Awakening

"You're biological siblings? He's surnamed Ba, and you're surnamed Ba too?"

Li Huowang decided not to follow their lead anymore. He would ask them himself what their backgrounds were, and if they had no important information, he would get out of here.

There was no point in listening to any more of the nonsense coming out of their mouths.

Seeing Li Huowang change the subject, the other party readily went along with it. "That's right. My name is Ba Nanxu, and his is Ba Shengqing. We're twins."

"Twins? I never would've guessed. He's so huge, while you're so skinny."

"Because we were Siamese Twins. He absorbed all the nutrients, so of course I grew up thin."

Seeing Li Huowang stare at her with wide-eyed shock, Ba Nanxu pointed at the thorn tattoo on her face.

"We used to be joined together. We were separated later on. These are actually meant to cover the scars."

Li Huowang immediately thought of the identical scars Ba Shengqing had. He truly hadn't expected that the tattoos on their faces had come about like this.

"Then that separation surgery must have been dangerous, right?"

"There was no surgery. We didn't have the means for it. Our parents died early, so we used scissors to cut an opening ourselves, then forcibly pulled ourselves apart."

Yet upon hearing that, Li Huowang's shocked expression gradually faded. "I don't believe you. If that were really how it happened, never mind the pain being enough to kill you, with wounds that big, you two would've bled to death long ago if you didn't go to a hospital."

"Hahaha, true enough." Ba Nanxu put the cigarette back into her mouth and took a deep drag.

There was always something strange about the way this woman spoke. She seemed to have no