Chapter 565: The Imperial Lord's Origin

When Duan Yu woke up, she saw several female disciples.

"Who are you?" Duan Yu's face showed confusion.

"Senior Sister Duan Yu, we are here by the dean's order to look after you."

Duan Yu nodded.

She suddenly recalled that she had just been counterattacked by a Spirit Beast and had fainted.

"Who saved me?" Duan Yu asked. She still remembered that after losing consciousness, someone had fed her a pill.

It must have been that pill that allowed her to wake up so quickly.

She resolved to properly thank the generous pill‑giver.

The female disciple smiled, "Senior Sister Duan Yu, it was Nan Yan who saved you. She gave you a holy pill, so you woke up so fast."

"That's right, Senior Sister Nan Yan said that if you hadn't been given a pill, you wouldn't know when you'd wake up."

"Instructor Ye really went too far; even though Senior Sister Duan Yu was in such a bad condition, she said you were fine. It must be jealousy that you outshone her!"

The chattering sounds filled Duan Yu's ears, making her a bit irritated.

However, the face of Ye Qingran involuntarily flashed in her mind.

She shamelessly claimed that her Soul Capturing Song would bring her serious consequences.

How could each experienced Beast Tamer not know it themselves?

Perhaps, as they said, Ye Qingran was afraid her own prominence would be eclipsed by her.

"Forget it, I have nothing else; let's drop this. What about Nan Yan?"

As Duan Yu finished speaking, Nan Yan's voice came from outside.

"Senior Sister Duan Yu, are you okay?"

Nan Yan's face showed worry, and she was holding a steaming cup.

"You are Nan Yan?"

Duan Yu raised an eyebrow and asked.

"Yes, I am Nan Yan."

"Thank you for saving me earlier."

Nan Yan lowered her eyes slightly, concealing the calculations in her heart.

It was evident that Duan Yu now believed she was her lifesaver.

She believed that soon this would spread throughout the Academy, and everyone would know her connection with Duan Yu and then envy her. Just as back then, she had snatched a lifesaving favor from others, making the aloof Lu Yunfeng be especially attentive to her.

"It's just a trivial effort, nothing to mention. Senior Sister Duan Yu, you know, Dan Valley never lacks pills. This pill helping you once is its honor."

Duan Yu lightly nodded.

Actually, her first impression of Nan Yan wasn't good, because she didn't like such delicate little flowers.

However, Duan Yu is someone who repays debts; she owes Nan Yan a favor and will keep it in mind.

"Senior Sister Duan Yu, this is a soup I personally simmered for you; taste it and see if it suits you."

Nan Yan presented the soup, lifted the lid, and a rich aroma flooded the nose.

"Wow, how fragrant! Senior Sister Nan Yan really has great skill!"

"Senior Sister Nan Yan truly is beautiful and kind‑hearted; even Lu Yunfeng is especially fond of you!"

The female disciples beside them praised Nan Yan one after another. Nan Yan modestly lowered her head, speaking insincere words.

"No need, you flatter me."

Duan Yu glanced at the soup; she wasn't really hungry, but didn't want to disappoint, so she took a symbolic sip, "Not bad."

"As long as Senior Sister likes it, that's fine."

In fact, the soup wasn't her own cooking; she just had a servant make it, a mere token offering.

Leaving the forbidden area, Ye Qingran and Fu Hanxiu said farewell to Wu Shushan.

On the road, Ye Qingran spoke, "Wu Shushan just said that the master key to open the ancient battlefield ruins lies with Li Daoyun; only his return can open it. Doesn't that mean Li Daoyun will be back at the Academy soon?"

Fu Hanxiu nodded, "Opening the ancient battlefield ruins is a major matter for the Academy; Li Daoyun will certainly return on time."

"That's great; once Li Daoyun returns, we can ask him about my mother."

Ye Qingran's eyes and eyebrows lit up with a lighthearted expression.

Originally, the reason they trekked thousands of miles from the Central Region to distant Beimingzhou was simply to find Yun Sui Feng's whereabouts.

Now, they have secretly screened every suspicious individual one by one, and in the end, only Li Daoyun meets the criteria.

When Li Daoyun returns, all truths will be revealed.

For some reason, Ye Qingran suddenly felt a bit nervous.

"Fu Hanxiu, if Li Daoyun weren't that 'senior brother' mentioned by the Donglin Emperor, who would have taken my mother away?"

In the vast sea of people, trying to locate someone who hides their identity based solely on the 'senior brother' label is truly like finding a needle in the ocean.

"Don't worry, I have a feeling this Li Daoyun definitely knows the whereabouts of my mother-in-law!"

"Hmm!"

With Fu Hanxiu's words, Ye Qingran's heart settled a bit.

In her previous life, she was an orphan who had never seen her biological parents, wandering alone all her life, never experiencing what parental love is.

Reborn, heaven played another joke on her.

Her birth mother is missing, and the man she calls father is not her biological one.

Describing her background as a mystery is no exaggeration.

She had long been accustomed to being alone, but after inadvertently becoming a mother of two children, she yearned for family ties even more.

She wants to see her long‑unseen mother and also meet the cheap father she has never met.

"Mother-in-law? Hmph, you say that quite smoothly!" Ye Qingran glared at Fu Hanxiu and deliberately teased.

"Isn't it mother-in-law? Hmm?" Fu Hanxiu raised an eyebrow and retorted? That "Hmm" formed a hook, nearly pulling Ye Qingran's soul away.

This man—does he even know how great his charm is?

Deliberately being so alluring—doesn't he fear she can't hold herself back?

Indeed, if she can't hold back, the one who rejoices is still him!

Hmph!

However...

"Fu Hanxiu, I've known you for so long, yet I've never heard you speak of your parents."

Moreover, she has never heard the terms "grandfather" and "grandmother" from Xiao Chen.

As soon as she said that, a streak of dark light flashed across Fu Hanxiu's eyes, and his aura gradually grew heavy.

Ye Qingran felt a sudden thump in her heart.

She suddenly realized she might have said something she shouldn't have.

But the words were already out, like spilled water impossible to retrieve...

She pressed her lips together, squeezed his palm tighter, increasing the pressure, as if trying to silently transmit power to him.

Fu Hanxiu's abnormality lasted only a brief moment.

Soon, he grasped Ye Qingran's hand again, looked at her, and said softly, "Actually, I've never seen my father. As for my mother, she... remarried."

What?

Ye Qingran's heart was shaken in ways she couldn't even gauge.

The illustrious Emperor Sovereign of the summit of the hunt, and his lineage is so twisted and tragic?

A father she has never met, a mother who remarried—she feels Fu Hanxiu has it even worse than she does!