238: Chapter 238 What's going on?

Wu Yaoyao nodded heavily and replied, "Mother, please rest assured, your daughter understands!"

While speaking, she noticed that a trace of fine wrinkles had crept into the corners of her mother's eyes at some point, and a sense of bitterness welled up in her heart.

In an instant, a memory flooded her mind, causing her to lose herself in a daze.

After coming back to her senses, Wu Yaoyao gently raised her fair hand, and a dazzling, brilliant light suddenly flashed.

Immediately after, a gorgeous, colorful spiritual flower emitting faint, lingering fragrances appeared out of thin air in her slender hand. She gently handed this mysterious flower to her mother and said with a smile, "Mother, this is a treasure-medicine grade Beauty-Preserving Flower. You can consume its petals; you only need to take one petal at a time. This flower has the effect of prolonging life and keeping youth eternal. I hope it can help Mother retain your beautiful appearance!"

Wu Anran widened her eyes, her face full of astonishment, and exclaimed in disbelief, "Heavens, it's actually a Beauty-Preserving Flower! And it's at the treasure-medicine grade..."

Ye Xuan, who had just stepped into the imperial palace, looked at Wu Yaoyao with some surprise: "Interesting, a Beauty-Preserving Flower?"

"Hmm, who are you?"

Wu Yaoyao's beautiful eyes widened in a daze, and she instantly noticed Ye Xuan, who was standing by the lake in white clothes, looking ethereal.

The young girl's crisp and melodious voice drifted over, carrying a hint of confusion.

Ye Xuan glanced at Wu Yaoyao, who was dressed in a dark cyan glazed fairy skirt.

"Little girl, back then you even invited your big brother to play with mud. What's wrong, you don't even recognize me anymore?"

Hearing this, Ye Xuan teased her, and also began to inspect this girl's life destiny.

[Name: Wu Yaoyao] [Realm: Earth Profound Realm, 9th Level] [Physique: Luo Shen Physique (Gold) (Semi-awakened)] [Luck: Great Emperor's Bearing (Gold), Beautiful Appearance (Gold), Tortuous Fate (White), Ill-fated Beauty (White)] [Destiny: "Nanxuan Empress" (Protagonist), "Fate Cultivator" (Supporting Role), "Luo Shen" (Supporting Role)] [Favorability: 65]

[Life Destiny: Grew up in the Wu Family of the Great Qin Dynasty, lost her father in childhood and relied on her mother.]

[At six years old, she met Ye Xuan and was looked at with disdain by him, after which she did not dare to communicate with Ye Xuan.]

[At eleven years old, while fishing outside, she was abducted by a demonic cultivator to the Nanxuan Continent. Under her great luck, she was saved by the Luo Shen Clan and was favored by the contemporary Luo Shen, who took her as a personal disciple, thus beginning her path of cultivation.]

[At fifteen, her cultivation reached the Spirit Profound Realm. At seventeen, her cultivation reached the Earth Profound Realm, and she obtained information about the Undying Medicine from her master, Luo Li, the Luo Shen, which offered hope of repairing her own Luo Shen Physique.]

[A month ago, she left the Luo Shen Clan and returned to the Great Qin Dynasty, wanting to take her mother to the Luo Shen Clan to enjoy life, and then go alone to that secret realm to search for the Undying Medicine.]

[However, her mother, Wu Anran, had long fallen in love with Ye Qingshan and was unwilling to live in a strange place. Seeing this, she had no choice but to settle for accompanying her mother for a month.]

[Today, she met the man she admired in her childhood—Ye Xuan—again, but his appearance made her feel even more inferior. In a panic, she was unwilling to acknowledge Ye Xuan and left the Great Qin in a dejected manner.]

[A month later, she went to the Hundred Flowers Secret Realm to compete for the Undying Medicine and engaged in a fierce battle with the Holy Son of the Alchemy Holy Sect, but was eventually defeated and severely injured.]

[Later, on the road while escaping, she encountered a demonic path Holy Son and his Dao Protector. After enduring this humiliation, it took ten years for her to return to the Luo Shen Clan, after which her cultivation broke through to the Great Emperor Realm, and she wiped out the demonic path holy land with a single sword...]

"His face actually bears a slight resemblance to Brother Qingshan. This person before me must undoubtedly be little Xuan!"

Wu Anran, dressed in a pure white long dress, recognized Ye Xuan at first glance, and a look of tenderness could not help but appear on her face.

"Haha, hello Aunt Wu, I am indeed Ye Xuan!" As he spoke, Ye Xuan had already walked up to the mother and daughter, Wu Anran and her daughter, and respectfully greeted Wu Anran, who still retained a bit of charm.

"Ye Xuan?" Hearing this name, Wu Yaoyao's delicate body stiffened slightly, and she gasped inwardly. Immediately after, she turned to Wu Anran and said softly, "Mother, Yaoyao will take her leave first!"

Before the words had even faded, Wu Yaoyao's lithe figure rose into the air like a fairy, drifting away towards the distance in a slightly hurried manner.

"Uh... is it possible that I would do something to you? It was just a casual remark I made when we were children, yet you are actually the first girl to be scared away by me!" Watching the cyan silhouette of Wu Yaoyao gradually disappear into the horizon, Ye Xuan rubbed his nose in helplessness, unable to help but complain inwardly.

"This girl Yaoyao is really something, why did she just leave like that? She didn't even stay to chat with little Xuan more!"

The beautiful woman in the white dress, Wu Anran, looked at the figure that was drifting further and further away until it disappeared, and could not help but complain softly.

"Aunt Wu, please don't say that, maybe Yaoyao has some urgent matter to deal with. It's all my fault for coming to find you two at this time, causing Yaoyao to leave in such a rush. How about I go find her? It would be good to apologize to her." Ye Xuan said from the side, full of apology.

In fact, after seeing the future life trajectory of Wu Yaoyao, Ye Xuan knew very well in his heart what it meant to let her leave at this moment—what would follow would be endless humiliation and suffering.

And as a mother, Wu Anran would inevitably fall into extreme grief and be unable to extricate herself.

Thinking of this, Ye Xuan secretly made up his mind to help.

After all, Wu Anran was not only his father's confidante but also a kind and gentle woman; he really could not bear to see the mother and daughter suffer such hardship.

He would just consider it paying off the debt of affection he owed for the look of disdain he gave Wu Yaoyao when they were children!

"Little Xuan, you are right, hurry and go! My Yaoyao has now grown up to be graceful and moving, we cannot let those bad guys bully her."

Hearing what Ye Xuan said, Wu Anran first looked thoughtfully at the dashing young man in front of her, then the corners of her mouth lifted into a smile of gratification, and she urged him anxiously.

"Heh, what a clear-cut young girl regarding gratitude and grudges!" Ye Xuan smiled bitterly and shook his head, sighing inwardly.

Ye Xuan shook his head gently, the corners of his mouth lifted into a faint smile, and then his figure moved like lightning, speeding off in the direction Wu Yaoyao had left.

"Brother Qingshan's little Xuan has now grown into a handsome and dashing young man!"

Watching Ye Xuan move further and further away, Wu Anran could not help but sigh with emotion, while her mind unconsciously conjured up the image of her daughter, who was as beautiful and moving as a fairy, and a look of contemplation appeared in her eyes.

More than ten years ago...

The overjoyed little Yaoyao ran while happily calling out: "Little big brother, little big brother~"

Hearing the call, little Ye Xuan stopped, turned around, looked at the expectant little Yaoyao in front of him, and asked: "What is it?"