Younger Brother

A moment later, the reception room door was pushed open, and a somewhat boyish-looking child walked in.

"Oren..." Olina instinctively rose from her seat. She wanted to step forward, yet stopped herself. The estrangement from so many years apart seemed to have built an invisible wall between them.

"Big Sister?" Only after a moment did the boy confirm the visitor's identity. He froze briefly, then suddenly leapt forward and threw himself into Olina's arms. "It really is you—I thought Mr. Norman was talking about some distant relative!"

The wall called unfamiliarity melted away in an instant.

Even separated by a thousand miles, the bond of blood still remained.

Xia Fan smiled faintly from the side.

From Shangyuan City to Jinxia City, then from Jinxia to the Hila Royal Capital, the Dragon Girl had suffered quite a bit along the way, but in the end, her wish had been fulfilled.

"Big Sis, why did you suddenly come to Hila?" It took the two of them quite a while before they reluctantly separated. "Is your mission to the Eastern Continent over?"

"Not yet. I just had a chance to return to the islands, so I came specially to see you..." Olina said, looking rather embarrassed. "I sent you to the Academy alone without discussing it with you first. I thought you'd blame me for being heartless."

"I did at first." Oren pouted.

"I'm sorry..."

"But later, I learned that if we hadn't accepted the Imperial Chancellor's terms, even the Okan Family name would have vanished. Besides, the Academy's tuition is so expensive that our family couldn't possibly afford it." Oren spoke seriously. "You were the one paying my tuition every year, right? Using your privileges as an Eastern foreign envoy to rake in money everywhere..."

"What do you mean, rake in money?