The Du Family residence was completely empty, yet a bewitching woman sat in the pavilion, drinking tea.
This woman knew the inside story behind Wind and Rain Tower's downfall, knew what had happened in Azure Dragon Town, and knew secrets that had yet to spread through Sunset City.
Ever since returning to Sunset City, Ye Honglian had lived in seclusion. Yet at this very moment, she had suddenly felt the urge to come to the Du Family residence...
A coincidence?
Or had someone arranged this deliberately?
"Who exactly are you?"
Ye Honglian asked the question for the third time. Her voice had turned utterly cold, her gaze sharp as a blade. "Why are you here? Why do you know these things?"
The Succubus in the pavilion did not answer immediately.
She merely set the teacup in her hand gently upon the stone table, then slowly rose to her feet.
Her white robes billowed like clouds, peach blossoms blazed like fire, and as the autumn wind brushed past, her sleeves fluttered.
Standing upon the pavilion steps, she gazed from afar at Ye Honglian, who still stood by the gate. A profoundly complicated gleam flashed across the half of her face not covered by the eyepatch.
The gleam vanished in an instant, so quickly that Ye Honglian nearly thought she had imagined it.
But she knew she had not.
Because in that instant, she had seen it.
She had seen what lay hidden deep within that gleam... hatred, resentment, pain, wounds, and a killing intent suppressed to the very limit, one that was nearly ready to burst forth.
Ye Honglian's breath caught abruptly.
She recognized that look.
But that person...
She had no time to think further, because the Succubus in the pavilion had already spoken.
"Who I am isn't important." The