Liu Zhen really wanted to ask Lin Luo Ran if he was blaming him, but his mouth was full of bitterness.

  Thinking carefully, from the moment Bao Jia returned to Emperor City, Zou Yao Wei began to entangle her. He clearly knew it, but because he didn't love her, he quietly accepted his family's orders and chose to wait and see - deep down, wasn't there a private heart? In his heart, there was also a faint glimmer of hope, hoping that Bao Jia would take a liking to someone else, and then...

  What's next, Liu Zhen is now thinking, it's all bitter intention.

  If he knew Baojia would be in trouble, regardless of whether he loved her or not, he would come to stop Zou Yao's entanglement even if God himself had to intervene. After all, Baojia was his childhood friend and sister.

  He secretly glanced at Lin Luoran in the back seat with his peripheral vision, her long skirt had a lot of stains on it, and her long hair was quite disheveled. Thinking about how she lightly mentioned that Zou YaoWei was seriously injured, Liu Zhen couldn't help but imagine what kind of intense battle it must have been, for her to mention it so calmly... If, just if, she wasn't a mysterious Taoist cultivator, he would definitely go with her to find Zou YaoWei.

  He's not afraid of death, but he's afraid of getting deeper and deeper into a situation where he knows there will be no outcome.

  Qin Shiling must have also seen through his thoughts, which is why he had that conversation with him on that deep night. Qin Shiling's eyes were piercing, was it the sentence "the Taoist sect will never be married to a secular person" that made him give up, or was it her cold and frosty attitude on the plane, making him feel like he was covered in dust and had never been worthy of her?

  "Luoran, I heard that people in the Taoist sect can't marry ordinary people?" After thinking for a while, Liu Zuo still had an unresigned heart. He didn't want to think back years later and regret not fighting for his own love.

  "Huh?" Lin Luoran was extremely exhausted, and at this moment, she just wanted to fall asleep. She hadn't quite caught the implication of Liu Zhen's words, so she reflexively asked back, but her questioning tone was very weak due to her poor spirits.

  Liu Zha thought she was giving a definite answer, and his hand on the steering wheel trembled slightly. The shadow cast by the gold-rimmed glasses barely covered up the loss in his eyes.

  It's indeed one's own greed!

  Lin Luoran reacted after a while, and then realized the meaning of Liu Zhen's words. He slightly opened his eyes: "Where did you hear that our family doesn't marry ordinary people?" Please, an ordinary person? After seeing Wen Guanjing's skills tonight, Lin Luoran felt that he was the one who was ordinary.

  "What Commander Qin said... the Taoist sect does not intermarry with ordinary people, and a large proportion of offspring born to ordinary people will lose their Taoist foundation and can no longer cultivate immortality. Therefore, the Taoist sect strictly prohibits its disciples from marrying ordinary people. Can't it be that your sect doesn't care about this?" Liu Zhen's tone seemed calm, but in fact, he had a hint of expectation, wondering if Lin Luoran's sect didn't mind this rule.

  What is Dao foundation? Lin Luo Ran's eyes were half-closed, but his heart was turbulent. It turned out that cultivating immortality required not only spiritual energy and techniques, but also a "Dao foundation". Those elderly parents... the idea of walking together as a family that he had fantasized about at first, could it really come true?

  Lin Luoran was as if struck by lightning, and she felt that the life blueprint she had always fantasized about had suddenly appeared with an unknown variable, making her very uneasy. She didn't notice at all the hint of expectation in Liu's tone.

  "Is this what Commander Qin said?"

  What is Daoji, Lin Luoran wanted to figure it out immediately and asked Liu Zhen, hoping that Qin Shuai would say more. After tonight's fierce battle, she learned from Wen Guanjing that there are still families like the Wens who practice immortal cultivation in China, so she was a bit more cautious in her speech, not wanting others to know that she had embarked on the path of cultivation alone, for fear of being suspected and putting herself and her family in danger.

  Liu Zhaolong's focus was not here at all, and when he heard Lin Luoran didn't refute him, his heart gradually sank, thinking that Lin Luoran had acquiesced. When he heard Lin Luoran's follow-up question, he shook his head and didn't say another word.

  The atmosphere between the two people returned to its usual silence, and Liu Zhen sent Lin Luoran back to the Qin family's residence in the Imperial City. When he turned around to bid farewell, his footsteps were slightly unstable. Lin Luoran was preoccupied with asking Commander Qin about "Dao Ji" and didn't notice Liu Zhen's abnormality.

  The door was opened by Lu San Chun, who saw Lin Luo Ran return safely. His expression changed to joy: "Miss Lin, you're safe and sound, the commander has been worried for a whole night!" What he didn't say was that they had found out about Lin Luo Ran's whereabouts, and were both admiring and worried about her.

  Qin Shouling came downstairs, "You kid, I told you not to act rashly, yet you still went ahead with this note-leaving stunt. Even Lu San Chun and the others didn't notice when you were gone!"

  Lin Luoran's face turned red. She also knew that leaving a note was a cliché, but when she heard the news brought back by Commander Qin, she really saw red.

  Qin Shiling personally went to the Military Intelligence Agency to ask for an explanation, but was rebuffed with a single sentence about national secrecy. If that were all, he then went to the branch office, only to discover that the video of Zou Yaowei's car accident with Baojia had been deleted by someone from a special department...

  Deleting it means that there is no misunderstanding as everyone thought at the beginning. The special department did not intend to protect Zou Yao Wei for a moment, and even destroyed the evidence, which clearly wanted to help him escape legal sanctions!

  Lin Luoran didn't know how many people were involved in this, nor did she want to know who would come forward to comfort General Qin, the old general who had made great contributions to the founding of China. She didn't want to hear those grandiose excuses; as a simple woman, she only knew that relationships had their own hierarchy, and that Baojia's blood couldn't be equated with mere wealth or power, it couldn't be shed in vain.

  "Grandfather Qin, it was all my own doing, please don't blame Lieutenant Lu and the others." Knowing that the old man was actually worried about him rather than intentionally blaming Lu San Chun and the others, Lin Luo Ran hastily stepped forward to support Grandfather Qin's hand.

  Send Lu San Chun out to guard the gate, and Qin Shouling whispered: "How can you be so stupid? Even if it's a Taoist, you should know that some special departments in China are extraordinary and unconventional, and they are not easily commanded by the military and political system... Didn't you lose out tonight?"

  Lin Luoran was sweating, she was just a rookie in cultivation. "Dao Gate" referred to cultivators in general and not specifically to any particular sect. Lin Luoran had casually mentioned it that day without specifying which sect she belonged to, thus avoiding an easily exposed lie. Instead, by vaguely mentioning Dao Gate, she made it impossible for others to see through her intentions.

  But now she has offended the special department, and in the future, she will have to bear the title of the mysterious door all her life... Thinking of this, Lin Luo Ran did not explain to Qin Shuai that she didn't know the authority of the special department, but instead lowered her voice and replied: "Zou Yao Wei has a cultivator protecting him, no fatal blow... But he was seriously injured, if he doesn't receive effective treatment, the suffering Bao Jia endured that day, he will have to go through it again."

  Upon hearing Zou Yao-wei's name, a flash of murderous intent crossed Qin Shuai's eyes. "Lin Xiao-tou, the Qin family owes you a favor, I really don't know how to repay it!"

  Lin Luoran burst out laughing and said: "Baojia is just like a sister to me, I'll call you Grandfather Qin, but you're still being so distant with me, I won't stand for it."

  Qin Shiling could only say "good boy" repeatedly, and really didn't know how to answer otherwise.

  The two went upstairs together, Baojia was still in a coma, but her body was not seriously injured. After all, she was the one who had almost died and miraculously woke up again. Staying at the Military Medical Hospital for too long would be too eye-catching, so they handled the discharge procedures and let her come back to rest quietly.

  Lin Luoran checked Baojia's condition again and found nothing unusual. Seeing that there was no one around, she finally asked the doubts in her mind:

  "Does Grandfather Qin also know people who cultivate? How could he say such foundation-establishing things to Liu Zhuo?"