Liu Yun'er seemed to understand, yet not quite. Zhou Heng had no interest in meddling in other people's affairs, so the topic naturally came to an abrupt end.
Liu Shishi quickly regained her fiery temperament. After sternly warning Zhou Heng, she returned to her own circle. Liu Yun'er was actually qualified to do the same, but she simply did not want to see Lin Xianyang, so she held Little Flame and stood far away.
Ding Quan, however, stayed behind. Because of his bizarre appearance, he was unwelcome wherever he went. Liu Yun'er, on the other hand, had not yet shed her girlish innocence and did not find anything wrong with his looks; she found them rather amusing instead.
Zhou Heng was not one to judge by appearances either, and Ding Quan's urge to talk was immediately stirred. He pulled Zhou Heng along and chatted away for quite some time.
A young master from such a great family was naturally no simple figure. Ding Quan merely looked somewhat shifty-eyed and rat-faced, but as a merchant's descendant, his eye for people was actually sharper and more accurate than most!
Others merely feared the Black Hole-level powerhouse standing behind Zhou Heng, yet looked down on Zhou Heng's cultivation as a Star Thearch, too proud to lower themselves and befriend him. Ding Quan, however, felt no such pressure. In his bones, he possessed more of a merchant's shrewdness than a martial artist's arrogance.
He considered Zhou Heng a rare commodity, and better still, he was currently the only one extending an olive branch to Zhou Heng!
Not only did this fellow look shifty-eyed and rat-faced, he was also extremely funny when he spoke. Liu Yun'er was repeatedly amused into tinkling laughter, and even Zhou Heng could not help but smile. Yet Lin Xianyang's gaze