"Bloodline Tracking Spell?" Mia Quinn asked curiously. "Whose bloodline should I use to track her?"
"Use..." Lucy Luan suddenly remembered that Luna wasn't her biological sister. "Forget it! I'll go check by the seaside myself."
Sure enough, Lucy found her by the sea.
She was sitting on a reef, hugging her knees and crying.
Lucy walked over and patted her shoulder. "Lian-Lian, don't cry just yet."
"Sis..." Luna Lian turned and hugged her. "Tell me, if I were really the biological daughter of our Divine Father and Mother Goddess, would he still reject me?"
Lucy said, "I think... he doesn't really care about that sort of thing. Besides, outsiders don't know, but he definitely does! Actually, you're the most spoiled one in our family! Mother Goddess secretly prepares dowries for us, and yours is way richer than mine!"
Luna Lian cried even harder. "So, he just doesn't like me as a person..."
"That's not it..."
"Then what is it?" Luna Lian looked at her through tear-filled eyes.
Lucy opened her mouth, but hesitated and said nothing.
She wanted to say, maybe it's because he was poisoned by Golden Immortal Swallow toxin and thinks he can't have children, so he doesn't want to hurt you.
But in the end, she still didn't say it.
If anyone found out, Adrian would lose his position as Young Lord!
Actually, back when they were at the Spirit Alliance, he even said he'd go home and voluntarily give up his spot as the Guardian Drake Clan's heir.
But Quentin Lian stopped him.
Quentin Lian said the Spirit Alliance would work together to develop a cure for Golden Immortal Swallow toxin—if it takes ten years, so be it, if a hundred years, that's fine, even a thousand years, they'll make it happen. Adrian is still young, so he should be patient.
At that time, Adrian cried in Quentin Lian's arms.
Quentin Lian also instructed Lucy that only the two of them should know about this—don't tell anyone else, not even Ryan or Luna.
Lucy agreed.
That's one reason. At the same time, it's Adrian's hidden wound—telling a girl who likes him about it just doesn't seem right...
"Sis, stop racking your brain for comforting words..." Luna Lian said. "Just let me cry for a while..."
Lucy frowned and hugged her.
"I've liked him for hundreds of years. Right now, I'm really, really sad..."
...
"Actually, Jumin Jing was right—my background isn't good enough for him. Even though you all treat me as family, there's still that gap in bloodline... For the Divine Clan, bloodline is everything..."
...
"You know, Sis? I often imagine... if only I were your real sister... Even if he rejected me, maybe I wouldn't doubt myself so much—no, if I were your real sister, maybe he wouldn't have rejected me at all..."
...
Mia Quinn was just about to head back to her place when she ran into Ryan.
"Hey!" she called out. "What's wrong with Sister Luna?"
"What do you mean, what's wrong?" Ryan looked confused.
"Just now, Sister Lucy was frantically looking for her everywhere," Mia Quinn said. "She was so anxious she forgot they're not real sisters and even asked me to use the Ancestral Locator Spell to find her!"
Ryan immediately got worried. "So where did they go?"
"Lucy said she'd go look for her by the sea. I don't know if she found her yet."
Ryan started patting his pockets but couldn't find his Messenger Charm. "I didn't bring my Messenger Charm. Do you have yours?"
"I didn't bring mine either!" Mia Quinn said. "Aren't we not allowed to carry Messenger Charms during training?"
"Then can you take me to look for them?" Ryan asked anxiously. "Use the Ancestral Locator Spell to find Lucy."
"Alright..." Mia Quinn cast the Ancestral Locator Spell on Ryan.
He had several bloodline threads, and the nearest one was the sister's bloodline.
The two of them followed the bloodline thread, and sure enough, they found them at the seaside.
From a distance, they saw the two sisters leaning together—Luna was crying on Lucy's shoulder, while Lucy spoke softly to her.
"Alright! We found them! Thanks, Mia." Ryan said. "You can head back now."
Then he walked over.
But Mia Quinn just stood there, staring blankly at the bloodline thread.
Ryan's bloodline thread wasn't connected to Lucy.
It was connected to Luna...