But who would have thought he'd actually understood? And then he went into hiding, disappearing without a trace. Isn't that just torturing him?!
Lou Qianzong asked anxiously, "Isn't he your disciple? How could you not find him?"
Chu Nian said helplessly, "You know that guy's abilities better than I do. If you can't find him, how am I supposed to find him? You're still my son. Look at me, what can I do with you now?"
As soon as she said it, she realized something was wrong. It seemed she had forgotten to set up a soundproof barrier. When she turned her head, she saw Martha staring at her with a look of horror on her face.
She raised her hand and reset the barrier. After thinking for a moment, she added a silencing spell to Martha: she would not be able to utter a single word about anything that Martha could not say.
Lou Qianzong said angrily, "Can you please stop bringing up the fact that I'm your son? I'm not really your son. The point is: I asked you if I was born from you, and you said no. But you signed a master-servant contract with the Lake Star people, and I can exercise the same rights as you as a master."
"Speaking of which, I find this very strange," Chu Nian said, looking puzzled. "Do you think my precious disciple knows something?"
Lou Qianzong's eyes widened immediately. After a moment, he suddenly realized, "No wonder he hid. He must not want to answer the question I've been asking him."
Chu Nian: "You keep asking him, 'Were you my child?'"
Lou Qianzong: "I pressed him, asking if I was the son you and he had."
"Pfft!" Chu Nian burst out laughing. "Haha... Little Lin... You silly goose... Haha..." As she spoke, she pinched Lou Qianzong's cheeks and shook them from side to side.
Lou Qianzong pushed her away helplessly and said, "Stop fooling around."
Chu Nian suppressed a laugh and asked, "Okay, okay, I won't tease you anymore. So what did he say?"
Lou Qianzong: "He said no."
Chu Nian continued to try to suppress her laughter, pressing for an answer: "And then?"
Lou Qianzong: "Then I asked him, 'Where did I come from?'"
Chu Nian stopped laughing.
Seeing this, Lou Qianzong asked in confusion, "Why aren't you smiling anymore?"
Chu Nian sighed and said, "It's nothing." She just couldn't smile. Imagine, someone who has lived for hundreds of millions of years and doesn't even know where they came from—it's truly pathetic.
She asked, "What did that guy say?"
Lou Qianzong said angrily, "He didn't say anything, and then he left a note the next day and disappeared."
Chu Nian: "Don't bother thinking about it. He definitely knows where you came from, he just doesn't want to answer." She paused, then added, "Perhaps he wants to wait until you understand before telling you about your background!"
Then she felt something was off and asked, "By the way, why did you think of asking him about your background?" Even if they were master and disciple, Lou Qianzong couldn't possibly have imagined that Lin Jingting knew about his background!
Lou Qianzong: "My father, do you still remember him?"
Chu Nian nodded: For Lou Qianzong, this father emperor must be a distant relative, while for her, he is a figure from the original owner's memories in the previous world.
Lou Qianzong: "Back in Ziwei Kingdom, weren't you curious how I knew I wasn't your biological son?"
Chu Nian suddenly realized and said, "Your father told you that?"
Lou Qianzong: "I later discovered one of his wills, which said that I was brought to him by the Grand Tutor."
Seeing Chu Nian pondering, he quickly explained, "My father left me this edict because he didn't want me to remain an emperor in a daze. He wanted me to understand that even though I wasn't his biological son, he was still willing to pass the throne to me for the sake of the dynasty's stability and the people's well-being. He didn't want me to become estranged from you."
Chu Nian said, "I'm not thinking about why he left the imperial edict; I'm thinking about your master..."
Lou Qianzong: "What's wrong? Did something come to mind?"
Chu Nian: "Your master went to that world back then, probably for you. However, when Bai Ze took him through time, there was a problem with the time setting, so he traveled to thousands of years ago, which is why he founded the Xuan Yuan Sect. He must have waited there for thousands of years until the time you traveled to that world, and then found you..."
Lou Qianzong suddenly realized and pondered, "So I'm not from that world at all, but someone who traveled from another world. He used Bai Ze's divine power back then, and there was a problem with the time setting. So, that was before he created the time machine."
Chu Nian asked with some curiosity, "By the way, every time I met you before, you didn't seem to recognize me. What happened this time? You recognized me as soon as we met?"
Lou Qianzong rolled his eyes and snorted, saying, "Even if I'm stupid and my mental strength isn't strong enough to detect your soul, I should be able to sense something after encountering the same soul countless times!"
Chu Nian thought about it and agreed.
Lou Qianzong said somewhat helplessly, "Can't we discuss this as we go? Let's get there quickly so I can take a shower and go to sleep."
Chu Nian then remembered that the spaceship was still parked. She opened the barrier she had set up earlier and had Martha restart the spaceship.
Martha was still reeling from the news she had just heard when Chu Nian called her several times before she heard him and restarted the spaceship to head towards the Galactic Team's dormitory.
Chu Nian murmured, "Could it be that Jing Ting left because he didn't want to answer your question about his background?" If that's the case, then all her joy was for nothing. Did that guy even understand?
Lou Qianzong said listlessly, "That guy is obsessed with you. I thought that once you came, he would definitely follow you. But he didn't even show up."
Chu Nian scratched her hair a couple of times: if Lin Jingting showed up, she was afraid that he would pester her like he did when they first met; but if he didn't show up, she felt that it wasn't in line with his style. She couldn't help but feel puzzled and a little worried.
She knew that the guy was no longer the cute five-year-old boy who blinked his adorable eyes and stretched out his arms to ask her for a "hug." He was now incredibly powerful and arguably not dangerous at all. But the fact that he had abandoned Little Lin for hundreds of millions of years made her feel uneasy.
Thinking of this, she couldn't help but sigh again.
Lou Qianzong said with a headache, "I don't even know how many times I've heard you sigh today."
Chu Nian: "You two, one is my apprentice and the other is my son, neither of you gives me any peace of mind!"
Lou Qianzong scoffed and said, "It's like you're always the one cleaning up our messes. Tell me, when have you ever caused trouble and we're the ones cleaning up after you? Aren't you afraid the wind will slap your tongue if you say something like that?"
Chu Nian figured that since he, as the group leader, would have to step in to resolve the matter of the Black International Alliance, she didn't argue with him.
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