Lu Ming, Ten Thousand Year Ancestor! Martial Soul Ranking Seventh Revealed! Lu Ming's Disciple?!

The more Shui Bing'er thought about it, the redder her cheeks became, yet her gaze grew ever more resolute.

As long as she made it a fait accompli, Master would have no choice.

After all, Master was softhearted and responsible above all else.

At worst, she could apologize properly afterward and act cute. Master surely would not have the heart to blame her.

"Master, Bing'er won't let you run away again!"

Amid the wind and snow, Shui Bing'er sat back down. This time, however, her gaze was fixed firmly on the Sky Screen, waiting for her glory to descend.

Heaven Dou City, Ye Family Mansion.

As one of the Heaven Dou Empire's foremost Healing-type Soul Master families, the Ye Family welcomed an exceptionally distinguished guest today.

One of the current rulers of the Heaven Dou Empire—once a princess, now the Empress—Xue Ke.

Yet this Empress, who commanded the court with such authority, was now staring wide-eyed without a shred of composure, nearly unable to hold the teacup in her hand steadily.

"Benefactor?!"

Xue Ke looked at the young man leisurely sipping tea in the grandmaster chair, her voice trembling.

"Is it really you?!"

She had received word from her subordinates that someone who looked remarkably like her former benefactor had come to the Ye Family.

She had initially assumed it was merely a resemblance, or perhaps the benefactor's descendant.

So she set aside her affairs of state and rushed over in a panic.

But the moment she truly saw that face, all reason crumbled away.

Those brows and eyes, that bearing—even the slightly raised pinky as he drank tea—perfectly overlapped with the figure in her memories.

The protagonist, Lu Ming, set down his teacup and lifted his eyes to glance at the beauty before him.

He said blandly:

"Little