Just then, there was a sudden knock on the door.
The twin younger sisters ran in excitedly.
"Big Brother!"
"Did you see it?!"
"It's that big brother!"
"So he's Xiling Star's new master!"
"And he even avenged us!"
At the word "avenge,"
Ning Bailian's body jolted as he looked at his two sisters in disbelief.
One of the little girls tried hard to force a smile, but tears kept swirling in her eyes.
"Actually..."
"We already knew Dad wasn't coming back."
The other little girl lowered her head as well, her eyes red around the rims. "We just never dared to say it."
Ning Bailian was silent for a long while before slowly crouching down and pulling his sisters into his arms.
Yet the little girls quickly smiled again.
"Big Brother!"
"Once you awaken your Divine Kingdom in the future,"
"We'll be able to go home again!"
"Then, just like Dad!"
"We can open a private weapon shop in the Virtual Mall!"
"That's right, that's right!"
The other little girl said indignantly,
"But, Big Brother, you can't be like Dad."
"He always liked giving those students discounts."
"Lots of them were big liars pretending to be miserable!"
"Exactly!"
"One time, he even gave a discount of two hundred thousand Faith Points!"
"Our family's meals were so much worse that month because of it!"
Listening to his sisters chatter away,
Ning Bailian finally could not help but laugh.
Then he gently held them tighter.
"I'll definitely let us live good lives again," Ning Bailian said seriously.
Yet in his heart, he silently added,
If I ever get the chance...
I must repay Lord Yang Fan.
Meanwhile, as he listened to the increasingly outrageous promotional video playing in the sky,
Yang Fan's mouth twitched.
So he had...
Been handed Xiling Star's