Backyard! Sheng Lanzhi's Invitation

"Godfather is wise!"

Seeing Lord Eunuch say this, Guan Bao quickly withdrew his thoughts and flattered him.

"You may leave!"

Lord Eunuch just waved his hand, signaling Guan Bao could leave.

Then he picked up another precious jade and began to play with it.

Guan Bao waited for a while before bowing and backing away to leave.

Meanwhile, Ye Liuyun had also returned to the mansion.

He had thought that at this hour, the maids and servants in the mansion would have already rested.

Unexpectedly, upon returning, he found the mansion brightly lit. Although the maids and servants showed signs of weariness in their brows, they still stood obediently in the corridor, not daring to make any movements.

"What's going on?"

Seeing Xing'er walk over, Ye Liuyun casually asked.

Xing'er first took the outer robe from Ye Liuyun before softly saying.

"Madam has invited Master to the backyard, saying there is something to discuss."

"Backyard?"

Raising his eyebrows in surprise, this was the first time Ye Liuyun had been invited to the backyard since entering the mansion as the elder brother.

Was he finally going to meet his sister-in-law?

However, why was he suddenly invited for no reason?

After thinking for a moment, Ye Liuyun immediately remembered the death of his cheap father-in-law, Sheng Li. He figured that Sheng Lanzhi must have already known about her father's death, which was why she invited him over.

A Hongmen Banquet?

Although he didn't know what Sheng Lanzhi wanted to do.

Ye Liuyun still nodded and said to Xing'er.

"Lead the way!"

Since the other party had invited him, and Ye Liuyun wasn't a coward, what was there to be afraid of? He directly motioned for Xing'er to lead the way for him.

"Master, please follow me!"

He didn't know what Xing'er was thinking.

There was a hint of lingering worry in her brows, but since things had come to this, nothing could be done. She could only lower her head and obediently lead the way for Ye Liuyun.

Ye Liuyun finally got to see the backyard of this mansion after being here for so many days.

Looking at the decorations, it was indeed much more spacious and luxurious than the remote area where he lived.

After walking inside for a while, Ye Liuyun saw from a distance a beautiful woman dressed in plain clothes sitting in the courtyard, sipping wine from her cup.

In his memory, he had only met this Sheng Lanzhi once or twice.

The expression on her face was always one of confident pride, looking down on others.

But the Sheng Lanzhi before him had a hint of gloom between her brows.

Was she not sad?

Although the distance was far, after his cultivation realm had improved, Ye Liuyun's eyesight had far surpassed that of ordinary people. He could see everything clearly from a distance.

This Sheng Lanzhi seemed only annoyed that Sheng Li had died, but showed no intention of grieving for him.

It seemed the relationship between this father and daughter wasn't that deep after all.

Moreover, according to Ye Liuyun's understanding,

Even without Sheng Li, Sheng Lanzhi still had quite a few shops under her name. The profits from these shops were enough for Sheng Lanzhi to continue living a wealthy life.

At most, she would just lose the connections that Sheng Li brought.

"Miss!"

While he was thinking, Ye Liuyun had already followed Xing'er into the courtyard.

Seeing that Sheng Lanzhi seemed not to hear them, continuing to drink as if oblivious,

Ye Liuyun didn't mind and sat down opposite Sheng Lanzhi.

The food in front of him looked quite good, but unfortunately, having just returned from the Imperial Brothel, Ye Liuyun was truly full and had no appetite.

Seeing Ye Liuyun sit down like that,

Sheng Lanzhi paused her drinking motion. Her exquisite eyes looked over, sizing up Ye Liuyun.

While Sheng Lanzhi was observing Ye Liuyun, Ye Liuyun was also observing Sheng Lanzhi.

So beautiful!

But what surprised Ye Liuyun the most was that under the system's scan, although this Sheng Lanzhi didn't have any powerful traits, with the highest being only blue, her strength and cultivation had actually reached the level of a Second-Rate Martial Artist.

It wasn't high, but it was better than Ye Liufeng, who was a Third-Rate Martial Artist before.

Had she just started cultivating recently? Or had she always been this way?

Just as Ye Liuyun was feeling curious, Sheng Lanzhi, after scanning Ye Liuyun for a while, seemed to have discovered something extremely amusing and let out a light chuckle.

"Indeed, your brother is truly a good-for-nothing!"

"???"

This simple sentence made Ye Liuyun snap out of his thoughts and look at Sheng Lanzhi in surprise.

Had he been discovered?

Just like when Yan Shuzhu pointed out his identity, Ye Liuyun only felt surprised, but not the slightest bit panicked.

If his identity had been revealed at the very beginning, Ye Liuyun would have been panicked.

But now.

He was already an Innate Realm existence, what was there to be afraid of? If they had the ability, they should just make a move directly. Let's see if I'm scared.

"How did you find out?"

Ye Liuyun was just curious.

He hadn't said a word, yet Sheng Lanzhi looked at him for a moment and determined that he wasn't Ye Liufeng, but Ye Liuyun?

"Although on the surface you look the same, but..."

Saying that, Sheng Lanzhi paused, and continued to finish the wine in her cup.

Only then did she look at Ye Liuyun, and said with a light laugh.

"If it were Ye Liufeng, knowing that my father had died, the first thing he would do upon seeing me would be to directly hand over the divorce papers. But you didn't do that!"

"..."

That makes so much sense, I can't refute it at all.

So, it's not that my acting is bad, but that I'm not as much of a scumbag as Ye Liufeng.

Thinking about it, Ye Liufeng was single-mindedly focused on officialdom, flattering the powerful and stepping on the weak.

If Sheng Li died, then Sheng Lanzhi would be useless to Ye Liufeng. It wasn't unexpected for him to cut ties with Sheng Lanzhi immediately.

"So, the one who died that night was Ye Liufeng, right?"

Seeing Sheng Lanzhi's normal expression, seemingly without any sadness, Ye Liuyun still nodded.

He had thought that Sheng Lanzhi, knowing such a thing, would want to avenge Ye Liufeng, but looking at her, it seemed she had no such intention at all.

"What, you think I'll avenge that guy Ye Liufeng?"

Although Ye Liuyun didn't say it out loud, Sheng Lanzhi still guessed his thoughts.

"Just a dead person!"

Without waiting for Ye Liuyun to answer.

Sheng Lanzhi started talking to herself.

"In this world, people die every day. My father can die, so why can't Ye Liufeng die?"

You've said everything, what else can I say?

"Insightful!"

Ye Liuyun picked up his wine glass and made a gesture of toasting Sheng Lanzhi.

Indeed, in a sense, Sheng Lanzhi and Ye Liufeng were both the same kind of people.

They could abandon people who were useless to them at the first opportunity.

"Originally, I called Ye Liufeng over because I wanted to maintain a semblance of decency."

While speaking.

Sheng Lanzhi took out a piece of paper from her sleeve: divorce papers.

In this era, a woman who was divorced, regardless of her status, would be looked down upon.

Although she would still be gossiped about after the divorce, it was better than being divorced.

Sheng Lanzhi was certain that Ye Liufeng would divorce her after learning of Sheng Li's death, so she had prepared the divorce papers in advance.