"My real name isn't Jimmy."
"Actually, my name is Wu Siyou."
In the manor, Jimmy—no, Wu Siyou—removed his glasses and opened the eyes that were always smiling into crescents. He had medium-length hair, fair skin, soft features, and large eyes. Beneath the color of his pupils was an inexplicable hint of white reflection, making them seem brilliantly lit and crystal clear.
The ordinarily plain Jimmy suddenly looked remarkably charming at that moment.
In terms of appearance, Wu Siyou resembled the female characters from certain ancient comics—such as a certain unnamed pilot of Unit Zero.
But Wu Siyou was a man, undoubtedly a man—a beautiful man.
Beyond the beauty of his ordinary features, Wu Siyou also possessed a charm that transcended appearance itself. Shi Tiexin found that feeling familiar.
"An inexplicable inborn charm, a trace of familiarity between the brows and eyes, and—Wu Siyou?" Shi Tiexin looked at the beautiful man opposite him and asked, "Do you know Wu Kong?"
Wu Kong was one of the aliases Ling Xingjian had once used.
"No."
"Then do you know 'Wu Xianmiao'?"
Shi Tiexin felt that Ling Xingjian had not chosen her aliases at random. One day, when he had nothing better to do, he asked Scholar Stone to find out for him. Only then did he learn that her mother's family surname was Wu, and her mother's name was Wu Xianmiao.
"Wu Xianmiao?" Wu Siyou froze for a moment, then shook his head. "Never heard that name either."
Never heard of her?
"But..."
But?
"But the old man in my family is named Wu Xiancheng. If that's the case, she sounds like someone from the same generation. Could she be a relative of mine? Very possible."
Shi Tiexin asked again, "Have you heard the name Ling Xingjian?"
"No—hehe, I was a little withdrawn