Therefore, the Lin Family falsely claimed Lin Xingshi’s gender to outsiders, and raised her as a boy from childhood, requiring her to disguise as male and behave with as many masculine characteristics as possible, absolutely refusing to let the truth slip.

This means that Lin Xingshi might be the first female member in the generations of Lake Hunting.

Although it breaks the rules, the other few families also turn a blind eye. They all know that letting Lin Xingshi become the heir of Lake Hunting is an inevitable matter.

After all, Lin Xingshi’s talent is evident; if the outstanding ones among the young contemporary people can at most be considered a gem, then she is a volcano, a volcano about to erupt. Among the exorcists of the same generation, no one is more dazzling than her.

After listening to her experience, Su Zimai could only hope these feudal old things would explode quickly. But since Lin Xingshi herself had no comment, she could only avoid the topic.

"I heard a lot about your family from Jiuya," Lin Xingshi suddenly said.

"Say what you want, just say it."

"Your family is quite extraordinary, isn’t it?" Lin Xingshi found a topic, "Leaving other matters aside, I know Ghost Bell and Blue Arc, both are quite known figures."

"They might be, but it’s not something I can decide," Su Zimai said absentmindedly.

"Hmm, I understand this feeling too." Lin Xingshi nodded and pondered with her hand against her chin.

"Do you really understand?" Su Zimai asked skeptically.

"Of course, I do." Lin Xingshi scratched her chin, glanced at the ceiling, and muttered, "How to say it properly, surrounded by clever old monsters who constantly point at you. I sometimes want to overthrow my own family and wish I were born into an ordinary family..."

"What kind of terrifying thing are you talking about?" Su Zimai listened, growing bewildered, thinking to oneself what it meant to overthrow a family—was this something a captain of Lake Hunting would say?

"Oh... I accidentally spoke my mind," Lin Xingshi raised an eyebrow and smiled, "Sorry, just pretend you didn’t hear those words."

"Is she naturally naive or cunning?" Su Zimai took a moment to recover and whispered near Ke Qirui’s ear, "If her words spread, what kind of controversy would it cause?"

"Both, probably..." Ke Qirui whispered, "Although Ms. Xingshi seems this way, she’s quite rebellious inside."

"How rebellious?" Su Zimai asked in a low voice, "If she’s truly rebellious, why is she already the world’s number one exorcist yet still listens to her family and dresses as a male? Does she naturally want to be a male?"

Ke Qirui shook his head, "I don’t know much, only that Lin Xingshi once ran away from home for a while during her childhood."

"Ran away from home?"

"Yes, she scared the whole Lin family at that time. After all, such a monster who awakened Celestial Driver at four years old isn’t common, where would they find her if she got lost?"

"Awakened Celestial Driver at four?" Su Zimai froze for a moment, asking almost word-by-word.

She originally thought that awakening Celestial Driver at fifteen was impressive, but didn’t expect someone even stronger, why not say awakened in the womb?

"What else?" Ke Qirui picked up the pipe, "Her talent is evident; it already showed signs from a young age, and now becoming the world’s number one exorcist is something everyone predicted. Of course... now we know there’s the ’Salvation Society’, if there are even stronger exorcists hiding in Salvation Society, I wouldn’t be surprised either."

Su Zimai asked puzzledly, "You said Lin Xingshi is already the number one at Catastrophe Level, are there really people stronger than her?"

"Maybe Salvation Society has someone at Restricted Level?" Ke Qirui said casually, "Before Restricted Level, Catastrophe Level is nothing, not to mention that day we saw those monster kids, the kid playing with the game console trapped us in ’Jurassic World’, he too is an exorcist, I feel his potential is no less than Lin Xingshi, even... superior."

"Forget it, let’s not talk about Salvation Society, it’s too ominous." Su Zimai shook her head.

She thought for a moment, lowered her voice to ask, "By the way, since she ran away, why did she come back later?"

"I don’t know, only members of the Lin Family know this matter." Ke Qirui shook his head.

"All this noisy chatter, can’t you be quiet?" Zhou Jiuya suddenly spoke up, asking coldly, "Are you letting people sleep or not?"

Su Zimai turned her head to look at the man in Zhongshan suit with slicked-back hair, highly recognizable, visible from eight hundred meters away.

Unfortunately, her impression of Zhou Jiuya was poor, thinking this guy was both pretentious and arrogant, yet he happened to have the best relationship with Ke Qirui in Lake Hunting, and he happened to be very capable, impossible not to acknowledge, which was most frustrating.

"Classmate Zhou Jiuya, why are you like my old man, both loving tranquility and fearing loneliness. Why not find an empty carriage to sleep?" Ke Qirui turned to look at him.

"Ha, you reminded me..." Zhou Jiuya turned his head impatiently, then opened his pale golden eyes.

He got up from his seat, turned, and walked into carriage number two.

"Alright, I’ll also find a quiet place to sit; you guys chat." Zhong Wujiu suddenly said, the voice from behind the mask wasn’t hoarse as expected, just slightly indifferent.