Dragon's Origin

## Chapter 616: The Despairing A'Qi (Part 1)

Ever since A'Qi learned about her younger brother's news, she couldn't wait to rush to the Xia Kingdom.

Wang Sheng also supported her in finding her brother, so A'Qi had no worries and could focus on reuniting with her family.

However, as a former Xia Kingdom assassin and now Wang Sheng's person, A'Qi's words didn't carry the same weight as Wang Sheng's in the Xia Kingdom. Given her status, it was simply impossible for her to approach a leading expert of the younger generation in the Xia Kingdom.

Of course, A'Qi couldn't give up on recognizing her brother, so she could only use other indirect methods to achieve her goal.

Fortunately, A'Qi had the support of Wang Sheng's vast financial resources behind her. Although it was only at the level of a million gold coins, it was enough for A'Qi. It was enough for A'Qi to offer great benefits to bribe people within the Xia Kingdom and slowly approach her brother.

Initially, A'Qi definitely wanted to observe him up close first to confirm that it was her brother.

Carefully approaching, A'Qi carefully observed for two whole months. From his appearance to the digging into his origins, everything indicated that the young expert from the Xia Kingdom named Xia Tianzong was A'Qi's younger brother, the biological brother who had been separated from her after being adopted by the Xia family since childhood.

After confirming this, A'Qi almost burst into tears of joy. After so many years of persistence, she finally got the best result. Her brother was not only alive but also a promising expert.

At that time, A'Qi almost wanted to appear directly in front of Xia Tianzong. Unfortunately, her status was destined to be worlds apart from Xia Tianzong. Not to mention directly approaching Xia Tianzong, she would be rejected by Xia Tianzong's guards outside the gate.

When A'Qi tried every means to bribe those experts in the Xia Kingdom, she finally arranged a chance for A'Qi to meet him by chance, allowing A'Qi to have a very short time to say a few words to Xia Tianzong.

A'Qi waited anxiously for the opportunity to come. She didn't know what to say when she met Xia Tianzong. The gains and losses were completely the true portrayal of A'Qi at that time.

"Brother, I am your sister." A'Qi directly shook her head, no, it's too straightforward, it's not appropriate.

"Tianzong, I am your long-lost sister, do you remember?" A'Qi shook her head again, no, it's too abrupt.

...

A'Qi thought a lot, thought a lot about what to say. She clearly had a lot to say, but A'Qi felt that every sentence was inappropriate. She didn't figure out what to say until the opportunity came.

However, when they met at the pre-arranged small tavern, A'Qi found that she didn't need to say anything anymore, because Xia Tianzong spoke first.

"You are the one who has been investigating me recently, aren't you?" A'Qi's arrangement was very clever, it was just the two of them, with no outsiders. But as soon as they met, Xia Tianzong directly asked A'Qi.

At this moment, Xia Tianzong's cultivation was in the middle stage of the Legend Realm. With his age and as a master of the ninth level, he could definitely be called the hope of the Xia family. For a Legend Realm expert like him to meet an ordinary person of the sixth level, Xia Tianzong didn't worry about his safety at all.

"How dare you!" Xia Tianzong said expressionlessly, staring at A'Qi, with unspeakable disgust: "Do you really think I didn't notice that you bribed my guards? All the news you know was passed on to you under my instructions."

"Tianzong, you..." A'Qi didn't expect Xia Tianzong to speak like this as soon as they met, and couldn't help but call out.

"Tianzong is not someone you are qualified to call." Xia Tianzong replied coldly: "This young master is a direct descendant of the Xia family, and you are just an insignificant assassin of my Xia family. Drop those unrealistic fantasies!"

A'Qi was directly stunned. Xia Tianzong seemed to know everything, but he actually had such an attitude. Why?

"I said, all the news you want to know was sent out under my instructions." Xia Tianzong looked at A'Qi, his eyes without any expression, as if facing a stranger, in fact, he was facing a stranger, without any emotion.

"Considering that you once worked for my Xia family and made contributions, I don't mind giving you a little psychological comfort." Xia Tianzong's words were like sharp knives, stabbing A'Qi's heart one by one: "But that's all, don't think you can take an inch and have undue thoughts."

"You are just a servant without even a surname. Since you have now followed someone, then honestly serve your master." Xia Tianzong's expression was still cold and unfamiliar: "You are just a gift, just an object to please people, don't think you are already someone important."

In A'Qi's mind, bursts of thunder sounded, and she completely didn't know why she could still stand in place instead of collapsing on the ground.

It can be said that for a long time, A'Qi lived by the thought that she still had a younger brother to take care of. For this reason, she could be a Xia family assassin, could die at any time, and could even endure being sent by the Xia family to Wang Sheng as a gift.

But she couldn't bear that everything she had paid was nothing in her brother's eyes, and even Xia Tianzong told her not to have unrealistic fantasies.

If she could still stand in place because of perseverance, then Xia Tianzong's last sentence that he would personally kill A'Qi shattered all of A'Qi's fantasies.

When Xia Tianzong turned and left, A'Qi directly collapsed on the ground, her mind blank, with nothing left.

After a long time, A'Qi seemed to come back to her senses, and finally had that feeling of despair. All thoughts were lost, as if the breath that had supported A'Qi to live until now no longer existed. Within A'Qi's body, there was only an empty shell left, and her soul didn't know where it had drifted.

A'Qi didn't even know how she left that tavern. There was no direction ahead, she just walked randomly to the emptiest place, like a puppet who had lost her soul.

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