Hearing Xu Kun's words, Yuan remained composed and smiled faintly. "What else? Brother Kun, you didn't think I liked you from the very beginning, did you?"
Xu Kun blushed. At first, he had thought Yuan was some insatiable seductress!
Yuan covered her mouth and laughed, then revealed her ambitions without the slightest concealment. "The first-generation Yuan-Chu fell in this era. Among the remaining Yuan-Chu descendants and the masters of the Nine Veins, not a single one is qualified to replace her as the common ruler of the Yuan-Chu Nine Veins."
"And I, from the moment I was born, was accompanied by heavenly omens. The Phoenix Lord personally brought me into Phoenix Palace and raised me with great care. When I first awakened my bloodline, I did not disappoint her expectations. The purity of my Yuan-Chu bloodline is second only to that of the first-generation Yuan-Chu."
"But that alone was not enough for me to become the Yuan Lord and wield the authority of the Yuan-Chu Nine Veins."
"The first time the Phoenix Lord publicly announced that I would temporarily assume the position of Yuan Lord was because of you, Brother Kun."
Xu Kun was startled. "When was that?"
"During your performance in the Jiangnan battle, the Phoenix Lord brought all of us to watch it from beginning to end."
Xu Kun's eyes widened. "Grandma had her eye on me back then?"
At that time, even he himself had not known he possessed the Phoenix Race Bloodline, right?
In other words, his grandmother had always been watching both him and his mother?
Yuan smiled, and for a moment, even Xu Kun was dazed.
"At the time, the aunties and I were all confused. You were clearly human, yet she wanted me to marry you into the Phoenix Race. According to the