"----!"
Su Ming, who had been preparing to leave, suddenly spun around and looked in a certain direction.
It was the direction of the window in the lounge.
A figure had appeared silently by the window.
A shocking spirituality radiated from the figure, telling Su Ming that the spirituality he had sensed just now had come from this person.
Su Ming focused his eyes and discovered that the figure was actually an extremely old man.
If Elder Ling merely had graying hair but the vigor of a young man, with not even a single wrinkle on his face, making him seem unlike an old man at all, then the old man before him was the genuine article.
Not only was his hair gray, but he also had a long white beard. His face was covered in wrinkles, his body was short and withered, and even his back was hunched. At a glance, he looked at least eighty years old, and perhaps even ninety.
Upon seeing this old man, Su Ming's reaction was one thing, but Qin Qing's expression changed. She hurriedly bowed.
"Great-Grandfather."
Qin Qing actually addressed him that way.
"Great-Grandfather?"
Su Ming was slightly startled, then knitted his brows.
He knew that he might have encountered a truly important figure.
Qin Qing was the eldest daughter of the Qin Family's direct line, a princess of the royal clan.
Anyone addressed as "Great-Grandfather" by someone like her had to be an elder of the Qin Family's direct line at the very least, with an extremely exalted status.
Combined with that astonishing spirituality, which seemed almost inhuman, Su Ming was certain that this person had to be someone important.
Sure enough—
"My name is Qin Yue. I am this Qin girl's great-grandfather."
The old man who called himself Qin Yue first