"Yu Xin, do you really like my playing?" Zhang Tian laughed as he teased little Yu Xin.
"Yes! I like listening to Dad play the zither!" Xiao Xin looked at Zhang Tian and gave his nose a light smack with her tiny hand, as punishment for teasing her.
"Mm." Rubbing his nose, Zhang Tian said irritably.
"Speaking of which, aren't you the reckless one? I clearly told you when we first met that you could keep it for me, but that you absolutely couldn't unwrap the cloth bindings."
That was an extremely dangerous thing to do.
Seeing that her dad seemed angry, Xiao Xin lowered her head somewhat fearfully.
"Stupid Dad, you actually scared me."
"Second Elder..." The sound of hurried footsteps rang out, but the words made Zhang Tian frown.
"The Yun Lan Sect is gone. Why are you still calling me Second Elder?"
"Hm?" After speaking, Zhang Tian looked up at the newcomer and was faintly startled by a sense of familiarity.
"Ge Ye?" The person before him was none other than Ge Ye, a steward of the Yun Lan Sect.
"After that battle between you, Second Elder, and the old sect master... the Yun Lan Sect was destroyed... I pledged allegiance to the Gama Empire's imperial family." Ge Ye's expression was incomparably complicated as he slowly explained everything that had happened.
"About the Yun Lan Sect..." Holding Xiao Xin in one arm, Zhang Tian looked at Ge Ye in silence for a while before sighing.
"I wronged all of you."
"Ah, what's the point of saying that now? I'm old too. Fortunately, the imperial family's treatment is fairly good, enough for me to live out my remaining years in peace. Don't blame yourself, Second Elder... Many people from the Yun Lan Sect joined the imperial family too...