"It's fine! I only invited you all here to have some fun anyway." Gu Bei smiled indifferently.
Zhou Mu chuckled at that and praised him, "You're far more mature than others your age."
"My talent is already bad enough. I have to be better than others in at least one area, right?" Gu Bei smiled, then shrugged. "I usually think more than most, so I sometimes seem mature. But I still have everything someone my age should have."
Zhou Nian gave him a deep look and smiled faintly before asking, "Why did you insist on taking part in this Lineage juniors' competition? Logically speaking, you shouldn't be qualified to participate at your age, nor is there any need for you to."
"Hehe~" Gu Bei smiled and looked up at Zhou Nian. "It's not that I absolutely had to participate. I simply wanted to experience for myself what this so-called battlefield felt like. Given my current condition, and my father's protection, it would be difficult for me to ever stand in such a place in this lifetime, let alone fight personally. You could say this was merely one of my willful requests. Because I'm still young, my father let me participate. If I were any older, there would be no room for sentiment in the competition. Right now, precisely because I'm young, those juniors won't bully me out of consideration for appearances and for my father. That's why my father felt at ease letting me join."
"You've thought it through quite clearly," Zhou Mu said with a light laugh.
Gu Bei chuckled. "To keep my father and mother from worrying, I need to keep a clear head."
Zhou Nian looked up at the ceiling, then abruptly asked, "What do you want to do in the future?"
"Hm?" Gu Bei's steps paused,