Putting Romance Before Brothers

Ian Yan: "What is it?"

"Jenna Summers stole your Yin Core, right?"

"Yeah."

"So what did His Majesty the Celestial Emperor say... about you getting... slept with by her?" Ryan Lu raised an eyebrow.

Ian Yan's face turned even darker at those words, looking utterly embarrassed.

But Ryan Lu's gossip fire was blazing—he couldn't help but press on: "Ian, bro? Tell me, will you? I really don't get it. Was she poisoned or just out of her mind? She's a girl... right? Makes no sense!"

"The Yin Core is protected by pure Yang energy." Adrian Drake, unable to listen anymore, cut in. "To take the Yin Core, she had to break Ian Yan's Yang protection first!"

Ryan Lu's mouth formed an "O": "So that's how it is... But you're not a deity, yet you've cultivated for ten thousand years. She shouldn't be your match, right? How did you let her... you know, do that to you?"

Ian Yan sounded utterly humiliated: "She must've drugged me. I was out on business outside the Underworld, woke up in an inn, and my Yin Core was gone. All she left was a note."

"Oh my god! From now on, I need to be super careful when I go out!" Ryan Lu clutched the bottom of his shirt protectively.

"Get lost!" Adrian Drake kicked at him.

Ryan Lu quickly jumped away: "What's got you so fired up?"

Luna Lian glanced at Adrian Drake.

She knew exactly why he was so worked up.

After everything that happened, she wondered if he could still like Jenna Summers... Adrian Drake didn't say anything, just plopped down, shot Ian Yan a few dark looks, and sighed.

"What's up with you? All that sighing." Ryan Lu went over to ask.

"It's nothing!" Adrian Drake said. "I'm just curious, what kind of magical artifact does Little Five have that lets him pull off such impossible feats?"

"Oh? Always?" Ryan Lu asked.

Adrian Drake nodded: "The first time I met him, he'd just taken human form, looked about five or six years old. That time, I broke one of my Divine Father's favorite clay cups! It was an antique, supposedly used by the goddess Nuwa herself."

"And then?"

"I was so scared he'd beat me up! My mind went blank, totally out of it. Then Little Five said he could restore the cup, make it as good as new."

"A smashed cup can be restored? No way! No matter how you glue it, there'd be marks, right?"

"Right! I didn't believe it either, but he took the pile of broken shards away and came back a bit later—with the cup perfectly restored!" Adrian Drake said. "Then another time, my spirit pet failed its ascension and was dying. I was heartbroken, but again, Little Five somehow brought it back to life!"

Ian Yan's eyes lit up: "So, living or dead, he can turn the impossible into reality?"

Adrian Drake nodded.

"How does he do it?" Luna Lian asked curiously.

"I asked him too. He said his mother left him something before she left—a thing that lets him do things normal people find impossible."

"What thing?"

Adrian Drake shrugged: "He never shows it to anyone but himself."

"Never shows anyone?" Ryan Lu was baffled. "Then... why did he call my sister in?"

"Ha!" Adrian Drake let out a cold laugh.

A thousand years of brotherhood can't compare to one Lucia Lu.

Romance over bromance.

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Inside Sean Shaw's study, books, bamboo slips, and jade permits were neatly arranged in categories, everything perfectly in order.