Zi Yan and her father's relationship was something Xiao Yan had already guessed at before. After all, as someone who had been through it himself, he was all too familiar with the way both sides kept up that awkward silence and strange atmosphere without knowing what to do.
Though there was nothing time could not smooth over, even an awkward relationship like this, Xiao Yan still did not want Zi Yan and her father to take an unnecessary detour because of it.
And that probably meant he could not avoid saying a few extra words.
It was precisely with that thought in mind that Xiao Yan felt he seemed to have become a little more talkative compared to when he had first wandered the Dou Qi Continent.
Though the years had not left marks on him the way they had on Father, that did not mean he was still the same reckless youth he had been back then.
People had to grow at least a little.
"I didn't expect something like that had happened back then."
Zi Yan blinked, and she was not as resistant as before.
"Mm..."
Xiao Yan nodded, then heard Zi Yan murmur, "Then if... Yao Lao hadn't been by your side back then, what would you have become?"
"If we're talking purely about personality, I'm afraid I might not necessarily have been the way I was when you all first met me."
Xiao Yan pondered for a while. In truth, whenever he had free time, he had thought about this question more than once. And the instant he became a Dou Di and was able to seek out countless possibilities across the Dou Qi Continent, that thought reached its peak.
In that moment of trance, he was able to glimpse many figures that seemed to be