Chapter 60: I Finally Found You

“So, he is more important than even this country!”

The voice of the Empress of Qian Kingdom echoed slowly within the private room. Her gentle, peach-blossom eyes looked directly at Lin Xun, as if trying to see right through him.

Similarly, as Lin Xun looked into her eyes, the image of a Little Girl surfaced in his mind once more.

Her face covered in dust yet smiling, her cute appearance when she was angry, her positive and optimistic strength.

Yes, all of these were the image of Sister Mimi.

But as he thought about it, perhaps remembering something, Lin Xun’s body shuddered! The fear in his heart intensified once again!

If the Sect Masters who had been single-handedly crushed into the ground by Lin Xun knew about this, they would never believe it.

The invincible Demon Son Lin Xun actually had someone he feared!

“Miss Xia Meng, you said that person is your…” Lin Xun spoke, his voice trembling slightly.

The tenderness in Xia Xiaomeng’s eyes was like the spring waters of West Lake, nearly overflowing its willow-lined banks. “I met him during the war; he is my future husband.”

*Clink.*

Just as Xia Xiaomeng finished speaking, Lin Xun’s hand shook as he reached for his teacup, and the Pale green tea flowed slowly across the stone table.

“Sorry, I haven’t practiced my Qilin Arm in a long time.”

Lin Xun picked up a tea cloth to wipe the spill clean.

At this moment, although Lin Xun appeared as steady as an old dog on the surface, his heart had already activated the emperor engine.

Especially while wiping the table, Lin Xun felt her gaze wandering over his face, making him even more flustered.

“Miss Xia Meng, how did you and your husband become separated?”

“That’s a long story.”

Xia Xiaomeng blinked as she looked at Lin Xun.

“At that time, I was not yet nine years old. I was stranded in a town, my whole body smelling sour and foul, covered in dirt and grime. Forget being beautiful; passersby would pinch their noses and walk away when they saw me.”

“I was starving then, so I went to the mountains to find food. But what could a Little Girl who had been pampered and lived in luxury since childhood possibly find?”

“And just as I was about to starve to death in the deep mountains…”

“I met him.”

Xia Meng’s voice paused slightly. Her pearly teeth lightly bit her red lip, and her slender fingers gripped the edge of her skirt under the table, as if she were a young girl forcefully restraining her emotions.

As long as Lin Xun showed any subtle abnormality, this intense emotion would pour out toward him like a monstrous tidal wave!

But Lin Xun just drank his tea, his expression remaining normal.

However, if Xia Xiaomeng were to make Lin Xun lift his feet, she would find that he had nearly dug out a world map with his toes!

Xia Xiaomeng spoke while observing every minute change in Lin Xun’s expression.

“He was three years younger than me, but it was he who saved my life.”

As she said this, the corners of Xia Xiaomeng’s mouth curled up slightly. The happiness overflowing from her peach-blossom eyes was like honey, sweet enough to reach one’s heart.

“Later, we lived together in that dilapidated little village after the war. Xiao Xun and I depended on each other. He always had many ideas.”

“But although Xiao Xun was very smart, he was still too young. He wasn’t as strong as me, so he had to rely on me.”

As she spoke, Xia Xiaomeng straightened her slender waist with a hint of pride, her graceful curves strikingly beautiful under the outline of her dress.

“Even though we were small then, we made a promise. When we grew up, I would marry him, and he would marry me.”

“He agreed and even wove a Grass Ring for me.”

Just as Xia Xiaomeng finished speaking, Lin Xun’s teacup shook again.

Fortunately, Lin Xun managed to steady himself, but the slight tremor was already caught by Xia Xiaomeng’s eyes.

The voluptuous woman continued as if she hadn’t seen it:

“Perhaps you think of it as children playing house, that the promise of marriage was just a child’s joke, but…”

Lin Xun watched helplessly as Xia Xiaomeng pulled a necklace out from deep within her collar.

At the end of the pendant was not some priceless jewel, but a Grass Ring—a Grass Ring so ordinary it couldn’t be more ordinary.

When he saw that Grass Ring, a chill surged wildly from Lin Xun’s heart. Fear even began to spread through his mind, and sweat quietly broke out on his back.

“But,” Xia Xiaomeng said, her eyes watery as she looked at Lin Xun, “to me, it was no child’s joke, but the promise of my lifetime.”

At this moment, Lin Xun’s mind was a complete blank.

He desperately wanted to jump out the window and run!

But he also knew that if he left like that, everything would truly be exposed!

“Calm down! Be steady! Be steady!”

Lin Xun hypnotized himself in his heart!

“Don’t panic! Hold it together! Lin Xun, you can do this!”

But Lin Xun didn’t know that the cold sweat on his forehead and the detail of his eyes shifting down 3 degrees whenever he was nervous were all being observed by the Empress of Qian Kingdom.

“Does Young Master Lin happen to know about the Mandarin Duck Wing-to-Wing Thread?”

Xia Xiaomeng’s lips parted slightly as she spoke softly, though her tone carried a hint of charm, as if she had finally found her lover after searching through a thousand worlds.

“Mandarin Duck Wing-to-Wing Thread?”

“Yes.”

Xia Xiaomeng’s eyes became even more tender, like spring water.

“Legend has it that the ‘Mandarin Duck Silk Thread’ uses the fine feathers of the ancient Mandarin Duck ancestor as thread and is dyed with the Essence Blood of the ancient pure-blooded Wing-to-Wing Bird. If a man and a woman are tied together by it, they can be joined in marriage, their fates intertwined, never to be separated.”

… Lin Xun was a bit dazed. Why was she suddenly saying all this?

“When we met ten years ago, I didn’t have many things with me, but I happened to have a box, and inside that box was a red thread.”

“When I was a child, I saved a talking bird. When it returned to repay the favor, it was carrying a red thread in its beak.”

“She told me that this red thread could be worn on one’s person at all times for protection and blessings.”

“If there is someone you like, you can also tie it around both of your fingers, and for all lifetimes to come, you shall never be separated.”

As she spoke, Xia Xiaomeng extended her ring finger, which looked like a tender sprout.

Lin Xun, on the other hand, was startled by the phrase ‘all lifetimes to come’.

All lifetimes? No way? Is it that ruthless?

“That night, while he was asleep, I tied the red thread to him.”

“Huh???” Lin Xun was stunned! There was such a thing?!

As she spoke, at some point, Xia Xiaomeng crawled toward Lin Xun step by step like a kitten. Lin Xun wanted to run, but his body refused to obey and he remained seated.

Xia Xiaomeng looked up at Lin Xun from below. A strand of hair brushed past her cheek and happened to hang over Lin Xun’s knee. Her faint fragrance was extremely pleasant, like a Fusion of narcissus and gardenia.

“Last time, in the imperial palace, I met that Little Red Sparrow again. I scolded her, saying her red thread was useless, that he and I were separated after all. I had people search for his name, search for everything about him, but in the end, I found nothing. I couldn’t find him no matter what.”

“That Little Red Sparrow said I would meet him, and she even taught me a method to verify his identity, but this method can only be used once.”

“I scolded that Little Red Sparrow, saying once was too few. After all, the world is vast, with hundreds of millions of people.”

“But now, I realize that once is just right.”

“Because as long as I meet him, even if he turned to ash, I would recognize him.”

As she spoke, Xia Xiaomeng’s fair palm gently caressed Lin Xun’s cheek, as if stroking the most precious treasure in the world.

“Miss Xia? You… you might really have the wrong person…”

Lin Xun stammered, but his words were so Pale.

Before Lin Xun could react, Xia Xiaomeng’s soft, boneless hand had already grabbed his palm.

By now, Lin Xun’s palm was sweating from nervousness. This fear was branded into his very bones!

“Miss Xia, you!”

“Hiss~~~”

Xia Xiaomeng’s pearly teeth had already lightly bitten Lin Xun’s fingertip, and dots of blood seeped out!

Oh no!

Only at this moment did Lin Xun understand exactly what Xia Xiaomeng was doing!

In the next instant, the girl forcefully bit her own fair fingertip. Crimson, pure Essence Blood emerged from her white finger like a small pearl, looking somewhat cute.

The girl extended her index finger and pressed it against the tiny wound she had bitten on Lin Xun.

When their fingertips touched, the blood from their wounds underwent Fusion, and a red thread slowly emerged, tied to both ends of their ring fingers.

“Xiao Xun… I finally found you.”

The girl smiled radiantly, like the warm sun of early winter, softening the entire world.