"Stop! Don't touch the thousand-year fire turtle. It isn't yours." Bai Yunfei leaped down from the back of Immortal Crane Lingyu. Looking at the woman before her, she inexplicably felt something familiar about her features, as though she had seen her somewhere before.
Seeing Bai Yunfei descend from the crane's back, Lan Xiaodie asked directly, "Where is Lan Haiping?"
Bai Yunfei asked, "You know my master? Who are you?"
"My name is Lan Xiaodie!"
Bai Yunfei was astonished. "You're Junior Sister Xiaodie? Master misses you and your mother very much. Where have you been all these years?"
Although her master had never told her about these matters, more than once she had heard him murmuring about his wife and daughter when he was alone.
Lan Xiaodie sneered. "He misses us? If he missed us, would he have abandoned my mother and me?"
If Lan Haiping truly missed them, wouldn't he have searched for them all these years?
Her mother had had to look after her while evading pursuit by the Great Ming Court. Once, her mother had also been a wealthy young lady whose fingers had never touched dishwater.
Yet to raise her, she had done nothing but rough labor.
Later, they had heard that her maternal grandfather's entire family had been executed because of their connection to Lan Haiping. Grief and worry had made her mother ill, her health declining by the day, until she passed away several years ago.
After that, Lan Xiaodie had searched for Lan Haiping, wanting to find the heartless man who had abandoned his wife and daughter and take revenge.
She did not know why word of the Origin Returning Manual had suddenly spread through the Jianghu, but once she heard, she had sought out the Heavenly Dragon Gang to cooperate with them, hoping