"What did you call me?"
"Uncle?"
Lu Yuan looked as if he had been struck by lightning. He stared at Xiao Xiao in disbelief, pointing at himself uncertainly as though confirming his place in the family hierarchy.
Xiao Xiao was stunned too.
After a long silence, she finally understood.
She recalled what Lu Yuan had once told her.
As well as her father and mother's reminders.
Tilting her head, she put away her seductive demeanor and became much more proper. "May I ask how old your body is?"
This time, it was Lin Jing and the others who were completely baffled.
What did that mean?
Was this some kind of encrypted conversation?
If she knew him...
She herself had not even been sure after saying it.
If she did not know him...
Judging by his reaction, he was most likely Lu Yuan.
So did she know him or not?
Or rather, who exactly was he?
It would have been one thing for him to confirm their seniority, since some cultivators cared deeply about that sort of thing. They would rather be called older brother than uncle, older sister than auntie. Vanity was understandable. But what was she doing by confirming his age? What was even harder to understand was that she had asked about his physical age. Was her focus really not misplaced?
However, Lu Yuan understood a little.
After all, he had experienced something similar during the Three Small Tribulations of the Supreme Realm.
That had also been the beginning of his acquaintance with Luo Li.
So, after a brief moment of awkwardness, Lu Yuan laid everything out plainly. "From the sound of it, the future me explained it to you?"
That sentence nearly caused Lin Jing and the others' minds to crash.
Fortunately, Xiao Xiao seemed to notice