"Junior Sister Lin, what are you..."
Lin Ke froze.
Wait, why had this battle maniac stayed behind?
"What's wrong with me?" Seeing Lin Ke staring at her cheeks, Lin Quan-meng touched her face. "There's nothing on my face, is there? I don't like wearing rouge. A little redness is normal. Maybe it's from the sun."
Lin Ke: "?"
"Aren't you leaving with Supreme Elder Hua?" Lin Ke couldn't help laughing. "It's pretty dull and boring here."
If she was here to help, he naturally welcomed her.
But ever since he had met Lin Quan-meng, she had made no attempt to hide her desire to fight him.
Wasn't staying behind just asking for trouble?
"Why would I leave?" Lin Quan-meng gave Lin Ke an exceedingly strange look. "I'm your child bride. Why should I leave?"
That single sentence struck both Lin Ke and Chang Qing dumb.
"...I'll go outside and check the formation foundations." Chang Qing stood and bolted out the door as though fleeing for his life.
Only Lin Ke and Lin Quan-meng remained.
"Junior Sister Lin, what do you mean by that..." Lin Ke frowned.
Who actually called herself a child bride?
To his surprise, Lin Quan-meng's eyes instantly filled with tears. "You really don't remember?"
"Father and Mother raised me. To put it bluntly, I was your child bride, but they always treated me like their daughter. If those bandits hadn't taken me away back then..."
Lin Quan-meng began telling her story in broken snatches.
And through her account, combined with the original owner's memories, Lin Ke finally understood the whole story.
Back when "Lin Ke" was still little, his parents had spotted an abandoned infant floating downstream and rescued her from the river.
The baby was a girl, and that was why she had been abandoned.
Lin