Ancient Battlefield (Tianyan Extra)

As the words fell, Xu Yuan smiled gently at the girl, then withdrew his gaze, but Tianyan's heart subconsciously tightened slightly.

Call him Xu Yuan.

Watching his profile, Tianyan lightly pursed her lips.

"Are you angry?"

"Huh?" Xu Yuan froze, turning back to look at her. "Angry about what?"

Halfway through his words, Xu Yuan saw the expression on her face, like a little girl who had done something wrong, and suddenly understood what she meant.

Given names and courtesy names.

In this world, those close to one another addressed each other by courtesy names rather than given names.

His elder brother and father had always called him Changtian.

Thinking back to Tianyan's inexplicable anger just now, what he had said was practically the same as telling Tianyan—

Our relationship ends here. There's no need to take it any further.

The girl's easily read thoughts left Xu Yuan speechless for a moment. Instinctively, he wanted to tease this washboard Saintess, but after a second thought, he gave up on the idea.

Out of the corner of his eye, he glanced at the churning clouds below.

There, the brown earth was already faintly visible through them.

Everything had its order of urgency and importance. He did not know much about Ghost Mist.

After a moment of silence, Xu Yuan said softly, "Mm... you can think of it as a nickname."

"A nickname?"

Though Tianyan did not quite understand, seeing the smile on Xu Yuan's face put her somewhat at ease.

She had seen what Xu Yuan looked like when he was truly angry, and he was not like this now.

After a moment of silence, Tianyan said quietly, "Idiot. That was so out of nowhere."

Xu Yuan smiled softly, but before he could speak, he met Tianyan's half-lidded, foxlike scrutinizing gaze.