No one dared to disrespect this young lady, and anyone who dared to speak ill would be beaten black and blue by the soldiers, left speechless. Xue Shuangtao always felt as if she had somehow deceived them. A constant feeling of guilt lingered in her heart. She reached out to rub her temples and inadvertently muttered, thinking of her experiences in the Northern Domain: "It clearly shouldn’t be ..." Just then, the manager Qu, who initially made clothes for Li Guanyi, personally delivered a letter. The newlywed woman’s face carried a light-hearted smile: "A letter from the Western Regions, Miss." Xue Shuangtao, surprised, said, "Hmm? Considering the journey and time, they should just be arriving, right? A reply? How could it be so fast?" She took the letter in her hand; there were quite a few, including some for Mr. Xue, Xue Changqing, Noble Consort Xue, and many old friends. Li Guanyi seemed to have written them all in one go. Xue Shuangtao asked manager Qu to leave first. After a moment of distraction, she placed the pen on the nearby pen rack, hesitated for a while, and then opened the letter addressed to her. As she opened it, a token fell out. The wooden token wasn’t large, linking something with the letter. It fell onto the table with a crisp sound, making Xue Shuangtao’s eyes pause on it. The front of the token had just two words written: Long Wind, and on the back: [Anxi]. Xue Shuangtao blinked in confusion: "Strange, where is Anxi?" "We are in the Western Regions, there is no Changfeng Building." The girl opened the letter, and the calm words on it bore Li Guanyi’s style. The young man simply introduced his experiences in the Western Regions and included a leaf from a red willow tree, saying it’s a tree of the Western Regions, resilient and unyielding. Various experiences, conquests, he spoke of the oppression in the Western Regions, the chaotic times, the struggles for supremacy in the world, without mentioning their friendship. Yet, Xue Shuangtao felt an indescribable calm and serenity in her heart, a slight peaceful smile on her lips. Then she saw the last part: "I have rebuilt Changfeng Building in the Western Regions." "You couldn’t succeed then, this time, I’ve done it." Xue Shuangtao couldn’t help but laugh, her clear and bright apricot eyes seemed to shimmer with laughter, her lips slightly pursed as she said, "In this matter, do we still need to compare wins and losses, Guest Elder?" "You went to great lengths to send such a thing." She tossed the token in her hand. Then she saw the final part: "Changfeng Building seeks to gather information from all corners of the world, akin to the eyes and ears, requiring much effort. In such a chaotic world, we absolutely have no time and energy to focus on personal sentiments." "I still send this Changfeng Building token to you." "Li Guanyi fights abroad, only you can control the eyes and ears from within." "Wherever I have traversed, there will be the breeze of Long Wind. Each Changfeng Building will be under your command, though the world is vast and full of heroes." "Shuangtao, would you be willing to awaken my pair of eyes...?" Bearing the Confucian and Taoist inheritance, there was a reserved and restrained emotional expression. Subtle, yet genuine, intense, but restrained. Without speaking of any affection, simply stating that the Western Regions are too vast and empty, without Changfeng Building, there is unease in the heart. Just saying wherever I set foot in the world, every corner will have your Changfeng Building. I am to walk the world, with the eyes of a Qilin, are you willing to personally open them? The girl’s playful toss of the token in her hand came to a sudden halt, as the token slipped and fell with a clatter on the table. Her chest froze momentarily before thumping energetically. Her large apricot eyes widened, her face immediately flushed as if ablaze. A loud laugh suddenly erupted. Xue Shuangtao, startled, clutched the letter to her chest as she saw Xue Daoyong, who had been at home these days, appear, and promptly grew more nervous, saying: "Grandpa, Grandpa, what brings you here?" "I heard there’s a letter for me, so I thought I’d bring it to you, just to have a look." "What are you hiding?" Xue Shuangtao’s face flushed red: "Nothing, nothing at all!" Xue Daoyong laughed heartily: "Haha, granddaughter has grown up, won’t even let grandpa see any secrets now. I’m about to become an old relic!" Xue Shuangtao said, "No such thing!" yet adamantly refused to let him see. Xue Daoyong teasingly looked at his granddaughter, who grew more serene with age, no longer as lively as she was at fourteen or fifteen, and opened his letter with satisfaction, saying while doing so: "That rascal, despite how much this old man cares for him, he hasn’t sent a letter back in all this time." "And on coming back, ha, well look at that!" "Still, he wrote to Shuangtao first and then to me." "Gave you so many words, yet only one line for me!" Follow current ɴᴏᴠᴇʟs on NoveI-Fire.ɴet The old tiger of the Xue family, in his old age, became petty over such things, and soon indifferently glanced over before his expression froze. There was only one line. [I have attained Grandmaster status] The smile on the face of the tiger of the chaotic world instantly solidified.
