It was one of those things he had either inadvertently overlooked or never minded in the past. Maybe that was why it felt especially shocking after Chi Wuyao had dredged it to the surface.

No matter how carefully he examined his memories, he realized that Xia Qingyue hadn’t visited Xia Hongyi even once after she entered Frozen Cloud Immortal Palace at sixteen years old.

It wasn’t like she had never had the chance to step out of her sect. On the contrary, she was considered a special existence in Frozen Cloud Immortal Palace, and she was granted quite an unusual amount of freedom as a result. In fact, she had participated in the Blue Wind Ranking Tournament and his wedding to Cang Yue.

And yet he couldn’t remember a single moment where she had spoken to her father or kept him company.

The entire reason she started cultivating in the first place was to search for her lost family. So why was she so cold and detached toward her own father?

Did the deception stretch all the way to the beginning? Was her reason to pursue cultivation with all her might itself a lie?

“See? You think that it’s bizarre too, right?” Chi Wuyao said while watching Yun Che’s expression closely.

“It doesn’t matter now. All this means is that she was faking from the very beginning.” Yun Che forcefully nipped the thought in the bud before asking, “Did you read Uncle Xia’s memories just now?”

Chi Wuyao’s eyes curled into crescents. “I knew I wouldn’t be able to hide it from you.”

With Chi Wuyao’s devilish soul, it was all too easy for her to read a lower realm...