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This time, Mu Xuanche's plan was thorough; no one expected that coming to this graveyard would feel so impulsive. How could he have discovered it and brought someone along? It all felt off.
Mu Xuanche pulled me aside and walked up to Chuchen. "Is what you promised me ready?" he asked.
"It depends on whether the Island Master can hand over the item. The leader guaranteed that he would release the person," Chuchen replied. After finishing his sentence, he reached into his pocket and handed over the cloth bag that had just contained the Crystal Heart.
I wanted to stop him; we had gone through so much to obtain this item. There was no way we could easily give it to Chuchen for him to take back to the leader.
But the big man held me back, signaling with his eyes that the Island Master could handle this situation.
After receiving the Crystal Heart from Mu Xuanche and confirming that everything was in order, Chuchen took out his phone and said two words into it.
"Release them."
After giving his orders, Chuchen spoke with Mu Xuanche for a moment before leaving with his people.
As he turned to glance at me while departing, I couldn't decipher the meaning in his eyes.
While I pondered what that look meant, I felt an increasing chill in the air, and I slowly sensed something was wrong.
When I looked up, Mu Xuanche's face had darkened completely.
Realizing that I had stirred up trouble again, I quickly tried to change the subject to divert his attention.
"Husband, who did you just release?"
"I don't know," he replied coldly with those three words before walking ahead alone.
"This..."
I turned around, wanting to find the Big Guy to deal with him together, but he simply looked up without acknowledging me.
I shifted my focus to the Dirt Expert instead. That guy was even better; he was squatting on the ground, packing his things and ignoring me.
Angered, I rushed forward alone.
My husband is so outstanding; if I don't catch up, what if he gets taken away?
...
Aside from the forest, we bid farewell to the Dirt Expert and hurried back to H City.
I didn't understand why Mu Xuanche was in such a rush to return to the island, almost without a moment's pause.
As soon as we got off the plane, we jumped into a car. After getting out, we rushed onto a boat, and instead of taking the ferry, we took a speedboat directly.
Upon arriving at the island, he pulled me along as we dashed forward.
We only stopped in front of the wooden cabin, where he pointed at it and said to me, "Go inside and take a look."
Noticing that his expression was a bit off, I immediately pushed open the door. When I saw the people inside, I stood there in shock.
Until someone called out my name, "Yan Xi," I finally snapped back to reality and rushed over, collapsing into their arms and crying uncontrollably.
How many times in my midnight dreams had I longed for such a scene?
I lay in my mother's embrace, holding her waist, with my father beside me.
I never expected this to come true so suddenly. I could hardly believe it.
I whispered for my parents, and they were both in tears, embracing each other tightly. I almost forgot there was someone else outside.
When I finally released my parents and turned around, Mu Xuanche was no longer outside.
Thinking back to earlier, when Mu Xuanche had offered the hard-earned Crystal Heart to the Cult of Spirits, it dawned on me that the Cult had promised to release someone—my parents.
He had been silently doing so much for me without my knowledge, and I had even resented him for rushing us back.
It turned out that this man, who had desperately brought me back, only wanted me to see my parents as soon as possible.
The cold and taciturn man simply wanted to love me in his own way.
"Yan Xi, are you okay?"
Perhaps noticing that I hadn’t spoken for a while, my mother asked with concern.
"I'm fine, Mom. What happened to you? Did you suffer?"
I asked anxiously, fidgeting with my mother's clothes, afraid of seeing something bad.
My mother smiled gently and replied softly, "We're fine. Your dad and I are okay. We don't really know what happened; they just suddenly let us go. Although we were imprisoned, they didn't mistreat us. We were just worried about you doing something foolish for our sake."
I told my parents about how Mu Xuanche saved them. Since we were married now, he was technically their son-in-law. However, I still hadn’t dared to reveal his identity as the Island Master.
There was one thing that particularly puzzled me, and that was Liu Qingfeng. I never thought of Liu Qingfeng as a bad person; he had always been kind to me. How could he suddenly kidnap my parents?
I shared my confusion with my parents, and they told me that it wasn't fair to blame Liu Qingfeng. He was also in a difficult position.
As for the reasons behind his actions, my parents didn't know either. They only knew that Liu Qingfeng had put in a lot of effort to protect his own life.
I couldn't understand why, but I just couldn't bring myself to hate Liu Qingfeng. Even knowing that my parents' troubles were related to him, I found it impossible to dislike him.
It was similar to how I felt about Shangguan Mingyue. Although I knew she had harmed me in the past, I still regarded her as a good sister.
That evening, someone returned, filling Qilin Island with joy.
No, it should be said that two people returned.
He couldn't walk; Bai Qiling had carried him back.
I showed my parents Chang'an, and they immediately teared up.
They had originally thought I was in a ghost marriage and would never be able to marry a normal person or even have the right to be a mother.
They never expected that I would give birth to Chang'an, and that he would be so healthy and adorable.
The two elders were completely enamored with Chang'an, taking turns to hold him with immense joy. They watched the big man beside them with envy.
My mother held Chang'an in the house while I quietly called my father outside. I had something to ask him.
Once we were out of everyone's sight, my father spoke softly, "What do you want to ask me?"
In my heart, my father had always been a simple man—naive and not very shrewd. His personality was particularly gentle, which complemented my mother's fiery temper perfectly.
But at this moment, I felt something different. I finally understood why my father spoke of the Six-Fingered Man with such pride; it was because I now saw a wise side in this man.
In front of intelligent people, there is no need for roundabout words. "Dad, have you heard of Qin Wang's Tomb?"
"You Ying Ziying," he tilted his head, frowning at me.
"Dad, you know, so hurry up and tell me."
"When my Pinky had not yet been severed, your grandfather once had me decipher a mechanism that contained a key. I assume you have obtained that key by now."
The key to unlock the Crystal Heart was actually given to me by my father, and I was shocked once again.
I fell silent and continued to listen to my dad.
"Yan Xi, if you want to find Qin Wang's Tomb, I advise you not to go. That is a place even your grandfather dared not touch. All we old folks want is for you to be safe."
I lowered my head in silence because I understood what my father meant; it was concerning that I still made him worry at my age.
His hand rested heavily on my head, gently stroking it with a rhythm that came and went.
"That place is too dangerous, Yan Xi. Do you believe there are dragons in this world?"
"Dragons?"
I looked up at my father in confusion, not understanding his meaning.
"Yes, dragons—those ancient beings that have been part of Chinese lore for five thousand years but have never been seen or spoken of by anyone."
As I watched my father speak with such reverence and longing about this, I couldn't grasp how dragons related to the question I had asked.
Later, Father revealed the Mystery that there was indeed a connection between the Dragon and Qin Wang's Tomb.
Everyone knows that Emperor Qin Shi Huang had been seeking methods for Eternal Life, not knowing how many resources and lives he had wasted in the process.
Once, he sent out a master to search for the Eternal Life elixir, who discovered a dying true dragon in a vast Gorge deep within the mountains.
This master was Liu Daoxiong, a renowned Talent Diviner and a leading figure of his time.
His knowledge was profound; he understood that dragons truly existed in the world, but only one could exist at a time.
Only when the Old Dragon perished could a new dragon be reborn.
Realizing this secret, he dared not tell Emperor Qin Shi Huang. Although dragons did not possess the ability for Eternal Life, once the emperor learned of this dragon, he would surely not let it go.
Thus, he devised a plan...
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