"I wonder what this senior wants with me?"
Little Zi Yan asked directly, a trace of wariness in her eyes.
Su Qian had said that this unfamiliar powerhouse had come looking for her as soon as he arrived, and had offered Jia Nan Academy quite a few generous terms.
I wonder what he's after.
Surely he hasn't come here to claim me as family?
Zi Yan immediately dismissed the thought that had surfaced in her mind.
After all the time she'd spent wandering outside, she'd long since stopped hoping for that.
"I'm a friend of your father's. He asked me to bring something to you."
As Qi Fei spoke, he continued trading barbs with Zhu Kun, who was hiding nearby.
"Weren't you always nagging me about this? Now she's right in front of you, so what the hell are you hiding for?"
Hah—
"Isn't there an outsider here? Why don't you ask him to leave first?"
Zhu Kun still didn't show himself.
He was clearly feeling a bit nervous now that he was so close to home.
"What outsider? He's the one who's technically Zi Yan's guardian now."
Qi Fei continued needling Zhu Kun.
That was right. Worried about Zi Yan, Su Qian was here too.
"If he hadn't picked up the little girl who accidentally ate Human Transformation Grass, who knows what she might have gone through?"
"By relationship, affection, or upbringing—however you look at it, you're the outsider here."
The Dou Qi Continent wasn't a safe place.
Given that Zi Yan belonged to the high-ranking Ancient Void Dragon race, if Su Qian hadn't taken her in, she might already have been turned into a pill by now.
"Father? I don't have one. I'm an orphan."
Zi Yan eyed Qi Fei suspiciously.
"You didn't spring out of a crack