Time went back one hour.
Just coming to Little Chongyang Temple had already taken a great deal of courage for Zhong Xueran.
She had fled the Zhong Family not merely for the melodramatic reason that her family wanted her to hurry up, marry, and leave descendants, but also because of unpleasant memories dating back to childhood.
The Zhong Family was indeed a family of Daoists, but what ordinary people did not know was that the education Zhong Xueran had received since childhood had always been rather different.
When other children her age were looking at picture books, she had been looking at picture books too, except hers depicted all manner of bizarre Vengeful Ghosts.
How could a child possibly enjoy looking at those deformed, eerie things?
It was already remarkable that Zhong Xueran had not grown up into a lunatic or a pervert.
She also knew that all the Zhong Family's "treasures" were hidden in Little Chongyang Temple, but she had never gone to retrieve them.
After all, for a very long time, Zhong Xueran had felt that if she was destined from birth to enter the [Eye Realm], then this cursed bloodline might as well end with her generation.
She had no intention of marrying, much less having children.
Only recently, after what had happened to Xu Yi, had she gradually begun to change her views.
People did grow, but growth was a word that always came with pain.
Yet when she decided to return and retrieve her family's belongings, she discovered that not only was the temple no longer hers, but the belongings had long since been taken away too.
This Daoist Li was merely someone assigned here by the authorities.
After getting the name "Paleontology Research Association" from Daoist Li, Zhong Xueran took her leave.
The Paleontology