Parents and Dowry! Humble Position, Dare Not Forget the Nation! Chicken Cage Walled City!

Xie Lingyin's gaze remained clear—so clear it held not the slightest trace of unusual emotion, like a machine unaffected by feelings.

As someone with multiple identities, she had to handle all kinds of situations. Her intuition was sharp beyond human measure, and from their exchanges over the past few days, she could tell that the man before her was interested in her—but not in that way. It was more like the strange feeling of looking at some rare animal.

Though she did not know why he looked at her that way, at least he could be useful. People who had no such interest in her were hard to come by, and most importantly, the way he had looked at the foreigners on the platform put her at ease.

The matter was urgent. She needed a husband in name to avoid certain pressing troubles. Originally, the organization had arranged for a member to pose as her husband, and she had been going to pick him up this time, but before they could even meet, something had happened to him.

When she made this request of Huo Yuanhong, she had already prepared two plans. If they could pull off the act, so much the better—she could gradually bring this genius at deciphering telegrams over to her side. If the act fell apart, being discovered for paying someone to put on a show would not make things any worse.

"Hmm?"

Huo Yuanhong tilted his head slightly and looked at the girl before him. "Sure. But I'm quite interested in the writings of your Second Granduncle, Professor Xie. Go steal some of his manuscripts for me. That'll be the exchange."

He wanted to know what that slipper-wearing old man, who seemed to have gone extremely far down the path of See All Living Beings,