But before this, there had clearly been nothing of the sort!
Thinking back carefully over the origins of the bounty incident involving Qin Fangyang, the people involved included not only Qin Fangyang and Shen Yushu, but also Zuo Xiaoduo...
Zuo Xiaoduo?
He Yuanyue slowly shifted her gaze, letting it settle on Zuo Xiaoduo, who was looking at Qin Fangyang with envy and adoration written all over his face. The boy's expression fairly shouted, "You're so imposing, you're so badass, I wish I could be like that myself."
He Yuanyue froze.
This boy's aura-how...
But... how was this possible?
How could a dragon and a phoenix... share the same source?
She stared at Zuo Xiaoduo and Zuo Xiaonian, tongue-tied for a long while, before suddenly asking a seemingly inexplicable question. "Ling Nian, you... you and Xiao Duo aren't biological siblings, are you?"
Ling Nian?
Only upon hearing that name did Qin Fangyang suddenly realize. He turned to look at the girl, who seemed wreathed in ethereal, immortal grace even as she simply stood there. She was actually the legendary Spirit Thought Heavenly Maiden?
And the Spirit Thought Heavenly Maiden was actually Zuo Xiaoduo's older sister?
In other words, the sister with cerebral palsy Zuo Xiaoduo kept talking about?
Despite his exhaustion and the wounds covering his body, Qin Fangyang nearly failed to suppress the urge to burst out laughing.
Zuo Xiaonian's face instantly turned as red as a scarlet cloth. The fairy from the heavenly palace of a moment ago had become a bashful, embarrassed girl in an instant.
"Grandma He..."
"Just answer me, yes or no!" He Yuanyue had already guessed, but she still wanted a definite answer.
"Ahem..." Zuo Xiaonian lowered her head, her face crimson and her voice as faint as a mosquito's whine. "Yes, I... I'm my