As for forming an alliance, I believe we will. If you ask me exactly when, all I can say is someday

"Your Highness..."

As Xu Shi pondered, Xu Jiangnian bowed slightly and addressed someone behind him.

Xu Shi shuddered in fright. These days, merely hearing that title filled him with fear from the bottom of his heart. He shrank behind his grandfather, cautiously poking his head out to look at Xu Cheng and the unfamiliar woman beside him.

"No need for formalities, Uncle Nian." Xu Cheng smiled warmly.

With his handsome face and smile as gentle as a spring breeze, no one would have associated him with the ruthless man who had stirred up towering waves with a mere turn of his hand.

But Xu Shi had experienced it firsthand. Looking at that gentle smile, he felt as though a vicious devil were faintly rising behind it.

"What brings Your Highness to me?" After a round of "pleasantries," Xu Jiangnian spoke first.

"I heard that Old Prince Baili lost a baby girl thirty years ago-your own younger sister. Is that true?" Xu Cheng asked with a smile.

"That did happen." Xu Jiangnian narrowed his eyes slightly. With his many years of experience in official circles, he naturally smelled something unusual in Xu Cheng bringing this up now.

Could it be... they had found her? Impossible. He had never stopped searching all these years, but it had been like fishing a needle out of the ocean. There were far too few clues, and too much time had passed. Many people had already died, severing those leads. Back then, his father had drawn on every connection he had throughout the Sun Moon Empire. Even the emperor of the time had supported the search, yet it had still yielded nothing...

Naturally, he had dearly loved the younger sister he had only spent a few months with. Perhaps his generation of the Xu Family all