"What... what did I just hear?"
"Father?"
"He didn't say that wrong, did he? I didn't hear wrong, did I?"
"You heard right. Chen Changan really did say that."
"What does that mean? What does it mean? The leader of the Outsider Alliance, the one who made an agreement with Chen Changan, is... his son?"
"He... actually has a son? And he's been hiding in the Outsider Alliance this whole time?"
"And from the way they were talking, it seems like... he's been keeping it a secret all this time. Even Chen Changan didn't know?"
"No, he knew. He was just pretending not to."
The people from the Outsider Alliance were stunned. Everyone who'd heard it was stunned. Even quite a few people from the Miracle Treasure Pavilion were standing there dumbfounded.
"Wait, big brother, are you sure you've got the right person?"
"He's your son?"
"Since when did you have another son?"
"Could it be Chen Jie? But... he doesn't look like him, and he doesn't have even a trace of Chen Jie's aura."
"Nope, doesn't look like him!"
As Da Huang spoke, he circled Murong Wenjie a few times, sniffing him and shaking his head as he went.
"Isn't your son named Chen Jie?"
"But this guy's called Murong Wenjie."
"Murong is his mother's surname."
"You little brat, still trying to fool me?"
After Chen Changan said that, Murong Wenjie suddenly gave a cheeky grin, looking completely different from the way he usually did.
The calculating strategist was gone. His smile looked more like that of a cheerful child.
In the next instant, Murong Wenjie transformed, returning to his original appearance and aura.
"So it really is you, brat."
"Wait, what are you playing at?"
"You went undercover in the Outsider Alliance?"
The moment he saw Chen Jie,