Twins, Jiang Xiaohui's Domain

I grew even more puzzled.

What great secret was Little Nian Bai hiding that it warranted such a string of trials to uncover?

And these trials were even somewhat inhumane.

The distance between me and that black dot grew smaller and smaller. I could clearly make out that it was a child. Though I could only see his back, I felt that he was Little Nian Bai.

Perhaps I was jumping to conclusions, but who else could it have been?

"Nian Bai!"

When we were less than a hundred meters apart, I shouted.

The child stopped, but he still had his back to me.

He did not run again, which was a good thing for me. To be honest, I could feel that my strength was severely depleted. Though that was somewhat abnormal—after all, my physique had improved greatly. This level of exertion was not light, but it should not have affected me so badly.

I finally reached his back and stopped as well. "Nian Bai, how did you end up in a place like this?" He was dressed exactly like Little Nian Bai, still wearing the flower boy outfit he had picked out himself.

He slowly turned around.

It was not Little Nian Bai!

Although he was not Little Nian Bai, I was still greatly shocked when I saw his face.

Wasn't this what I looked like as a child?

More than once, I had looked at the family portrait taken with my parents. That photograph had long since been etched into my mind.

The me in that photo looked exactly like this.

The little guy was looking at me too, smiling slyly. "Who is Nian Bai?"

I narrowed my eyes. "Who are you?"

The little guy countered, "What about you? Who are you?"

He looked about the same