"Your dad is just trying to help you, there's no need to worry about it too much!"
Jiang Yuan wasn't good at comforting people; he could only offer practical advice.
"If this is what you're saying to comfort me, you might as well not say anything at all!" Liu Zhaodi said, sounding very disappointed.
"Are you angry?" Jiang Yuan asked, his expression slightly taken aback.
“Other fathers spoil their daughters, but my father has always demanded that I become more outstanding since I was a child, without considering my thoughts at all! Perhaps, in his eyes, what I want to do is not important, but what he wants me to do is important!” Liu Zhaodi took a deep breath and said slowly.
"So what do you want to do?" Jiang Yuan gazed at the sky beyond the safe zone in the distance.
"I..." Liu Zhaodi was speechless for a moment and could not answer.
"The older people get, the more they forget what they once wanted to do!" Jiang Yuan smiled faintly, expressing his understanding for Liu Zhaodi, who couldn't give an answer.
“Who said that? I want to be myself now!” Liu Zhaodi immediately corrected.
Jiang Yuan nodded, without saying anything more.
"And what about you? How does your father treat you?" Liu Zhaodi asked Jiang Yuan.
"Me?" Jiang Yuan was taken aback, and after a while, he recalled, "I forgot, but in my only memory, my adoptive father was a very kind man!"
"Foster father!" Liu Zhaodi's heart skipped a beat when she heard these two words.
“I am an orphan, and was later adopted by adoptive parents. However, my adoptive parents died in a car accident not long after I started to remember things, so I have very few memories of them!” Jiang Yuan said calmly.
It was precisely because of his emotional lack that he understood Liu Hongyuan's actions; what you easily give up may be something unattainable for others.
"I'm sorry, I didn't know you had such a past!" Liu Zhaodi stood beside Jiang Yuan like a little bird.
Jiang Yuan showed no change in emotion. He pointed to a spot and then asked, "Do you want to go outside the city?"
"Why go outside the city? There's a beast tide outside, it's too dangerous!" Liu Zhaodi shook her head.
"Aren't you in a bad mood? Let me take you shopping, do you want to come?"
Jiang Yuan unfolded his light wings and hovered a few meters in the air, currently holding out his hand for Liu Zhaodi.
Seeing this scene, Liu Zhaodi was deeply moved.
"If you don't come soon, I'm going to go by myself!" Jiang Yuan urged.
"I want to, I want to go!" Liu Zhaodi said immediately, snapping out of her daze.
As people came up, Jiang Yuan flapped his light wings and flew towards a height of a thousand meters.
A few hundred meters of altitude is clearly not enough to cross the city's defenses; they would easily be blasted away by friendly Terran forces with missiles. Therefore, the only way to cross is to increase the flight altitude.
Fortunately, he had already reached the eighth rank and possessed 266 points of divine energy, which was enough to support the Wings of Divine Power for long-distance flight, just like the fairy Chiyu back then, easily piercing through the clouds and breaking through the sky.
When the flight altitude exceeded two thousand meters, Liu Zhaodi was so frightened that she dared not open her eyes, and her hands were tightly gripping Jiang Yuan's neck.
"Big sister, you don't have to take advantage of me like this!" Jiang Yuan was speechless at Liu Zhaodi's octopus-like behavior.
"I'm scared!" Liu Zhaodi said, her voice trembling slightly.
Jiang Yuan was helpless. Liu Zhaodi's fear didn't seem fake, and considering that the woman had mentioned she was afraid of heights before, he roughly understood.
"Then I've made a mistake?" Jiang Yuan muttered to himself.
His original intention was to try out the mutated Five Elements Bloodline he had just obtained outside the city. After all, he didn't know if there would be any side effects from activating the bloodline, so he brought Liu Zhaodi, a ninth-level Spirit Awakener, along as a backup. But now this silly girl didn't even dare to open her eyes. If a fight broke out, he would have to protect her.
"What did you say?" Liu Zhaodi, with her eyes closed, vaguely heard Jiang Yuan's mutterings.
Jiang Yuan suddenly had a flash of inspiration and said, "I was saying that it's so boring that you kept your eyes closed the whole time after we finally got out for a drive!"
"I..." Liu Zhaodi looked frustrated as she hesitated to speak.
"Okay, I'll fly slower. Open your eyes and look around!" Jiang Yuan stopped at an altitude of 10,000 meters, surrounded by irregularly shaped clouds.
"Has it really stopped?" Liu Zhaodi asked again, not daring to open her eyes.
"Why don't you open your eyes and take a look?"
Liu Zhaodi opened her eyes a crack with some doubt, but only after seeing what was in front of her did she have the courage to open them completely.
"Are you scared?" Jiang Yuan asked softly.
Liu Zhaodi first looked around, then shook her head at Jiang Yuan, "It seems she's not afraid anymore!"
"Then can you get off me first?" Jiang Yuan said expressionlessly.
"No!" Liu Zhaodi refused firmly, looking around at the scenery as she said, "I'm only not scared because I'm holding you. If I let go, I..."
Liu Zhaodi didn't say anything more, but just stared at Jiang Yuan with a pitiful look in her eyes.
"You have three minutes to get used to it!"
Jiang Yuan did not push Liu Zhaodi away, but instead let her put her arm around his shoulder to overcome her fear of heights. As for himself, he activated a skill ball.
"What are you going to do?" Liu Zhaodi asked curiously when she saw Jiang Yuan had temporarily learned a skill.
"What can I do outside the city?" Jiang Yuan asked while familiarizing himself with the skills he had just learned.
"So, do you want a serious answer or an unserious one?" Liu Zhaodi's fear had vanished, replaced by a mischievous grin as she asked.
Is there a difference?
Liu Zhaodi nodded like a chick pecking at rice. She explained, "Of course there's a difference. When I'm being serious, I'm dignified and sexy, but when I'm being unserious, I'm lively and cute!"
"Looks like you're not scared anymore! Then let's not waste any more time and go now!" Jiang Yuan had already memorized the skills and was about to continue forward with his wings of light.
"You didn't even ask the girl if she agreed before taking her out for sex!" Liu Zhaodi snuggled closer to him, her previous fear long gone.
"He doesn't seem stupid!" Jiang Yuan joked.
“If you need my help, you’ll treat me a little better. Otherwise, if I cling to you like this, I’m afraid someone will kick me away!” Liu Zhaodi felt no shame at all; on the contrary, she was secretly pleased.
"Am I being that direct?" Jiang Yuan's face twitched. Why did this sound so much like a PUA scumbag?
"It's alright, but there's still room for improvement in subtlety!" Liu Zhaodi commented.
Jiang Yuan: "..."
The South City wasn't large; at the speed of the Divine Wings, it only took ten minutes to traverse the entire South City, and the destination was the West Gate area of the South City.
Since the last time the West Gate was breached by the beast tide, this place has become a paradise for monsters. Countless Earth monsters and extraterrestrial holy beasts have taken up residence here, making it a veritable monster paradise.
"Look there, that's where we first met!"
Jiang Yuan saw Liu Zhaodi excitedly pointing to Nanwang Academy below, and he calmly said, "Wrong, that was the first time I met you! You, on the other hand, actually met me this morning!"
"How about we start from here?" Liu Zhaodi suggested meaningfully.
"No, I only have five minutes. I need to kill as many monsters as possible! And we can't have too many ninth-tier spirit beasts interfering, or our lives will be in danger!"
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