Profound Domain, Ji Family estate.
Ji Lanxin was alone in her room.
The dusk outside the window deepened, and the room gradually grew dark.
As if unaware of the changing light, Ji Lanxin did not call for a maid to light the lamps. She stared fixedly at the message scroll purchased from Jun Man Restaurant, her face heavy with worry.
Just then.
Ji Zhi hurried over. The fat on his body quivered up and down with his anxious strides, and the same grave expression hung between his brows.
"Little sister, did you encounter Brother Lin on this trip?" Ji Zhi anxiously asked Ji Lanxin, pointing at the message scroll in her hand. "Did Brother Lin truly die by accident in the Secluded Scarlet Mountain Range, just as the rumors said?"
At his words, Ji Lanxin's already gloomy expression worsened. Thinking of the last time she had seen Lin Liyun, the scene of Long Tongue Old Monster humiliating her uncontrollably surfaced in her mind. It made her stomach churn so violently that she nearly retched.
"What's wrong?" Ji Zhi stepped forward in concern and frowned. "Why do you look so disgusted the moment you hear Brother Lin's name?"
Ji Lanxin recalled the suspicion Long Tongue Old Monster had casually mentioned. Combined with what she knew of "Lin Liyun," she, too, had begun to doubt his identity afterward.
After all, with Lin Liyun's strength, he had no right to provoke a Soul Master as powerful as Long Tongue Old Monster and still escape unscathed.
Just as she was about to tell Ji Zhi that Lin Liyun's identity was fake and that someone had impersonated him—
Ji Family Head, accompanied by several elders and a strange middle-aged man, suddenly hurried toward her room as well.
Seeing that unfamiliar middle-aged man dressed in the