Perplexed and Smitten (168)

"Portraits? Whose?"

"The elders of our family have been trying to search for the people in the portraits for a very long time, but to no avail. We only found one of them in the past couple of decades, and another one a few years ago."

Yin Shi asked curiously, "Grandpa, just who are they?"

"One is Jin Qingyan and the other is An Xiaoning."

Yin Shi's eyes widened in shock, and he asked, "What? It can't be. Ancestor Yin Cun existed centuries ago. It's a new era now. Could it be a prank?"

The patriarch scoffed and said, "Prank? Our ancestors found those portraits three centuries ago. I've kept this to myself for three decades, ever since I found out about Jin Qingyan when he was still a child. I've been worried that the two of them would carry their memories from their previous lifetime over to this one."

"Grandpa, why did our ancestors leave behind those two portraits and the letter?"