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"We spoiled Zhantian into becoming the way he is. It's rare for him to have a friend like you."

Luo Zixi held Li Chen's hand, her face full of a gratified smile.

At that moment, she regarded Li Chen as a junior-her son's friend.

Yet that gesture of hers seemed rather intimate.

Li Chen did not particularly mind. The woman beside him was a mature beauty rarely seen.

Since she was so warm toward him, Li Chen followed her lead in the conversation, and the two seemed to grow closer and closer.

As they chatted, Li Chen learned a few little-known details about Jun Zhantian's past.

He could have learned all this by asking Xuan Ji, but he had never bothered to inquire. Now that Jun Zhantian's mother had told him herself, he understood him a little better.

When Jun Zhantian was born, his father was already absent. No one knew what he had gone off to do, and his father never explained, merely sending a few messages through voice transmission jade slips every few years.

From that alone, Li Chen could tell that this mature beauty must be terribly lonely.

To help Li Chen understand Jun Zhantian better, Luo Zixi began recounting little incidents from his childhood.

When he was little, he had wanted to befriend male disciples from other hidden Lineages, but his words were so arrogant that they thought he was provoking them, and fights broke out.

Over time, Jun Zhantian developed that haughty disposition.

Luo Zixi said all this only to help Li Chen understand that Jun Zhantian simply did not know how to speak to people. He was not actually all that terrible a person.

The reason she believed Li Chen was Jun Zhantian's friend was that she did not think Jun Zhantian would let