Chapter 158 Xun'er: Xiao Yan's Cousin
"Taken away by a mysterious man?" Upon hearing this, Xiao Se was stunned for a moment, then said in surprise.
"After that, I searched for more than ten years, but I couldn't find my sister again. I don't know whether she is alive or dead." Medusa nodded slightly. She wiped the tears from her eyes and looked at Xiao Se again, with a strange look in her eyes.
Noticing the strange look in Medusa's eyes, Xiao Se's mouth twitched, and he asked weakly, "You don't suspect that the person who took your sister away was me, right?"
Medusa nodded first, then shook her head. "Whether it's you or not, you are very mysterious and seem to be hiding a lot of secrets. I won't ask anything from you. I just hope that if you can go back to the past one day, I hope you can save my sister like you saved Bibi Dong."
"I also have a younger sister. Fate is cruel, but it is not unchanging. If I could go back to the past, I would save your sister even if I had to die." Xiao Se responded solemnly.
Medusa's sister Die had to be said to be a tragedy. Because of the corrupt family rules, she sacrificed her life to protect her relatives. If he could really go back to the past, even if Medusa didn't say so, he would not stand by and watch her die.
In a quiet and dim room in the Xiao family of Wutan City.
On the bed, Xiao Yan sat cross-legged with his eyes closed, holding a strange hand seal for cultivating fighting spirit. His chest rose and fell, and with each breath, a light white airflow flowed into his body through his mouth and nose, nourishing his bones and meridians.
Just when Xiao Yan had extracted a trace of fighting spirit and was about to refine it, the ancient black ring on his finger suddenly flickered, and then fell silent.
His fighting spirit disappeared before it could be refined.
"Damn it. Why, why did the fighting spirit that I refined with great difficulty disappear again? Did I come to this world just to be a waste?"
Feeling the fighting spirit disappearing from his body again, Xiao Yan cursed angrily. He clenched his fists tightly, and because of too much force, the joints between his fingers turned white.
After a moment, Xiao Yan laughed at himself. He got out of bed exhausted. He stretched out his limbs which were numb from sitting for too long. (ps: Some netizens said that after sitting for a long time, the fifth limbs would occasionally feel numb. I don't know if it's true or not.) After
simply stretching out his limbs, an old and respectful voice sounded outside the room: "Master Xiao Yan, the clan leader invites you to the hall. A distinguished guest has arrived."
"Oh." Outside the door was the Xiao family's housekeeper, who was a direct descendant of Xiao Zhan's father. Xiao Yan responded casually and followed him without paying too much attention.
Not long after, under the guidance of the owner of the old voice, he arrived at the Xiao family's meeting hall.
It was slightly different from the usual clan meetings. There were two more seats on the top right side of the hall. Sitting on them was an old man in a moon-white robe. The old man had white hair and a childlike face, and a big smile on his face. On the chest of his robe was a silver moon painted, and below the silver moon were seven shining stars.
This represents the old man's strength: a seven-star great fighter.
Next to the old man sat a young girl with snow-white skin, a delicate and slender figure, and a beautiful appearance that made many of the Xiao family disciples in the hall look at her like pigs.
"Father, three elders." Xiao Yan bowed respectfully.
Seeing his son coming, Xiao Zhan was all smiles, waved his hand, and said with a smile: "Yan'er is here, please sit down."
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"Yes." Xiao Yan nodded slightly, and looked over, only to find that the seat he usually sat in during the clan meeting had been moved away. He cursed in his heart, "Those old guys are actually planning to embarrass me in front of outsiders."
Then he glanced around the hall and saw an empty chair in another corner. Sitting next to the chair was Xiao Xun'er.
At this moment, she was reading an ancient book carefully, just like she did in the usual clan meetings.
"Xun'er?" Looking at Xun'er sitting next to her empty seat, Xiao Yan felt a warm current in his heart. After all, he had never communicated with this beautiful girl since the secret of his talent disappeared. Now, not only did she not despise him, she even left an empty seat for him.
Immediately, under the stunned gazes of everyone in the room, Xiao Yan smiled and walked towards the empty seat next to Xun'er.
"Second brother, what's going on?" The eldest elder of the Xiao family asked the second elder beside him in a low voice. In their plan, they wanted to embarrass Xiao Yan today to undermine Xiao Zhan's prestige in the Xiao family.
The second elder smiled bitterly and shook his head, saying helplessly: "That is Xiao Se's seat. Considering that he has left the Xiao family to gain experience, I didn't plan to prepare it. But Miss Xun'er doesn't allow others to withdraw, so I can't force it."
Since Xiao Se returned to the Xiao family a year ago and defeated Xiao Ning with one move, he gained considerable fame in the Xiao family. However, with his departure again, he was gradually forgotten again.
Xiao Se could ignore it, but when the elder heard Xun'er, he suddenly became depressed. He glanced at Xiao Zhan, snorted, and muttered in his heart: "Humph! He is lucky."
On the other side, Xiao Yan had already sat down in the empty seat.
Xun'er, who was reading a book, frowned when she noticed that someone had taken Xiao Se's seat. She was about to ask the person to leave when she heard Xiao Yan's familiar voice: "Xun'er, thank you for helping me out."
Hearing that it was Xiao Yan, Xun'er's brows relaxed a little. She still had a good impression of this only partner who had grown up with her and suddenly turned from a genius into a loser. Of course, it was not a romantic relationship.
"It's just a coincidence, Cousin Xiao Yan." Originally, he wanted to call Xiao Yan brother, but considering that both of them have grown up and are no longer children, plus the increasingly lingering familiar figure in his mind, after hesitating for a moment, he chose to call Xiao Yan cousin.
"Cousin Xiao Yan? It seems that Xun'er has a lot of resentment in her heart because I ignored her in the past two years!" Looking at the girl's smooth profile with a slightly frowned brow, Xiao Yan smiled bitterly and shook his head, then laughed dryly: "I'm sorry, Xun'er, I didn't pay much attention to you in the past two years."
"Cousin Xiao Yan is right." Xun'er nodded slightly and said calmly. Except for the love for the person she likes and the affection for her father, in Xun'er's heart, any feelings will fade with the passage of time. Because of this, when Xiao Yan's talent disappeared, she tried to save this hard-won friendship. Unfortunately, she failed. Now, unknowingly, Xiao Yan has begun to become a passerby in her heart.
"Hehe." Xun'er's awkward answer caught Xiao Yan off guard. He laughed awkwardly twice and then stopped talking.
ps: Here is the belated third update.
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