Ye Qinglan murmured an assent. Faced with Ye Chuqi's cautious manner, his heart and eyes held nothing but tenderness and sorrow for her. If this child had not been lost, she would surely have grown up surrounded by her family's love. How could she ever have been so careful around him, afraid even to speak her mind?
"Oh..." Ye Chuqi rubbed her nose. She felt a little embarrassed calling Bai Fenghua her uncle in front of Ye Qinglan, as though she were claiming relatives who were not hers. "Uncle said there's a bloodline resonance between us, and that the resonance between you and me is even stronger..."
Ye Qinglan gently pressed a finger between Ye Chuqi's brows. "You don't need to be so formal with me." Only after smoothing away the tension between her brows did he breathe a sigh of relief. She was nervous, but so was he. Truthfully, this was the siblings' first conversation.
When the little girl had disappeared, she had been no more than a babbling infant in swaddling clothes.
Ye Chuqi murmured, "You don't have to feel like you owe me anything, either. I've had a pretty good life all these years..." Although she still did not know what was going on with this identity, her earliest memories after transmigrating were of being picked up by Eldest Senior Brother and brought back to Lush Mountain. Cultivation was hard and sometimes very boring, and Eldest Senior Brother was strict, but one look at her now was enough to show that she had been well cared for. Not to mention San San, who had stayed by her through all her hardest moments, never abandoning her.
"I really have been doing well." Ye Chuqi looked up into Ye Qinglan's dark gray eyes, which seemed to hold an unfathomable