"Jiu'er, you must be careful in everything you do."
"I understand, Mother." Ji Jiuying added, "By the way, Mother, I've already met Grandma."
Feng Lan's hand trembled as she stroked her hair, and her eyes reddened slightly. "Does your grandmother recognize you?"
Ji Jiuying shook her head: "But when Grandma saw me, she mistook me for you, Mother. Mother, you can tell Grandma misses you very much..."
Upon hearing her words, Feng Lan could no longer hold back the tears streaming down her face.
Seeing her cry, Ji Jiuying's eyes also started to sting.
"Mom, let's go back to see Grandma together first thing tomorrow morning."
"No, that would be like throwing a wolf into a tiger's den," Feng Lan stopped her. For Jiu'er's sake, she could endure anything.
"Mother, you've misunderstood. Grandma has been living in the Lan family ever since you disappeared."
"What."
Feng Lan was so shocked that she covered her mouth and burst into tears like a child. During the time she was imprisoned in the Feng family, her mother was the only one who stayed with her day and night. Although her brothers would come often, as she grew older, they had more and more things to do and spent less time with her. Sometimes they would not see each other for several days.
She had secretly left the manor several times, always while Lan Mingyue was asleep. Looking back, she wondered how such a coincidence could be so perfect. Every time she wanted to go out, her mother would claim to be unwell and stay in her bedroom all day. Perhaps, at those times, her mother wanted her to leave…
After crying, Feng Lan wiped away her tears. "Jiu'er, I'm sorry, I lost my composure in front of you."
"It's alright, Mother, it's good to cry."
At this moment, Ji Jiuying thought of her mother's expression when she saw Ye Qingchen today, and tentatively asked, "Mother, do you know Qingchen?"
Feng Lan was slightly taken aback, then shook her head: "I don't know him."
Seeing Ji Jiuying frown, Feng Lan thought for a moment and then said, "Jiu'er, aren't you curious about who your father is?"
Ji Jiuying's eyes flickered slightly. Her father? Could he be related to Ye Qingchen? Thinking of Feng Lan's situation, she asked.
“If Mother is willing to mention him, then I will listen.”
Upon hearing her words, Feng Lan smiled. This silly child always thinks of her in everything.
Her being pregnant out of wedlock was not something to be proud of. Jiu'er's meaning was simple: if she acknowledged that man, she would recognize him as her father; if she did not acknowledge him, she would not have him as her father.
“His name is Baili He. I first met him at Xianyin Mountain. His aura is very similar to that of Ye Qingchen, whom I met today, which is why I lost my composure. I remember that he almost went into a qi deviation at Xianyin Mountain, and I saved him…” As she said this, Feng Lan’s face couldn’t help but turn slightly red. Ji Jiuying had already roughly guessed what was going to happen next.
Judging from her mother's appearance, she must have fallen in love with that cheap father at first sight. She wondered if that cheap father was deliberately deceiving her, after all, her mother was so beautiful and gentle.
"Since meeting him, for the first time, I had the thought of escaping the Feng family. This thought took root in my mind like a spell. We agreed to meet the next day, but I broke my promise. I was discovered running away from home, and I was grounded again..."
"I was truly unwilling to accept it, so I begged my third brother to let me go. But three days had already passed since our agreed-upon time... I missed it. And it was on that day that I encountered Kamakura..."
Ji Jiuying listened quietly. What she said was the same as what she had found out, except that there was an extra Baili He.
The mother and daughter chatted for a long time, and before they knew it, Feng Lan fell asleep. Ji Jiuying covered her with a blanket and then went into her spatial dimension.
The moment their feet touched the ground, they were embraced by a familiar embrace. Dongfang Yao, Xiao Huang'er, and the others consciously fled from the spot, leaving only Hei Xiangling and Qi Yun, who had already entered seclusion for cultivation, behind.
Gong Mingyue buried his head in her neck, greedily inhaling her scent.
"Ah Yue... wait a minute."
Ji Jiuying pushed the man, but he didn't budge. "A-Yue, when did you regain your memories?"
Upon hearing her words, Gong Mingyue paused for a moment before releasing Ji Jiuying.
"The day before entering Canghai Island."
Ji Jiuying feigned anger and said, "If I hadn't discovered this today, were you planning to keep it from me forever?"
From the moment Qing Chen appeared, she noticed something was wrong with him, and she was right.
"Has Jiu'er ever wondered why Ye Qingchen is here?"
"Stop changing the subject." Ji Jiuying glared at him, annoyed.
"Alright, Jiu'er, I was wrong." Gong Mingyue hugged her in his arms, and Ji Jiuying naturally wrapped her arms around him. "I'll reluctantly forgive you."
"Ah Yue, what did you find?"
Gong Mingyue picked her up and laid her down on the soft couch next to him, letting her rest against his chest.
"I think your divine beasts will be very familiar with his aura."
Mythical beast? Ji Jiuying quickly came to the answer in her mind, and asked with some doubt, "You mean, Qing Chen is a god?"
Remembering what Feng Lan had told her about the similarity between Baili He and Ye Qingchen's auras, could Baili He also be a god? Ji Jiuying's mind suddenly became confused. She had thought that going back to the Heavenly Domain to investigate Baili He wouldn't be too difficult, but if he really was a god as she suspected, then things would be a bit tricky.
Gong Mingyue's deep eyes flickered slightly. Calling him a god would probably be an underestimation of him, but none of that mattered.
"About eighty percent!"
Why 80%?
"He is now a mortal in body, but a god in soul."
Ji Jiuying didn't know much about these things. "Could it be related to the inheritance he mentioned?"
Gong Mingyue flicked her head: "Only an idiot like you would believe him?"
"What's the meaning?"
Ji Jiuying tried to sit up but was held down by Gong Mingyue.
“There are no gods on the continents of lower planes, let alone any divine lineage,” Gong Mingyue explained.
Why did Qing Chen lie to her? Ji Jiuying recalled his changes over this period, which seemed to have started when she advanced to the Spirit Venerable level in Cangming.
"Ah Yue, do you know about Penglai Island?"
Gong Mingyue's dark eyes darkened: "I wonder why Jiu'er asks this?"
"When I advanced to the Spirit Venerable realm in Cangming, I had to undergo a tribulation of lightning. But why was it Ye Qingchen who suffered the tribulation? I remember he said that some unfamiliar images would always appear in his mind, and the place in the images was called Penglai Island. Maybe it's related to those things?"
When Gong Mingyue heard that Ye Qingchen would also experience the lightning tribulation that Ji Jiuying had just gone through, a dangerous glint flashed in his eyes.
"Jiu'er, have you asked him if he was subjected to lightning tribulation when you advanced to the Tribulation Transcending stage?"
I didn't ask about that.
This was her first meeting with Ye Qingchen in the Heavenly Realm, and she didn't have time to ask him many questions.
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