"Loyalty will grant you strength?"
Xing Anlin grinned and teased, "That doesn't sound like something I'd say at all. It's way too cringey..."
Lin Qinfeng and Liu Wenjian, standing nearby, both rolled their eyes at that.
Cringey?
Wasn't this exactly how he usually talked?
Especially when he was showing off, when it only got worse!
By this point, Liu Wenjian and Lin Qinfeng had actually come to believe that Babayak was here to help them.
It was just that the person he wanted to negotiate with was clearly Xing Anlin rather than them, so neither of them intended to steal the spotlight.
They simply waited silently for what came next.
"Yes. Six hundred and eight years ago, you said the same thing." Babayak wore a nostalgic expression, a faint smile on his lips.
Xing Anlin narrowed his eyes and stared fixedly at Babayak's wrinkled old face.
Only after a long while did he continue, "So, from the sound of it... you met me more than six hundred years ago?"
"That's right." Babayak nodded seriously.
"And this time, you came to have me complete this so-called time loop by sending me back more than six hundred years, so I could tell the past you a series of important things?"
"That is correct, Lord Xing Anlin." Babayak nodded again.
"Then..." Xing Anlin drew out the word, his eyes nearly narrowing into slits.
"Then did I ever tell you that I'm Lu Li's long-lost biological father?"
Babayak blinked and seriously searched his memories for a moment.
Then—
"Huh?"
"Did I ever tell you in the past that I'm Brother Li's long-lost father?" Xing Anlin repeated with utmost seriousness.
Even Lin Qinfeng and Liu Wenjian, who knew Xing Anlin's personality well, could barely hold it together now.
What the hell was this supposed to