Su Tianxuan and Leng Yaozhu's Relationship

"We only met His Majesty Time Douluo today."

Ye Guyi poured Leng Yaozhu a cup of tea.

It was a gesture of respect toward a Titled Douluo.

Leng Yaozhu's gaze sharpened, and her expression turned a little strange:

"You only met him today, and he brought you home already? Both of you together?"

She sounded somewhat displeased.

"We..."

Ye Guyi's mind raced, but she couldn't come up with a suitable explanation on the spot.

Although Su Tianxuan hadn't told them to keep their journey from the past a secret, the fewer people who knew something so earth-shattering, the better.

Especially since Su Tianxuan wasn't here right now. If something went wrong, there would be no one to bail them out.

Fortunately, Qian Renxue had plenty of experience with this and quickly took over:

"Our grandfather is a friend of His Majesty Time Douluo. He had something to attend to these past few days, so he asked His Majesty to show us around Mingdu."

"He knows someone from the Yue Family too, huh."

Leng Yaozhu muttered to herself, though she didn't pay it much mind. Then, out of the blue, she asked:

"So neither of you is his girlfriend?"

Huh?

Qian Renxue and Ye Guyi were both utterly dumbfounded. They hadn't expected her to ask that at all.

Seeing their reaction, Leng Yaozhu confirmed that they weren't in that kind of relationship and sighed with a touch of regret:

"Honestly, I thought I'd get to drink at his wedding.

"By the way, what do you think of Tianxuan? Are either of you interested in dating him?

"That guy's never brought a girl into his house before. The fact that he let you in means he thinks highly of you."

Wait, what's with the old-mother-waiting-for-her-son-to-take-a-wife act?!

That guy's so strong. Would he really be short of women?

Qian Renxue and Ye Guyi were thoroughly embarrassed and stumbled over their reply:

"Your Majesty, we're only juniors."

"Hey, that guy definitely wouldn't call himself a senior. Don't worry, he's only twenty-six, not much older than you. Besides..."

Before she could finish, a voice suddenly came from upstairs and interrupted her:

"What brings you here? Need something?"

Su Tianxuan came downstairs, yawning.

He tossed a Storage Soul Tool in his hand to Qian Renxue.

"There are clothes and things inside. Pick out whatever you need."

After taking Zhen Hua back to Heaven Dou, he had stopped on the way to buy a batch of clothes and other daily necessities.

Considering that more people would be crossing over, he had simply bought out the entire mall.

Men's, women's, children's, and elderly people's styles—he had bought everything he could.

"When did you get back?"

Qian Renxue first breathed a sigh of relief, then asked in some surprise.

They hadn't seen anyone else come in just now, so how had he come down from upstairs?

"Just got here."

Su Tianxuan gave her a casual, perfunctory answer.

He had left a rewind point upstairs, allowing him to rewind his location back there at any time.

If he hadn't had that trick, that godforsaken system would have dumped Qian Renxue and the others into the sea earlier.

Leng Yaozhu smiled and greeted him. "Long time no see."

Su Tianxuan looked a little puzzled:

"Didn't we just see each other last month?"

Leng Yaozhu was the first character from the original story he had met.

After awakening his Martial Soul, he had kept a low profile in a small city by the sea.

By devouring the time of Soul Beasts and looking through the pasts of the dead, his cultivation had soared like a rocket. By the time he was fifteen, he had already reached the peak of Soul Douluo.

To achieve a perfect breakthrough to Titled Douluo, he had chosen to venture out early and travel the continent, observing more of the past and future.

As it turned out, he had run into Heavenly Phoenix Douluo as soon as he arrived in a new city.

Each had done the other a favor: she had helped him break through, and he had saved her once.

Later, Leng Yaozhu had even come close to luring him into the Leng Family and the Spirit Pagoda.

Even now, the two were on fairly good terms. She had also helped Su Tianxuan find this house.

Leng Yaozhu rubbed her forehead and said helplessly:

"Can't I just say hello? Why are you still like this?"

"Time can't leave any marks on me, so isn't it normal for me not to change?"

Su Tianxuan glanced at the two angels, then said:

"Let's talk upstairs. You two should get some rest early too. It's been a long day; we'll continue tomorrow."

Unlike him, Leng Yaozhu didn't have much free time. She must have something urgent to come all this way so late.

Of course, more importantly, if he let her stay with Qian Renxue and Ye Guyi any longer, she'd spill everything. He couldn't afford the embarrassment.

Leng Yaozhu said with a grin, "Don't rush. I still want to chat with these two little sisters."

Su Tianxuan clicked his tongue and, thoroughly annoyed, pulled her upstairs.

"Feeling shy?"

"Believe it or not, I'll throw you out."

"..."

Qian Renxue and Ye Guyi were left staring at each other.

"What's their relationship?"

"They don't look like a couple, but they don't seem like family either."

Fourth floor.

"So what is it?"

Su Tianxuan led Leng Yaozhu through a strange space.

All sorts of bizarre things were piled up here: an apple that kept falling, a piano that played on a loop, a camera that could photograph the past...

Time had become utterly chaotic here.

This was his testing ground. Anyone below Demigod who came here would be warped by the chaotic flow of time.

After his Soul Power cultivation could no longer advance, he had devoted most of his efforts to developing the Time Law.

Leng Yaozhu put away her smile and took out a red longsword:

"Yesterday, I received a plea for help from a junior in my family. He said Yulai was in serious trouble and needed my help, so I left Mingdu.

"But clearly, I was deceived."

She was the Limit Douluo responsible for guarding the Spirit Pagoda in Mingdu these past few years, so she too had been targeted by the Holy Spirit Cult's scheme.

It wasn't a particularly sophisticated scheme, but it had struck right at its target's weakness.

Su Tianxuan understood what she meant and looked at the longsword:

"Does this belong to that junior of yours?"

Leng Yaozhu nodded:

"Yes. By the time I realized something was wrong, he had already disappeared. This is a weapon he used for a long time. I need to know what happened in the past.

"Whether he's a traitor or he was coerced, I need an answer."

Su Tianxuan sighed and took the longsword. "I've been exhausted for days, and now I have to work again as soon as I get back?"

Leng Yaozhu was used to this. Smiling, she handed him a bracelet as well. "Don't worry, you won't be shortchanged."

Appealing to Su Tianxuan's feelings was useless. Talking money was far more practical.

After glancing at the rare metals inside, Su Tianxuan finally sat down, satisfied. An illusory river of time flowed beside him.

The longsword's past appeared before his eyes, moment by moment.

As he concentrated on rewinding the past, Leng Yaozhu sat down beside him and gazed absentmindedly at the handsome young man who always looked sixteen.

What exactly do I see him as?

Teacher and student, elder sister and younger brother, friends, or... something else?

But Leng Yaozhu knew very well that, in Su Tianxuan's heart, she was only a collaborator he got along with fairly well.

There was something else in his heart that he couldn't let go of.

But isn't the same true of me?

Leng Yaozhu raised a hand and gently tidied his white hair:

"If only I'd been born one era later. No, wait, you're much more heartless than Yun Ming. Two eras later would be better."

Hearing that, Su Tianxuan rolled his eyes, turned away, and ignored her.