Although Lin Qi and Yuan Xi had long known about this, when they saw Luo Ci break down in tears, they could not help feeling a little heartbroken for him.
Lin Qi grabbed a handkerchief and smeared it wildly across his face. "Stop crying. It's freezing out here—be careful your snot and tears don't freeze to your face."
Luo Ci: "..."
Yuan Xi was also left speechless by Lin Qi's unconventional comfort.
"Lin Qi is right. Stop crying for now and tell us what exactly happened?"
In the end, it was Senior Sister Yuan Xi's gentleness that soothed Luo Ci.
Luo Ci raised a hand and melted the ice crystals from his face. Fury burned in his eyes as he said, "I'll definitely cultivate hard from now on. I want to grow stronger. I want to avenge Father!"
Lin Qi and Yuan Xi exchanged startled looks.
They had never imagined that Luo Ci's father had actually been murdered.
Who would dare be so brazen as to kill the husband of the Southern Continent Luo Family Head?
"Avenge him? What exactly happened?" Senior Sister Yuan Xi asked softly.
Tears welled up in Luo Ci's eyes again, but this time he did not cry. Instead, he carefully explained what had happened to the Luo Family.
It all began with Wei Chongfu jumping into a well to commit suicide.
The day after Wei Chongfu jumped into the well—that was, one day after Lin Qi and the others left the Luo Family.
That day, the Luo Family had just set up a small mourning canopy for Wei Chongfu when a woman in Daoist robes, her hair tied in a Daoist topknot, drifted down from the sky.
She pinched her fingers in calculation, then declared that she had a destined affinity with Luo Ci's third