Old Affairs Remnants

"This is..." Yan Li and Bugui sat on the same side, so they were the first to make out the words on the note. "It's a rumor about Fang Mansion."

Bugui passed the note to Yu Xing and Gu Xing across from them. Yu Xing glanced at it, his brows drawing together slightly.

Fang Deming, accompanied by his wife, attended his eldest son's wedding.

From those few details, whatever had happened at Never Forget Dwelling must have taken place before his "brother" sent him a letter. His character had been traveling for a long time and had lived away from home, rarely returning. For now, it was unclear when his "brother" had gotten married.

It could have been last year, or several years ago.

But even if it had been several years ago, given the era Nanshui Town seemed to belong to, it certainly wasn't a time when a wealthy local gentleman could casually take a life.

Fang Deming had killed someone at Never Forget Dwelling. Either the news had been suppressed and no one in town knew about it, or... the eras were mixed up.

Just like Baibao Street seemed completely out of place in Nanshui Town—or rather, the whole town gave off an indescribable sense of temporal disarray.

It had both modern facilities and modern residents, like schools and hospitals, as well as an old woman chopping vegetables in a bright kitchen. Yet it also had elements from ancient times: period clothing, old-fashioned streets, and traditional teahouses.

Even the townspeople's way of thinking seemed steeped in an old-fashioned outlook. Not one of the residents they had seen walking the streets had been using a phone. They all seemed greatly interested in the most ordinary things around them.

What was more, they treated tourists visiting Nanshui Town just like