Sunlight streamed through the window lattice and spilled across the familiar dining table.
Su Qingwan sat at the table, gripping Jiang Fan's wrist tightly and refusing to let go.
Although her tears had stopped, her eyes were still rimmed with red.
"Xiao Fan, where did you go these past three years?"
Her voice trembled, as though she feared Jiang Fan might suddenly vanish again.
"When you left back then, I thought you'd be back soon!"
"I never imagined that once you left, it would be for three whole years!"
"And there wasn't even a word from you!"
"Do you know how worried we all were?"
Jiang Fan felt a warmth in his heart when he heard this and gently patted Su Qingwan's arm.
His tone carried a hint of apology.
"Aunt, I'm sorry for making you worry!"
"After leaving Blue Star, I went to a place called the Qiyuan Star Domain!"
"That place is incredibly far away, and its civilization is far more advanced than ours!"
"Some things happened there that delayed me for a while, so..."
Jiang Fan paused.
"And that place is simply too vast!"
"Traveling from one planet to another takes several months even on the fastest spacecraft!"
"Over these three years, I spent more than half my time merely traveling through the starry sky!"
Su Qingwan murmured when she heard this.
"The Qiyuan Star Domain..."
The name was utterly unfamiliar to her.
As someone who was not even a Martial Artist, she could hardly imagine what kind of world it was.
But the immense weight that had been pressing on her heart had finally fallen away. To her, none of this seemed so important anymore.
"I see!"
"No matter what happened, it's good that you're back!"
"As long as you're safe, nothing else matters!"
Su Qingwan