TSFLIP Chapter 488

“Xiao Xiao started trafficking arms with his father when he was just five years old. By the time he was ten, he was running operations independently. When he was twelve, it took a hundred thousand Imperial soldiers to arrest him finally,” Xu Wang explained.

Feng Guang stared at him for a long moment before finally managing to close her mouth. “Then… if he’s a prisoner, how can he just walk out of the prison so freely?”

“Every time he gives the Alliance a cache of weapons he had hidden away, he earns a special privilege. So, if he wants to go for a walk, it’s not a big deal.” Xu Wang’s tone was calm, as if he were simply stating a fact, not something completely outrageous.

Feng Guang raised her hand to her forehead, needing a moment to process this. “Are all the kids around here… this impressive?”

She had wanted to say badass, but decided “impressive” sounded more polite in front of Xu Wang.

Xu Wang chuckled. “Not all of them.”

Judging from his tone, though, there were quite a few like Xiao Xiao.

Feng Guang turned away and let out a heavy sigh.

“Miss Xia, what’s wrong?”

“I was just… thinking back to myself at thirteen.”

“Oh?”

“And realizing—I can’t recall a single thing I did that anyone would consider impressive.”

Xu Wang offered her a gentle reassurance. “That’s not your fault, Miss Xia.”

She turned back to him with a pitiful blink. “Thanks for saying that. Um… I’ve been staying here for free, and that doesn’t feel right. Is there anything I can help with? I can mop the floors or do laundry if needed.”

Preferably something that gave her an excuse to walk around.

“I heard Miss Xia is from Earth… from a few thousand years ago?”

Feng Guang figured he must’ve heard this from Xiao Xiao, so she nodded honestly. “That’s right.”

“In that case, I do have something you could help me with.”

In this era, people no longer used printed books, but in Xu Wang’s study, every shelf was filled with physical, paper-bound books.

He led her to one of the bookshelves and pulled down a volume with a faded, yellowed cover—quite old.

“I’ve always been interested in ancient Earth culture,” he said. “This is a book I stumbled upon by chance. It’s written in an old script. I’d like to ask if Miss Xia could help me translate it?”

“Of course,” Feng Guang said, taking the book from him. On the cover were the characters for Stray Birds. That’s when she realized something: the characters she had learned in her world were completely different from those used here, yet she could read both fluently. Which meant… she was kind of like a cheat character, just like the heroine.

What’s more, considering how language evolves over thousands of years, their spoken language should have changed, too, but somehow, both she and Nan Xiaoxiao could speak and understand it without issue. Feng Guang silently thanked Nan Xiaoxiao in her heart. If she hadn’t transmigrated alongside the main heroine, she probably would’ve had to use points just to unlock the “universal language” option.

But her excitement didn’t last long. Faced with Xu Wang, she looked a little awkward. “Um… I can’t write in your script. What should I do?”

Yes, even though she could understand and read it, she didn’t know how to write their characters.

Xu Wang smiled. “That’s not a problem. Miss Xia can read it aloud—I’ll write it down.”

He led her over to a desk by the window. They sat across from each other, and the desk was already prepared with paper and a pen. Xu Wang’s long fingers wrapped around a fountain pen, and against the stark white paper, his hands looked even more refined and elegant.

That’s when Feng Guang realized… she might just have a thing for hands. She couldn’t tear her eyes away.