Today's third update: Chapter 3659! 3/4!
A faint, extraordinarily complex glimmer flashed through the depths of the proud golden eyes of the middle-aged man in golden robes. It seemed to hold memories, seemed to hold emotion, but more than anything, it held excitement forcibly suppressed;
The Black-skirted Woman's obsidian eyes, originally as still as an ancient well, also rippled faintly the instant they fell upon Xu Buwan. A deeply hidden excitement and closeness nearly broke through the ice;
The honest-looking young man was even less able to conceal his emotions. His lips trembled, and an emotional cry of "Big Sis" nearly slipped out—
"Big—"
The moment he began speaking, the middle-aged man in golden robes swiftly and mercilessly slapped his broad back, forcibly knocking the rest of that address back down his throat!
"Urgh!" The honest-looking young man winced in pain and shrank his neck. Sneaking a glance at the warning in the golden-robed man's eyes, he immediately shut up obediently. Yet his round eyes remained fixed eagerly on Xu Buwan, brimming with a familiar affection he longed to express but could not.
This unusually tacit yet strange exchange of gazes naturally did not escape Xu Buwan's notice.
Doubt filled her heart. Her clear phoenix eyes narrowed slightly as she carefully examined the three people who had appeared so abruptly, her gaze full of scrutiny and investigation.
She could be completely certain that the auras radiating from these three people and the Dao rhythms circulating around them did not match anyone she knew from her memories. They were an entirely different and unfamiliar combination of presences.
Yet... that brief exchange of gazes just now—especially the honest-looking youth's nearly blurted-out call, along with the excitement the Black-skirted Woman could not entirely conceal in her eyes—gave her an inexplicable sense of