What was Ruthless's name? It was a mystery no one had solved throughout the Eternal Ages.
Meng Chuan had never asked, and Ruthless had never said.
In fact, Meng Chuan had once paid special attention to the matter while looking back through history, but he had found no answer.
It was not that Ruthless could hide her past from him. He had found no answer because Ruthless had never had a name.
When she was little, both her parents died, leaving her and her brother to depend on each other. She had no name then.
She called herself Nannan, as did her brother and everyone in their village. It was simply an affectionate way to address a little child.
For a girl of only a few years to have no name of her own was perfectly normal in a remote mountain village on ancient Beidou.
A flourishing cultivation civilization did not mean life at the very bottom of society was equally advanced.
On the contrary, it could be even more backward and savage.
Had everything gone as it should, Ruthless would naturally have received a name when she grew a little older.
Unfortunately, everyone knew what happened next.
After her brother died, she wandered from place to place. At first, she still called herself Nannan.
But after enduring too many contemptuous looks and too much bullying, her temperament began to take its present shape. Even if she had given herself a name in her heart, she would never have told anyone.
For Meng Chuan to see something by looking back through history, that thing had to exist in history.
Ruthless had never had a name. Where was he supposed to find it?
He could have changed history and made up a name for her, but he chose not to.
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