"I didn't expect her to say that." Meng Chuan had already sent the woman beside him away, but whenever he thought of what Ruthless had said before leaving, he found it strangely wondrous.
Before Meng Chuan sent Ruthless away, she had said, "Sorry to trouble you with my Dao Fruit."
That meant she had agreed outright to let their Dao Fruits be together!
"But is she leaving an orphan in my care...?" Meng Chuan wondered. He turned his gaze toward the Big Dipper in the Real Universe and started a livestream. Watching Xiao Nannan serve tea in A Certain Tea House with her hair tied in a ponytail, his eyes filled with tenderness.
Xiao Nannan's cheeks were rosy now. Dressed in brand-new clothes and shoes, she brimmed with energy and smiled all the time.
Everyone who came to the Teahouse liked Xiao Nannan. They spoke softly to her, afraid of startling the little girl who had known such hardship.
He watched Xiao Nannan finish serving tea, then skip down an aisle without customers to Tai's side. She took Tai's hand and asked whether she had done a good job and helped him.
Meng Chuan's heart nearly melted. How could anyone in the world be so adorable?
"She isn't leaving an orphan in my care. She's left me an angel."
Not much time had passed since Tai opened his Teahouse in the Mortal Realm.
True, the two Chat Groups had gone through a second major clash, and Meng Chuan had returned with a battered body. But he had watched most of the fighting through the livestream and only appeared briefly near the end.
The difference in the flow of time had not been especially outrageous. Only a few months had passed in Shrouding the Heavens.
All right, that was still outrageous,