When he saw Li Fei again, she was still dressed as a scholar disguised as a man, looking no different from several months ago.
Neither was on duty. Lu Yang was also dressed in plain clothes, and the two of them facing each other like this seemed to have returned to how things were several months earlier.
"Several months have passed, Captain Lu, and you look more impressive than ever!" Li Fei said with a faint smile. Yet her clear, limpid eyes were full of the warmth of meeting an old friend in a foreign land.
Seeing her again, Lu Yang was moved as well.
After taking the Courtyard Examination, Li Fei should have returned to Black Mountain County.
But fate had dealt her a poor hand. Because of the Beast Tide, she had been trapped in Prefecture City. Lu Yang reckoned that even if she had been frugal all this time, she must have long since spent all the money she had brought with her.
By now, ordinary money had little meaning to Lu Yang.
There was no harm in helping Li Fei out.
However, she was a proud and aloof person, and he didn't want to take out money rashly and wound her pride.
After all, when they had parted ways, Lu Yang had told her that if she ran into trouble, she could come find him at the Demon Extermination Department.
Yet several months had passed, and Li Fei had never once come to the Demon Extermination Department to look for him.
Clearly, though she seemed calm and unconcerned on the surface, she was quite strong-willed and would not readily accept charity.
Besides, Li Fei was talented. Not every fortune in this world had to be earned through force; literary talent and knowledge could earn one a