Journey back to the mansion.

We were all inside my room at the inn, Uncle looked coldly at Leo who sat with a chair next to me.

I couldn't take the tension any longer, I coughed and spoke a little.

"Cough cough, Well uncle Ming, Leonardo will go with us"

The uncle's gaze shifted to me and he opened his mouth speaking.

"Young master, why are you taking a cultivator you don't know and has a stronger foundation than you with us?"

It may seem strange indeed, but besides thinking he was a good person, something told me that at least on this trip I should go with him, and instinct and destiny were something I learned through Art and reading inscriptions in the palace.

"Well you can say.. it was a good hearted moment and wanting company." I spoke with a smile, I didn't exactly have a way to explain the feeling to him.

Of course, the uncle didn't accept this reason so well.

But I didn't let him dwell on the subject.

"He's strong and I believe in him, besides you'll be there right uncle~?"

I asked with a soft tone, which made my uncle sigh and a certain someone neither of us saw looked at it with apparently a sour feeling that he didn't quite understand.

"Alright, young master"

"Well, how about we eat something for dinner and sleep?"

I said, standing up and clapping my hands, which the two didn't respond to other than nodding their heads and following us.

Leo even took my hand, which I didn't end up paying special attention to, perhaps used to my older brother's clinginess. Of course, the same does not apply to the uncle, who narrowed his eyes at the scene.

In the canteen we ordered soup made from spiritual vegetables and meat from a monster like duck with a Qi Condensation Realm and some bread made from golden wheat.

It was quite refreshing and had a healthy and tasty taste, good skills for an inn chef.

During dinner I also talked about topics with them, and tried to lighten the atmosphere a little...but the uncle didn't seem so active and Leonardo didn't seem to show interest in anything other than talking to me, at least he shared some of his tastes and stories, I especially found interesting a story he told about his childhood and him stealing some manuals from a pavilion...although sometimes there seems to be a misunderstanding in his stories that sometimes he seems to live his childhood in a rich place and sometimes he doesn't.

"So, Alex. Do you have a brother, sister and grandfather?"

"Yes!! I'm very close to them and they are the most important people in my life today" I spoke with a loving smile remembering my family members at the mansion.

"And you?" I asked curiously.

"I...well...in this life, I mean, I have some brothers and a father, a grandfather, my mother passed away...but I'm not close to anyone, especially."

I noticed an interesting mistake in his speech, but I didn't comment.

"I see"

The conversation lasted a little longer and everyone went back to a room. I went to take a shower and rest a little in my space.

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Leonardo PVO

I looked outside the inn and didn't expect to find such an interesting young man...

I don't even know why I'm so interested in him. in neither of my two lives, especially the first one, after so many years of life, I was interested in someone.

But for some reason, something about him attracts me and makes me want to be close to him.

For me, who has basically always lived alone as a solo cultivator and with many enemies in the past, it was a strange feeling…

"I…I wonder if that was what that old dead weight once told me…that he had the hight compreension in the rare Dao of destiny and in the Dao of the future…that he could see traces of things in the world…or rather of the possibilities that the future can bring... I remember him telling me that in that body I wouldn't find what I was looking for and only when I bloomed again would I find what mattered most to me and the most important person... and I would know just by looking" I murmured remembering the old man who was isolated on that mountain.

"Hahahahah" And remembering that, I couldn't help but laugh, destiny is never fixed, hence possibilities. But it influences and is undeniable... just like my attraction when I saw him for the first time and the increasing need to be close to him as time passes.

Looking up at the sky and remembering the past...I could only sigh and following my instinct. That was something I always did and it always worked out before that day anyway.

"Well…I'll stay with you, my Alex…" he said and i didint realize the my in the sentence.

And I went to bed while playing with the darkness on my fingers and traces of other dao energies that I still couldn't use as much and didn't understand as I restarted cultivation.

….

MC POV

In the morning after eating sandwiches made of cheese and vegetables like tomatoes and similar and a glass of orange juice.

And we gathered in front of the gate.

The uncle got on one of the horses we come and I got on the other, touching the fluffy hair on his head.

And because of Leo's insistence and request and because I didn't mind, he's going to share the horse with me instead of us renting some other beast, even though, my uncle tried to resist.

II went up and Leo climbed up behind me and wrapped his arms around my waist and his head very close to my silvery blonde hair, almost as if he was smelling it...

Ignoring the strange sensation I moved the horse returning to the capital and the family mansion.