"Heh, I heard you got Cai'er's first kiss. Is that true?"
Lan Yanyu looked at Ilyx through clenched teeth. As the branch master of the Magic Temple in Exorcist Pass, she was an elegant and proud woman. But because she had personally sent her own daughter away to become the Saintess of Samsara, Cai'er's relationship with her mother had remained icy cold—they wouldn't even greet each other when they met.
She had originally assumed that this little girl was simply cold to everyone, yet here she was, giving Ilyx such a warm response. It felt as though her daughter had been snatched away, leaving this mother-in-law deeply unsettled.
Chapter 17