"Don't bully Sister Xiao Yi Xian!" Zi Yan planted her hands on her hips, her tone brimming with anger.
Xiao Fan was displeased. "Xiao Yan'er, who raised you? Why are you always taking an outsider's side?"
"Sister Xiao Yi Xian isn't an outsider!" As if waiting for an affirmative answer, Zi Yan grabbed Xiao Yi Xian's hand and kept swinging it. "Right? Right, Sister Xiao Yi Xian?"
Xiao Yi Xian had already lost count of how many times her cheeks had burned. She could only respond in a voice so soft even she could barely hear it. "Mm."
Sensing unfamiliar auras continuously drawing near, Xiao Fan frowned and directly ordered the working snake, the Branding Iron Poison Seal Python, to deal with them. The Branding Iron Poison Seal Python merely nodded blankly and dragged Nalan Jie along with it.
Poor Nalan Jie was still unconscious, yet he was being forcibly dragged through the swamp.
"Xian'er, come with me!"
Just like back in Green Mountain Town, Xiao Fan did not care how Xiao Yi Xian struggled. He grabbed her fair wrist and pulled her toward the edge of Wet Bone Forest.
"Xiao Fan... can you give me a little more time...?"
It was the first time Xiao Fan had seen a pleading look unlike her usual expression on Xiao Yi Xian's face. She had clearly done nothing wrong, yet she looked as though she had committed some grave mistake.
"Xian'er, tell me why."
"Xiao Fan, I... I want to help you too. Is that reason enough?"
Xiao Fan suddenly leaned close to Xiao Yi Xian. "But I took what you said before seriously."
"W-Which words?"
"My man. You admitted it yourself."
"You!" Xiao Yi Xian stomped her foot in frustration. He had brought it up again and again. She had only