“You used to live here? All alone?” Qiu Honglei asked in surprise. While living all the way here in the desolate outskirts meant having beautiful scenery nearby, it brought a lot of complications. On top of that, it had to be extremely lonely.

“That’s right,” Jing Teng said, sounding a bit sentimental as she looked at the residence. “This was where I spent my childhood. When I used to live here alone, I didn’t feel much, but then…”

“Then what?” Wei Suo asked curiously. The past of such a beautiful woman was always fascinating.

Jing Teng shook her head, clearly not in the mood to continue. She quickly arrived outside the courtyard entrance. The place was already overgrown and covered under vines and impossible to enter. However, when she stood there, even without doing much, the vines seemed to come alive and withdrew to either side, revealing the main entrance.

“Jing Manor?” Zu An said in surprise as the pretty but slightly immature writing on the entrance was revealed. Don’t tell me she still has other family here?

Jing Teng looked up at the...