Sha Rulai said, "I'm overthinking it? You keep asking about Boundless Garden for no reason. Am I overthinking it?"
Niu Youdao chuckled. "Put it this way: I want to get someone out of Boundless Garden. Can you help me get him out?"
Sha Rulai said, "Are you joking? You stirred this whole matter up, claiming there was an insider in Boundless Garden and making it sound utterly convincing. If the insider isn't found now, how could anyone inside Boundless Garden possibly be allowed to leave? Who do you want to get out?"
Niu Youdao said, "I can't tell you for now."
Sha Rulai said, "You don't have to tell me, but I should remind you: if the matter of the Boundless Garden insider remains unsolved, it cannot simply be left hanging. There will only be one outcome—better to kill the wrong person than let one slip through the net! To cut off all future trouble, not a single person in Boundless Garden will be allowed to live. Whether the person you want to get out is friend or foe, whether you want him dead or alive, think it through yourself."
Niu Youdao fell silent for a while before slowly saying, "Ao Feng, Ye Nian's disciple, is one of mine."
"What?" Sha Rulai froze. "Ao Feng is your man? How could he be your man?"
Niu Youdao said, "It's a long story, and I can't explain it clearly in a few words. You could say he is my man, and you could say he isn't. But if he had to choose between me and his master, he would definitely side with me."
Sha Rulai said, "What do you mean?"
What did he mean? Niu Youdao pondered, weighed it over, considered whether he should tell Sha Rulai the truth. Yet Boundless Garden