First update today: Chapter 1672! 1/2!
"I don't understand love?"
Yuan began to doubt herself, but after thinking it over, she was surprised to find that she truly did not understand love.
Not romantic love, parental love, familial love, racial love... she understood nothing related to love.
How could she understand it when she had never experienced it?
"Perhaps I really don't understand it, because in all my past days, I have never felt love or been loved," Yuan said with genuine emotion.
Xu Kun clearly saw the fear, anger, helplessness, and other negative emotions welling up from the depths of her eyes. Yet those emotions lasted only an instant before being replaced by a beaming smile.
What powerful emotional concealment. Xu Kun's heart tightened.
It was not merely because Yuan could instantly hide her true feelings, but also because the negative emotions she had revealed in that brief instant seemed to resonate with him.
It felt as though his heart had suddenly been gripped by those emotions, aching so badly that he could barely breathe.
Just what had this little phoenix experienced? He had thought that after studying at Qufu Academy for sixty years, he had already gained strong control over his emotions. Yet compared to Yuan's fleeting display, he was utterly outclassed!
Such emotional restraint required the tempering and accumulation of time. Yuan was neither the reincarnation of some powerful being, nor had he heard that she had received any kind of inheritance. Could someone truly possess such an innate talent?
She had never felt love or been loved. What a heartbreaking thing to say!
As Xu Kun pondered, Yuan smiled again. "I admit that I lack the ability to love someone. So, could I stay by Brother Kun's side and learn from him?"
Before Xu Kun