"We knew each other before, but not in this form of mine."
Qian Renxue nodded slightly.
She and Tang San did know each other. Back then, she had met Tang San as Xue Qinghe, and had wanted to recruit him for her own use under Xue Qinghe's identity.
But Tang San had refused her then.
Who would have thought they would meet again?
Everything had changed.
She was no longer Xue Qinghe, no longer a grown man, but a mature, alluring, nearly perfect goddess-like beauty.
And Tang San...
He had now joined Spirit Hall as well.
For certain reasons, he had even become the "adopted son" of Spirit Hall's Pope, Qian Xunji. In other words, her father's "adopted son."
Her nominal younger brother.
"Is that so?"
"But I don't have the slightest impression of you!" Tang San shook his head, sticking to the same answer.
The woman before him was stunning, practically perfect.
She was the most beautiful woman Tang San had ever seen, without question.
If he had known such a beauty, there was no way Tang San would have forgotten her.
Just one glance was enough to leave a deep imprint on his mind. He simply could not cast her out of his thoughts.
"How about this, then?"
Qian Renxue smiled faintly and, before Tang San's eyes, gradually transformed into someone else.
Someone else he knew.
And that person was a man.
He was none other than Xue Qinghe, once the Crown Prince of the Heaven Dou Empire and now the "Emperor Qinghe" of the Heaven Dou Empire.
Tang San stared at the Xue Qinghe before him and froze. Several seconds later, he came back to himself and looked at Xue Qinghe in shocked disbelief. "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince?"
"Xue Qinghe" smiled at Tang San. "It