If he could, Su Ping would have liked to keep researching Xiao Qing forever.
Developing the little fellow's potential was indeed a subject and project worth exploring to the bottom.
Unfortunately, in less than two years, he had already lost the privilege of shutting his ears to everything outside his window.
No matter what, in this world and this society, people still needed social interaction as the ties that connected them.
So, once the fourth day of the Lunar New Year had passed, he could ignore some visitors, but there was one arrival he had to have a proper conversation with.
After all, even if he disregarded everything else, he had to give Dong Muyun that consideration.
Indeed, the visitors were none other than the Dong Family's old patriarch and the Mirror Ancestor!
Of course, the Dong Family's old patriarch, Dong Muyun's grandfather, was merely an extra. The main visitor was the Mirror Ancestor.
Pets such as the Mirror Ancestor and the Snake Ancestor were called pets, but they had pledged allegiance to their respective Lineages back then. After so many years, they had long since become existences akin to ancestral patriarchs, representing their respective Lineages.
Naturally, they all knew about the earlier conversation with Lord Sacred Dragon. Aristocratic Lineages were not something that could simply be eradicated completely, because that was impossible.
Such was human nature: once people were connected by the bonds of blood, those ties would not be severed.
Under those circumstances, people naturally favored those related to them by blood, and over time, aristocratic Lineages would form.
Unless they could remain unmarried all their lives like Lord Sacred Dragon, but how many could manage that?
Su Ping did not know.
So, faced with the two before him, Su Ping showed no unusual expression and merely nodded