He's spoiled rotten; that wolf cub knows how to flirt and be affectionate.

"Hahahaha! Can't you swim?!"

"Isn't the water nice in winter? Isn't it super refreshing? Hahaha!"

The boys mocked each other relentlessly by the pond, where a cold wind was blowing, as they ridiculed the people in the water.

The water was frozen over, with only a gap where the boy who had been struggling in the water had fallen in; it was clearly the gap he had created when he fell in.

He could swim and was preparing to climb onto the ice when...

suddenly!

It felt like something was grabbing his ankle and pulling him down forcefully.

"save……"

He uttered an incomplete word before sinking underwater.

The three boys on the shore exchanged glances, and two of them seemed flustered.

"How did he fall? Should we save him?"

"What if something goes wrong?!"

The other boy was also a little flustered, but he remained calm on the surface. He glanced coldly at the two of them and said, "If you go to save him, don't come looking for me again!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he turned and left.

The remaining two boys looked at each other, then gritted their teeth and followed.

Fang Lin is currently the only talented individual in the Fang family with the potential to become the family head. They cannot afford to offend him. In any case, Fang Tinglan's parents are already dead, and no one knows that he was with them. Even if he were dead, no one would suspect them.

Cold, despair, death and suffocation.

Death seemed to be beckoning to him.

At that moment, Fang Tinglan seemed to see his father and mother, smiling at him in a warm light. He hadn't dreamed of them in a long time; he missed them terribly.

The grip around his ankle tightened, and there must be deep marks on his foot.

What dragged him into the darkness, he didn't know, nor did he want to know.

"Fang Tinglan!"

A woman's voice suddenly rang out from the water.

His wrist was grabbed, and he suddenly opened his eyes, seeing a scene that would be etched into his heart for the rest of his life.

Her black hair flowed in the water, her eyes were cold and her lips were red, her skin was fair, and behind her was a seemingly endless body of water, as dark as night. The light that fell from above her head was comparable to the starry sky, and she was as beautiful as an elf born from the water.

It's addictive, it's decadent, it makes you willing to stop breathing for a second.

"Are you stupid!" she cursed again.

Qu Yi glanced down, and the humanoid figure, blending into the darkness, trembled violently and quickly released Fang Tinglan's foot.

"Cough cough cough cough!"

Fang Tinglan lay on the shore coughing until he was done, then looked up at the unfamiliar woman.

"who are you?"

Qu Yi glanced at him: "Where do you live?"

Fang Tinglan blinked.

A few minutes later.

Fang Tinglan emerged from the bathroom with a blank stare. He had just taken a hot shower and felt much better now.

The woman in the room, who was not to be ignored, made him realize that everything he had just experienced was not a dream.

"Your name is Fang Tinglan."

"Yes."

"Fang Kun's son."

“…Yes.” Fang Tinglan lowered her eyes and answered when she heard her father’s name.

Qu Yi was silent for a few seconds: "You should know about the Fang family's innate abilities."

This world is an ordinary world, but the circle Fang Tinglan belongs to is not ordinary.

This is a circle of mystical arts hidden among ordinary people.

Each family or sect has its own unique abilities. For example, Master Xuyun of Qinglan Temple is good at performing rituals to deliver the souls of the dead, the Yu family is good at controlling Gu poison, and the Fang family also uses external forces. However, these external forces cannot be obtained through learning; they depend on talent and luck.

Summoning spirits is a skill passed down in the Fang family.

Fang Tinglan said self-deprecatingly, "I don't have my father's extraordinary talent, otherwise I wouldn't be where I am now."

After his parents passed away, he had nothing left but this house.