I am an incredibly handsome man, and my fiancée refuses to call off the engagement even at the cost

Whether there's a problem or not, Gu Yan could tell with a single glance of his divine sense. After scanning Jiang Mian with his divine sense, he smiled, patted Jiang Mian's head, and said gently, "You haven't made a mistake in your cultivation. It seems you've worked very hard all these years."

When Gu Yan patted her head, Jiang Mian's beautiful face flushed bright red, like a ripe red apple. Everyone else who saw this was filled with envy and jealousy.

"Uncle, I want to touch it too!"

"I want to be patted on the head too, Uncle! I want to be patted on the head too!!"

"Uncle, I want to be patted on the head too."

Gu Yan: "..."

There was no other way; to be fair, Gu Yan had to touch everyone's heads. Then Jiang Miao and Jiang Yuan protested. Jiang Miao tugged at Gu Yan's sleeve, pleading pitifully, "What about me, cousin? I want to be touched on the head too! I want to be touched on the head too..."

Gu Yan's lips twitched. Jiang Mian and the others were his juniors, so it was one thing to pat their heads, but they were his peers, and even older than him. What was there to pat?

"Cousin, cousin, I want one too!!" Jiang Yuan exclaimed.

"Me too!!" Jiang Xue exclaimed.

"Cousins, please stop fooling around. Where are my parents? Why aren't they in the palace?" Gu Yan asked.

Jiang Shuo said from the side, "My aunt and uncle are currently in Qingyun City on the Miro Continent. They said they wanted to go back and visit a few years ago, and then they left several years ago."

After hearing this, Gu Yan spread her divine sense and indeed saw her parents on the Miro Continent.

"Then I'll go find them."

After Gu Yan finished speaking, she smiled slightly and disappeared in front of everyone.

"Cousin—"

Jiang Shuo and the others called out, but there was no trace of Gu Yan anywhere.

With Gu Yan's current cultivation level, going to the Mi Luo Continent would be a matter of a blink of an eye. In the blink of an eye, he crossed the Endless Sea and arrived at Qingyun City of the Ruohe Empire on the Mi Luo Continent.

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Qingyun City, the Gu family.

More than ten thousand years have passed, and Qingyun City hasn't changed much, except that it's become more prosperous. The Gu family mansion in Qingyun City remains almost unchanged, just as it was back then. In the garden of the Gu family mansion, Jiang Shunhua and Li Yuan are drinking tea, enjoying a peaceful afternoon.

Some of the servants in this mansion are new hires, but most are old employees.

More than ten thousand years ago, after Gu Yan became the Peerless King of the Tianyang Empire, she asked Aunt Hong, Uncle Chen, and Uncle Ding if they wanted to come to the Tianyang Empire. Some people chose to come to the Tianyang Empire, while others were used to living in Qingyun City and had never left.

"The sunshine is wonderful today. I wonder how Yan'er is doing now?" Jiang Shunhua said.

Li Yuan: "Senior Dugu Meng said he's fine, so he wouldn't lie to us."

Dugu Meng had no reason to deceive them.

"That brat! He promised to be back soon, but he's been gone for twelve thousand years. When he comes back, I'm going to give him a good beating," Jiang Shunhua said.

Gu Yan, who appeared behind them, spoke weakly upon hearing her mother's words:

"Then please be gentle."

Upon hearing this voice, Li Yuan and Jiang Shunhua trembled and turned around abruptly. When they saw Gu Yan standing behind them, they were both astonished.

That brat, he's finally back!!

"Father, Mother!"

Gu Yan called out.

"Yan'er!"

When Li Yuan and Jiang Shunhua stood up at the same time, they walked towards Gu Yan.

Jiang Shunhua held Gu Yan's hand, looked him up and down, and then said with relief, "You little rascal, what did you say before? You actually left for more than ten thousand years."

"I didn't want this to happen either. I didn't expect it. I was just looking at the original 'Great Sun Golden Crow Technique,' and it turned into some kind of trial. When I woke up, I found that so much time had passed. It was just an accident. I'm sorry to have made you worry again," Gu Yan said apologetically.

"Your parents aren't really blaming you, they're just too worried about you," Li Yuan said. "How are you? Did your cultivation improve again?"

He had long been unable to fathom his son's cultivation level, and after becoming a god, he realized that the gap between their cultivation levels was widening. This time, Gu Yan's return gave him the feeling that she was even more powerful than before.

"Yes, I'm already a Celestial King," Gu Yan said with a smile.

Li Yuan: "..."

Jiang Shunhua: "..."

The couple were both stunned.

He's already a Celestial King!! What kind of cultivation speed is that?!

They were starting to doubt themselves—how could someone with their own aptitude have given birth to such a heaven-defying child? But this doubt lasted only a moment, as Li Yuan immediately burst into laughter: "Hahahaha, good, good, good, as expected of my son!! Hahahaha..."

The family of three sat down around the table, and Gu Yan asked them about the various things that had happened over the past ten thousand years. As they were talking, Gu Yan sensed a familiar presence. He turned around and saw a woman in red walking from the corridor. The woman was beautiful, looked to be about twenty-five or twenty-six years old, with her long hair tied up high, and her cultivation level was at the Spirit Emperor realm.

The moment she saw Gu Yan, she showed an expression of disbelief, and froze on the spot as if struck by lightning.

Upon seeing her, Gu Yan stood up. He looked at Song Yan, whom he hadn't seen for over ten thousand years, and smiled gently.

"Long time no see."

"Ayan..." Song Yan murmured the name softly, tears welling up in her eyes.

She thought she would never see him again in her life.

When Li Yuan and Jiang Shunhua saw Song Yan crying tears of joy, and then looked at their son, Li Yuan cleared his throat and said to his wife beside him, "Aunt Hong said that making osmanthus cake is taking so long, why don't we go and take a look?"

"Okay. You two chat, we'll go check out the kitchen," Jiang Shunhua said.

After saying that, the couple walked away.

Song Yan's eyes were blurry with tears. Seeing her crying, Gu Yan was a little unsure what to do; he wasn't good at comforting girls. Thankfully, Song Yan stopped crying on her own. She wiped away her tears and walked towards Gu Yan. Looking at his face, which was even more handsome than before, she softly said, "Long time no see!"

It's been so long, more than 15,500 years.

"You, you... I heard that you, you're not in the Cloud Realm," Song Yan said, trying to start a conversation. Over the years, she had come to Qingyun City every now and then to inquire about Gu Yan's whereabouts. At first, she couldn't get any information out of her, but later, Aunt Hong, seeing how infatuated she was, simply told her the truth.

Song Yan already knew that the person in front of her was not her fiancé at all; her fiancé had died before he was even born.

The person she longed for came from another continent; he was the Peerless King of the Tianyang Empire.

They are even among the top experts in all the heavens and myriad realms.

The gap between them was simply too great.

Even so, she still couldn't forget him.