"Since that was the case, why didn't you contact me directly?"
Meng Chao thought for a moment, then asked, "Even if you didn't have my contact information, when Ai Lei and I went to investigate Tailless Monkey's residence, you were clearly there. You even had time to leave a mark."
"Indeed, I could have contacted you, but that would have increased the odds of my grandfather discovering you."
Lü Siya said frankly, "My grandfather kept a very close watch on me. It was difficult enough for me alone to avoid his omnipresent, all-pervasive eyes and ears, let alone with you added into the equation.
"I assumed that your unwillingness to make a great fanfare and publicly announce your return to Dragon City must have had its reasons.
"Secrecy was your most important weapon. Why would I destroy that weapon?
"Besides, there was an even more important reason. If I had revealed myself then and confessed everything to you, would you have believed me?"
Meng Chao was slightly stunned.
He understood what Lü Siya meant.
Regardless of whether she had accepted Lü Zhongqi's modifications, or whether she had been influenced by the Monster Mastermind, more than a year ago, it had been Lü Siya, transformed into the Jungle Banshee, who knocked him off the cliff. He had fallen into the Demon Eye and drifted downstream along Tiger's Fury River.
A year later, having returned to Dragon City, there was indeed no way he could have trusted Lü Siya one hundred percent when he saw her again without any preparation.
In fact, even after observing in secret and gathering information, discovering that Lü Siya had shown no abnormalities over the past year and had instead devoted herself wholeheartedly to serving the Fallen Star Society, Superstar Group, Blue Alliance, and tens of millions