"Was it really all right to say that to her face?"
Chen Mu cast a glance at Lin Yue.
The Xuanguo Estate was indeed not exactly a good place. As a bastard son, his words carried little weight and he was not valued, but no matter what, it was ultimately a place where he could survive.
In this world beset by demons and monsters, where evil spirits ran rampant, if he had not been in the Capital, if he had not been in the Xuanguo Estate, the original Chen Mu might have died on the streets long ago, and he would never have had the chance to be reincarnated here.
Besides, the Xuanguo Estate was not all that dark.
At the very least, there was Ning Qiang, his gentle and virtuous sister-in-law, as well as Chen Yao, his loyal and affectionate younger sister.
Chen Mu had merely inherited the original body's memories; he did not possess the original Chen Mu's familial feelings toward Ning Qiang and Chen Yao. It was because Ning Qiang and Chen Yao had both won Chen Mu's approval that he came to regard them as people close to him. Otherwise, at most, he would have looked after them a little for the sake of the identities and memories he had inherited.
Just as Chen Mu and Lin Yue were talking,
quite a few people stood in the distance, gazing at the two of them in surprise.
Although they had all retreated rather far, and the sound of the tide pounding against the cliffs on both banks was like peals of thunder, making it difficult to hear Chen Mu and Lin Yue's conversation, it was obvious that Chen Mu and Lin Yue seemed to know each other. Chen Mu's appearance, however, was utterly unfamiliar, leaving no impression