Shen Yan turned to Mu Anxiao and said, "No."
"You..." Mu Anxiao covered her forehead with one hand and poked Shen Yan twice with the other, saying, "You should feel lucky that I'm willing to take someone as old as you as my son."
"If you want to be my father that badly," Shen Yan said, slowly raising his glowing blue hand, "then fine, how about I turn you into an old man right now."
"Whoa?" Mu Anxiao immediately backed down. "No need, I think I'm quite happy as I am."
"Do you still want to be my father?" Shen Yan asked.
Mu Anxiao quickly shook her head.
"Let's go," Shen Yan turned around.
Mu Anxiao pursed her lips and continued to follow Shen Yan, saying, "Do you want to know how I've been these past few years?"
"No," Shen Yan replied directly.
Mu Anxiao glanced around as she walked and said, "Let me tell you, my life these past few years has been truly miserable. Ever since I was lost and brought into the manor to work as a maid, I haven't had a single peaceful day. You tell me," she sighed, "I'm not even ugly, so why wouldn't any of the young masters even look at me? Honestly, I even started to doubt if I was a woman."
"You just weren't destined for it," Shen Yan pointedly broke through Mu Anxiao's confusion.
Mu Anxiao looked up. "Weren't you not listening to me?"
"If you speak, I listen. If you don't speak, I don't," Shen Yan said as he walked.
Mu Anxiao pouted. "What you said makes sense, but I think the thing I regret most in this life is," she poked Shen Yan's back from a distance, "trusting your lies."
"Mu Anxiao, don't think I don't know you've actually been using me all along," Shen Yan suddenly said.
Mu Anxiao was surprised. "You knew."
"From the moment you left with me, I knew you weren't genuinely following me. If I hadn't made you swallow that elixir that allows you to see demons, you probably would have run away long ago."
"What do you mean?" Mu Anxiao feigned ignorance.
Shen Yan slightly turned his head. "You only feel safe following me."
"How can you say that? Don't forget, I'm the one who protected you every time," Mu Anxiao said excitedly.
"It was you..." Shen Yan squinted. "You have a silver tongue."
"I don't like what you're saying. In the past six months, I've been injured repeatedly, and you..."
"Just like this time, we didn't have to come. If it weren't for your greed, we wouldn't have ended up in this predicament," Shen Yan interrupted.
Mu Anxiao frowned slightly. "What are you trying to say?"
"Mu Anxiao," Shen Yan stopped and turned halfway to face Mu Anxiao, who had also stopped, "think about the past six months. Wasn't it always your greed that led us into danger?"
"I was doing it for your own good," Mu Anxiao lifted her chin.
"I asked you to help me find a companion because that companion is extremely difficult to find. If it were easy, I wouldn't have brought you along," Shen Yan said.
Mu Anxiao took half a step back. "Then you could have not brought me. I don't want to be with you either."
"Everything started because of you. Of course," Shen Yan took a step forward and patted Mu Anxiao's shoulder, "I also made some mistakes in this matter." After speaking, he removed his hand and turned to continue walking forward.
Mu Anxiao looked down at the shoulder Shen Yan had touched, then lowered her eyelids and followed him.
Over the past six months, Mu Anxiao and Shen Yan had always argued about various things. They had long become accustomed to it. Mu Anxiao's initial anger had turned into indifference. She knew that caring about it was useless.