[Parallel Peerless 48] Dog-Headed Strategist

"Urgh."

Gu Chen stretched, then slowly stood up, his dazed eyes still holding a clear, vacant confusion.

In human terms: he had slept himself stupid.

"Brother Di Cang, you're awake."

Gu Chen turned to look, and for a moment he was a little stunned. It seemed he really had slept himself senseless. The person before him looked a bit like someone else. He must have slept himself dumb; his brain had not caught up yet.

Meng Hongchen was indeed very pretty, but the problem was... why did she resemble Su Mengchan so much? Not exactly in appearance—aside from both of them looking human, there was almost nothing similar about them. But that look in her eyes seemed impossible to imitate. For some inexplicable reason, the Wheel of Time stirred slightly, though the feeling came and went quickly, vanishing in an instant, so fast it almost felt like an illusion.

The way Meng Hongchen looked at an older brother was very similar.

"Miss Meng, is there something you need?" Gu Chen's tone was still neither warm nor cold.

"Nothing. I just wanted to ask you something very, very ordinary." Meng Hongchen smoothed the long hair by her ear, her pale blue eyes fixed tightly on the person before her. "Um, Brother Di Cang, may I ask how old you are this year?"

"I don't mean anything else. I'm just asking, just asking..."

Meng Hongchen seemed afraid Gu Chen might misunderstand, and hurriedly explained.

"Age? This year I should be... fourteen or fifteen."

If he counted the life he had experienced in his previous world, then he really was nearing thirty. Even so, that age was not exactly old.

But if he did not count that, he was not even twenty now.

He had not cultivated for very long in total.

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