Han Jing directly stuffed Xiao Xue into Han Siqu’s arms. Han Siqu, overwhelmed, looked at the little person in his arms, completely stiff, trembling as if afraid he might accidentally hurt her.

Xiao Xue smiled sweetly: "Grandfather, don’t be nervous. Xiao Xue doesn’t mind you."

"Good, really good." Han Siqu was a bit at a loss for words. This was probably... the first time in his life he held such a small child.

He did have a few concubine-born sons and daughters, but he could hardly remember even their appearances, let alone held them.

He took Jiangnan back home only because at the time he saw the child pitiably, so he took care of him a little, but honestly... he wouldn’t know how to take care of children.

Suddenly holding such a soft little girl in his arms melted his heart completely.

He felt even more guilty for not persisting more back then, for not understanding Su Yaogeng more. If he hadn’t compromised when she used means to force him to take a concubine, if he could have realized his feelings and expressed them to her earlier, perhaps, they could have had a normal family too.

"Father, where do you live? Let’s go back first and talk slowly. I want to ask you about someone, and this is also why we’re here this time," Han Jing said. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝐰𝚎𝕓𝐧𝚘𝘃𝗲𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝕞

Han Siqu nodded and led the way holding Xiao Xue.

Too many things happened these years, and they can’t all be explained at once. Though Han Jing can’t be sure if the person who healed Jiangnan is Yun Feng, with even a little hope, they cannot give up.

They walked for almost an hour before reaching where Han Siqu lived.

And where Han Siqu lived... was just a very secluded cave.

Fortunately, it was still quite clean.

The inside was extremely simple, without even any cooking items; it was unknown how these two had managed to live through the years.

Once they arrived, Han Siqu started to tell her about the events of these years.

After he left back then, he wanted to travel the world to refine himself, so he headed north, first touring Dong Qin Country. Later, in the northern part of Dong Qin, he accidentally encountered a group fighting over something. With his little bit of skill, of course, he couldn’t avoid it. But who knew, due to sheer bad luck, he was grabbed by one of the severely injured people and taken away.

The man was gravely injured, yet somehow managed to carry Han Siqu all the way to Hanwu Forest.

Once they reached Hanwu Forest, he told him he was a Spirit Cultivator, but because he wanted to seize that particular manual, he was mortally wounded and would soon die; this was the result of his greed for treasures. Facing death, he was truly unwilling. He had never married, nor left behind any family, but thankfully he had cultivated to the Advanced Green Flame Level. Now sustaining his life with a single breath, he promised that if Han Siqu could accept him as a mentor, he would use that breath to teach him his power and give him the manual, with the condition that one day Han Siqu would bring his ashes back to his hometown in Western Qi Country and let him rest in peace.

Yet he instructed Han Siqu, before mastering the manual, it was best not to leave Hanwu Forest, as the people chasing him had seen Han Siqu. If Han Siqu went out now, he might not survive, and the manual he struggled to obtain would be for nothing.