NOVPUBShen Roujia thought to herself that this was bad and scratched her head. “I was very young back then…”
The more she thought about it, the more it didn’t make sense. Yes, she was very young. So, what was going on with the Hidden Pavilion?
Xiao Sinian interrupted with a stern face, “Gu Zhi, I already told you it wasn’t like that!”
Gu Zhi remained silent, her face cold.
Xiao Sinian sighed.
“That year in Huizhou, she was injured and forgot everything. It was hard enough for her to find her parents, and then her whole family fell into a dire situation.”
“At that time, Shen Hexuan, with his extraordinary talent, helped them out of gratitude and showed them a way forward.”
Shen Roujia listened to this tangled web of relationships, more complicated than a ball of yarn, and immediately stopped them.
“Wait a minute. What do you mean by ‘it was hard enough for me to find my parents’?”
Xiao Sinian seemed reluctant to bring up those past events again.
However, when he looked into her eyes, he felt as if something had changed.
That gaze had a unique allure.
Shen Roujia was still Shen Roujia, but somehow it felt like she had returned to when they first met.
“When I met you, it was in a deathmatch arena in the border town. You were a little girl, about five or six years old, and you managed to take down several warriors.”
“At that time, I hadn’t been summoned back to the capital yet. I was just leading a mercenary group doing bounty work.”
“Back then, you were the fiercest child I had ever seen, even more savage than a wolf.”
Shen Roujia was stunned, and even the air around them seemed to slow down.
A flash of white light in her mind brought a slight pain. She vaguely heard the harsh, noisy shouts.
The nauseating stench hit her head, making Shen Roujia instantly wake up.
She looked at Xiao Sinian with cold sweat, feeling a lot of strange emotions surge within her.
“Later, did we establish the Hidden Pavilion together?”
Xiao Sinian seemed to be lost in memories.
“You were bought by traffickers and sent to the deathmatch arena. I was constantly obstructed and chased, forced to live as an assassin, and I happened to ransom you.”
“Later, you single-handedly helped me take over the entire Canal Gang.”
“Except for killing, you never spoke an unnecessary word. I once thought you were a monster, until later, you told me you found your lost family.”
Shen Roujia was stunned. “The Shen family?”
Xiao Sinian nodded at first, then shook his head. He casually spread the accounts on the table.
“I don’t know. When I saw you again, you didn’t recognize me anymore.”
Gu Zhi gently patted Shen Roujia’s shoulder.
Seeing Shen Roujia’s tense expression, she couldn’t help but speak comfortingly, “Xiao Sinian did his best. At least he made it back, and you too. You found your family. It all ended well.”
Xiao Sinian laughed lightly, a bit of helplessness in his voice.
“You’ve changed a lot recently.”
Shen Roujia asked in confusion, “I’m different from before?”
Xiao Sinian didn’t avoid looking into Shen Roujia’s eyes.
“All these years, I supported Shen Hexuan many times to repay the original kindness to you.”
He paused slightly, “You are very smart, as you were back then, but not as pure as before.”
“Arrogant, domineering, using those unbreakable old relationships to coerce with marriage and reputation.”
A gentle breeze blew outside the window, and Shen Roujia’s eyes sharpened.
What she didn’t expect was that her body felt a faint pain from those words.
She frowned deeply, suddenly raised her head, and let out a self-deprecating laugh.
“Xiao Sinian, it turns out you still don’t know.”
