Seeing Du Yu's serious expression, Xie Yujiao felt a little uneasy herself.
"What could possibly need such a serious face?" Xie Yujiao smiled at Du Yu. "Is there anything the two of us can't talk about?"
Hearing her say that, Du Yu's brows furrowed slightly.
He had so many questions that he actually didn't know where to begin.
"Du Yu, are you listening?" Seeing no response from him, Xie Yujiao called out again.
"I am..." Du Yu came back to his senses, looked at Xie Yujiao, and slowly asked, "A'jiao, how... did you meet the Seventh Master and Eighth Master?"
Xie Yujiao froze briefly at his question, then immediately broke into a smile, as though a weight had been lifted from her shoulders.
"What are you laughing about?" Du Yu looked at her in confusion.
"Oh, Du Yu, how did you know they picked me up?"
Du Yu raised his brows, his heart instantly filling with questions.
The first was that Xie Yujiao wasn't actually Xie Bi'an's descendant. The second was that she didn't seem to want to hide it.
"Would you think differently of me because of who I am?" Xie Yujiao asked him.
"Of course not." Du Yu shook his head. "But I really am curious. If you weren't born into the Xie Household, who were you originally?"
"Originally?" Xie Yujiao gave a bitter smile and answered, "Originally, I could have been anyone-anyone except Xie Yujiao."
"I don't understand." Du Yu shook his head. "What do you mean, you could be anyone except Xie Yujiao?"
Rather than answer his question directly, Xie Yujiao led him aside to sit down, then asked, "Du Yu, do you believe there are people in this world who exist outside the six paths?"
"Outside the six paths?" Du Yu considered the question but