"Where did I go...?"
"That's a long story."
"Though I could make it short."
"But considering I don't know how much you understand about the causes and consequences, I'd better start from the beginning, if you don't mind..."
That was how Lu Yuan answered Mu Qingluan's question.
After all, the truth was indeed as he had said.
Not everyone could accept such an enormous amount of information in such a short time, especially when it included unfamiliar new terms that could not be readily explained.
If Mu Qingluan lacked the patience for it,
they could simply skip the subject.
It was not as though he and Mu Qingluan had nothing else to talk about.
But if Mu Qingluan was genuinely interested,
then it was not as though he could not give this Little Senior Sister some support.
At the very least, he could broaden her horizons and make her realize that the world was not so small, that there were always greater people beyond people and greater heavens beyond heaven. It might stir her fighting spirit. He could not be sure whether that would work, but even if it did not, there was nothing to lose, was there?
Of course,
the prerequisite was that Mu Qingluan was willing to listen.
After all, even brevity had its limits.
Just as no one could summarize a thousand years of history in a single sentence without omitting any details, Lu Yuan could not do it either.
That said,
if Mu Qingluan were not interested,
she would not have asked.
Thus, the moment Lu Yuan finished speaking, Mu Qingluan immediately chattered, "Forget about making a long story short. I'd rather hear you tell me in detail about what you've gone through these past few years. It's not like I'm pressed for time. Besides, being