The Sun Moon Imperial Academy.
Inside an office.
Zhang Lexuan sat on the sofa, her expression composed, occasionally glancing at Xu Cheng opposite her.
After a long while, her red lips parted hesitantly. "You asked me here..."
"Do you know why I call you Auntie?" Xu Cheng took a small sip of tea, his expression complicated.
Zhang Lexuan trembled all over and swallowed, her beautiful eyes fixed intently on him.
If Xu Cheng had merely called her Auntie, she could have attributed it to her appearance. But Martial Soul Fusion could not be faked. Generally, only blood relatives or lovers who were truly a match made in heaven could achieve it.
That made the answer rather clear.
These past few days, she had deliberately stopped herself from thinking along those lines. Today, however, it seemed she could no longer avoid it...
"..."
Zhang Lexuan seemed to resist through silence.
Xu Cheng paid it no mind and said softly, "I call you Auntie because you look exactly like my younger aunt. Her martial soul was also the moon..."
"Could I meet her?" Zhang Lexuan asked after a moment's consideration.
"She's already dead." Xu Cheng set down his teacup and studied the gentle beauty before him.
The aunt he spoke of was not an immediate blood relative, but a prince's daughter. She belonged to a collateral branch rather than his father Xu Baili's line. Still, he had met her once at a palace gathering when he was young. Coincidentally, her features bore a sixty or seventy percent resemblance to Zhang Lexuan's.
He had not been close to this so-called aunt and had barely exchanged a few words with her. That hardly stopped him from using her to draw closer to Zhang Lexuan.
"I'm sorry..." Zhang Lexuan hurriedly waved her hands in apology,