NOVPUB"You lied to me, why did you lie to me?" Xu Zimei roared and charged straight at the girl.
"Do you know I’ve always considered you the most important person, why did you deceive me too?" Xu Zimei blocked the group’s path and shouted at the girl, demanding an answer.
"Kid, what are you doing?" The blond young man asked frowningly at his side.
"It was all a scam, wasn’t it? I don’t understand what you could possibly gain by lying to me?" Xu Zimei ignored the blond young man and instead looked at the girl, asking with an icy tone.
"What’s the matter with you, kid? Looking for death?" The blond young man stood in front of Xu Zimei, speaking down to him.
"Shut up," he drew the Tyrant Shadow, and with one strike, Heavenly Thunder rumbled, deep purple thunderbolts spreading along the blade.
The blond young man probably didn’t expect Xu Zimei to draw his sword and strike without a word.
He didn’t even have the chance to react before his head was completely severed from his body.
Blood dripped from the Curved Blade as Xu Zimei just stood there, looking at the girl.
Regarding the death of the blond young man, the two old men nearby remained indifferent, and even the dashing young man the girl was pretending to be only slightly frowned, not saying much.
"Could it be that you’ve mistaken me for someone else?" The girl frowned as she looked at Xu Zimei and asked.
"Mistaken someone else?" Xu Zimei shook his head mockingly and said, "Your name is Lan Ke’er, and you live in Zixun Village.
You told me your three greatest wishes are to watch a sunrise and sunset with the one you love.
See your favorite lavender with the one you love.
And to travel the entire Continent with the one you love, then find a place off the beaten path to retire when we’re old.
All this was a lie to deceive me, right."
Saying this, Xu Zimei’s expression froze, and he suddenly laughed, "Zixun Village, purple lavender—so even the name of the village was made up, and the village itself was fake, right?"
"How do you know what I’ve always wanted to do?" Lan Ke’er was startled, looking at Xu Zimei and said, "The rest are true, but my home isn’t in Zixun Village, it’s in the Central Continent."
"Central Continent?" Xu Zimei was taken aback, then quickly realized, "The Lan Family from the Central Continent?"
"You still haven’t told me how you know about my wishes?" Lan Ke’er nodded with a puzzled expression and asked.
Seeing the girl nod, Xu Zimei was also immediately dumbfounded.
If the girl was from the Lan Family, then everything she had previously told him should have been the genuine truth from her heart.
That is to say, apart from hiding her background, she didn’t lie to him about other things.
Xu Zimei, who had been determined to accuse her, suddenly felt as if his head had been doused in ice water, standing there awkwardly embarrassed.
"You haven’t answered my question," Lan Ke’er frowned and asked.
"Sorry, I mistook you for someone else, you look a bit like a friend of mine," Xu Zimei said with an embarrassed smile and then grabbed Ren Pingsheng standing nearby and shouted, "I told you it wasn’t her, but you insisted it was, now look, we’ve got the wrong person."
As Xu Zimei spoke, he started walking quickly away with Ren Pingsheng who looked utterly confused.
"Hey," Lan Ke’er’s voice called from behind, "Just to warn you, the guy you just killed is the grandson of a core Elder of the Myriad Beasts Sect, you still have time to run."
Looking at Xu Zimei’s retreating figure, the Sad Taoist next to her frowned and said, "Miss, should I bring him back?"
"Follow him and see," Lan Ke’er watched Xu Zimei, always feeling something strange about him.
It wasn’t surprising that he knew her name, as anyone could find out with a little investigation.
But the three wishes Xu Zimei spoke of, to travel the Continent with a loved one and eventually settle in a haven, were indeed what she yearned for in life.
She had never spoken these thoughts to anyone, which was somewhat deeply disturbing.
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Xu Zimei and Ren Pingsheng found an inn, opened two rooms, and then sat downstairs to order some dishes and began to eat.
Ren Pingsheng asked in confusion, "Young Master, did you know those people just now?"
"I know her, but she doesn’t know me," Xu Zimei said with a smile.
The Lan Family, it is a very mysterious clan.
Legend has it that every inheritor of the Lan Family will have a mission.
But no one knows what this mission is.
Perhaps, aside from the Lan Family itself, each era’s Great Emperors may know a little more or less.
However, the Great Emperors have all tacitly chosen to remain silent.
But unlike other great clans, the Lan Family never demands their descendants to do anything.
The life choices of Lan Family descendants are for them to decide.
You can choose to give up the mission that the family has passed down for generations; the family will not force you.
Even with the marriages of Lan Family descendants, the family won’t interfere, even if you end up marrying a rustic villager and retiring to the mountains, it is permitted.
This is also why, after Xu Zimei knew that Lan Ke’er was from the Lan Family, he was certain the girl hadn’t lied to him.
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Xu Zimei did not plan to recognize Lan Ke’er so soon; even though she no longer remembered him, they could get to know each other again.
However, Xu Zimei knew that his main goal right now was cultivation to enhance his strength, not these romantic entanglements.
Now that he knew Lan Ke’er was from the Lan Family, they were bound to meet one day.
Though he truly wished to stay by the girl’s side, he knew now was not the right time.
......…
The sound of footsteps at the door drew his attention, and Xu Zimei looked up to see Lan Ke’er, accompanied by Sad Taoist and another Daoist, arriving and taking a seat.
The three sat at the next table; Lan Ke’er placed her folding fan on the table, gazing intently and with evident interest at Xu Zimei.
Xu Zimei felt that if it were someone else, he would have swung his sword at them by now.
But the girl......,
He fell silent for a moment, preparing to go upstairs back to his room.
However, just as he was about to stand up, a group of people rushed into the inn.
They bore the distinct features of Monster Beasts, and one could tell at a glance that they were disciples of the Myriad Beasts Sect.
"Who was it that just killed my grandson ’Qi’?" A figure of an elder strode forward swiftly, he glanced around and finally fixated on Xu Zimei.
This elder exuded a strong aura of the Emperor Pulse Realm, and his mouth was particularly sharp, resembling the beak of a Roc.
The hair on his head was sparse, leaving few strands, and especially those sharp, gloomy eyes, which made people quite uncomfortable.
Xu Zimei gave the elder a look and continued eating his meal without responding.
"What’s the matter, brave enough to kill but not to admit it, scared now?" The elder took steps towards Xu Zimei’s direction.
"You hold him off, I’ll handle the rest, no problem, right?" Xu Zimei put down his chopsticks and asked Ren Pingsheng.
"I also just wanted to try my hand at fighting a martial artist of the Emperor Pulse Realm," Ren Pingsheng said with a smile.
Having received the inheritance from the Sun Devouring Emperor, he was confident that even if he couldn’t defeat a martial artist of the Emperor Pulse Realm, holding them off for a while shouldn’t be a problem.
