Chapter 594

Why do I feel like you're looking at me with the same eyes one would use to look at a scumbag?

Seeing Jiang Yan's confused expression, Barbatos finally let out a sigh.

"So you really didn't know..."

"Do you still remember Alice?"

Barbatos mentioned a certain person to Jiang Yan.

"Alice?"

He frowned, and a stunning woman dressed in shrine maiden attire suddenly appeared in his mind.

"I have some impression of her; back then, you told me she was coming to Liyue, so I accompanied her for a tour."

Jiang Yan spoke, yet he did not know what this had to do with him.

He had merely crossed paths with her by chance.

"Hmm, good that you know."

But what Barbatos said next made Jiang Yan unable to sit still.

"Alice sent back a small child five years ago, named Klee, to be looked after by Jean."

"At first, none of us thought much of it, but that white-haired, pointed-ear elf appearance makes it hard for me not to associate her with you."

White hair and pointed ears?

Isn't Alice also white-haired with pointed ears?

No, wait, Alice's hair seemed to be milky yellow...

"So... what are you trying to say?"

Jiang Yan looked at Barbatos with disbelief on his face.

"Are you telling me that Alice sent back a child who shares blood with me?"

"To be specific, that is exactly how it is."

Barbatos nodded and spoke:

"I know you find it hard to believe; at first, I didn't believe it either, but after I ran some tests."

"In fact, I even used the Gnosis, yet the results of every test ultimately pointed in one direction."

"You, Jiang Yan, are that little girl's biological father!"

Crack...

Beside Jiang Yan, the sound of a teacup shattering suddenly rang out.

Jiang Yan spun around abruptly.

He saw Little Ganyu sitting beside him, smiling at him.

"Jiang Yan, can you tell me exactly what is going on?"

"What do you mean, there is another child out there?"

Little Ganyu looked at Jiang Yan with a smile, her expression radiating deadly kindness.

The sight instantly sobered Jiang Yan up from his drunkenness.

"I don't know!"

"I don't understand the current situation either!"

Jiang Yan looked utterly bewildered and at a loss.

He had a child lost in a foreign land?

Huh?

Are you kidding me?!

When Alice came here traveling twenty years ago, he really did nothing at all!

He hadn't even held her hand; how could he possibly make someone give birth out of thin air?

Jiang Yan hurriedly explained the whole story to Little Ganyu.

After listening, Little Ganyu let out a heavy sigh.

Twenty years ago, when Alice arrived, Jiang Yan had told her about it.

So Little Ganyu also felt that this matter carried some strangeness.

"Jiang Yan, did you really not have any very intimate contact with that lady Alice?"

Little Ganyu looked at Jiang Yan, her eyes unblinking, trying to find some sign of deception on his face.

But there was no other expression on Jiang Yan's face, only a look of confusion.

Back then, he was so afraid that Alice might have some strange ideas, like blowing up Tianqiu Valley or digging a huge pit to bury Hilichurls.

Because he was constantly on guard against her, Jiang Yan truly never had any overly intimate contact with her.

Besides, he knew the steps involved in having a child.

There was no way he could have made a child with Alice under any circumstances!

Wait!

There is still a damn problem now!

That child is named Klee!

In the plot of his previous life, Klee's father had always been an unsolved mystery.

But now, I, Jiang Yan, have inexplicably become Klee's father?

That is just absurd, okay?!

Absurdity doesn't get this absurd.

"It seems I can only go to Mondstadt to find out the truth."

Jiang Yan's eyes held a hint of complexity.

There was confusion, there was shock, there was doubt, there was incomprehension.

Barbatos nodded, then picked up another bottle of wine and chugged it down, gulp, gulp, gulp.

After all, it was Jiang Yan who had the headache, not him.

However, the fact that Little Ganyu was Jiang Yan's daughter was basically a done deal.

After all, the message given by the Gnosis could not be false.

"Do you want to go with me?"

Little Ganyu asked softly from the side.

"Not yet. Let me first go understand the situation. To be honest, I'm still completely dazed."

Jiang Yan held his head, feeling somewhat pained; suddenly receiving such information had truly left him numb.

He kept thinking about exactly when he had had overly intimate contact with the other party.

Suddenly, a memory flashed through Jiang Yan's mind.

It was what Alice had done to him before leaving.

She had pulled out a few of his hairs, saying something needed to be left behind.

Jiang Yan suddenly widened his eyes.

Leave something behind?!

So that's how it is...

Alice really played a very clever hand, didn't she?

But there was still one thing Jiang Yan did not understand.

Why, after Alice gave birth to Klee, did she not directly hand the child over to him to raise, but instead give her directly to Mondstadt?

Perhaps only by meeting Alice in person could one know the cause and effect of everything.

However, before that, he must first verify the matter of Klee.

Jiang Yan's gaze looked toward Mondstadt, his eyes constantly flickering.

The next day.

After spending a sleepless night, Jiang Yan, having agreed with Barbatos to go to Mondstadt together later,

returned to Liyue with Jiang Xinyu, who wore a pair of large horn decorations on her head, and some female attendants.

Yes, thanks to Jiang Xinyu's unrelenting efforts, the True Lord Yixiao Daozhen ultimately, through a certain small trick, gave Jiang Xinyu one of the large horns he had once replaced.

After sending everyone back to Liyue Harbor, Jiang Yan found a deserted place, directly activated the Chuansong Sect, and arrived at Qingce Village.

Barbatos sat on a tree at the entrance of Qingce Village, swinging his long legs clad in white socks, while holding a wine jar that had not been finished the night before.