the Sifang Grand Gathering, and therefore he had never seen Feng Yuan. Therefore, he might have thought that this was Ling Yuan's real face, completely unaware that this face was also fake!

Unfortunately, it’s too late to regret. The person is already gone. What is there to complain about?

So, when the brothers came, they saw Ling Yuan lying in front of the table with a depressed look on his face, with a messy beggar's hair, and he weakly raised his eyelids and said, "I'm here."

There was no further news.

Several people looked at each other, and when they thought of Ling Wuya who left early this morning, they came to their senses.

"Reluctant?"

"You knew it but you didn't wake me up? I don't know how I fell asleep last night. I couldn't have a good time reminiscing with daddy." Ling Yuan was so angry when this was mentioned. She opened her invincible eyes and glared at all her brothers fiercely.

"It was your father who didn't let me wake you up, saying that you must be exhausted these days and fell asleep right away. He felt sorry for you. Besides, since he knew you were still alive, was he afraid that you would never see each other again?"

Although Su Yu's words were right, Ling Yuan still felt uncomfortable. She pouted and glared at them like a spoiled brat, "I just can't bear to do it!"