"Could you two be childhood sweethearts?"
Gu Yuan asked with a strange expression from within Chen Xiao's sea of consciousness.
"How did you know?"
Though Chen Xiao was reluctant to part with the girl, he still spared a brief moment to communicate with Gu Yuan.
A trace of doubt rose in his heart.
Could this old man have read his memories from inside his sea of consciousness?
That didn't seem right. Why hadn't he felt anything at all?
Chen Xiao was puzzled, while Gu Yuan gave him another careful look.
His choice of Chen Xiao had been an accident to begin with.
He had accidentally arrived in this world and accidentally encountered the other awakening.
But would an ordinary person ever catch his eye?
At the very least, they had to be extraordinarily lucky.
Gu Yuan fell into thought.
In truth, he had noticed long ago that anyone he had possessed, or paid special attention to, never turned out to be ordinary in the end.
Was it because of him?
Or was it because they themselves had been blessed with exceptional fortune?
Gu Yuan did not know.
At least in the current situation, he truly could not tell.
But one thing he could be certain of was that Chen Xiao did not seem so simple either.
"Miss, it's time to go."
"If we don't leave now, the master will get angry."
Seeing their young miss like this, the burly man beside her reminded her.
As he spoke, he repeatedly glanced at Chen Xiao, his gaze seeming to carry a warning.
The two men stood on either side of her, their auras exerting a peculiar pressure.
"I'll come find you. I definitely will, Ning'er. Wait for me."
Chen Xiao looked at the girl before him with a resolute expression and solemnly