Shen Tang pretended to chat with Lin Feng, slipping out of the young man's line of sight. She did two things at once, joking with Lin Feng while urging Gu Chi on in her mind: [...Even though the young man in the lead is wearing a human-skin mask, the fact that Gong Cheng is by his side, along with his reaction to your face, is enough for me to swear that this guy is your former master. What was your former master called again? Dark Cloud?]
Gu Chi took a quiet, deep breath.
He suppressed the urge to slay his master.
His own lord was just too unreliable. He could bear it no longer and said: [He's not called Dark Cloud, but Wu Yuan, Weng Zhi! His name in the Northern Desert is Tudege! My lord, don't forget that you were the one who forcibly took Chi from his side back then!]
This Secret Sound Transmission was incredibly swift.
Shen Tang raised an eyebrow: [SO?]
Gu Chi chuckled coldly: [As the saying goes—catch a thief red-handed, catch adulterers in the act! Wu Yuan has caught us both red-handed, my lord. Shouldn't you step forward and protect your frail, helpless confidant?]
Shen Tang replied obediently: [But your lord isn't here. There's only Tan Shao, who's just as frail and helpless as you.]
Gu Chi: [...]
His urge to slay his master grew even stronger!
He regretted not having Cui Shanxiao come along with them.
If Cui Xiao were here, he could use "turning a blind eye" on himself, and Wu Yuan's party wouldn't notice him at all.
Unfortunately, Wu Yuan had already seen him. It would be awkward to hide now.
Not only was Shen Tang not going to shield him from the storm, she was planning to shove him out