"Two more?"
Lady Tan had clearly offered an interesting bit of information right off the bat. Fu Qian furrowed his brow slightly and smoothly followed up.
"That's right. Did you think we only had this much of a grasp on the situation?"
With a cold laugh, Tan Mingxue glanced at the documents beside her. Her tone was hardly polite.
Of course, her haughty attitude did nothing to stop her from revealing more.
"Before they even arrived in Xiyuan, I already knew where they were."
The next moment, she pointed to her own head.
"Things may still look glamorous on the surface, but Huang Zhixun is having a very rough time. He's never been the sort to take things in stride, either. He's bound to look for some way out."
"As for his two companions, neither of them is ordinary."
"So he really came looking for something belonging to the Huang family?"
Fu Qian sounded surprised, but showed no awareness that Blood Lion's predicament had anything to do with him.
"You could say all three of them did. None of them is stupid. They obviously didn't come all this way just to visit relatives."
Tan Mingxue continued to sneer. She didn't seem to think much of any of the trio.
"Got it."
Fu Qian nodded, fully convinced.
After all, with the Night Watcher's intelligence network behind her, he had little reason to doubt what she was telling him.
Tan Mingxue's meaning was clear. After suffering a setback in Shangjing and being forced to leave, Huang Zhixun had lost Gulad's resources. Now he had set his sights once more on something in his ancestral homeland.
And lacking confidence in handling things on his own, Blood Lion had even used that secret as bait to bring in two helpers.
"So what exactly is