"Maybe you were just lucky," I said with a smile.
"Naturally." Zi Xiao clearly did not believe it was as simple as luck, but she also knew this was not the time to discuss becoming younger. A little girl was curiously studying her. "Little girl, who are you?"
"I don't know who I am either. When I was very young, my nanny carried me away from here and sold me to Yulin Market Ward..." Winter Solstice hurriedly answered.
"That is a second-class small Market Ward in the Myriad Races Ancestral Land. We should have inspected it every year, though. How come I seem not to have seen you? I should have a photographic memory." Zi Xiao leaned closer and examined Winter Solstice.
"I only just grew up. They fed me Bone Suppression Pills." Winter Solstice tugged at my sleeve, trying to get me to explain.
I nodded, tore open a space of laws with a wave of my hand, and dragged out the two child kidnappers. "These are the two. You decide how to interrogate them. You might be able to piece together what happened back then. Oh, and her name is Winter Solstice now."
Zi Xiao glanced at the senior aides behind her. Those Purple-Eyed Clan elders, who appeared to be well past fifty, immediately sprang into action, though they were still processing the fact that Zi Xiao had become younger.
"I will arrange a bloodline resonance for you immediately. We will soon be able to confirm your identity. If I am not mistaken, you should be the child of my grandnephew Zilang. He and his wife have been searching for you for over a decade and are still out there looking. Who would have thought? Bone Suppression Pills... no wonder they could not find you." Zi Xiao tenderly