"Okay, Qingzai, you go back first. I still need to stay here. I think Xiuer has some misunderstanding about me, and I want to explain everything to her." Now that she had finally found Niuniu, Xiao Yuxiu, she wouldn't give up, even if Xiao Yuxiu didn't want to see her right now.
"Okay, Great-Aunt. I'll be going, then. I'm planning to leave the Outer Regions and go home," Huo Yiqing said.
"Oh, you're going back already?"
"Mm." He wanted to go into seclusion and devote himself wholeheartedly to cultivation.
"All right. Don't worry, Great-Aunt will keep an eye on Yinuo for you. I'll make sure she finds a boyfriend as outstanding and dependable as her father, and who dotes on her just as much. You don't have to worry that she won't have a good life."
"...!!! Great-Aunt, that really stings!!" Even if she thought that, couldn't she keep it to herself? Huo Yiqing was on the verge of tears.
He turned and left, but before he went, he looked back once more at the direction of Su Yinuo's courtyard.
Su Yinuo truly had no interest in him at all.
He had to admit that.
He hoped Su Yinuo meant what she'd told him before: that men would only slow down her cultivation. He hoped she would never date anyone or get married in this lifetime...
After Huo Yiqing left, Jiang Xiangzhen didn't return to the car. Instead, she sat down on the stone threshold outside Su Chen's house.
She gazed up at the azure sky.
She was still brimming with excitement. "Sis, we really found Niuniu. She goes by Xiao Yuxiu now. It's a lovely name."
"From now on, I'll call her Xiuer."
"Xiuer is still alive. She's fifty-seven now, but she looks only a little over thirty. She