Reborn As A Villainous Cannon Fodder

As soon as he said it, the whole living room went dead quiet for several seconds.

Yino’s eyes were sharp and clear, locked on the girl’s face the whole time, watching her reaction.

The latter also froze for a moment, then turned to face Yino’s curiosity directly, her eyebrows slightly raised, her originally beautiful and cute phoenix face showing some confusion:

“Jinjie, you mean Jinyu’s sister?”

Xinyao from the crazy Western Region was naturally quick on her feet.

Her smooth answer made sense, but Yino still caught something fishy in that few-second pause.

“Mm… I thought Aunty would have sent people to secretly protect me these past six months.”

“Hehe, I did send people to watch you.”

When she said this, Xinyao grinned playfully, and even her foot that’d been chilling in Yino’s arms started wiggling her toes.

Her foot was quite restless, moving up along his abdomen, naturally hooking onto the little bean on Yino’s chest.

Yino couldn’t stand her teasing like this and could only quickly reach out to hold Xinyao’s ankle.

“But since they were supposed to secretly protect you, how could the shadow guards I sent be spotted by some Core Formation kid like you?”

Xinyao kept talking casually, looking straight at Yino without any panic in her eyes.

It’s just that from the back angle Yino couldn’t see, fine beads of sweat had already slid down Xinyao’s nape.

“Think about it, if even you could discover them, then when real political enemies came for revenge, how could these shadow guards truly protect you?”

Xinyao was still mixing truth and lies seriously.

Actually, the so-called high-level shadow guards did exist, but the Grand Tutor’s mansion had indeed never assigned any guards to Yino.

The reasons were complex, mainly related to Yino’s background.

Back when Yino was first brought by Xinyao, the Grand Tutor’s mansion elders were all frowning, looking at him more like a hot potato than their own little grandson.

Honestly… Xinyao didn’t think the Grand Tutor’s mansion elders intended to protect Yino.

Their attitude seemed to be that as long as he didn’t die at the Grand Tutor’s mansion, Yino could die anywhere else in the world without it being a problem.

What was more cruel was that Xinyao had initially thought the same way.

She wasn’t really Yino’s aunt…

She was just an orphan adopted by that Phoenix Lord.

She was that Phoenix Lord’s subordinate. Before being assigned to the Grand Tutor’s mansion to serve as his aunt, Xinyao was basically no different from a shadow guard.

She’d always done dirty work in the Western Region. She wasn’t originally a noble phoenix spirit either. If not for the Phoenix Lord taking pity on her, Xinyao would probably still be a street pickpocket in the Western Region ancient countries…

Well… The current Western Region no longer had so many ancient countries left. Xinyao should have been captured and made a slave in Demon Abyss City.

In short, Xinyao was just of lowly birth. She had no noble morals, so how could she possibly have so called family affection for Yino, an outsider?

She just… She’d grown soft-hearted toward that little guy who bounced around the mansion every day calling her auntie.

Those elders weren’t close to Yino, but at least Xinyao as an aunt was close to him.

For a long time, Xinyao thought she’d be Yino’s only close relative at the Grand Tutor’s mansion.

But later, Yino’s growth completely exceeded Xinyao’s expectations.

At that time, Wuji Sect’s sect master Mu Daosheng often came to the Grand Tutor’s mansion as a guest.

He was grinning from ear to ear every time, practically praising Yino to the skies. This gradually led the Grand Tutor’s mansion elders to reassess his value.

So… Just recently, the Grand Tutor’s mansion elders had actually written saying they planned to send two court shadow guards to protect Yino.

This was all earned through Yino’s own efforts.

From this perspective, what Xinyao said was indeed half true and half false.

“Is that so.”

“So I’m that important at the Grand Tutor’s mansion?”

Yino smirked and shrugged off Xinyao’s words.

He knew very well about his background and status in the He family.

He thought, If there really were shadow guards protecting me like Xinyao says, the original Yino wouldn’t have died so ridiculously in the first volume.

“Yino, why do you belittle yourself so?”

The young man’s self-abandoning shrug expression still made Xinyao’s face gradually show sternness and seriousness.

She sat up slightly, no longer playing around with Yino, but spoke coldly with some anger: “As long as I am alive, no one can touch you!”

“However, even if aunty cares about you so much, I can’t help it if you run around all over the map!”

“You still have the nerve to be sarcastic about the mansion not valuing you?”

“Yino, do you know how worried I was when you disappeared…!”

When she said this, Xinyao puffed her cheeks, her eyes getting watery from Yino’s attitude.

Just a few hours ago, how anxious Xinyao had been.

Yino was like a little ghost running around everywhere. In the blink of an eye, he would disappear from his original location. She’d run all the way to Demon Abyss to find him, but he’d magically returned to Western Province City.

Damn it…

With him doing this, even if I had three heads and six arms, I can’t possibly protect him!

Xinyao had originally just wanted him to be safe and didn’t want to bring up these topics, but she couldn’t stand his light, self-mocking tone.

“Sorry…”

Though Yino didn’t understand what she had experienced, in this situation, bathed in the girl’s aggrieved gaze, he still instinctively apologized obediently.

“So aunty actually knew I was in danger early on, which is why you came all the way from Luo City here?”

“Otherwise! Do you think your aunty is so free that she’d come all the way to Jin City to pull strings for you? If not for me, you’d have been captured by Western Province City elders for harsh interrogation long ago!”

When she said this, Xinyao clearly carried resentment.

She hadn’t even gotten around to bragging about her achievements, but Yino had started with “Am I that important?” acting like no one in the world cared about him.

“So it was aunty who helped contact City Lord Li…”

Yino felt somewhat embarrassed, thinking, I got confused by Nina’s interference and forgot I’d been wondering why City Lord Li Yu arrived so early to help me out of trouble.

Now with his aunt’s piece of the puzzle complete, the entire event’s context became much clearer.

It’s just…

Thinking this way, Yino couldn’t help but be more suspicious, There’s gotta be some identity connection between Xinyao and the Hundred Spirits Pavilion Master – these two characters are way too similar.

“Thank you.”

Yino sighed and finally lowered his head.

Seeing the young man wasn’t completely ungrateful, Xinyao snorted and crossed her arms. Her teary expression immediately brightened, like nothing had happened.

“So, didn’t you want to know what I’ve been doing this time?”

With the conversation reaching this point, past conflicts all discussed, Yino finally planned to chat with Xinyao about some serious topics concerning the future.

Yino suddenly becoming serious made Xinyao sit up straight too, her cute face turned full of curiosity as she observed the young man:

“Actually, it’s a long story that I’ll tell aunty slowly later.”

“The long and short of it is, I seem to have fought my way through and accidentally broke through to Nascent Soul stage in the Demon Abyss….”

At the end, Yino smirked and raised his left hand, rolling up his sleeve to show off the divine left hand that had personally refined the core in the Demon Abyss half a day ago.

“Aunty, look, this hand of mine seems to have unlocked some strange patterns.”

“??_??!”

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