Sheng Lingwei wiped away her tears and suddenly felt ashamed. She had never shed a tear before, let alone cried like this.
Waaah, this is so embarrassing!
Xiao Yunzi probably wouldn't laugh at her, after all, she had seen his disheveled appearance when he was a child.
Sheng Lingwei blinked, raised her slightly flushed face, and looked at Jing Qingyun with teary eyes.
"Xiaoyunzi, I can stop crying, but you have to promise me one thing."
Jing Qingyun nodded quickly, "Weiwei, just say it. As long as you stop crying, I'll agree to anything, even ten or eight things, let alone one."
Sheng Lingwei felt a little embarrassed. Was this a form of moral blackmail?
No, no, no, she should be considered spoiled and arrogant.
What an embarrassing feeling!
"Xiaoyunzi, I'm not that greedy. I only have one request: please don't hide anything from me anymore. Can you promise me that?"
"Okay, I promise you."
Jing Qingyun nodded solemnly, after all, apart from the matter of time travel, he really hadn't hidden anything else from Weiwei.
"That's more like it." Sheng Lingwei's ears turned red, and she showed a rare hint of girlish shyness.
But the shyness lasted only a moment. The next second, her eyes narrowed and she slammed her hand on the table.
"boom……"
The table, which had been smashed into several pieces by her earlier actions, was already in a state of disarray. It was barely standing, which was its last vestige of dignity. But now, it could no longer withstand the violent destruction and collapsed to the ground with a loud bang.
Jing Qingyun's lips twitched a few times, and she skillfully took Sheng Lingwei's slender, fair hand and gently rubbed it with her fingertips.
"Weiwei, don't do that again next time. It's a small matter if the table is broken, but you can't hurt your hands."
Sheng Lingwei rolled her eyes and pulled her hand back.
"Xiaoyunzi, I'm not some weak and helpless young lady. This slap won't hurt me at all. Stop treating me like a fragile doll, okay?"
Back in the advanced world, it was common for her to get injured and bleed. She would feel quite uncomfortable if she didn't get injured one day.
Xiaoyunzi is the only one who likes to make a fuss; she's nothing like her younger siblings.
Thinking of her younger siblings, Sheng Lingwei's face darkened. The best course of action now was to find them as soon as possible.
“Xiao Yunzi, I’ve thought about it carefully. I might be the original owner of this body, as you say, but this is just our speculation. We need to find Yue Yuqian and verify it with her.”
Jing Qingyun nodded in agreement, "Weiwei, finding people can't be rushed. Let's go to Yucheng County first, maybe we'll find some clues along the way."
Sheng Lingwei's brows furrowed with worry. She had always been quite curious about Yue Yuqian, but now that she might be her biological mother, her feelings were truly complicated.
But more than anything, it's anticipation—the anticipation of a child who has longed for family affection since childhood for their parents.
Jing Qingyun reached out and smoothed Sheng Lingwei's furrowed brows. "Weiwei, don't worry. All signs indicate that your mother is not an ordinary person, and neither is her family."
The fact that she can send your soul to another world is enough to show that she cares about you, and perhaps this is how she protects your safety.
Didn't Uncle Kui already say that?
Those mysterious people possess supernatural abilities and even call your mother a saint, which indicates that your mother holds a certain status within the clan; they wouldn't dare to easily decide her fate.
Sheng Lingwei sighed heavily and said, "Xiao Yunzi, there's no use in guessing. We can only take it one step at a time."
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In a secluded paradise, a hermit family—the Yuezhi.
A woman dressed in a white dress, with a noble and elegant demeanor, stunningly beautiful and aloof appearance, and a red beauty mark between her eyebrows.
He stared at the old man in front of him with a contemptuous and mocking look. "Grandfather, I advise you to give up on that idea. Throughout history, those who wanted to live forever have never had a good ending."
The woman who spoke was Yue Yuqian. Her face was pale and bloodless, but her aura was not weak at all.
The man let out a heavy, cold snort. His aged face was covered like the bark of an old tree, and his sinister eyes were blood red, giving him a cold and terrifying aura.
The man was Yue Yuqian's grandfather, named Yue Futing, who was the patriarch of the entire Yuezhi clan.
Legend has it that the Yuezhi people possessed extraordinary abilities, including the power to control wind, thunder, water, and fire, as well as the power to predict a person's life or death, or even the fate of a nation.
However, the Yuezhi people were low-key and lived a secluded life, never participating in worldly struggles.
Therefore, the Yuezhi only existed in legends, and no one ever actually encountered them, so it is unknown whether the Yuezhi actually existed.
Yue Futing narrowed his eyes, his figure flashed and he instantly grabbed Yue Yuqian's neck, his sinister and hoarse voice slowly rising.
"Yueyuqian, I heard that the third princess of the Northern Qi Kingdom has come back to life. Not only has her temperament become more and more rampant, but she can also strike the sky with lightning."
"You know, if I were to capture her, extract her heart, and refine it into an elixir, I might just achieve immortality."
"Cough cough, how dare you!" Yue Yuqian gritted her teeth, her face flushed red, and a look of panic flashed in her eyes.
"Ha ha ha ha……"
Yue Futing laughed sinisterly, his eyes filled with unwavering determination.
“My dear granddaughter, what do I have to be afraid of? I’m the one who calls the shots in the entire Yuezhi now. You have the title of Holy Maiden but no real power. You’re just as stupid as your grandmother.”
As he spoke, Yue Futing burst into uncontrollable laughter, his eyes filled with undisguised mockery.
"Pah!" Yue Yuqian was disgusted and couldn't help but spit in Yue Futing's face. The next second, Yue Futing threw her to the ground.
She endured the excruciating pain and glared angrily at Yue Futing, "Ha, Yue Futing, if it weren't for your grandmother saving you back then, you would have been dead long ago."
Unexpectedly, the snake I saved turned out to be a venomous snake, which not only seized my grandmother's position as clan leader but also imprisoned her in the Five Thunder Pagoda, causing the deaths of my parents.
You murderer, you're the one who deserves to die! A beast like you dreaming of immortality? That's just wishful thinking!
"Shut up."
A raging fire burned in Yue Futing's heart. With a slap from afar, he sent Yue Yuqian flying, crashing heavily into the wall, spitting out a mouthful of blood.
Immediately afterward, Yue Futing once again flung Yue Yuqian away, saying, "I've told you many times, don't bring up the past anymore. Since you won't listen, then die!"
He wasn't originally surnamed Yue, but he had to change his surname to fulfill his ambitions and become a son-in-law of the Yuezhi people.
His goal was to one day conquer the Yuezhi and make them his own. As for the subservience he had endured over the years, it was a humiliation he would never forget.
With a thud, Yue Yuqian crashed heavily to the ground, spitting out blood again. Her already weak body became even more frail.
She smiled, casually wiped the blood from her mouth, and slowly stood up, her eyes full of provocation.
"Yue Futing, come on, kill me! At worst, we'll perish together, and the entire Yuezhi will no longer need to exist in this world, so that you beasts won't go and harm innocent people anymore."
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