However, Lie Yan did not give him the answer he expected.
A rare look of bewilderment appeared on her lovely face. She gently shook her head and uttered, "I don't know."
"You don't know?"
Bai Qinchen's hand abruptly stopped stroking her long hair. His eyes filled with surprise as he asked, "Even a mighty God King like you doesn't know?"
"I really don't." Lie Yan nodded lightly and sighed softly. "The God of Time is the most mysterious and unfathomable being in this world. You could even call him an elusive phantom. No one knows his true appearance, no one knows where he actually is, and no one knows when or how he will appear. Even when he helped open the Gate of Time back then, he never revealed his true form. There was simply no way to tell whether he was male or female..."
Hearing this, Bai Qinchen's hand paused slightly. Raising a brow, he could not help muttering, "This fellow is that mysterious? He won't even show his face. Is he the God King, or are you?"
His roguish, disgruntled complaint made Lie Yan giggle.
She traced barely perceptible circles on Bai Qinchen's chest, her voice carrying a mixture of playful reproach and reassurance. "So you should give up on venturing into the future sooner rather than later. The future is Tang San's territory, and those waters run deep. Wouldn't it be better to behave yourself and stay here?"
Bai Qinchen caught her mischievous, delicate hand and brought it to his lips for a gentle kiss. Yet an unwilling sharpness remained in his eyes as he pressed, "You can't even meet him... but as God Kings who control the Divine Realm Hub, don't you have some special way of finding him yourselves?"
Lie Yan let him hold her