At Xiao Xie's words, Qing Lin's tiny body gradually stopped trembling in his arms. She raised her head and asked with a hopeful yet timid expression, "Young Master, is what you said true? You won't abandon Qing Lin, will you?"
Xiao Xie stroked Qing Lin's little head and chuckled softly. "Of course it's true. I will never abandon Qing Lin."
As Xiao Yi Xian watched the gentle-looking Xiao Xie, a trace of tenderness also flashed through her beautiful eyes. Looking at Qing Lin in his arms, her gaze was filled with pity. She saw her former self in Qing Lin. If Xiao Xie had not stayed by her side and guided her, Xiao Yi Xian did not know what she would have become.
Xiao Yi Xian had heard before that near the Tagor Desert, human women were occasionally violated by snake people. Normally, humans and snake people would not conceive children together. Yet nothing was absolute; there was always an extremely tiny chance that a woman involved with a snake person would become pregnant and give birth...
Yet although they could be born, babies with both human and snake person bloodlines generally found it difficult to live past the age of two. But Qing Lin before Xiao Xie seemed to be already thirteen or fourteen, didn't she?
But even if she could live to this age, what was the use? People like Qing Lin were regarded as a curse by both humans and snake people. Apart from receiving more scornful looks and mockery for having lived these extra years, there seemed to be nothing else...
Xiao Yi Xian slowly came to Qing Lin's side and crouched down. Her hand gently stroked the little girl's head, then, despite Qing Lin's frightened expression, she took her arm and carefully rolled up her