"Did you remember everything I told you?" Before entering the Magma World, Xiao Jin warned her over and over, practically wishing he could pry open Zi Yan's little head and stuff every word he had said inside.
Zi Yan was left utterly helpless by his fussing, and her originally decent mood turned irritable.
"I know, I know! If you keep going, my ears are going to grow calluses!"
The little girl shook her head, her two long ponytails swaying back and forth.
Xiao Jin grabbed her twin ponytails and gently tugged the little girl by her braids, pulling her in front of him.
Only after Zi Yan turned around did he stare into her eyes and enunciate, word by word, "Repeat what I told you."
Zi Yan sighed wearily and could only obediently repeat, "After entering the Magma World, I absolutely can't leave your side by more than two steps, or your Heavenly Flames won't be able to protect me. I'm just a tiny Dou Wang, so I might get burned into charcoal, right?"
"What else?"
"And also, after seeing that guy, I absolutely can't act rashly, and I can't rush in and beat him up just because my head gets hot for a moment. Otherwise, I might not be able to come back, right?"
Only then did Xiao Jin release Zi Yan's little head. Seeing the dissatisfaction in her eyes, he rubbed her hair to soothe her. "Don't think I'm nagging. That place really is far too dangerous for us right now. Forget you and me—even he was trapped there for thousands of years. You can imagine how heaven-defying the methods there are."
To avoid provoking Zi Yan, Xiao Jin rarely used terms like "your father" to describe Zhu Kun. Most of the time, he simply referred to him