Lin Fan couldn't help revealing a bitter smile when he saw this.
He had a guess as to why she was ignoring him like this, but there wasn't anything that he could do since it was all his fault that things turned out like this.
Xin'er was still standing beside Angela and Angela could see the look on Lin Fan's face, so she decided to help him in the end. After all, she couldn't bare to stand Xin'er unhappy like this.
ραΠdαsΝοvel.cοm So Angela patted Xin'er's back and then whispered a few things to her, while also pointing and gesturing to me from time to time.
But during all of this, Xin'er had turned her head away and wouldn't look at me for a single second.
It was like she was doing all that she could to avoid me which hurt my heart even more…
But it wasn't as if I could blame her since I was the one that had disappeared for five years.
Finally, Xin'er couldn't take it anymore and said, "He's the one that disappeared for five years without even sending a single letter! He's the one that doesn't care about me, so why should I go hug him?"
With her stating it so clearly, it wasn't as if anyone could say anything to her.
At the same time, it felt like my heart had cracked in half because of what Xin'er had said.
But once again, I couldn't fault her since it was all my fault.
After this outburst from Xin'er, everyone fell silent as they looked at me. With the way that they were all looking at me, it was as if they were waiting for me to do something.
I knew what they were expecting from me, so I slowly walked forward towards Xin'er.
At first, Xin'er took a step back when she saw me moving towards her, but then she stood there without moving. However, she still wasn't looking at me and firmly had her head turned as if she didn't want to see me at all.
Once I was in front of her, I said, "I'm sorry, it was my fault. I know that there's no excuse for what I've done, but I just want to say that in the five years I was trapped, I wanted to write to you all every single day."
Xin'er couldn't help trembling when she heard this, but she didn't turn her head around.
Lin Fan just stood there, but seeing that she wasn't willing to forgive, he suddenly turned around as if he was about to leave.
It was then that Xin'er finally turned around and ran forward to grab him from behind.
In a soft voice, she asked, "Did you really mean it?"
Lin Fan turned around with a sad smile as he said, "Everything. I want you to know that I mean everything."
With this, Xin'er could no longer hold it back and she ran into his arms with tears in her eyes.
She had been hurt that she hadn't heard a single thing from Lin Fan for these past five years.
Before this, she would receive letters from him from time to time.
These letters were just simple checkups, but they meant much more to her who had already adopted him as her father.
She actually knew that there must have been some reason why Lin Fan had suddenly stopped contacting her. And even though Lin Fan had stopped contacting her, during these long five years, she had been in contact with Angela, so she did know everything.
But there was still a small part of her that blamed Lin Fan for all of this because she was hurt by the fact that he hadn't contacted her.
It was almost as if he…didn't want her anymore.
So she had acted up since she was still a child, but more than anything, she was just happy that he was back.
After this emotional reunion, Lin Fan turned his attention to the Mu Stellar King again.
He walked over to the Mu Stellar King and patted him on the shoulder before saying, "It must have been hard over the years."
The Mu Stellar King gave a sigh, but he said, "There's nothing that we can do about it. We can only blame that damn Beast Race for all of this."
Lin Fan gave a slight nod in agreement when he heard this.
Even now, he was still confused why the Beast Race had suddenly done this.
Even if they had gained some kind of power from the Outers, it made more sense to slowly build up their power and then try to invade the human race. That would allow them to gather more information and make the best moves in their invasion plan.
However, the Beast Race didn't do this.
Why they didn't do this, Lin Fan had no idea.
At the same time, it also wasn't important.
The most important thing was thinking of a way to deal with the Beast Race right now.
His first starting point was the Mu Stellar Kingdom.
Only by driving out the Beast Race in the surrounding area would he be able to protect the people that he cared about.
That was what he was going to discuss with the Mu Stellar King.
When they sat down, there were many others that sat down with them.
Since this was a discussion about the defenses of the Mu Stellar Kingdom against the Beast Race invasion, naturally the ministers and generals of the Mu Stellar Kingdom had also been called to this meeting.
At first, the generals and ministers were surprised to see Lin Fan at this meeting, but they quickly learned who he was.
Then they were surprised for a completely different reason.
After all, even if they were in the Mu Stellar Kingdom and their king was the highest person here, that didn't mean that the Mu Stellar King was the highest person in this room.
In terms of rank, Lin Fan as a member of the Lin Astral Family outranked him.
The Mu Stellar Kingdom was under the Lin Astral Empire after all.
Not to mention that Lin Fan had a very special identity that even surpassed his identity as a member of the Lin Astral Family.
Lin Fan had already been named as the successor of the Lin Astral Emperor, so he was considered the crown prince of the Lin Astral Empire.
Compared to a normal member of the Lin Astral Family, Lin Fan was much higher since he was the future Lin Astral Emperor.
So no matter how one looked at it, Lin Fan had a much higher status than the Mu Stellar King.
But in this meeting, it was the Mu Stellar King who sat at the head of the table and Lin Fan sat to his right.
There were many people that were afraid that Lin Fan would take this personally.
They all wanted the Mu Stellar King to give up his seat at the table to Lin Fan, even if it meant lowering his own position in this meeting.
In fact, that was what the Mu Stellar King had intended to do before Lin Fan stopped him.
Lin Fan just went to sit at the right hand side of the main seat on his own and gestured for the Mu Stellar King to sit.
Once Lin Fan did this, there was nothing that the Mu Stellar King could do but take this seat.
During this meeting, the ministers and generals went from being worried to revealing passionate looks. After all, they could see from the way that Lin Fan talked to the Mu Stellar King that they were very close.
With the way that they were talking to each other, one might even think that they were brothers with how casually they spoke to one another.
If their Mu Stellar King had such a close relationship with the crown prince of the Lin Astral Empire, there was no doubt that they would have a bright future as long as they were able to weather the invasion of the Beast Race.
That made all of them very excited.
During this meeting, Lin Fan only spoke a limited amount as he listened to the reports about the Beast Race.
He had already seen these reports since the Mu Stellar Kingdom had already sent these reports to the Lin Astral Empire.
However, it was different hearing these reports from the people that had sent them in.
This allowed him to get a different perspective and he also learned quite a few things that weren't in the report.
First, there was no other special law that the invading tribe from the Beast Race used.
It seemed that all of the invaders only used one special law, which was this strange spatial law that was different from the one that existed in this world.
At the very least, that meant that this group of Beast Race troops had only met with a single group of Outers and hadn't gained more laws from them.
Since that was the case, Lin Fan didn't need to hesitate.
If he wiped all of them out, he was sure that he would be able to draw out the ones behind them.
At the same time, if they didn't have any other laws, he wouldn't have a problem since he had already been able to defeat those Beast Race Experts that had used this law.
So with this, the plan had been set.
But before he left to take care of the Beast Race, Lin Fan had something else to take care of first.
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