Xue Yue, seated at the other end of the table, cautiously glanced at Sun Hang and scooped a large spoonful of chili oil into her bowl of noodles.
"I couldn't tell—you can actually handle spicy food that well?" Sun Hang exclaimed.
"...When... when I didn't have enough money before... I'd buy a discounted bottle of Lao Gan Ma from the supermarket and put it inside steamed buns to eat. It only cost one yuan and twenty cents a day to fill my stomach." Xue Yue muttered, "I also... I kind of like chili peppers."
Sun Hang couldn't help rubbing his forehead... She clearly possessed abilities nearly on par with a Class A Anomaly, yet she had ended up living such a miserable life. This girl was really something else...
As Xue Yue's half-"father," Lin Lun was also a bastard who only cared about "giving birth," not "raising." With his abilities, he could easily have given Xue Yue a somewhat better life without interfering with the experiment at all. Yet he had simply watched her struggle to survive in the human world, doing nothing.
Fortunately, Xue Yue couldn't be affected by any negative emotions... Otherwise, by the time Sun Hang had found her, she would probably have been a completely different person.
"Come to think of it, Sun Hang, you don't like spicy food?" Candle Dragon glanced doubtfully at Sun Hang's bowl of clear noodle soup. "I thought loving spicy food was practically instinctive for people from Shu Province."
"You're that sure I'm from Shu Province?" Sun Hang pointed at himself. "I can't even speak the Shu Province dialect."
"Then where are you from?"
"Good question. I'd like to know too." Sun Hang stuffed two slices of braised beef into his mouth and called out indistinctly, "Boss, another twenty lamb skewers!