Si Mo swallowed back the words on the tip of his tongue and carefully sized up the fox that looked like it was not yet an adult. "Fiancé? How old are you?"
Rong Lan thought seriously for a moment. "Twenty-three." This was the age of this body in her memory.
Si Mo's mouth twitched. He gently poked the doll's headgear. "I'm asking how old you really are, little fox."
Since he could see her true form, he could naturally see through the doll suit to the appearance of this body. He could tell at a glance that it was a young girl in her twenties. What he was curious about was how many years this fox had been cultivating.
Rong Lan was poked by Si Mo and leaned backward. She raised her hand to swat away the young man's paw and proudly told him, "Five hundred years old!"
Si Mo said expressionlessly, "Your age is just a fraction of mine. A little fox of only five hundred years old already has a fiancé?"
Rong Lan was shocked. She held onto her headgear and wished she could take it off right now to take a good look at Si Mo for a few minutes. A spirit monster of five hundred years was indeed not very old. She had seen many old monsters with a thousand years of cultivation. But no matter how she looked at it, this young man seemed to be a minor. Why would a minor be older than her?
"Tell me how old you are," Rong Lan said. She didn't believe Si Mo when he said her age was just a fraction of his. He couldn't possibly be some thousand-year-old great monster, could he? Although he seemed much stronger than her, he didn't have the aura of a thousand-year-old great monster. She had thought it was because of his exceptional talent or racial advantage that he was highly skilled in magic at a young age.
Si Mo scoffed. "It's a secret. Wait until you figure out what my true form is before you ask this question."
Rong Lan said, "… This is actually a secret. I was willing to tell you my age, but you're keeping it a secret from me. You're not sincere at all."
Si "Not Sincere" Mo flipped his wrist. "When you have enough strength, you can also be an insincere person."
Rong Lan was speechless. To be honest, before she met Si Mo, she had always thought that as long as she could regain her five-hundred-year cultivation and magic, she would be the most powerful person in the world. But then Si Mo showed up...
"Little fox, let me ask you another question. Are you an adult?" Si Mo highly suspected that this was a young fox.
"Humph! I'm not telling you either!" Rong Lan turned her head away.
Si Mo opened his mouth, about to say something, when a fluffy paw landed on the back of his hand. He looked down at his hand and then looked up at the little fox with the doll's head turned to one side.
"I've seen the person I wanted to see!" Rong Lan excitedly patted the back of Si Mo's hand.
Si Mo followed the arc of her head turn but didn't see the middle-aged man who met the criteria. He only saw two elderly people walking hand in hand. "Where? Why can't I see him?"
Rong Lan turned her head back and pointed with her paw in the direction she had been looking. "He just walked past that intersection."
"O—" Si Mo didn't have much of an obsession with this. However, the little fox's mood suddenly improved a lot. "You just saw the biological father of this body. You only took a few glances. Why are you so happy?"
He said he didn't understand.
Rong Lan chuckled. "I've confirmed something."
Although she had only taken one look, she could tell that the causal line on the biological father of this body was clean. A person with a clean causal line would never do something like swapping children. So he was a good person! She could plan to invite him to the wedding venue to attend her wedding with Chu Hengyuan.
Si Mo let out a breath and didn't ask for more details. Since she didn't take the initiative to share what she had confirmed, he didn't ask further. After all, he wasn't very interested in other people's gossip.
"Rong Lan." Chu Hengyuan stood not far from the fox doll and tentatively called out the young girl's name.
He had arrived at this small park early. He had looked around but couldn't find Rong Lan. He had called her, but she didn't answer. In this small park, the only person whose face he hadn't seen was the one wearing the doll suit.
His rationality told him that the young lady of the Bai family, who had been pampered since childhood and never done any housework, wouldn't be so miserable as to wear a doll suit. But right now, he had no idea where to find the young girl. He decided to take a chance. What if the fox doll really turned its head?
Hearing that familiar "Rong Lan", the fox doll turned its head and accurately looked in the direction from which the sound had come, at Chu Hengyuan.
Chu Hengyuan: "???" It really turned its head?
Rong Lan: "???" What time is it now? Why is Chu Hengyuan here so early?
She looked up at the sky. Judging from the sky, it was not even eight o'clock at most. So what about the agreement to meet at eight? How was she going to explain who Si Mo was to Chu Hengyuan?
Si Mo could feel the stiffness of the little fox beside him up close. He turned his head and followed the direction the little fox was looking. He only saw a very delicate and good-looking young man. But...
That young man was a pure human being. Was this the fiancé the little fox had mentioned?
"Rong Lan?" Chu Hengyuan didn't dare to believe it. He tentatively called out again.
The white fox doll nodded in a rather speechless manner.
Only then did Chu Hengyuan dare to be completely sure that this was his little fiancée. He laughed and cried at the same time. He walked over and stroked the fox's head. "What are you doing?"
Rong Lan sighed. "I just wanted to hide myself a little. I still wasn't ready to face them directly."
Chu Hengyuan knew who she meant by "them". But wasn't the sacrifice she made for this so-called "a little hiding" a bit too big? Was this a little hiding? He had almost couldn't find her. "Did you see them?"
The fox doll nodded. "I only saw one person, but that's enough."
"Then shall we go home?" Chu Hengyuan asked.
The fox doll continued to nod. After nodding, she suddenly remembered that Si Mo was still sitting beside her. Her original plan was to hide Si Mo from Chu Hengyuan and let him go to Kyoto alone. But now that Chu Hengyuan had already seen Si Mo, it would be better for them to go back together. Going back together would at least provide some company.
She turned her head, about to introduce Si Mo to Chu Hengyuan. But when she turned her head, the seat beside her was empty.
Rong Lan was stunned. Did he run away so fast?
Chu Hengyuan saw the fox doll suddenly turn its head. He thought she was looking for something. "Did you lose something? I'll help you look for it."
The fox doll shook her head again. "It's nothing. Young Master Chu, did you see someone sitting beside me just now?"
"I didn't see anyone," Chu Hengyuan said. He reached out his hand to touch her forehead. But it was only after his hand touched her that he realized he was touching her headgear. "Little girl, you're not running a fever, are you? You're having hallucinations. When I came over, I only saw you, a fox doll, sitting here. There was no one else."