When Bai Zongyu heard from the Family that his son wanted him to come to the Dueling Arena, he froze for a long moment. What did his son want him there for...?
With his level-three skills, surely he couldn't be expected to get up there and fight?
Had his son found someone promising, then? Even if he had, the Bai Family wouldn't get first pick. His son was still too naive. He carried far more weight than Bai Zongyu did; Bai Zongyu was Family head in name only...
He turned to look at his wife by the window. She was still sitting there in a daze.
Ever since their eldest daughter had gone missing, his wife had suffered from mental health problems.
Fortunately, their son had proved himself after the apocalypse, and the Family members were loyal. Otherwise, people as helpless as him and his wife might well have been eliminated during the first mass migration.
"Wan'er, I'll be right back. Will you be all right on your own for a little while?" Bai Zongyu looked at his wife tenderly.
Sadly... his wife didn't react at all. She either looked down and picked at her fingers or stared vacantly out the window.
When Bai Zongyu reached the Dueling Arena, he found it unusually lively. Everyone had crowded around the platform in the middle, bursting into cheers every few moments. They were packed so tightly that he couldn't squeeze through.
Through the crowd, he caught a glimpse of the girl fighting on the platform.
His heart felt as though it were suffocating, and he forgot how to breathe. This... this girl looked so much like Wan'er...
Not just similar-she looked almost exactly like Wan'er in her youth!
A sudden surge of hope welled up inside him!
It wasn't as though they