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Realizing he had been staring, the little girl silently met his gaze, her black eyes calm and unblinking. She didn’t speak, simply waiting in quiet patience. Snapping out of his thoughts, Zhao Changhe offered an apologetic smile and spoke first. “Little Starry, I’m sorry. Your dad has been so distracted that I haven’t gotten to properly talk to you.”
The girl tilted her head in mild confusion, her expression betraying a moment of incomprehension. “D-Dad?”
Then she scratched her head, clarifying, “You’re my master.”
Zhao Changhe swore to himself that he had never had any strange feelings about the term “master” when it came to Dragon Bird. But with River of Stars, the title felt completely wrong—he did not want her to call him that. Squatting down, he ruffled her hair gently. “I made you with my own hands. How could there be a master-servant relationship between us?”
In truth, from River of Stars' perspective, her master’s logic made no sense. A sword spirit’s thought process differed entirely from that of a human. To her, the concept of “parent” was meaningless—what mattered was her bond with her master. Still, she did not argue. She simply sat quietly, looking...
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