Xiao Yan called Huang Xiao "Brother Huang" outright here, no longer intending to have him keep posing as a guard.
Huang Xiao drew a deep breath, then stepped through the palace gates. Together with Xiao Yan, he passed through the main hall and went around to the inner hall.
Upon entering the inner hall, Huang Xiao looked toward the man and woman seated at its far end. The woman looked about thirty, dressed in a pale yellow court gown, graceful and regal.
The man was around forty. When Huang Xiao saw him, he froze, for the man looked so much like him-eighty percent alike, one could say. If not for the long scar on his right cheek marring his appearance, the resemblance would probably have been ninety percent.
Had anyone else been present, they would have been able to see the relationship between him and Huang Xiao.
"Xiao'er!" The woman called out upon seeing Huang Xiao enter, and in a flash, she was at his side.
She was Princess Longli of Khitan, the elder sister of the current Khitan emperor, Yelü Longxu: Yelü Yushi, known in the Jianghu as the Jade-Faced Rakshasa. Naturally, she was also Huang Xiao's birth mother.
Her eyes grew moist. Although she had already known that Huang Xiao was her son and had seen him before, she had not been in a position to acknowledge him then. She could only suppress a mother's longing.
Things were different now. Huang Xiao's identity could be considered common knowledge in the Jianghu, so she naturally no longer had anything to hold her back.
In all these years, she had never truly spoken with Huang Xiao or spent proper time with him.
Compared with Yelü Yushi, the Iron-Faced Asura, Ling Fan, looked much calmer. He was a man, after all.