Old Man Killer

Lu Ran was stunned for quite a while before turning to look at Deng Yuxiang.

The woman silently drank her tea, realizing that she knew far too little about her sister-in-law.

During these past few days living in the old residence, she had only gained a superficial understanding of Bai Manni's father's generation. She knew that Manny's parents had divorced when she was young, and that she had always lived with her father.

When Bai Manni was in high school, her father, who had always protected the city as a social volunteer, was recruited into the military and became a soldier stationed at a Demon Lair.

From then on, father and daughter spent more time apart than together.

After she entered university, the gears of fate began to turn.

Lu Ran brought Jiang Ruyi to Fallen Immortal Mountain, and Bai Manni, who had also come from Yuxiang No. 1 High School, naturally joined her old classmate's team.

As the saying went, love grew with time—and besides, the man was talented and the woman beautiful.

Training and carrying out missions together in the same squad every day, the two gradually came together.

Then came pregnancy, marriage, and childbirth, until they followed Lu Ran here to Holy Spirit Mountain.

"I heard Bai Lao's accent. He doesn't sound like he's from the Wulie River area. More like someone from Sichuan-Chongqing?" Lu Ran sat back down on the stone stool, puzzled.

Bai Lao had always spoken standard Mandarin, but every now and then, traces of his hometown accent slipped through.

"Yes, yes!" Bai Manni nodded again and again, overjoyed. "But not Sichuan-Chongqing—it's the Three Qin Land! Hanzhong! My dad said our hometown is in Hanzhong."

"Oh." Lu Ran did not know much about the customs and people there, so he did not dwell on