Feng Dingchu was somewhat taken aback.
Though she hadn't finished speaking, he already understood her meaning.
Immediately, his face flushed slightly.
"Don't overthink it. While I knew your mother, we didn't have much interaction back then. Knowing her identity was merely a coincidence."
"So, you and her... didn't have that kind of relationship?"
Chu Qianli let out a sigh of relief, a hint of disappointment in her voice, "It's not you..."
"I don't know your mother particularly well, and besides, I was young then, focused solely on the battlefield. I didn't understand matters of love."
"So, I can't find out from you who my mother liked, right?"
Chu Qianli rested her chin on her hand, a look of melancholy on her face.
Feng Dingchu smiled faintly, "Heaven doesn't always disappoint. What you are meant to know, you will eventually understand."
"You really don't know who my mother's second senior brother is?" She still suspected this man named Nan Chu.
Nan Chu was the most likely candidate to be her father.
But why hadn't he been with her mother back then? Why wasn't he by her side when her mother met with trouble?
Could it be that he was already... gone before her mother's incident?
An unspeakable sadness welled up in her heart.
She no longer had her mother, and now, she might never see her father in her lifetime?
"Don't give up, and there will always be hope."
Feng Dingchu stood up, and as he did, he couldn't help but cough a few times.
Chu Qianli immediately stood up, looking at his still pale face, "Ninth Uncle, did I injure you very badly?"
"No." It wasn't her who had injured him.
It was another consciousness within her.
However, he wasn't planning to tell her about this for now. This little girl already had enough troubles.
If she were to learn that there was another consciousness residing within her body, he didn't know if it would terrify her.
"Girl," he suddenly said.
Chu Qianli was dusting herself off when she heard him and looked up, "What is it?"
"Have you heard of the Grand Tutor of the Nanming Kingdom?" he asked.
Chu Qianli nodded, then shook her head, "I've only heard that he's very powerful, knowing astronomy and geography, history and the future, but it's all hearsay."
"I've heard the same. However, he does possess some extraordinary abilities."
"Ninth Uncle, why are you bringing him up now? What do you want?"
"You're a bit... off." But Feng Dingchu didn't elaborate on this.
"Perhaps... he can see through some things." He pursed his lips, not delving deeper, and changed his approach, "Moreover, meeting more wise individuals would be beneficial for you."
Chu Qianli, however, fell into thought.
She was a soul from the twenty-first century. If... she was just hypothesizing, and as a modern woman, she shouldn't believe in such supernatural matters.
But if that Grand Tutor truly had some profound insight, she was willing to listen.
What if he actually understood things like borrowing a corpse to return a soul, or even... transmigration?
In the twenty-first century, there were still things she couldn't let go of. Her Wolf Domain, her brothers in the Wolf Domain...
If things were as Long Xinghe had said, and even her senior brother had been forced to leave the Wolf Domain, then no one knew what was truly happening there.
The only certainty was that there was a traitor in the Wolf Domain, and her brothers were still being harmed.
In a state of deep suffering...
"Oh no!"
Chu Qianli's eyes suddenly snapped open, and she said urgently, "They are in danger!"