Ye Fan was now staring blankly at Fairy Xuan Xueqi; he still could not believe that she had known about his deception all this while…
Finally, he murmured weakly, "So you know all along…"
This was not a question but an answer.
Fairy Xuan Xueqi slowly nodded, "Not from the very start. I did a little investigation on your background."
Then she displayed a faint smile, "Do you think that I will accept a core protégé of dubious background?"
It was not hard for her to check on Ye Fan's background and to find out that he was also the top candidate for the protege examination 3 years ago.
Ye Fan said weakly, "You did. Yet you've accepted me as your core protégé despites knowing that I want to kill you?"
Fairy Xuan Xueqi asked softly, "Then, do you still want to kill me now?"
Ye Fan sighed heavily, "Not anymore."
Fairy Xuan Xueqi smiled, "Then you are still my core protégé."
Ye Fan was startled, "I can still be your core protégé? Why? What I want to do is wrong. It is heinous for me to take something from the celestial sect and moreover, I want to kill my protégé mistress."
There was a soft look that was displayed by Fairy Xuan Xueqi on him as she sighed softly, "What is wrong? And what is right? Is it wrong to like someone?"
Ye Fan was suddenly startled by her words; she likes him? He really can't understand her…
Fairy Xuan Xueqi giggled softly, "Don't misunderstood me. I don't mean I like you. I mean, I do like you as a person because you remind me of when I was younger. At that time, I was like you as well and was full of righteousness. But…"
She turned to look with soft melancholy upward, "But, I was too naïve like you. My lord father tells me that I am too stupid to be a cultivator."
Ye Fan: …
He began to say bitterly, "Your lord father isn't a good father. Everyone knows that you are a talented cultivator and a blessed daughter of the heavens."
Fairy Xuan Xueqi lowered her glances to the ground, "He says I am trash."
Ye Fan: …
He angrily said, "How can he say this to his very own daughter? High level cultivators don't have many children or even any children!"
Ye Fan had assumed that Fairy Xuan Xueqi's father should also be a high level cultivator as well.
Fairy Xuan Xueqi smiled weakly, "I am not the only daughter of my lord father. He has others through his harem too."
Ye Fan bitterly said, "He is really a horrible father. Just because he has other children, he exercises favoritism over them to you. A father shouldn't call his own daughter a trash…"
Fairy Xuan Xueqi cracked a cold chuckle, "Not really. He calls all his children trash too."
Ye Fan: …
This father is really too horrible.
He tried to comfort her, "But at least you have a mother consort that love you, right?"
Fairy Xuan Xueqi looked gently at Ye Fan as she smiled faintly, "Yeah. I have a loving mother consort that calls me trash as well."
Ye Fan: …
He really could not believe what he was actually hearing and he thought: Fairy Xuan Xueqi has such a broken family? Everyone is trash in her patriarch clan…
He was a little loss for words as he tried to comfort her, "Maybe your mother consort has a high expectation for you and that is why she is being harsh to you."
Fairy Xuan Xueqi rolled her golden eyes, "You really think so?"
Ye Fan slowly nodded, "I am an orphan but I think that most parents have some expectations from their children and may even compare their children to themselves. They may not really mean what they are saying…"
Fairy Xuan Xueqi interrupted him gently, "They are totally serious when they say that I am a trash when I can't meet their high expectations."
Ye Fan: …
He was totally speechless now.
Finally, he was forced to admit, "You don't have any good parents…"
But he was also curious to ask, "What kind of expectations did they have for a genius cultivator like you?"
Fairy Xuan Xueqi sighed softly, "They expect me to become a golden celestial before my 18th spring and I have to kill a 5th rank profound beast as well."
Ye Fan was completely stunned by this 'expectation'. It was really too high and impossible!
He said bitterly, "18th year of your spring? Are they insane? Even a genius cultivator normally needs 200 years to become a golden celestial and it is uncommon for cultivators to take 500 years or more to do so. How long did your father takes to become a golden celestial, if you pardon me for asking this."
Fairy Xuan Xueqi quietly answered him, "He took almost 300 years."
Ye Fan: …
He was expecting Fairy Xuan Xueqi's father to be a genius cultivator as well but this was not true at all. Her father could not even cultivate into a golden celestial by the 18th spring and he is expecting his daughter to become a golden celestial by the 18th spring? This expectation is really too 'high'.
Ye Fan tried to comfort Fairy Xuan Xueqi, "It is alright. No one can do that anyway. You are not trash in my eyes."
But he was curious to know, "Protégé mistress, how long does it take you to cultivate into a golden celestial?"
Fairy Xuan Xueqi sighed softly, "Summer of my 18th year."
Ye Fan: …
Ye Fan: …
Ye Fan: …
He was stunned; she is a true genius of the geniuses…
Is she trying to play a prank on him instead?!
If she is a trash then everyone else is also a trash.
Fairy Xuan Xueqi was suddenly smiling at him when she saw his stunned look.
Ye Fan began to frown; he had suddenly realized that he had been played by the Witch Xuan Xueqi again…