Xiao Rou jumped straight onto the bed, looking exceptionally excited.
Ye Tian smiled helplessly, then lowered the curtain and sat down as well.
"Cai'er, aren't you going to check on the Chief?"
The question plunged Cai'er into silence. In the end, she shook her head. "I know about the Youthful Return Spiritual Furnace. He'll be fine."
Such a cold attitude immediately made Li Xin and Lin Jialu exchange looks.
Li Xin cautiously asked, "Sister Cai'er, do you have some conflict with Hall Master Lan and the Chief?"
Silence immediately fell within the four joined beds.
After a long while, Cai'er slowly turned toward Ye Tian.
"Ye Tian, do you want to hear about my past?"
Even though he had long known everything that had happened to Cai'er, Ye Tian still responded gently.
"If you're willing to tell it, I'm willing to listen."
"But if those experiences make you suffer, Cai'er, it's fine if you don't want to talk about them."
Cai'er gently shook her head. "I want to tell you."
The girl's voice was soft, carrying a faintly ethereal quality.
"I never had a childhood. In the eyes of the others in the Assassin Temple, I was like a princess. But if I had a choice, I would rather have been the most ordinary girl."
The atmosphere visibly turned icy.
Cai'er continued her story.
"The Assassin Temple's inheritance is unlike that of knights and warriors. Not just anyone can learn it."
"To become an assassin, one must possess extremely high perception and talent. Thus, nurturing an assassin is far more difficult than nurturing a knight or warrior, and requires tremendous effort."
"For that reason, over the long years, the Assassin Temple gradually developed a secret technique that could determine whether a child possessed cultivation talent at around the age of