"Token?"
"The token of my Mei Family's main branch?"
"That's right. I saw it clearly. It really is the token of our Mei Family's main branch."
Hearing this, the Mei Family member furrowed his brow. After thinking for a moment, he said, "All right, I understand. Go bring him here."
"Yes."
After the branch member left, the other man hurried to find the Mei Family's Family Head.
"Family Head, a stranger has appeared carrying our Mei Family's token."
"All these years, none of our Mei Family's tokens have ever fallen into outsiders' hands. The only one..."
"This person may have some connection to Yaozu."
"He might know where Yaozu is."
Yaozu—Mei Yaozu.
Hearing his clansman's words, the Mei Family's Family Head grew solemn.
After Nian Junxin had risen to power all those years ago, the Mei Family had chosen to submit, but had kept its distance from Junxin Pavilion and stayed out of the fighting.
It wasn't until the trouble with Mei Yaozu that the Mei Family, seeking to protect itself, had been forced to become obsequious. Otherwise, given Nian Junxin's temperament, not a single member of the Mei Family would have survived.
"That unfilial son!"
"So many years have passed. I thought he'd died out there long ago," the Mei Family's Family Head said coldly.
"Family Head, whatever else, Yaozu was once the Young Master of our Mei Family."
"He was caught up in the events back then. We can't blame him for everything."
"So many years have passed. I never thought we'd hear anything about him again. I thought he'd already..."
He stopped there. He wasn't the only one who felt that way; many in the Mei Family believed Mei Yaozu had died out there long ago.
"If he doesn't dare come back himself, he just sends some