No matter how Yuhengzi called out to him, Ye Ning descended the mountain at a rapid pace.
This left Yuhengzi with a darkened face. He had wanted to marry his daughter off to Ye Ning, yet the man had refused. Xianxian was not his biological daughter; he had found her as an orphan. Furthermore, a great secret was contained within her—one that even Yuhengzi and his peers could not unravel. The reason he wanted to marry her to Ye Ning was the hope that Ye Ning might be able to solve the mystery. If nothing else, even the methods of the Medical Immortal, Su Qingcheng, might be enough to unlock the secrets hidden within Xianxian.
Alas, Ye Ning was completely different from the legends; he was not lustful in the slightest, and he was, if anything, overly cautious.
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