Fang Shenyan had helped Ji Li during the Tenth Supervision Event because the Seventh Branch he belonged to depended on this store manager.
Ji Li had felt a stir in his heart when he saw Fang Shenyan's bleak state with cancer because, after the passage of time and all that had changed, it was simply a moment of sentiment.
Two people who were both extremely intelligent and extremely arrogant could never become teammates who relied on each other.
Even though only Ji Li and Fang Shenyan remained alive among the founding members of the Seventh Branch, they still could not change the fundamental law that "like repels like."
After the bond that was Yu Guo broke, perhaps keeping a certain distance—sometimes near, sometimes far—was already the best way for them to get along.
Unless a problem arose that even the two most senior figures of the Seventh Branch could not handle alone, only the pressure of such a powerful external force could bind the two of them together again.
Just as Fang Shenyan had not offered help when Ji Li had fallen into danger several times, Ji Li heard the other man's words while standing at the rear of the line of seven ghost attendants. Looking at the ghost attendants of all kinds before him, his heart stirred slightly, but his hands did not move.
He merely turned a deaf ear and stood where he was, playing the part of a mature ghost attendant.
Ji Li had never tried playing the role of a ghost attendant, nor did he know what fork in the road it would lead to. He would be the one testing it, and that was not reason enough for him to act.
Unless Fang Shenyan could offer another bombshell that, to Ji Li, was worth abandoning