And behind the little girl, a young woman followed, calling out anxiously, "Xiao Rou, be careful not to fall!"
Watching the little girl running towards him, Qin Chuan, after being stunned for a moment, almost subconsciously crouched down.
The little girl’s delicate and pretty face was full of excitement as she plunged into Qin Chuan’s embrace.
"Daddy, I’ve finally seen you again!"
The little girl clung tightly to Qin Chuan’s neck, burying her small head in his chest, as if afraid he would let go.
At this time, Ye Qingwan also caught up, looking apologetically at Qin Chuan and saying, "Mr. Qin, I’m really sorry to bother you again!"
Qin Chuan smiled helplessly. He could feel Xiao Rou’s dependence on him, and a strange sensation of blood connection.
If Xiao Rou hadn’t been only about five or six years old, he would have wondered if she was his child from his time in the Kunlun Divine Prison.
Xiao Rou clung to him, refusing to come down, until after a good while Ye Qingwan got angry, and only then did she leave Qin Chuan’s embrace, sulking.
Suddenly, Ye Qingwan turned to the old woman behind her and instructed, "Granny Wu, please take Xiao Rou to the car first, I have a few words to say to Mr. Qin."
Granny Wu nodded and took Xiao Rou by the hand to leave.
Before leaving, Xiao Rou’s face was full of reluctance as she looked at Qin Chuan and said, "Daddy, Xiao Rou is going home now, but when you have time, you must come to find Xiao Rou, okay?"
Qin Chuan showed a gentle smile and said to Xiao Rou, "Okay, daddy promises you!"
When he said the word "daddy," he suddenly felt a very special feeling in his heart.
Xiao Rou’s face beamed with joy as she hopped and skipped away with Granny Wu.
Ye Qingwan herself was surprised by Qin Chuan calling himself daddy. It wasn’t until Xiao Rou had left that she said gratefully, "Mr. Qin, I really appreciate it!"
Qin Chuan shook his head and asked, "President Ye, did you want to see me for something?"
Ye Qingwan hesitated, as if she had something to say but stopped herself.
Qin Chuan said, "President Ye, please feel free to speak."
Ye Qingwan finally spoke, "Mr. Qin, I would like to ask you to be Xiao Rou’s father."
"What? Be Xiao Rou’s dad?"
Upon hearing Ye Qingwan’s request, Qin Chuan was dumbfounded for a moment. Although he was very fond of Xiao Rou, he had no other thoughts.
Besides, even if he were to be a dad, he wouldn’t know how!
Ye Qingwan is Xiao Rou’s mother, so why is she asking him to be Xiao Rou’s dad? What does she mean by that?
Ye Qingwan quickly added, "Mr. Qin, what I mean is, could you pretend to acknowledge that you are Xiao Rou’s father, and if you have time, could you spend some time with her?"
Qin Chuan finally breathed a sigh of relief, so that was what she meant.
Ye Qingwan added in a low voice, "If you don’t have the time, then never mind."
Who would have imagined that Zhu Yeqing, the renowned figure in East Sea Province, could appear so humble before Qin Chuan?
Qin Chuan did not immediately agree but asked doubtfully, "What about Xiao Rou’s father?"
Ye Qingwan’s expression immediately turned gloomy, she glanced out the door at Xiao Rou playing with Granny Wu, and then she said, "I don’t know!"
"You don’t know?"
Qin Chuan was completely befuddled. Isn’t Xiao Rou your daughter? How can you not know who her father is?
As Qin Chuan was lost in his thoughts, Ye Qingwan said, "Actually, Xiao Rou is not my daughter!"
When Qin Chuan learned this truth, he felt his breathing quicken, his eyes fixated on Ye Qingwan as he urgently asked, "Who in the world is her real mother?"
He first saw Xiao Rou yesterday and noticed that woman’s shadow on Xiao Rou’s face.
He had thought that Ye Qingwan was Xiao Rou’s birth mother, so he didn’t give it much thought. But now, Ye Qingwan said she was not Xiao Rou’s birth mother.
Watching Qin Chuan’s somewhat agitated emotions, Ye Qingwan was secretly surprised, but still told the truth, "Five years ago, on a deep night, a young woman in red suddenly burst into my room. She was holding an infant girl, and this girl was Xiao Rou!"
A woman in red...
In Qin Chuan’s mind, the image of the devastatingly beautiful woman snuggled in his arms, dressed in red, reemerged.
Suddenly, a cold aura seeped out from within Qin Chuan’s body, and his face contorted in extreme pain.
He gritted his teeth and asked, "What happened then?"
Ye Qingwan, startled by Qin Chuan’s state, continued, "When the woman in red burst into my room, she was covered in blood, severely injured. She said she didn’t have long to live and begged me to take in Xiao Rou."
"I could not bear it in my heart, so I agreed to her plea, and only then did she leave with peace of mind."
As she finished speaking, Qin Chuan exuded a terrifying presence. Ye Qingwan, her face full of fear, instinctively backed away several steps.
Granny Wu, who was outside with Xiao Rou, felt this aura and her expression drastically changed. She hurried in and protected Ye Qingwan behind her.
Qin Chuan’s facial expressions were ferocious as if he was in great pain.
Ye Qingwan carefully asked, "Mr. Qin, are you all right?"
At this moment, Qin Chuan’s face was full of painful expressions, and his body was in agony as if it were tearing him apart.
Granny Wu quickly pulled Ye Qingwan out of the house, her face grave as she said, "His condition is very unusual, it seems like he’s enduring some kind of extreme pain."
Ye Qingwan immediately panicked, her face filled with concern, "Granny Wu, do you have any way to help him?"
Granny Wu shook her head, her expression serious as she replied, "This young man’s strength is unfathomable. Just the aura he emits far surpasses mine!"
Ye Qingwan said in surprise, "But you are a practitioner of the Energizing Skill Middle Stage Realm, how could he possibly be stronger than you?"
She knew Qin Chuan was strong, but she had never thought that Qin Chuan could be stronger than Granny Wu.
Granny Wu said in a deep voice, "He’s not just a bit stronger than me, but he could kill me with just a flick of his hand!"
"What?"
Ye Qingwan was completely shocked, her face full of disbelief as she looked towards Qin Chuan in the room.
She suddenly remembered, during their visit to the Premium Auction House, how Qin Chuan had taken out the Marrow-Cleansing Pill and the Evergreen Pill, claiming he had refined them himself.
At this thought, Ye Qingwan was numb with shock, her face frozen in astonishment.
At this time, Qin Chuan, sitting cross-legged with eyes tightly closed, still had a ghastly expression on his face, his whole body was drenched in sweat.
He was enduring the pain of a deadly poison eroding his body as the Blood Bead and Kunlun Divine Poison violently erupted, as if they wanted to break free from him.
Just then, the Qingxuan Spirit Qi that had been hidden within his Dantian burst forth suddenly, and in the astonished eyes of Ye Qingwan and Granny Wu, a burst of green light enveloped Qin Chuan.
"This..."
Granny Wu’s eyes widened in disbelief, "Is this... Spiritual Energy?"
It took a full ten minutes before the green light covering Qin Chuan disappeared, and his facial expression returned to normal.
He slowly opened his eyes and, looking at the stunned Ye Qingwan, asked, "Did she say anything else before she left?"
Ye Qingwan finally snapped out of it, hurriedly shook her head, but then something seemed to strike her, and she hurriedly added, "Right, before she left, she told me Xiao Rou’s name."
Qin Chuan quickly asked, "What’s Xiao Rou’s name?"
Ye Qingwan said, "Her name is Qin Rou!"