"Where is my great-granddaughter?" Kong Deming looked venomously at the Shrek people and said, "Where is my great-granddaughter? Hand her over."
Yan Shaozhe craned his neck and said, "Kong Deming, Shrek has no great-granddaughter of yours. Shrek has never collaborated with the Holy Spirit Cult."
At this point, the only thing Yan Shaozhe could do was deny it to the death.
Zhang Lexuan, the central figure in this matter, was the next-generation leader Shrek Academy Elder Mu had placed his hopes in. Not yet thirty, she already possessed the cultivation of a Soul Douluo, with a hundred-thousand-year eighth soul ring. She was a genius with the potential to reach the rank of Limit Douluo in the future.
There was no way Shrek could hand her over.
What was more, once the truth came out, Zhang Lexuan—Shrek's genius and Shrek's future—would become Shrek's mortal enemy. That was a loss Shrek could not bear.
"I think... I am that orphaned daughter of the Zhang family."
From the corner, the central figure who had remained silent all this time finally spoke.
Bei Bei looked over. It was Zhang Lexuan.
Her face was covered in blood and tears, her eyes scarlet red.
She rose to her feet and walked toward Kong Deming.
"Senior Sister, don't go over there..." Bei Bei opened his mouth, wanting to stop Zhang Lexuan.
Yet this time, the senior sister who had once doted on him so deeply, obeyed his every word, and put him first in all things no longer had him in her eyes.
Zhang Lexuan stood before Kong Deming.
Kong Deming looked at Zhang Lexuan as well. Upon seeing her face, it was as though he saw his own little granddaughter. He fell into a daze and said in a trembling voice, "Child, what is your name?