CHAPTER 250: 238 SHE IS THE ’REAL’ CHARLATAN!

"Uncle! Let go of my mom!" Meng Shuyan glared angrily at Li Yibai.

Being glared at by a child, and not just any child but a little boy who looked like an angry lion. So this kid had such a fiery temper. Li Yibai couldn’t help but think, back when he wanted to go to Tian Family Village to rescue him, it seemed like it wouldn’t have been easy. Such an explosive temper, not cute or obedient at all.

Moreover, did he really look that old? Why was it "Uncle" and not "Brother"?

Li Yibai awkwardly released the soft hand he was holding and apologized, "Sorry, Miss Tian, we were just trying to help. I’m really interested in the ’Hero Song’..."

Tian Sangsang’s hand stiffened. Although Li Yibai was a handsome man, she definitely didn’t like him. She really felt like slapping him!

Meng Shuyan was extremely displeased with this "uncle" who wrote *Heroic Legend of the Condor Heroes*, how dare he hold his mom’s hand! That was only something for him or his dad to do! Ugh! He’d never buy the newspaper again!

"Since Comrade Li is so interested, I’ll share a little. My conscience feels a bit uneasy anyway."

Li Yibai listened attentively.

"Actually, the ’Hero Song’ was taught to me by someone; it’s not my original work. I met that person back in my hometown..." Tian Sangsang said.

Li Yibai asked, "Who was that person?"

"It was someone with the nickname Tian Yadan."

Yadan! It was Yadan! Li Yibai was too shocked to speak. After a long moment, he finally stammered, "This Yadan is truly a genius. I’m deeply impressed. Miss Tian, could you tell me where Yadan lives? I’d definitely like to pay a visit someday!"

"I don’t know. Yadan once told me she likes to roam like a carefree wanderer, making her home wherever she goes. She rarely meets with me, but when she does, she always tells me about her past, shares strange songs, and even teaches me reverse strategies... You probably don’t know this, but I used to be really dark-skinned. It was because of Yadan’s secret remedies that I became pale."

Reverse strategies! Isn’t that a classic trope in rebirth novels?! Yadan, oh Yadan! Based on what Tian Sangsang said, Li Yibai was already certain that Yadan was one of his kind.

"Do you know if Yadan is a man or a woman?"

"She’s a woman. Yadan-jie is like a kind and understanding fairy. She was sent by the heavens to save me. It’s all because of her guidance that I gained new life. She’s my great benefactor. In my next life, I must repay her even if I have to be her ox or horse." Tian Sangsang clasped her hands devoutly and looked toward the sky.

"A woman... I never would’ve thought..." Li Yibai marveled, "Yadan truly has personality — with such a name, I thought she was a man. Miss Tian, could you share more about Yadan’s past? We deeply admire Yadan’s talents."

"Yadan, she’s very young!" Tian Sangsang hesitated. "But I promised Yadan I wouldn’t reveal her past, sorry. Only, Yadan once said she has a tagline to introduce herself. She’s... She’s... What was it?"

"What is she?!" Li Yibai looked at her eyes with anticipation.

"Let me think."

The two groups stood in the street, staring at each other. Li Yibai was anxious, wishing he could dive into Tian Sangsang’s brain. He was almost certain that Tian Sangsang’s transformation was because of Yadan. After all, many rebirth stories follow the same trope where the protagonist loves to change other people’s life paths. Tian Sangsang’s life path clearly had been altered!

"There’s a word I hadn’t heard before. Yadan always liked to use strange words. What was it, though?"

"What was it?" Li Yibai’s palms were sweating.

"Oh, right... it was stick. Yadan said she was some kind of... stick..."

"Stick?" Li Yibai frowned thoughtfully, "Did she mean divine stick?!"

"Yes!" Tian Sangsang exclaimed excitedly, "Exactly! Divine stick! Comrade Li, you’re so good at writing novels, so impressive!"

Li Yibai’s face turned beet red with shock. A divine stick! If it were just a reincarnator, he could console himself — later reincarnation novels weren’t so monotonous and often gave the protagonist one or two reborn rivals as obstacles. But what’s going on now? Even a divine stick appeared! And worse, the divine stick might even be involved in cultivation!

As someone who was simply a plagiarist, he definitely couldn’t compete with a cultivator!

Impatiently waiting nearby, Li Mei found their conversation increasingly bizarre and incomprehensible.

"Mom, let’s go," Meng Shuyan gently tugged on Tian Sangsang’s hand.

"Alright~" Tian Sangsang picked up his tiny body and nodded toward Li Yibai and the others, "We’re off, then."

Li Yibai stood there in a daze, seemingly lost in his own thoughts. He muttered coldly at her retreating figure, "Fuck!"

Tian Sangsang didn’t respond.

"Bitch!"

Tian Sangsang suddenly turned her head and blinked her almond-shaped eyes in confusion, "Comrade Li, what’s wrong? Were you calling me?"

Li Yibai stared at her for a few seconds. Her expression was bewildered, pure, and clueless. She didn’t seem to know those two words!

"Just two English words that came to mind suddenly."

Tian Sangsang said, "Oh, I thought it was some local dialect. But those two English words sound familiar... I think Yadan mentioned them before. What do they mean? Let me think..."

Li Yibai hurriedly interjected, "They don’t mean anything!"

"Forget it. My education level is low, not like you university types. I won’t think about it anymore!" She shook her head.

"Wait, Miss Tian!" Li Yibai reached out.

Just as Li Yibai’s hand was about to touch Tian Sangsang’s hand again, the four people felt a cold wind brush their faces, accompanied by Li Yibai’s scream of pain, "Ouch!"

Startled, Tian Sangsang turned around. Standing in front of them was the ever-cool Guan Kunling.

Releasing Li Yibai’s hand, Guan Kunling’s icy gaze showed no emotion. "If you need something, seek me. Don’t touch her again. Otherwise, I’ll chop your hand off."

"Hey, who are you! How dare you make threats! Where did you come from?!" Li Mei rushed to support Li Yibai, shouting sharply at Guan Kunling.

Li Yibai’s eyes were glazed over as he raised a trembling hand to stop her. The Little Dragon Girl... Such an ethereal and pure being actually existed in this world.

"If you keep staring, I’ll dig your eyes out," came the cold voice.

Li Yibai shrank his neck. Li Mei furiously glared at Guan Kunling, "How dare you bully people in broad daylight! Don’t think we won’t call the police!"

"Shut your mouth, ugly." Guan Kunling glanced at her dismissively.

Li Mei clenched her fists tightly.

"Auntie Guan!" Meng Shuyan happily stretched out his arms toward her, "Did you fly here? Your Qinggong is amazing!"

Tian Sangsang moved to hand Meng Shuyan to her.

Guan Kunling looked a little flustered but still reached out to take his soft little body. The young master was just too adorable~~~

"Yanyan’s foot is healed?" Guan Kunling asked.

"Yes, all thanks to you." They were planning to find Guan Kunling anyway, but who’d have thought she’d come herself?

"Right, didn’t you go off to pursue poetry and distant lands?"

Guan Kunling hesitated, her cheeks slightly red. "Poetry and distant lands... The farther I went, the more remote it felt. So, I came back."

Meanwhile, in Li Yibai’s mind, countless *** galloped by. Yadan, it was her! She’s Yadan! A divine stick who knows Qinggong! And even understands poetry and distant lands!