Chapter 258: Seaside Concert Hall—Aurora Aria
Crimson Mist Capital, an unnamed coffee shop
The warm afternoon sunlight filtered through the clouds and the thin mist drifting along the streets, falling upon a man and woman beneath the parasol outside the coffee shop.
The lattes in their cups still steamed, beautiful latte art floating on the surface.
"After that, just carry out your original mission."
As he spoke casually, Tiandao stirred the coffee before him.
"..."
Huan Qianyin took a long while to recover from what Tiandao had said.
She had thought that her meeting with Tiandao would involve a tit-for-tat negotiation. She had even prepared herself for him to forcibly interfere, yet he was simply letting her go?
"Why?"
Without any scheming or roundabout maneuvering, Huan Qianyin chose the simplest and most direct way to ask Tiandao about the doubt in her heart.
"Because... I think it'll be interesting."
A thoroughly standard Tiandao-style answer.
Faced with that answer, Huan Qianyin could not decide whether this guy was too arrogant or simply too confident.
Yet she did not have many thoughts about it.
Because Tiandao was qualified to be that way.
"However, if your side plans to do anything, you need to let me know in advance. That way, I can set the stage and arrange some suitable actors to enter."
"..."
"Understood."
Huan Qianyin gave a bitter smile, then nodded to show that she would do as he said.
Because she knew perfectly well that Tiandao was not giving her a choice. He was merely telling her that this was what she would do.
No rebuttal, no refusal, and even less... doubt.
Still, Huan Qianyin was not especially resistant to it.
After all, her mission had originally been to assist the Frostsound Family's Starfrost Faction in investigating the concert's personnel