In the simply decorated living room, He Yun was sitting on the sofa, looking rather anxious. From time to time, she would glance at the clock hanging on the wall.
It was already past midnight, yet Qin Xuan hadn't come back yet.
"What on earth is Xiao Xuan doing?"
"Sis, he's already grown up. He should have his own space," said a girl beside He Yun. She looked seven-tenths similar to He Yun, but her face was full of childishness. However, her small face was cold, and so was her tone of speaking.
"He Yu, can't you just say less?" Because of her anxiety, He Yun's tone carried a bit of blame for a moment. "Sister Xiu asked us to take care of Xiao Xuan. If something happened to him, how could we explain it to Sister Xiu?"
He Yu lowered her eyes. Hearing her sister's blame, she felt even more dissatisfied in her heart and even had a trace of resentment towards Qin Xuan.
Since Qin Xuan came, He Yun had cared more about Qin Xuan than about her. Although she didn't admit it, He Yu felt like she had lost her favored position in her sister's heart. So she had never liked Qin Xuan.
The sound of the door opening slightly rang out, and the two sisters looked towards the door at the same time.
"Xiao Xuan!" He Yun was overjoyed when she saw the figure at the door.
However, He Yu snorted coldly and stood up, saying, "Sis, I'm going back to bed. I still have to review for my studies tomorrow."
Looking at the figures of the two sisters, Qin Xuan couldn't help but feel a sense of melancholy as the distant memories came flooding back, and a thousand emotions welled up in his heart.
"I'm back!" Qin Xuan felt a warm feeling in his heart involuntarily, along with a tinge of sadness.
Could it be that not only had his cultivation disappeared, but his Dao Heart was gone as well?
Qin Xuan thought stubbornly in his heart, unwilling to admit it. But looking at He Yun's familiar figure, he couldn't help but feel his eyes turn a little red.
He Yun immediately ran over and hugged Qin Xuan in her arms, saying, "What have you been doing? Not coming back so late, you're going to worry your auntie to death!"
"He Yun, I'm already so old. Why do you still treat me like a child?" Qin Xuan struggled to break free in a bit of a fluster, his face turning slightly red.
Seeing that Qin Xuan was okay, He Yun finally felt relieved. Seeing Qin Xuan's shy look, she couldn't help but cover her mouth and laugh. "Oh, you're even shy! Well, Xiao Xuan has grown up now. You think your auntie is old and embarrassing, huh?"
Facing He Yun's teasing, Qin Xuan couldn't help but roll his eyes.
In the past, he always disliked He Yun treating him like a child, but now it made his heart feel warm. This was a feeling he hadn't had since he stepped into the world of cultivation.
He Yun took Qin Xuan's arm and walked to the front of the sofa. She cleared her throat and said in a tone like parents scolding their children, "Tell me, what were you doing out so late?"
Although He Yun was trying to imitate that scolding tone, she couldn't help but show a smile in her eyes, especially when she saw Qin Xuan looking embarrassed.
In the past, Qin Xuan would definitely have said nothing and just run back to his room.
"I just went out for a walk and took a look at the scenery in Jing Shui City," Qin Xuan said softly, looking straight into He Yun's eyes that were like autumn waters. "I'm sorry for making you worry."
He Yun couldn't help but be stunned. Looking at Qin Xuan, who was acting out of character, she was a bit dazed.
"No, it's okay..." He Yun was a bit flustered. After being in contact with Qin Xuan for three years, it was the first time she had heard him apologize.
"It's late at night. He Yun, you should go to bed early," Qin Xuan said with a gentle smile and then turned around and walked towards his room.
When did Xiao Xuan learn to apologize?
He Yun quickly came to her senses and wondered in her heart, "You came back so late. Didn't you go to see your girlfriend?"
Qin Xuan just raised his hand and waved it, and then with a bang, he closed the door.
"Could Xiao Xuan really be in a relationship? Well, it's quite normal at his age," He Yun muttered to herself. Remembering the firm body when she hugged Qin Xuan just now, her pretty face couldn't help but feel a bit hot for a moment. "It seems he's really grown up."
Back in his room, Qin Xuan gently stroked the desk that had been with him for three years, and couldn't help but show a faint smile.
He opened the second drawer on the right under the desk, and a photo in a wooden frame came into his sight.
In the photo, there was a man, a woman, and a thirteen- or fourteen-year-old boy. The family of three was having a happy time by the Mingxin Lake.
Qin Xuan couldn't help but recall the memories of his previous life. His father, Qin Wende, was from the Qin family in Jinling. Later, he fell in love with Qin Xuan's mother, Shen Xinxiu. And then he refused the arranged marriage by the family and had a big quarrel with the family. Not only that, he publicly got the marriage certificate and put it in front of his father, that is, Qin Xuan's grandfather, to let him witness it. It almost made Old Master Qin have a relapse of his old illness.
Since then, Qin Wende took Shen Xinxiu and left the capital city and went to live in Jing Shui City alone. And Qin Xuan's mother, Shen Xinxiu, was an outstanding student in the finance department. Besides, Qin Wende was also unwilling to live an ordinary life. When Qin Xuan was fourteen years old, the two of them had already decided to go to other places to start a business. They had been away for three years and never came back.
However, Qin Xuan knew that within these three short years, his parents had struggled hard outside. One had created a business legend from scratch and accumulated hundreds of millions of assets. The other had become an underground leader in many places in the south of the Yangtze River. But at that time, Qin Xuan didn't know anything about it at all.
In his heart at that time, he thought that his parents had abandoned him and entrusted him to others. So he had deep resentment in his heart. He even put this photo in the drawer and let it gather dust. He never answered his parents' phone calls. He only got a little news from He Yun that his parents were working hard outside to start a business and were doing quite well...
He was just in his adolescence at that time, full of the stubbornness of a young man.
Thinking of his past behavior, Qin Xuan felt endless shame in his heart.
"Dad, Mom, I will never let you down!" Qin Xuan murmured softly. Suddenly, his eyes became extremely sharp, with a cold light flashing in them. "Chen Zixiao, in my previous life, you made my family broken and people dead. You didn't even leave me a chance to take revenge. Did you ever think that I, Qin Xuan, would come back?"
The Chen family, Chen Zixiao!
In Qin Xuan's eyes in his previous life, they were an existence he couldn't reach. After he offended Chen Zixiao, within just three days, the Chen family had wiped out all the achievements of his parents' three years of hard work.
His mother's enterprise went bankrupt, his father's power was divided up and swallowed, and they didn't even leave a chance to turn things around. They were completely left with nothing.
Qin Xuan secretly clenched his fists and lowered his head slightly.
He hated that he had been so young and reckless, not understanding the ways of the world.
He hated that his parents' three years of hard work had been destroyed because of his momentary anger.
He hated that the Qin family had just stood by and watched the Chen family destroy his parents' foundation without doing anything. Even at his parents' funeral in the end, not a single person from the Qin family showed up. Instead, they left a document expelling his father from the Qin family.
But... so what?
This time, he, Qin Xuan, he, Qin Changqing, was back. How could the Chen family and the Qin family be in his eyes? The humiliations he had suffered in the past, he would take them back one by one. The enemies who had once tried to send him to hell, he would slay them one by one with his sword.
"In this life, I, Qin Changqing, will leave no regrets!"
Qin Xuan suddenly raised his head. A sense of the emperor's might that ruled over the world surged in the room. He secretly swore an oath.
He, the Green Emperor, Qin Changqing, would eventually tread this prosperous city underfoot.