"Your boss?" Ye Wuhen grew even more flustered. "You mean Lu Yang wants to talk to me?"
Qing Qian Zimeng asked with a hint of mockery, "What, are you scared?"
Ye Wuhen had been backed into a corner. He turned to look at the more than twenty guild leaders beside him and found every pair of eyes fixed on him. In that instant, what he thought of was not whether Lu Yang had set a trap for him, but that he needed to show the courage expected of a guild leader.
If he did not dare face Lu Yang now, he would leave an indelible impression of cowardice in the hearts of those twenty-odd guild leaders. That could lead to someone among them betraying him and defecting to someone else.
Ye Wuhen gritted his teeth and said, "What's there to be scared of? I've already rebelled. My brothers and I never did anything to wrong him before. When it was time to fight for our lives, we fought. Lead the way. I'll go see him."
"That's right, we don't owe him anything."
"We've repaid everything we owed."
"Right, exactly."
More than twenty people shouted noisily, afraid that others would not hear them. But in Qing Qian Zimeng's eyes, they were merely putting on a brave front to hide their fear. Otherwise, why did not a single one of them dare offer to accompany Ye Wuhen to meet Lu Yang?
"Come with me." Qing Qian Zimeng turned and headed upstairs.
Ye Wuhen was filled with fear and failed to see through the empty words of the twenty-odd people around him. He suddenly forced himself to be brave and followed Qing Qian Zimeng toward the stairs.
Along the way, Ye Wuhen's eyes kept darting around. He had imagined meeting Lu Yang